A Serious Question · 5:34pm Jun 3rd, 2020
Howdy folks, Chaos here. After a long time of inactivity on this site, I have decided to give it a go once again. Now, I have found myself wanting to continue We're Not In Europe Anymore, however, after rereading the chapters that are currently posted, I instantly lost a great deal of will to do so. These are the main reasons why:
1. This story is old. The first chapters that I had written originally, the ones before even the 2017 rewrites, were quite aged, If I remember correctly, I had uploaded this story in early 2016. That is a long time ago, and the 2017 rewrites (and even 2018 chapters) are, while much better than the original chapters, not well aged when it comes to my writing style and skills.
2. Despite the chapters being "edited" they are full of grammar errors and bad structure. In some cases it was a pain to read my own work. That is not a good sign.
3. I had lost track, many times, on what I wanted to focus on in the story. I blame mostly my lack of experience at the time, as well as rushing chapters, but it really is a mess of intersecting plot lines.
4. The story has lost a lot of it's original following. Yes, it has over 2,000 views, and over a hundred likes (thank you all for that) but the later chapters don't really have any reads. And I, again, blame my lack of getting chapters out in a cohesive manner. But it still is a good point, I believe.
And 5. It is quite short. Very short. Considering I have worked on this story and pondered it's concepts for almost a decade now, I have not gotten much done with it in the grand scheme of things, and I feel that if I can start it out fresh, I would be a lot more willing to work on it more, and be able to put more words on paper. You could consider this as part of my first point, regarding my skills and experience, but all things considered, I feel it in myself to make this a point of it's own.
Now that I have my reasons down, I have come up with really two solutions:
1. I make a completely new story, separate from the original, and keep the original public for archive purposes (it's not a ridiculously old story, but it has been on the site for almost five years, and has a decent amount of views.)
2. Use the current story, but delete the chapters I have written as I write updated versions.
I am undecided in this, and I would like a bit of feedback. Thanks.
Welcome back!
Glad to see you've returned!
Also, I think option 1 is better. Just my opinion, though.
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Thanks man, the feedback is appreciated! I'm likely going to wait until tomorrow to really decide, as that's probably enough time for anyone else to give me potential feedback. I'll likely make another post once I've made up my mind. So be looking out for that.
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I will. Best of luck!
I'm going to go with option one.