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Merchent343

Merchent343 Joined 23rd Apr, 2013 · Offline
  • TAd Astra
    Only a single generation after the Solar Sisters have fallen to old age, the nation of Equestria collapses as the various species of ponies squabble and divide. And thus an age of conflict has arisen, and with it the empires of old have returned.
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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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  • 112 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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    2 comments · 256 views

  • 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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    13 comments · 460 views

  • 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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    14 comments · 563 views

  • 409 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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    4 comments · 620 views
Sep
14th
2015

Suddenly, Update! · 10:19am Sep 14th, 2015

I am back! Kind of...

I'll be working intently on Rebirth of an Empire, which will probably be getting a renaming.
Smashing Down will be thought over. I have some problems with the story, and part of me is thinking of putting it on hiatus.

There's your news update, folks! Please don't burn me...

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Night Star the Scholar
Night Star the Scholar #1 · Sep 14th, 2015 · · ·
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Like Sweetie belle said:

You going to put Smash Down on hiatus? Oh boy...

Well you gotta do what you gotta do. Hope to see it back soon.

Merchent343
Merchent343 #2 · Sep 14th, 2015 · · ·
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3392314

To put it simply, Smashing Down is far lesser of a story than it seemed to me when I began it two years ago. There is plenty I find wrong with it, and until I work up the effort to mass-edit it, the story will stay unupdated.

Night Star the Scholar
Night Star the Scholar #3 · Sep 15th, 2015 · · ·
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3393364 Sorry if I sound hard. So many good stories that has cause debate among readers, even passionate debates, is now going into hiatus. There are so many stories that has been abandon to outright cancelled. Hate to see it that it my go the same road

Boy, I can see that if you going to edit it, it is going to be quite an undertaking. Hope you do find it & good luck.:eeyup:

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