Chapter 41: Read Me (Break announcement- It's also some woes of mine)
Well, talk about hyperbole.
The subject is pretty clear in the title, but I want to make it more accurate
First: I have been a bit occupied IRL and I haven't had much time to write, while I loved writing the chapters for this fic, the plot was stretched too thin and this fic would have ended up being very long. I'm not saying that's an issue, but with more responsibilities, I can no longer afford to sit at my computer and think the whole day about a 2000-3000 word chapter that will be a minor part of the story at the end.
Second: This is not saying that I'm dropping this fic completely, I want to continue it but I know the overlay of the plot, not the specifics that would be needed to follow that plot, and if I don't follow that plot, then it feels that this isn't the fic that I wanted to make from the start. What I mean is that I'm not dropping the fic, but this break will be very large and I will have to think very deeply about how to play forward the plot to make it reach the end that I wanted, this means that some chapters may be altered slightly, but I can't be sure, I haven't even started to figure it out.
Third: When will you start writing this fic again? I don't know, I want to give an answer, even if it's an unreasonable one like 2 years or something like that, but I truly don't know. This was my first fic and it was made impulsively, looking back now I had no idea of what I was doing at the beginning, and with a foundation that weak the following story had little impact and fell off quickly. I like to think of myself as a fast learner though, so I will choose to believe that I have improved and I can make a coherent plot now, which brings me to my fourth point.
Fourth: What will I be doing in the meantime? The answer to this question is why I have sinned greatly; I have started another fic. It's not posted yet, I'm just writing it in drafts, and I have some chapters in there, but I want to be sure of when to post them, I don't want it to be like this one where I had the first chapter ready and I posted it immediately, causing me to speedrun the next 3 or 4 chapters to give the readers something else.
Fifth: When will the new story be ready? I don't know, I'm sorry for not knowing anything, but I'm just writing because I like to write, I wrote before I even had the idea of writing a novel and I have a diary that I write every once in a while. Well, the point that I want to make is that it will be ready when I feel that it is good enough to be read. I have already realized that I won't make something ¨Good enough¨ for everyone, but I want to make something good enough for me, and maybe that will be good enough for the people that I want to let them read my work. (I'm not sure if this sentence is correct? I'm writing it by myself and then I went to a translator, but it feels a bit off. Please don't take offense if this came out a bit narcissistic)
Sixth: What is it about? I won't spoil you, but I want to say that I like to make fanfiction about worlds that aren't commonly used, because sure, everyone has read the usual Marvel fanfic, DC fanfic, DBZ fanfic, etc, etc, etc. But no one has made a Jojo plot before right? Most people just use it as a background setting, or just use the stands part, not the part one and part two shenanigans. Actually, let me talk about the ideas that I had for making my first fanfic.
A Berserk fanfic, Yes, it sounds silly and how would I even do that? I don't know, and I didn't do it because in the end, I thought that I didn't have enough experience writing and I wouldn't be able to capture the characters correctly, maybe I was right.
An undertale fanfic. I don't even know where to begin with this one. I just like undertale a lot, didn't get far with this idea before scratching it because of the same reason as the previous one.
A Dark Tower fanfic. Hear me out, okay? It's a big universe and I can make it work with some effort, I didn't do this because of the reason NO.1 and because I would need to read so many books that I haven't read yet, and as I said before, my time is limited now. I still want to try this one day, just not now.
A Project Moon fanfic. Yes, yes, I love indie stuff. I liked this verse a lot, I once saw an essay about LobCorp on YouTube about how not every game has to be an instant dopamine secretor. It changed how I viewed games a bit. I didn't go through with this because of our extensive lack of information on the whole verse in general.
A Cthulhu Mythos fanfic. I know some of you guys just opened their mouths a bit, and I would too, because how would you even make this thing? Well, there are some things in the books that I would love to work with, and as it goes with every fanfic there is, fuck canon, right?
There are still some others that I have in my notes, but these should be enough to give you an idea of where the story that I'm working on could be. (They aren't, all of these are really niche but popular, so think about a verse that is popular, but you haven't seen any fanfic of)
By the way, It would be pretty cool if anyone got inspired by the previous section and started writing a fanfic of any of these verses that I wrote. I wouldn't have influenced that decision in the slightest, but I would say, ¨I raised that boy¨ every time I'd see it in whatever corner of Webnovel.
I don't think I have anything else to say now, just that I hope that everyone who bothered reading until this point has a great day/night.
And I hope that they can read my next fanfic, every comment that I have gotten has been very nice to read. Before I began to write, I didn't think too much about the people who say ¨TFTC¨ or anything similar, now that I see even one or two comments in my inbox, I know that they really make a difference, it's so nice to log in and see one comment from someone with a generic name saying ¨TFTC¨, it's not just them, the people who post a gif, an image, a small comment with an image of a cat reading, or rayleigh wiping his tears with an ¨It's so peak¨ caption, these little things and many more were the ones that inspired me to keep writing, even if I spent three hours back and forth in the same 10 lines.
I'm not saying that only by commenting you can show your support, I see people giving power stones, and adding this to their library, I saw a review one time and I got super excited like I was a 9-year-old on Christmas Eve.
Inkstone stats display 401 collections, so I know that my words will reach at least those 401 persons, I really hope that they can appreciate each and every single one of them, and if they don't, then I'll just need to use new ones and try again.
With all said and done, I give not my goodbyes, but a simple ¨We will meet again¨.
Thanking everyone for reading until now, Aroa.