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Dead_Mares


"We're a broken species... All we know is anger and murder. We kill, and kill, and kill, until there's nothing left but our hatred and a barren wasteland."

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  • 141 weeks
    Been a while

    Bit of a long-winded update post. Sorry. That is my writing style, after all.

    So obviously I haven't been active in a hot minute. Two main reasons:

    1 - I wrote way too much way too fast and burned myself out, and as such need time to recharge (that happens a lot with me. My love for writing, among other hobbies, comes and goes).

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  • 167 weeks
    Good news and, well, not bad news, but kind of neutral news, I guess? Also next story plan, and a wiki of sorts.

    So uh, the final chapter is ridiculously long. Like, over 20k words long. Obviously that's too much, so I'm splitting it into two chapters.

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  • 182 weeks
    Yo I promise I'm not dead

    I'm actually pretty close to finishing part 2 of FiMTech. I know it's been over half a year since the last chapter was released, and I make no excuses; I'm lazy and have things I'd rather be doing. However, I do still write every now and then. I love this series and want to see it completed someday. No telling how long that will take considering the number of titles I have planned for it, but

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  • 214 weeks
    Hmm

    Chapter 13 of The War of Annihilation is basically just 5.7k words of dialogue. I can't help but think that's a bit much, but at the same time I don't think I could have made it much shorter while still fully preparing for the next (and final) chapter. Well, the ending should be exciting enough to make up for that, so hopefully it's not too unforgivable. My stories are usually

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  • 224 weeks
    Haven't been feeling that writing bug lately

    I've had a bit on my mind the past week and it's kept me from writing anything. I'll try to get back to it at some point. I'm sitting on almost 20k words of a story that I need to proofread so I can submit it, but I just don't have the motivation to do it yet. Soon. Once that's done I'll get back to FiMTech.

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Feb
16th
2019

My writing is a tad bit long, huh? (MW:LaE update) · 2:13am Feb 16th, 2019

I was looking through what I have done for chapter 3 so far (it should be out tomorrow, but I'm not promising. I don't have anything else to do and I've got it about 3/4 done, excluding proofreading) and I realized just how much I've been putting into the story. It almost feels like I'm including fluff and dragging the chapters out longer than they need to be, but there's nothing I want to remove. I like what I've written so far and I don't want to shorten it. I blame Tui Sutherland for my writing style.

I was shooting for ~50k words, but with how much I'm including it might end up as more. I don't really mind that; in fact I feel pretty good knowing that I'm writing so much, given my history of cutting things short and making rushed stories with like 10 chapters that are all ~500 words each (I'll never let those stories see the light of day). I'm just wondering if anyone actually wants to read a fanfic that's longer than many novels.

Do you guys think the story is slow paced? I know there are only two chapters so far excluding the prologue, but I don't think things will pick up much until chapter 6 at this pace (maybe late chapter 5 depending on how things go). Is that too slow, or is it paced well? Maybe I could release a much shorter version once this one is done. I could cut some things out and give that version a teen rating, too.

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