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Merchent343


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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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Medical Issues with Family · 1:49am Jul 21st, 2014

Those of you who have kept track of my often-irregular updates about my father know that had things have happened. Of course, this isn't anywhere near a large nuber of you, so let me tell you the story of why I have been fairly inactive in the past few months.

As of the current moment, my father has been diagnosed with: Irregular Heartbeat, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (a genetic condition that required him to get a full liver transplant, as well as destroying much of his lung capacity), a severe bout of Pneumonia six months ago, and, more recently, a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer. Oh, and he is seventy-three, so that does not help.

I just had to take him up to the hospital for severe breathing problems, and I must warn you all that updates will be infrequent as this plays out...

Shit, let's not sugarcoat it. Things are happening at a rapid pace, and none of us knows if my father will live for a few weeks or a few years. I have no fucking idea, either. Things are so far beyond my understanding and control at this point that I have simply given up trying to understand much of them.

In addition to that, we have a major fire in our area that has annihilates much of a town, and is threatening quite a few others. Our town is the evacuation center for all of this.

Fuck.

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Comments ( 2 )

Seems like it's the end of the world over there with all that stuff that's happening.Hope that your dad makes it!

I am not the best with words but be strong for your dad for your family and for yourself
the world may not make sense now but all storms and nightmares are bound to end
I hope for the best for you and your father

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