On the future of Smashing Down · 3:51am Jul 7th, 2016
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.
Unfortunately, I am not one of those people who has enjoyed it.
Since around the end of Act VI, in mid-summer of 2014 I began to look at my story critically for the first time. I also began a series of rewrites to make the story's beginning more coherent. Sadly, this has not fixed many, many glaring issues in the beginning of the story.
Believe it or not, but I had few future plans at the time I began writing. I played things by ear, and written off the top of my head. This has resulted in a large number of questionable story decisions that, in the end, don't make much sense.
The idiot ball is passed forth between both sides in a way that makes things seem almost comedic, and while that may be enjoyable to some, it pains me to see how blatantly stupid I made many of the characters. On purpose, and entirely out-of-character.
In the coming months, I plan to do several things, outlined here:
- Combine the acts together into a single chapter rather than disorganized, 1,000-3,000 word snippits
- Rewrite most of the beginning of the story to make significantly more sense than it currently does
- Up the quality of the writing and remove the Google Translate Russian segments: Believe me, it's almost painful to read sometimes
- Seeing if my editor is still up to looking over things
Do keep in mind that more will be added to this as I figure out what I need to do to improve the quality of the story.
I'm more willing to wait, so I can see a continuation of the story. Although there was some things that is, as you said the "idiot ball passed to one side & the other". I assumed that it had to do that the events all happened in a matter of 10 days, events occurring in fast & furious pace, so no one had the chance yet to sit back & think it over. Thanks to the Russians who decided to attack those guards, then the confusion augmented by Discord, misinforming the character & intentions of the Princesses to the humans. Then the issue that the human soldiers were at war before being "teleported" when they died on Earth.
Well... not surprising that it is a mass. But I see that there were some issues, for example what deals the humans made with the Griffons & the Changeling in exchanged for what? Anyways, hope to read your story again, see what were the changes, & hopefully not much has changed & hope to see your story continued.
That is for the best longer chapters.
I look forward to reading it bro!!!
What's the latest news on this bro?