Drastic Tag change. · 6:27pm Sep 6th, 2019
Whoops.
You ever have this moment where you're over halfway into something big and you realize "Wait a minute. This isn't what I think I've been going for?"
Then you realize "Oh crap this wasn't what I've been going for all along"
Same thing applies here. If you're wondering why the tags are different, well...I did genuinely think that what I wrote had the tags that they fit at the time, and I thought that the ending I was going for was the ending that I was looking for in the end, too.
But it wasn't. I thought about it, I talked about it, and by the end of all that I realized that the conclusion didn't echo my thoughts at the beginning before I wrote the story, back when it was simply a theoretical concept.
I'm probably going to get a lot of downvotes for it. That's fine. I honestly wasn't intending to do a bait-and-switch at the start, but I realize that it's unfair to spring one on you now.
So, uh, if the story looks different on the outside - now you know why. Nothing on the inside has change; I just fixed advertising that seemed right at the start, but which is utterly unfitting as of now.
I'm sorry. You guys deserved better than that.
Maybe some of you will like the story anyway. If you do, well...I'm glad.
And I'll try to learn from this next time I write and publish a story, and get a better handle of what I want from the very beginning of it all, instead of the semi-beginning.
-Petrichord
It's far preferable to the tags going in the other direction. No foul as far as I'm concerned.
The shift is Horror-->Mystery, right? Doesn't seem like the biggest of deals if so.
5117071
Pretty much.
Well losing the "horror" tag greatly lessens the odds of meaningless death and/or suffering, so I'm cool with it.