Torn is on hiatus · 12:28am Jan 13th, 2021
I'm not overly fond of people leaving stories on incomplete and just leaving them sitting indefinitely. Fimfiction is full of stories that are abandoned but never moved off of "incomplete". So I might as well admit that Torn isn't something I'm working on, and place it on hiatus.
I started the fic as a "for fun" thing when I was in a strange sort of mood, and I haven't quite recaptured that mood since then. I imagine once in a blue moon I may want to come back to it, so I wouldn't say it's canceled, but well... it's a "for fun" story that wound up not being very fun for me. I feel bad because it got a good reception and I do like the story, but nothing's motivating me to write it these days. It doesn't help that I'm eternally thinking of the next story. I have roughly eight weeks of updates queued up, and if Life in Equestria isn't ready by then, I'll lapse on my weekly updates. This does not make me want to take the time to write something else...
I don't often apologize for my goings-on here. When I make blogs like this explaining what I'm doing, that's all I'm doing – explaining things. Look closely and you'll see that the words "I'm sorry" are never included, because frankly I write for free and don't feel bothered if I have to explain that I'm doing something else and not releasing content or whatever. But in this, I actually am sorry. I dislike getting people interested in a story only to have it sit there unfinished indefinitely. I feel I have a certain reputation for actually finishing my stories in a timely manner, and I feel that makes me one of the more trustworthy people to read incomplete stories from (I know a lot of folks dislike reading incomplete stories because the author may stop writing them, and I've always advocated that I am different in this regard). But this time, I have failed that, and I am sorry. I never should have published Torn, not because I dislike it, but because even when I published it I knew that it might not get the attention it deserves.
In the future, updates may appear out of nowhere. I'm unlikely to remove it from hiatus even if I update it, because it will likely be a single chapter followed by months of silence. This is actually what I'm hoping for, because the alternative is that the story would really be canceled and I'm just deceiving myself to think that I could write more of it. If that's the case, then I'm sorry again. Let us hope that whatever peculiar mood struck me to start writing this fic strikes me again, and I can get myself to start writing it again.
I get how you feel. It sometimes mildly irritates me whenever that happens
Honestly, one of the other main series I follow does this far, far more. Like I never know when a story that is months/years old will update, nor for how long. It kind of is what it is. I liked how Torn was going but I'm definitely more invested in the ongoing WWB series. Whatever works for you in the end is what matters!
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I just hope people aren't too upset with this announcement
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Yeah, I know this is par for the course for a lot of writers, but I always thought I would never be one of them. I love that if you look through my stories, they're all complete except the ones I'm actively working on, and I don't like that Torn is the exception... But WWB is gonna be the priority here, so it is what it is.
No worries, I doubt any good fan of your stuff would be upset. Like you said, you do this for free, you’re allowed to put things on hiatus, especially if it was just a “for fun” story.
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I imagine people keeping up with the story might be upset, although there's being upset that a story you liked isn't updating and there's being upset at the author for not updating it. Hopefully people only feel the former rather than the latter.