Seraph 27 Zero

by Jir0

He didn't want to go beyond the Walls. Never again. Yet here he was. Very far out of his comfort zone. Seraph 27 Zero is a thrilling Destiny story, a legend of blood, fear, and redemption. When a mysterious stranger contacts an elite Hunter fireteam and a solitary Titan, the adventure of a lifetime ensues when the opposing parties embark on risky mission to save a fallen Guardian.

4. Dear Reader

Dear Reader…

Dear reader,

I… have to apologize. Yes, apologize. I know that many people have been reading, enjoying, and looking forward to the next installation of Seraph 27 Zero, and, in short, I really haven't delivered. I've failed. Rather miserably, actually.

For starters, making my readers wait this long for the next chapter, or even an update, is unreasonable. Unacceptable. When my friend Furious Titaness convinced me to begin writing and sharing fanfiction, specifically for Destiny, there were a few criteria that I knew I needed to meet in order to make the whole Fanfiction thing even work. One of those criteria was to post content regularly. Yes, you have my permission to laugh. It has been weeks, probably closer to months, since my last chapter, update or even notification on this site, much less this story. I've always striven to make my story match my medium, so doing Fanfiction I thought it'd be pretty cool to create and share stories in an episodic format. That fell flat on its face. I ran into far too many speedbumps with the story, obstructing my progress, and my distribution rate decreased more and more until it completely and utterly stopped.

Now yes, I do become drastically busier after the summer ends, but that's little excuse considering what I was getting myself into. I knew what I was getting into, and I messed up anyway. And so, for that, I need to apologize.

But, the real reason I'm writing this to you, the true purpose of this apology, is not to address my absence on this platform.

My dear reader… I'm sorry for writing bad stories.

When I set out to write Fanfiction, the greatest thing I wanted to do was display my talent, my writing abilities. I wanted to be an example to budding writers on how to craft a narrative, how to pace a story, how to create compelling characters, how to emotionally invest an audience in the story they're trying to tell. More than that, I quite simply wanted to write a good story that people would want to read. And… I failed.

Seraph 27 Zero has been an abysmal failure, a dumpster fire, if you will. I had an idea that I wanted to develop, but in my laziness and disrespect for my audience I decided to forgo proper development and just write. Thing is, I know that when I do that I'm going to run into walls and mess everything up. And that's exactly what I did. The story was so incomplete and incomprehensible that I as the author would come upon sections of the story and have to stop writing because I had no idea where I wanted it to go, what direction I wanted to head. Not only that, but there were some parts of the story that I found boring and refused to invest myself in, and if I as the author found it boring and uninvesting, how much more would you as my reader find it.

No writer should lead their reader into a mess of a story and not warn them. That's why I'm saying this, here, now, instead of trying to grind out one more chapter for the story's sake. This train wreck ends here. I want my readers to respect me, and more importantly to enjoy the stories I write, and a writer with bad stories is simply a bad writer.

I messed up. I failed. And I'm sorry.

But an apology on its own, in this instance, is worth very little. That's why I'm going to fix this. From now on, I'm going to plan my plots, construct my characters, and not neglect my narratives. Simply put, I'm going to write good stories. That is my promise to you, my dear reader. And even if only one person reads this, if only one person cares, then know that I am doing this for you. For if there was only one person in the world who wanted to read my stories, then I would keep writing them just for you.

For those of you wondering, no, Seraph 27 Zero is not cancelled. It stumbled, and fell, but it's not down. There's still a good story there, somewhere. And I'm going to find it. I'm going to build the narrative from the ground up, develop it properly this time, and when it releases again, in a few months, a few years, hopefully you readers will find it a story worth reading.

In the meantime, I have a host of other fanfiction stories planned. And yes, most of them are Destiny. And I'm making sure I'm doing them right this time. No half-baked concepts or bad executions. I'm going to write good stories. Great stories. That's a promise.

So until the pen of my hand meets the sword of your gaze, dear reader, I will wish you health and happiness, and if fate decides to hold that from you, just know that I'm going to keep working to give it to you anyway.

Sincerely,

Jir0