TFalling Into the Unknown
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A human finds a portal in his bathroom and decides to investigate it. What he finds is beyond his belief.
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Celestia
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53 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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114 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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200 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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325 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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411 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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Jun

9th

2014

Sorry to disappoint... · 1:25pm Jun 9th, 2014

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

For those fans of Falling Into the Unknown, one of my first stories...

I know I promised a sequel at one time. However, my view of the story has changed very much. In my eyes, it's become somewhat like "Cliché HIE #1692". It had loads of inaccuracies, sheer leaps of logic, and a sequel is out of the realm of possibility. No, not even a rewrite would affect it, because if I were to rewrite it 'correctly', 2/3rds of the story would have to be entirely replaced.

Merchent343

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53 weeks
Probably the last update on Smashing Down for the foreseeable future

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

200 weeks
On Rewriting Smashing Down, And Writing Again

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

411 weeks
On the future of Smashing Down

Sorry to disappoint... · 1:25pm Jun 9th, 2014

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53 weeks Probably the last update on Smashing Down for the foreseeable future

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200 weeks On Rewriting Smashing Down, And Writing Again

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

411 weeks On the future of Smashing Down

Sorry to disappoint... · 1:25pm Jun 9th, 2014

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53 weeks
Probably the last update on Smashing Down for the foreseeable future

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

200 weeks
On Rewriting Smashing Down, And Writing Again

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

411 weeks
On the future of Smashing Down