Oh dear.
I'm finally posting this - seven years after I started writing it, three years after I stopped - because I'm still getting requests for it, so I might as well.
There is seven chapters out of nine total planned. Each chapter is very long - it started small (12 KB or so) and ... grew. The latest chapter was over a hundred KB, though I don't remember how much.
I don't think I'm ever going to finish it. It's been four years now since I've written anything on it, and my style has hugely changed - for the better, I think. The first few chapters of this are unbearably awkward, angsty, and pre-teenish (Up to and including *author's notes*), and though it gets better with time (Starting around the third or the fourth, when I got rid of some of the Angsty Angst angst Angst), I don't think I can right in a way to mesh with it again. To finish it, I'd have to go back and rewrite things, and frankly, I don't have the time or energy for it, especially considering how my love for the Slayers world, though still *fond*, has faded.
And well, yes, I'm so very glad I've learned and grown and seen my style mature, taken the opportunity of constructive criticism to grow into a better author. But I don't think that my earlier, less-clean work has to be something shameful to me.
...Even if I do think the name is horribly pretentious.
I hope you enjoy,
Harukami
I'm finally posting this - seven years after I started writing it, three years after I stopped - because I'm still getting requests for it, so I might as well.
There is seven chapters out of nine total planned. Each chapter is very long - it started small (12 KB or so) and ... grew. The latest chapter was over a hundred KB, though I don't remember how much.
I don't think I'm ever going to finish it. It's been four years now since I've written anything on it, and my style has hugely changed - for the better, I think. The first few chapters of this are unbearably awkward, angsty, and pre-teenish (Up to and including *author's notes*), and though it gets better with time (Starting around the third or the fourth, when I got rid of some of the Angsty Angst angst Angst), I don't think I can right in a way to mesh with it again. To finish it, I'd have to go back and rewrite things, and frankly, I don't have the time or energy for it, especially considering how my love for the Slayers world, though still *fond*, has faded.
And well, yes, I'm so very glad I've learned and grown and seen my style mature, taken the opportunity of constructive criticism to grow into a better author. But I don't think that my earlier, less-clean work has to be something shameful to me.
...Even if I do think the name is horribly pretentious.
I hope you enjoy,
Harukami
