'Kay, uhh... · 2:34am Oct 8th, 2014
Just a quick little update for those of you that pay attention to this sort of thing. I am switching gears from writing my new crossover story back to re-writting the first 5 chapters of Chronicles. Why? Well, I finished the prologue of the crossover, then realized that I had no idea where I wanted to go after. I really forced myself to write it, and if you read it you could be able to tell. There's no flow to the words, no poetic poise. The descriptions are lacking, the pacing's bad and the main character that the crossover revolves itself around is OOC. It really needs a clean-up, but I don't want to do that right now.
I've been reading other epics on FiMFiction lately and been getting myself down with the quality of writing some authors can put out. I'm really happy for them, really, but I also feel jealous. Why can I write like that? Why do I get stuck on writing the 'in-between' of plots? Why's my vocabulary so narrow? Then I realized that feeling bad for myself will get me nowhere and that I do have two epics that are fairly well written (if I do say so myself) that I have, in fact, created. Those two stories are Chronicles, which hasn't gotten a true update in a while and was released when the site was still small, and Ignis, which didn't get the reception I imagined it to have. I'm not saying that I was expecting upvotes all across the board, but I wanted at least a comment, that was all. Maybe a few. That would have been nice. Instead, I am left wondering what I did wrong to invoke 6 others to dislike my story. Oh well. Whatever.
So that's why I'm switching my focus over. I really want to work on what I have already planned out, and trust me, Chronicles has a solid plan for itself from start to finish. All I need to do is refine some of the writing a little.
And speaking of the writing of Chronicles, the re-write of chapter 2 is going to be a lot shorter than the vanilla version. Back when I wrote chapter 2 three (four?) years ago, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I really had no idea in which direction I wanted the story to go, so I winged it and wrote weekly chapters as if I were writing a series of blog posts that all linked up to one story. Looking back, that did not go well. At all. There is so much filler content in chapter 2 that could be easily removed, so much so that the new chapter 2 at this rate is going to be half the size of the original. Yeah, go figure. But I'm a lot happier that it'll be shorter, because more doesn't necessarily mean better.
