So, not exactly a preview as the title would suggest, but rather another author's note. Much shorter, hopefully. But knowing how much I tend to go on a rant sometimes, no guarantees.
First, I have some good news. Chapter 1 is finished and ready to be published.
But...
Here comes the tricky part, and I won't lie to you, it's not my proudest work. Far from it.
The main reason being I've not written something in a WHILE! I clearly can feel that I've lost my touch, even if I wasn't that good to begin with.
I took a serious gamble in the first part of this chapter, and maybe it will be a mistake. Maybe people will think that this happens out of nowhere, too fast, too quickly, and honestly, I understand.
I mentionned in the first author's note that this may upset people. Rest assured, it upsets me first. Writing the last third of this chapter felt more like filling blanks and space with casual stuff that would have their place in some sort of an Omake, but since I don't do those kinds of things, here goes the idea. Maybe someone can do some Omakes based on this stories if you like the concept.
I don't have a problem with it. Just make sure that you give some credit to the fiction where it comes from.
I feel like I could've done so much better, but met a sort of 'dead end', and thus, raced to cross the finish line even though I never said anything like "Chapters are scheduled to come out on x day".
I am sort of torn between coming back to continue this story that I know has been having some success, according to the numbers of views, reviews and following (HOLY SHIT BTW o_o), and making an approriate suite that follows the trail of where Part 1 stopped. I don't want to disappoint either, even if I know, I already know too well, that some people along the line, will call me onsome stuff I said, or did with the chapters, how it sort-of 'drifts' from the original plot into whatever crappy my degenerate mind can come up to, and I wouldn't fault you for thinking that way.
Have any of you experienced that before? Starting a project, whether it is a fanfiction or anything, putting it aside for a period of time, and when you finally come back to it, you no longer are sure about what you wanted to do with it, or if people will be disappointed by the result? You feel like shit for making them wait so long, and at the very end, it's not necessarely the criticism of others that might hurt you the most, but seeing the result you made, the mess you made, and being fully aware that there is no one else to blame but yourself.
On another matter, my english has always been bad, and I feel like it has gone worse. Way worse than what it was before. Still, no using google translate because HOLY HELL, I did try to write a Nier Automata fic using google translate, was approximatively 4-5 chapters in, and I tried to rewrite it using my own english. Needless to say the comparison was eye-widening, and I nearly puked!
Well, I guess that's all for now. It's almost 0:00 am, Monday 4th of April in where I live, a can of Coke nearby to help me go through the night and hopefully giving you the start of chapter 2, so unlike last time, I won't be publishing a rushed chapter everyday, nor do I intend to publish once every 2 weeks. I'll try to create some good content on a regular basis, but please do keep in mind that if I have like a day or two where I feel off, when it helps me polishing things up to a better standard, if not every week, then 10 days will be my maximum.
I thank you in advance for your understanding, and will wait for your feedback. Not sure if I'll include/answer to the reviews, we'll see. Fingers crossed.
