Cadence Unbridled Sections 3 & 4 cancelled? · 12:51pm Aug 2nd, 2014
I'm considering cancelling Cadence Unbridled Sections 3 & 4. I say considering because, if the audio-book happened to be a huge success, I might reconsider. This cancellation is for several reasons. First, fan-fiction readers are mostly teens and adults where as CU is aimed at children, the target audience of the show, so the people reading it are not those it is really meant for. Second, partly due to the previous it seems, CU is not that popular with few views, rare favourites, and not many comments (I'm taking an average here of all sites it is uploaded to and taking into consideration comments made by the same person and when the story was initially uploaded). I've got barely a single comment on parts uploaded recently to DA and it is not much better here. I know that people are leaving less comments as a general rule now but is there really any point in me writing the second two sections when very few seem to care and if they do, are not showing it? Third, there is a risk if I start these two sections I won't finish them, like my A Bug's Life sequel and Coraline prequel, or not finish them properly, like A Little Bug's Life which has missing parts, parts that don't make sense due to lack of information, and a longer story in the middle which I never got round to writing, Butterfly Bites, which explains a lot of what Flik goes through after Hazel's death (you have to have read the story to know what I'm talking about). Next, is the simple fact that other related fan-fiction that I intend to write, particularly 'Nova' explains some of the key events in CU S3&4 anyway, though by no means all of it. It does seem a bit of a shame considering I had just figured out what happens in each story of sections 3 & 4, not to mention True Star being a more important character and all that stuff explained in section two that only becomes relevant in the following sections. As I said, it is not definite yet. There is also one thing I feel I should mention but I'm not going to give much information about, I am reinventing Cadence Unbridled as a non fan-fiction, reinventing characters, recreating stuff etc which means I have less of a reason to continue the fan-fiction anyway as quite a bit of the stuff will change in this parallel universe version which I am currently calling Cadence Unbridled [Re]. I might mention a few things about it at a later stage. Another reason is simply time, all this writing takes a long time to do even in CU's case where there is only one draft apart from edits while typing up. Yet another reason is style, my writing has taken a huge jump between writing CU and Falling Stars. It can be noticed in Past & Present with True Star and Starburst where the style sudden changes (though this was deliberate). The same thing happened with my A Bug's Life fan-fiction, much stuff that was intended to be redone or finished was never done or came off as a bit odd, especially with A Little Bug's Life where parts were written out of order. The final reason is that I feel the first and third part of the True Star trilogy need to take priority fan-fiction wise and with my original work and college animation also needing priority space I won't really have time for it.
The audio-book, however, is a different story, I will be getting those two sections done despite the likely cancellation of the other two sections.