Planning a rewrite of Night Fury's Lament · 11:46am Apr 17th, 2016
Anyone remember that story? It was one of the first stories I ever wrote, and the first I ever finished. And it has a lot of problems. From edgy OCs, to HTTYD canon-defying moments, to confusing and absurd plot points, to suspicious contrivances and coincidences, and finally MLP characters acting wildly out of character.
Still, it does hold a special place in my heart as the very first (and so far, only) multi-chaptered story that I ever saw through to completion. That's why I've been slowly planning a sequel to it. But to truly feel like it's ready for a sequel, I need to get the original story up to the standard of my newer works.
So, I've decided that I'm going to rewrite the original story from the ground up. Not just edit the old chapters, but completely rewrite them from scratch. I'll write all the new chapters in advance, and then I'll take down an old chapter a day and replace it with the new version until the whole story is updated. Don't worry, the old versions will still be available to read on gDocs. Once I've finished rewriting the original, I'll start working on the sequel.
If there's significant opposition to this, I'll reconsider. But while I'm at it, if anyone would like to suggest improvements from the original story, you can do do here, and I'll take them into consideration during the update.
Oh god, I must have read this story ages ago because I don't remember it at all. All I know is you did something right when writing it, because it's in my favourites.
If you feel a rewrite would do the story some good, I feel no reason to say otherwise. I was planning to re-read it when I noticed this blog post, but now I'm hesitant. I don't want to tarnish my old opinion of the story.
3876106 It's pretty old. I started writing it in the summer of 2013. It has some good moments in it—the humour in particular is still able to make me laugh, but it still has its issues. I'd probably rank it as being in the range of 'mediocre' more than bad. The beginning is a lot better than the end.
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Well, like I said, you must have done something right for it to end up in my favourites.
I love reading your stories please make a sequel to the story Night Fury's Lament please have the protagonist of this story meet her brother