An apology…
I started writing on this platform in February 2017, three years ago. I did it out of boredom and need for some form of interaction. That story was 24 to Life: 24th Hunger Games. I fell in love with the story, sometimes writing a chapter a day and it was completed in March with forty chapters.
The next story was Hell Island: 25th Hunger Games in five month, a bit longer as the first story burnt me out. In the same year I started Chosen Warriors but it didn't get off the ground until August really.
The reason I am putting out this apology is I feel I need to. For months I have been wanting to try my hand at another SYOT but I have been worried about a black mark that might be next to my name.
I am sorry to the people whose characters I messed up with my writing and I am sorry to those who got invested in my last two stories (Venus and Chosen Warriors) only to be disappointed. I tried to do my best but I know I left people angered and annoyed by my inability to complete these stories to the level you would have liked.
The truth was, Chosen Warriors and Venus were made more out of need for recognition than a need for joy. I was in a bad place mentally, a lonely, depressed place and I saw all of these SYOT's getting hundreds of reviews, fan arts, threads upon threads of theories on what would happen. I wanted that engagement and hype around my stories and felt the only way to have that was to create SYOT's with complicated twists and twists within a twist. This is not to say I did not love the characters or the Quell Twists I came up with, I do. I have even thought about re-doing those twists or re-writing the story now I am in a better place.
The harsh truth is that although I was getting 100+ reviews with my last two SYOT's, I never enjoyed them as much as my first stories where I got 106 and 93 reviews. In fact, my favourite SYOT ever written is the first one, 24 to Life. Not because it is written the best but because I had so much joy writing it. I didn't find myself rushing the ending or forcing myself to write because I didn't need to.
There are a few reasons why I am writing this today. I am not sure if anyone will still be following the stories I post it on but hopefully someone reads it.
I want to do another SYOT. An apology story mostly made up of characters I have wronged within my last SYOT's. I might open up spots if no one wants to take part but for now, the spots are open for you. There is a few Tributes I have fallen in love with over the years so they get a space straight away along with any victor from my past SYOT's. So Atlas Geo, Lux Hymnoor, Belinda Herd, Ezra Arlington and Akhal Breker.
The SYOT will be a mixture of all my stories but in a way that is manageable.
The Tributes will be chosen from the District and placed into a reality show (much like a dating show) where they will be paired up and enter the Arena. That's a quick overview. It seems complicated but it really isn't. I wouldn't do it otherwise. It will exist outside of the universe of my other stories so if your character is a victor or died before another one was born, don't worry, it is like hitting re-start on the character.
If you don't want to give me another chance or you would rather your character remains in whatever state they are currently in, just PM me and I won't use them. If you want in, just let me know.
Either way, I hope you accept my apology. This account has been running throughout my college and university years and it feels like writing to create one last SYOT. I hope to have everything up and running by the start of April.
Many thanks, Robin.