You know how this goes, don't you?
It's the sad update, the miserable realisation. The broken promise and the understanding that what you see before you will not be seen ever again.
It's the update that tells you that the fic that you are reading has been cut short before it could ever blossom.
Which this one has been.
Cult of Silver has been cancelled.
I'm sorry. I know that I've probably let a lot of you down, but I can't bring myself to work on this fic and enjoy doing it. Part of writing should be about having fun doing it, and my Dad always tells me that you shouldn't do something that you don't enjoy doing.
Well, I tried to work on Cult of Silver. I really did. But I just can't bring myself to enjoy it.
Besides, Cult of Silver was always meant to be a side project compared to Ascendancy. That fic I made a commitment to. That one I enjoy working on. This one? I made no commitment, and I don't enjoy working on it.
At least I'm telling you this now instead of just leaving it for dead, though.
Now, ordinarily this would be the part where I tell you that this fic is open for adoption, and that anyone can take it. If I have to be honest, I don't think anyone would take this fic up in the first place, even if I showed them the plans for it. I left To Plunder the Skies open for adoption, but that one-shot got two reviews and middling views. I don't think anyone is going to pick that one up, and I doubt that anyone is willing to pick this one up either.
Don't think I'm cynical for thinking that. I've seen other people's fics get picked up by others and adopted by them. Maybe I'm just not looking too positively to myself, but I just don't think that anyone will want to carry on this fic. You all will want to read it, but do you really want to write it?
I'd love to see someone pick up this fic and carry on in my steed, but if I'm being honest, I'm not holding my chances. I'm not Coeur Al'Aran. I'm not College Fool. I'm not ImSoAwesome or Selene Sokal. I'm not even you people that have been nothing but amazing to me in the reviews and comments, like Xealchim, bosterflaming, ReDestroBo, or death_march. I'm not popular, I don't get that many reviews on any of my works (I had to reupload Dying Light the other day, and I've had no reviews on that at all), and I don't get TV Tropes pages. I'm just me. That's all I can be.
I'm sorry that I wasn't good enough.
So, yeah, I'm not holding out my chances that this fic will get picked up by anyone. If anyone wants to, then feel free to PM me to leave a review or comment, but I'm not going to hope for it. It's a risky thing to do, hope, and I doubt that anyone really cares about this story to begin with.
But I do. Despite me not wanting to write or work on this story at all anymore, I want you all to see the ideas that I had behind this fic, because I believe that they could've been something special.
So, that's why I'm going to take a page out of College Fool's book and release a different type of story. Cult of Silver: What Could Have Been, an arc by arc, chapter by chapter breakdown of each arc as they would've been released, detailing all the things that I would've put in my story, all the little twists and turns, and then going all the way to the finale.
That is if no one does pick this story up. I'll give it some time, but if not then I'll start posting it.
Keep your eyes and ears out for that, will you please? I know that I've probably already let you all down immensely by finishing this story so soon after it started, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
Reality is a cruel mistress sometimes.
But anyway, I'll leave that here for now. I'm glad that I could at least tell you that this fic is being cancelled instead of just leaving it out to dry, and you have no idea how happy it makes me to at least let me show you a little window into the world that could've been made.
I'm just so sorry that it had to end this way.
Please, one of you, please pick this story up and continue on. I can't carry it on, but I don't want to see it end this way. I want to see this story blossom and bloom.
I won't hold my hopes up, but if there is anyone out there with the strength and will to keep this story more alive than I ever could, then please just let me know. If not, then I'll start releasing the story arc by arc, idea by idea, and then it will be open to the whole world.
Just not in the way that I had hoped.
Titanmaster 117 out.
I'm sorry that I let everyone down.
