Not even close to enough time in the day for all this nonsense. · 5:56pm Nov 5th, 2012
Oh, hai there. Didn't see you coming. Have a seat.
So there's this thing that I've done a few times that... probably isn't the best idea. Whenever I rush through something for a contest, I end up not going back to fix it up. I just post it as it was and never look back. Part of that is probably laziness, but I really, truly don't have the time to polish all the ideas I work on. This is just a heads up that I've hit submit on something. Fimfic is getting slower these days, so it probably won't be up for a while. Maybe a whole day. Who knows?
Regardless, in the pretty soon here future, you can expect to see another horrible thing what I wrote. Two weeks ago, I sat down and made it happen for a writeoff and you're about to get a face full of the result. Which... somehow got third place.
STOP APPLAUDING. It's not deserving of that. I was worried while it was being written that there were two places that would be serious flaws, and it turns out I was right on at least one. There's a HUGE problem with it that absolutely deserves fixing, but I just don't have the time and don't see that changing. I've got other ongoing projects and other things in the draft stage that are far, far more important to me. So since it probably wasn't going to get an editing pass, I dumped it here. Please don't go off to read it elsewhere just yet. I feed on views and I'm hungry, so if you could wait for it to pop up here on my list of stories, I'd appreciate it. Not that you need to/should read it at all, but if you do then do it here.
Anyways...
In addition to that, I have finally, finally, FINALLY, FINALLY done something I should've done a million years ago, but have been too stubborn/insecure/whatever to risk. I have a draft of a chapter of that thing what I've been working on since forever, and I've released it to a select group of people. If and when they find the time/patience to go through it, the results will be devastating. I eagerly await their tactical nukes so that I can fish out the pieces of it that were strong enough to survive and then start over for the billionth time. I kept thinking that the story would be ready to go a few years down the road at the speed I'm going, but who knows, maybe with the help of others and the power of friendship it can see the light of day in a few short months. It's just too important for me to let it fail. It has to be good, no matter how hard it is to reach that goal.
hnnnnnngg
Can't destroy what wasn't there. :P
TACTICAL NUKE!!!!
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