The Fate of Jericho · 8:59pm Oct 25th, 2012
So it was come to this. Just let it be said that, first of all, I'm about to royally screw the status quo. Second of all, I'm never going to abandon Jericho.
I've recently reached that sort of place where Ego and my want for more feedback has finally clawed out of my skull. They've congealed in this frothy sort of thing currently occupying my ice box. Some of you may be aware that I've been messing with my earlier chapters, making them better. Many of you are also aware that Ego has this strange hounding for glory on the infamous EQD. After a long, long time thinking about it, I'm going to need to reboot Jericho. Now, what does this mean?
Simple: I'm unpublishing all chapters a week after I post the next one. The only ones that shan't go away are chapters 1 – 5. I honestly feel that my abilities as a writer have improved notably since then, as before I updated those chapters they were seriously unreadable messes. I'm also going to redo chapters 1–5, and the rest of the whole story up to about chapter 25, Pagan Witch.
I'm planning on spending a long time making the first few chapters as awesome as possible – go through as many reviews as possible, fix every error, solve every prose-based problem – then try again with the EQD. From there, if *insert deity of your choice* wills it, I'll have a shot of getting on there. From there, it's time to rewrite the whole story up to chapter 25, making the story far more coherent and legible in every way possible, make it funnier, more clever, fix up my German Prussian. Basically make everything better.
The reason I'm saying this here and now is simple: I think I should do away with the prologues. (At least that was the original motivation.)They are large, clunky, awful, and don't match the tone of literally everything else. This means I'll need two bonus chapters in the interim, but I'm a hard worker. I just wanted your thoughts on this. I can take anything life throws at me and still pump out 15k words a week, but my craving for more feedback has Ego backing me into a corner. With any luck, Jericho 2.0 (might even change the name) will be the greatest thing since– Ego, shut it! Er-hmm.
This is not be abandoning it; on the contrary, this is me just writing from the beginning again. Wish me luck on my ultimately pointless endeavor to reach the EQD, feedback, and make Jericho a far better story for all! [And if you really want to see any of the chapters that I'll still have but'll be unpublished, feel free to contact me about that.]
As a casual aside, anyone willing to help me proof-read/edit new chapters of Jericho would be helpful (sometimes my current editor is unavailable; I also don't want to overwork the poor guy.)
i look forward to the reboot it will give me a chance to reread i really hope you get recognition from equestria daily I have wanted this story to be viewed by as many as possible
i would offer to preread but my grammar is not so great i read this since its start under the name tick tock go's the clock .
it had also got me out of my depression after my mother died
and i will always read your story's but i have to say that i love jerico and always will
thank you
Glad to hear it.
One thing to watch out for is the monologues. There is a point where they stop adding to the story and characters and become noise or rather redundant.
I'll toss my name into the hat of people who are able to edit.
Well...alrighty then. I shall look forward to what you do with this book that we have. I would say I would be good for pre-reading but that would be a lie, I would probably mess it up with my lackluster spelling.
Ball'n little fact (other than Ball'n is a correctly spelled word to this sites spell-check) Jericho is the 7th longest novel in the world if you would count it as one. Tolstoy ain't got nothing on you.
I personally don't advise this, though you should obviously do as you will. I just know that I felt the same way about my own "Elements of Unity" and started to re-boot it... the result is that I haven't updated in 4 months.
Unlike myself, you do actually have an audience, and I don't think EQD will increase that audience by much. However, if it's really what you're aiming for, then god speed sir, and more power to you.
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Wow. It actually helped you on tat level? That's just... wow, that really touching.
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Many thanks. Also: hey, look – feedback. That's just the kind of thing I'd look for.
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Yeah, Jericho's make it on the longest novel list. And it'll end up being #1 or 2 at the end, probably.
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And we're forgetting how I'm the kind of weirdo who can pump out ~15k words of this story every week. Your advise is valid and wise, though I aim to never fall into such pitfalls. It's just that Ego demands it of me (and because, I'll admit, I'm rather embarrassed about the quality of my earlier chapters compared to my recent ones).
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I'll admit that I'm a game developer first and a writer second, so it's a lot harder for me to get writing when there's so much else to be done. But that's still kind of my point, you've gotten so far at this point it'd be a shame to have to redo even a sizable chunk of it when you could just keep on pressing forward.
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Again, a very valid point. Hay, I actually learned an entire language (German) for Jericho, since the narrator is German and so is his nation. But I'm legitimately embarrassed by the awful quality of everything up to chapter 25. It's downright illegible and has been bothering me for a long time. Besides, while I'm not aiming for "Fallout: Equestria" levels of fame, just looking for for feedback (positive or negative, but hopefully constructive). In the end, that's probably what it boils down to: embarrassment over early quality and a desire for more feedback.
"don't want to overwork the poor guy."