2POTN Question · 9:27pm Oct 16th, 2014
To address a few things first, I do have a side story planned up with three chapters half made, I still plan on making a Lunar Pearl only side story since she won the poll, and I haven't forgotten Hunter, Slayer, Corpse. Onto the point of this blog now.
I know I recently had gone through and polished up the story, but I am considering doing it again. While I know it was an improvement, I know I had missed errors, and created new ones in my wake. Honestly, I'm having a hard time rereading over the chapters without wincing at the mistakes. So I'm torn between continuing releasing chapters, or going back and polishing the whole story again which will most likely have new scenes added to improve it. I probably wouldn't do it until the end of act 2 which is fast approaching if I did. I could try to do both at the same time, but that would probably just bog things down. So, I'll leave it to you all. Focus on finishing the story, or going over already made sections and making them better?
I don't know you well enough to get an idea of how long a re-do would take, but experience with seeing others do it tells me it would take about as long as it took to get as far as you have in the first place - one year in this case; so in my case i would very much prefer it if you kept going with progressing. I guess you could compromise and do both, simply do whichever you prefer at the moment (without focusing on one aspect for too long of course).
I don't know about your other readers, but I didn't go back to read the re-written stuff. Your efforts in high esteem, but I doubt that many others did, except those who found your story after you were done with polishing the earlier chapters.
I'd suggest you finish the entire story before you go back to revise stuff; it's just so hard getting back into a story after a prolonged hiatus, not to mention that adding things after the bulk of your readership already advanced past that point could also bear the risk of accidently withholding information from the readers that don't go back to read these added scenes (character development, etc.).
You worry way too much. The story's score is 21 likes per dislike — doesn't that indicate that what you're doing is, I dunno, good?
continue plz
2537065 Yeah, I guess so. Just being hard on myself I think. As much as I want to present something the best I can, it wouldn't be fair to those who already have read it. Just hate the idea of having something not up to snuff. Also worried about what it is that people like about the story. Its so easy to know why a story grabs your attention, being it how the characters act, what details the author focus on, and other jazz. But its hard to know the appeal when your the author. Its why I was reading my story in attempts to familairize myself with it more, and hopefully see the things people might like about it. But then I see all these little grammat mistakes and sections that need redoing and.... yeah.
But I'll hold off until I finish the story. Hopefully by then I'll be a better writer and perform a better repolishing than if I did it now.
I would recommmend continuing on with the story.
The mistakes you have made are easily overlooked and don't pull you out of the story easily. At this point I don't believe they will cause any harm and therefore can be put off.
If you absolutly can't stand ignoring your mistakes why not get a proofreader?
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If you want to know what I like about your story, that's easy. I only like dark themed stories (well, light-dark here) when the theme is paired with a certain vibe of mystery/intrigue. In laymen's words, I enjoy the mind games being played by Nightwalker as well as Twilight in Ruby's head. Not really knowing what Nightwalkers intentions are, and being left to guess, is something good as well — no one would root for him or Ruby if he'd clearly be evil, aye?
Besides that, I also want to know what'll happen when Ruby is inevitably confronted with Nightwalker's betrayal (she's way too nosy not to eventually find out) — adbucting her, stealing her memories and all that. I guess it attests to a quite engrossing story to evoke such a sentiment.
2537153 I'm all the mote curious then to see how people react to the next major plot point. I have a feeling some will see it as taking a few steps back in some regards, but life rarely is ever something that linearly progressing upwards. It can havr things build up to no avail, or be completely different than you expect due to random and abrupt circumstances that were clear. However, since this is a four part series, you can be sure things have importance later on.
2537108 I havent had the best of luck in getting proofreaders. Many that I brought on board just up and left without word. It got to the point that the ones who did check in rarely I told to just quit. Didn't help that I was finding out about my divorce at the tine either. So far only one has gone through the whole story, but he provided input on writing style than catching every error, still was very helpful. One of the original proofreaders has co e back, but I think it will be just for new chapters.
Mistakes are made, it happens, and as you've said you went through and polished it recently. Seeing how long that took, I say you should go through with the story as is for now. At least see how things work out first, and in the end if you still feel like it could use some work, go back through it then. Quality is good, but the story never gets finished then it means a lot less.
2537153 Additionally, I will do an origin story of Night Walker someday. While he is a great antagonist, there is a story as to how he became who he is. I'm a little worried that he has a mechanical feel to him, but some of that is explained in the fact he can alter his personality and traits to how he sees fit. After doing that so many times over X years, it kind of buries who you actually are beneath layers. That isn't to say that some of his original persona doesn't still shine through, just that it can be supressed or modified if he believes it to be better at the time. Let's just say that he still has a much younger part of him that may have never had the chance to develop. Hope that's not to cliche.
2537260 Really?
I figured that you would have lots of people asking to be a part of this. Who wouldn't though? It's such an awesome story.
2537305 It seems life got busy for a lot. I either keep finding people that are too busy, or don't want to tackle the length of this story; something I can't really blame as it would be a big project.
2537416 Huh, I would find that fun.
Guess I am of a minority.
Hmm, if the mistakes area trivial you can put an editor on it. Otherwise I say that you do it after you've finished act 2. (no cliffhangers then, please.)
Please keep rolling with the story. While I can't guarantee I'll always be there to catch errors and the like, I can spend some time looking over chapters. My weekends are spent playing like League of Legends or something of the like but I can stop and put that to the afterburner so I can proofread the new chapters if you'd like.