A return to writing. · 5:38pm Jan 14th, 2016
As some of you may have noted, I had recently written up a oneshot that immediately hit the top of the feature box. I was not expecting that, it's neat seeing. But this post is actually more or less to say where I am on my main story, An Alien Walks Amongst Us.
Here's the thing, I had lost interest in my story a good while back. It was hard to really come up with fresh ideas, especially with my level of writing skill at the time. Picking it back up a few months ago when I felt like writing a new chapter after so long, I started to reread it to see where I should head in the story. It's then where I came to the realization that... this was not good. I mean how it was written. It just wasn't up to snuff with what I wanted in my work. So much cringe, so many idiotic choices made with what I wrote.
So, for a good while now, I had been rewriting everything in it. There's a lot of scene changes, additions to the story, along with purges that just didn't feel right whatsoever. There's even been a change with both the tensing of the story as well as the perspective. I changed those to both improve my writing skills and to challenge myself since I was primarily a present, second person writer. I've still got a ways to go, but hopefully soon I will start to reupdate this story's chapters with the new, updated content before I post up a new chapter. I will post up blogposts when I get to doing this, so stay tuned.
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IT LIVES!
Welcome back.
Welcome back to you, good sir. Looking forward to reading.
Fantastic! An Alien Walks Among Us was the first fic I fell in love with on fimfiction. I can't wait.
Now I'm excited. Welcome back!
Hmm. Let's see what happens.
I'm happy your bringing it back to life. Your Lyra was onr of my favorite personitys.
Ooooo, that sounds good!
I'm definitely looking forward to what you redid and what you'll do with it
oh boy! here i go reading again!
Have you begun changing them? I wanted to save the old chapters for posterity sake at least.
while it is nice to see you back to work, wouldn't have it been easier to just write an epilogue chapter finish it and then start a sequel, that way you would have something like and after and before of the changes to your writing style?
I personally enjoyed your story, even with the wonkiness and random turn of events. You dont have to rewrite an almost perfect story. But if you honestly believe you need to do so then nobody can hold you back.
What some of us want is the story continued, not rewritten. You already did a great job creating the story as it is now, think about Murmos or whatever his name was. You can be changing the future without intending to do so and completing what he wanted.
Please come back to us oh story wizard.