Saving the World of Light

by MaskedGamer

It all played out the same. Galeem attacked the Smashers. The Smashers futilely fought back. Except for one change. Kirby, and all hope is gone. Now, Nathaniel, an amnesiac teenager, must now journey to fight Galeem. On his journey, he'll be joined by others and recover his memories. We are also taking bets on how long it takes for him to lose horribly. Currently being rewritten.

29. SWOL Update

Hey everyone!

MaskedGamer here. I have no idea why I did that but I couldn't think of a better intro to this or how to really talk about the topic.

That topic being Saving the World of Light in general, updates, what I have been doing and so on and so forth.

Let's start with updates.

The last time I updated this was on SWOL's first year anniversary, November 26, 2019 (kinda sad cuz of that). Since then, it has largely been dead silence from me. The first main reason for that I started my first year of college. The college I'm attending is out-of-state so it's been a really big shift for me. I have classes to attend and papers to write and friends to try and make and alienate with my social awkwardness and just trying to find a new normal for my life. I didn't have enough free time or energy to write.

The second main reason is a lack of motivation. I'm pretty burnt out on Smash Bros. Maybe it's because I joined the Gaming Club at my college and all I've been doing there is playing Smash Bros. Maybe it's because I haven't been playing as much video games as I used to. I don't know. Before this major hiatus, I was already having problems with regular uploads so maybe college was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe looking at the progress that I have made so far, I realized how big of a task this would be and mentally intimated myself out of it.

The third main reason is that I don't really use this site anymore. I made this account in 2014. Compared to a lot of people on the internet, this account is pretty young. So was I when I made it. I made this account 6 years ago which sometimes feels like an entire lifetime ago. Compared to now, I am an entirely different person, with different hobbies and interests. I haven't actively used this site in so long which started even before I started writing SWOL.

As for SWOL in general, I would love to finish it. I have plans for the ending and general plot but not a lot of skill to fill that. This is my first fanfiction, which I mainly started on a whim so I don't really have a lot of experience with writing. Like I said earlier, the end result of a fic like this would be a lot, and when I focused on that, it seemed like this was a major mistake because of my amateur writing skills. Would I accidentally portray anyone as OOC? Is there enough focus on the plot? Am I creating enough information that doesn't give the major twists away but still hints at the twist in a satisfying way? Am I making my characters make ridiculous decisions without a solid motivation as to why?

Admittedly, part of me just wants to delete and forget about SWOL. 28 chapters? That's good enough so move on. If I really wanted to keep writing then I could just rewrite it so I don't railroad my sideplots into a mountain cave filled with lit dynamite. I actually have a solid answer for this in that if I were to delete and/or rewrite SWOL, it would probably be after the third year anniversary.

I think a lot of my hangups when writing this is a focus on the wrong details but I'm not entirely sure. Like I said, I would love to finish this. It would be amazing to share something with the community for the first time and to see what it's like on the other side of the story.

I'm not posting this with the promise of another chapter soon. I'm not posting this to say officially that SWOL is dead forever and you should forget about it. I'm posting this because I feel like I owe all of you some answers.

All I can say right now is that I'm sorry.