I love this story. I have been working on it since summer of 2021, and I wish to continue working on it.
But I just can't keep working on this. There are too many other ideas I want to put to digital paper. Ideas in which I haven't been able to do so because of this story. Why? Because I am a slow writer. I tend to procrastinate a lot. If I were to write another story, particularly an ongoing story, that would completely screw over this story's schedule. (I say that like I have one lmao)
So there's one reason. I want to work on other things. It is NOT a lack of motivation. I just want to work on other stories more than this one. That's all.
Another reason is that I seem to do a lot better when writing about stuff that isn't just a bunch of car jargon. I used to be in this mindset that almost everyone knows the cars I write about, such as Spitfire's Nissan S14 Silvia Autech or Thunderlane's BMW E30 Evolution Three. Like, how many people actually know of the latter of the two? A decent number of people will likely have some idea of the S14, but who actually knew of the E30 Evo before reading this story?
One of the rules states that people should not have to go off-site to know what is going on. Yet here I am effectively forcing non-car people to go off-site to Wikipedia or some other thing to see what car I mean. And that is... not good.
Not everyone is a Car Whisperer. How ironic that Takumi also isn't a Car Whisperer.
So there's another reason.
So. To bullet-point my reasons:
1. I want to work on other things. Particularly things with G5. Seriously, I have 53 Unpublished stories as of writing this, half of which don't even have chapters written.
2: This story is for a bit of a niche market and, at the moment, is really meant for people who understand the car jargon. It is in fact frustrating to those who don't understand it, and you don't want readers to be frustrated while reading your story. Frustrated because they don't understand parts of it. Not because of what a character is doing.
3: ... It's simply becoming more of a burden than anything. I don't want to write it right now. Plain and Simple.
Wow I suck at explaining this.
BUT!
This story is NOT going to turn into one where it is forever on hiatus. I want to come back to it at some point and continue writing. I love this story, and I want to finish it. I already have the ending written, I just need to get there.
I may or may not write a chapter every now and again whenever I'm bored, that way when I do come back, I have a backlog of chapters I can publish to make up for lost time. I may also go back and edit parts of the story, particularly in cutting down the car jargon and also explaining said car jargon. Those with a keen eye may notice.
The beginning ten parts are likely what kills the story's chances of getting many views, which is to be expected as they are several months old and I've barely touched them since publishing. Almost everything from Part 10 Forwards is considerably better. I will probably be editing those.
So.
To those that have stuck around and put up with the Bullshit that was my (Surprisingly Consistent?) Publishing "Schedule", I thank you. For those that have stumbled upon this story while it is in Hiatus, Welcome, and feel free to read and give feedback. And feel free to check out my other stories. A few a good, a couple are bad, but uh... yeah.
Here's hoping I can get this story back up and running. In the meantime, I'll be writing other things.
BYE!