To write or not to write... · 11:50pm Dec 26th, 2016
Relax I'm still writing Reunion, that's my fimfiction page's bread and butter.
No, today Ruined Forever has been placed firmly on the chopping block instead, and I'm still hesitating to bring down the cleaver and label the story cancelled. For months now I've been struggling against the sense that Ruined Forever, despite how much fun I have thinking things up for it, is a story nobody needed or wanted especially since things like Friendship is Witchcraft and Mentally Advanced Series exist. There are probably very few if any people that saw those videos and thought, "you know what, I'd like these but maybe a quarter as competently written and without all this animation and voice acting so that it's just text and takes orders of magnitude longer to consume!"
Initially I'd resolved to cast those thoughts aside and just have it there for a low effort side project for fun. However as you can see by the latest chapter being 14,000 words, I can't seem to stick to the low effort part if I don't write in script format, and going by some of my tumblr posts on season 4 I can't really stick to it in script format either. Basically if I can't get down to text the image I have in my head as close as possible to the point where other people can read it and get a reasonably similar image, I've completely failed, am a horrible person who probably shouldn't have even bothered to try, and the process to appease this internal irrationality of mine enough to let me feel comfortable posting something is goddamn exhausting to the point that its the primary reason I've been paralyzed into going so long without posting anything.
As a result I'm at a junction where I really need to decide once and for all if its worth spending so much time on something that generates so little interest instead of something that more people would actually be interested in reading. Is Ruined Forever worth writing anymore or is it just an unwanted distraction fooling me into wasting time that could be spent on other better projects?
Please please PLEASE provide some feedback for me on this blog post, whether its in the comments or in private messages. I'm giving it until year's end before I make a final decision on whether or not to cancel/delete it, because at this point I feel like I'm so far into sunk cost fallacy that it might be worth making it never exist again forever just to prevent ever being tempted to work on it again.
I can never get enough of these kinds of stories. It would be tragic to see another one die. I tried writing something like this myself, but I wrote myself into a corner with one of the characters and cannot think of dialogue for 'em. I say keep going!
I think next time I update my social media, I'll throw in a link to this story to help channel more readers (and thus encouragement) this way.
4357009 Thank you for the encouragement, and just for that I'm going to give Friendship is Overrated a read, assuming that's the story you were talking about!
4357116 That is appreciated as well. My problem is mainly with my spoof of Rainbow Dash. I made her too smart and well-educated; I don't have the knowledge I need to come up with lines for her. I considered adding gaming as a hobby for her, but my video game library is limited to only a few franchises, so I'm not certain that I have enough experience in that area, either.
Never read it. Honestly, I forgot it existed.
I'll correct this and get back to you.
~ Chapter: 13
Update: Laughed my ass off after reading only the first paragraph. I have a feeling I'm gonna like this.
~ Chapter: 13