Starfleet Nemesis: Operation: Edits · 8:19pm Mar 13th, 2018
So, a while ago now Legendbringer announced that he was going back through the early chapters of Fall of Starfleet and sprucing them up a bit, touching them up, adding some new stuff, all that sort of thing.
At the time I commented that I probably ought to do the same thing, but I never actually did anything about it.
I am now. The edits to the first chapter (or the first prologue, rather) are already up for you to take a look at and I really do hope that you do go back because I promise it will be worth your while. The overall plot will not change, but I'm not just planning on making grammar corrections (although there are some chapters that need that quite badly), rather I'm also planning on correcting the characterisation (Lightning Dawn's characterisation changes halfway through chapter 1, when I suddenly decided that instead of an arrogant jackass he was going to be a brooding hero; even then he doesn't really settle down until the reveal that he was in love with Twilight some time later), touching up some of the characters and dynamics (Starla is quite flat in the beginning considering how important she's going to become), giving some space to some underused characters and generally making everything more consistent.
I don't tend to plan my stories out in advance but I have a much clearer idea now of how the rest of the story is going to play out, and the edits will reflect that.
So please go back, and please comment (again). I'll post a blog once each chapter is edited, and then once all the touching up is done we'll get back to all-original content.
I should also add that the delays while all of this goes on will not be nearly as long as they have sometimes gotten during the writing of this story in the past. In said past, I tried to split my attention between multiple fanfics with the result that they all updated sporadically and slowly. Then I became so invested in my Cinderella fanfic (any Disney fans please check it out; it might be the best thing I've ever written) that I just barrelled through it to the finish and that seemed to work pretty well, so that is my new approach...and it's the turn of this story to have my attention. So expect the updates to come fairly fast from now on.
Sweet to see.