Good Morning/Evening/Day dear readers!
I have been thinking and making a lot of tough decisions regarding this story lately.
Don't get too worried! I'm not abandoning this story, I'm not putting it up for adoption or sticking it on a permanent hiatus. What I am doing is moving up the time when I planned to re-write it.
As you guys may have noticed, this story, as well as my other fma and Zelda fanfics, are shit. Particularly this story. After getting your guyses most recent reviews I decided to update this story this weekend, but as it's been so long I wanted to re-read it to get back my inspiration and ideas for this story. But if there's one thing I've learned from reading through this again, it's that this story? Is shit.
My main issues with it are how many canon lines and key points in the plot I used. I used so many canon lines and scenes and just changed what characters were there, and switched around who said what. It feels like I'm plagiarizing. I am not a plagiarizer. I am strictly against it, in fact.
The first chapter is something that makes a lot of people ollie out of the story immediately. I describe the wrong things too much, and don't put enough detail into the things that need detail. This author's note has just turned into me criticizing my earlier decisions on this story.
Look, the point is I am rewriting this story. Keep an eye out and the first chapter of it should be up by tomorrow. There will be a lot of things that I'm changing about this story in the rewrite. What this story has that I'm changing is speed. It went to quickly. There was no build up, no background. It has been over a year since I updated this story and I realize that I can't hope to do all the plans I have for this story without rewriting the whole thing and starting from scratch. This story has potential to be a really great story, I think. It has the potential to be one of my best stories, but I need to fix the mistakes I made on this when I was fourteen and embarrassing.
That is my self-critical rant for the day. Just ignore the really pathetic criticality and the momentary egotistical bs and listen to the main message, which is:
I am re-writing this story.
Keep a watch on my profile for the new story.
First chapter should be up in a couple of hours, or tomorrow night.
Now, it's late and I wanna get started on this new chapter before I head to bed.
I love you all, please no hate for this decision, and I will speak to y'all soon.
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Night darlings.
~Hero's Guide