Do Psychic Cats Dream of Electric Sheep? -- OUTDATED VERSION

by SparklingEspeon

[PSMD] Espurr woke up in the woods and was attacked by three sinister beheeyem. Fleeing to secluded Serenity Village and stuck with rowdy troublemaker Tricky for company, the two kids must look to each other for strength as the world beyond their village grows darker by the day... and the shadowy forces stalking them both grow ever closer. A PSMD fix-it fic starring Espurr.

47. discontinuation note

Right, it's been a year coming; I think it's about time I drop it: The dreaded Discontinuation Note. (scary noises)

This story is special to me for a lot of reasons, mostly because it's part of a very small niche of fic (PSMD rewrites), and because PSMD Espurr is a character I empathise with and like a lot, so writing from that pov was really fun to do. But it's also the first time I successfully wrote something, and I do think it shows. It's messy, confused, convoluted, and inconsistent. I ended up pigeonholed into plot decisions and directions I wouldn't take now because I was pantsing it early on, and the later arcs of the story suddenly veered in a very different direction once covid happened and the whole world began falling apart. The more I tried to put my outlines together (and I did spend a year trying, I promise), the more I realized that what I wrote two years ago just isn't compatible with the direction I was prescribing for it going forward, and the further in I went, the more and more I was breaking away from resembling PSMD… at all. (edited)

I'm not a perfectionist; I know when to stop and what battles to pick. But I also know when my work can be better, and I think I've come to the conclusion that this work can't shine to the extent that I want it to within the framework four-years-ago-me built.

So going forward, I've decided it would be best to discontinue this story… but that doesn't mean I've stopped writing it! As of the publishing of this note, I'll have made significant progress on and published a new version of this story – enough that I can try to publish chapters weekly, and to do the story on a level worthy of professional bookwriting, rather than this old mess. The old version, of course, will stay up for anyone who still wants to read it.

Outside of that… thanks to everyone who's read up to this point, and I hope this newer version can deliver for you just the same as this older one has. Cheers!