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Merchent343

Merchent343 Joined 23rd Apr, 2013 · Offline

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  • 50 weeks
    Probably the last update on Smashing Down for the foreseeable future

    When I last posted about it, a year ago, I talked about how the Invasion of Ukraine left me unwilling to write it because of the central focus: The Russian team that is the primary POV of the story. Back in 2020, I even started preliminary work on a rewrite, but that was before the invasion, before I started to read up more on military equipment, and before I improved further as a writer.

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  • 111 weeks
    Rewriting Smashing Down: How the Pandemic and the Invasion of Ukraine smothered most of my will to rewrite it

    The title is descriptive enough, but I don't think I need to tell any of you how rough 2020 was. For me, 2020 and 2021 were both years of stress, near-homelessness, loss, joblessness, and many other difficulties. Writing slowed, and then stopped.

    And then, once I was finally pulling myself together, the invasion of Ukraine happened.

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    2 comments · 256 views

  • 197 weeks
    On Rewriting Smashing Down, And Writing Again

    I have tried thrice to rewriting Smashing Down, or to pick up where I last left off. Every time, I am reminded that the story was written when I was sixteen, in 2013. My writing back then was decent enough to get attention, but I look back on a lot of it with embarrassment, for a large variety of reasons.

    Smashing Down, as it stands, cannot be rewritten.

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    13 comments · 459 views

  • 322 weeks
    Sometimes, to make something better, you have to burn it down first...

    I last posted an update nearly two years ago stating that I would be editing Smashing Down. That turned out to be a lie, a task I gave up on several months and barely a couple chapters in. Within that time, I have become a far better writer, and thought up far better ways to introduce the story and setting in a way that will both make more sense and make for a far more interesting story than the

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    14 comments · 563 views

  • 408 weeks
    On the future of Smashing Down

    I should warn you that the following will contain criticism of my writing and my plans for what to do with Smashing Down.

    It was one of my first stories, and certainly one that gained a fair bit of popularity. It even hit the front page a few times on FimFiction. Plenty of people have enjoyed it, and it maintains a very good like ratio.

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    4 comments · 620 views
Jun
9th
2014

I suppose I should explain myself... · 1:20pm Jun 9th, 2014

I'll be sending a bunch of these notifications out for different stories.

For the Smashing Down crowd, I am sorry I have not updated in a while. I have a couple chapters mostly completed, but neither myself nor my editor have gotten around to editing them. Actually, the entire year has been a bit 'off' for me. I usually tried to get at least one chapter a week out, but I've been slipping.

Sorry. It's a combination of school, procrastination, and my own laziness. I'll try and do better.

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Comments ( 1 )
AranyaP
AranyaP #1 · Jun 29th, 2014 · · ·
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Entirely acceptable,

Reality comes first after all. And one does not simply make a story of this quaily happen with a snap of a finger.

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