So, now that I've revealed I have started in on the reboot and have figured out what I'm doing with the language, should I keep going with this series or should I go ahead and start on the reboot?
The main reason why I've been continuing this series is to get some idea of how the first major arc would end. I've got a pretty firm outline of how the major confrontation with Iuutel's dragon priest is going to go now even though I haven't gotten around to actually writing it, so I believe I have what I need to reboot if necessary.
So, I guess the real question is whether there are more people who are dying to see the way this arc concludes, or if there are more people who dropped this series in the slow and dull trial arc but are dying to get back into this series and are on the edge of their seats for that reboot already.
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I gotta see the end of the arc. Votes: 35 30.7%
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I want that reboot, the sooner the better. Votes: 79 69.3%
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I had finished book 2, then in my great wisdom figured I'd wait till book 3 was finished before reading as it was painful to get though book 2 at roughly a chapter a week.
So for me, either works, but if you're rebooting, there's no real point in me reading the arc considering I've shelved this story back in February.
Glad you're still passionate though. Many a story started and dropped by other authors in the near half year I've been in waiting.
Yeah, still passionate. It's just that I've noticed the large drop in enthusiasm and it's begun to affect me as well.
There seems to be real enthusiasm for the new story ideas I've proposed along with the reboot, so I figured it might be time to change things up.
You're going to reboot it anyway, finishing this arc feels kinda redundant in a way. That said, ultimately I'd say the choice is yours, if you feel happier dropping this version of the story here and focusing on the reboot, do that, if you'd feel more comfortable getting closure on this arc, then do that.
I'm enjoying this story, but if there will be no continuation after that, then it would simply be better to wait for the reboot. I enjoy stories with good conclusions, and can't help but get frustrated by stories with no feasible/believable end. So, I gotta vote reboot for that eventual end-game- if there is one to this story.
Mhhmm, reboot
I dropped it because of how... lets say chunky or chewy? the story itself read. Or whatever else could substitute for what i wanna express? :.
Gives a feeling like a boring monotone lecture where an self-assured teacher demands full attention all the time while nothing substential is happening at all to regain some focus or something?
Anyway, it stands in stark contrast to a story i very much like, where i soak in and lose myself in every chapter (wich is a first). Might be the well crafted setting or how its presented but to me its a plain amazing read. Journey of Black and Red, best vampire story! period. Well if you dont know it yet, maybe check it out to take away one thing or another?
Well personally I don't like reboots much, so I probably won't be reading until the part where it's very different and binge it from there, so on one end I want it to be at that point quickly, but leaving an arc unfinished isn't something I'm comfortable with either. (sorry if I'm rambling, I usually don't comment)
Define very different, because I've already set up a couple major changes just in the first 2 chapters (which you can read in my little showcase of stories I released.)
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/166123/three-new-stories-first--chapters/
@Jemini I'm not too sure how to describe it but I'd say like taking the story in a different direction, more like a route B than a remastered route A. Sorry if I'm not describing it well, I'm not very good at talking
@Quetea Well, again, just how different would it have to be in order to be considered a route B? Because the changes that are going to be made are such that it will look like a different person's take on the same story, and the differences will be huge. But, if you want a change as dramatic as them choosing not to go to the capital and going to fight demons in the underworld instead then it's not gonna happen.
@Jemini I'm not really sure how different it would have to be, or at least not how to describe it. And I wasn't expecting changes that big but more like things like the binding contract part being different, or having character relations be different like the mother being closer to her children just to give an example (not that I want that change specifically but just trying to give an idea of what kind of changes). Again sorry for not making it clear, I find it hard to describe.
@Quetea Ok, well, that scale of changes is exactly what I meant by planning on having changes like that right from the beginning.
Basically, while people seemed to have been taken in by the world building and just the fact I'm good at characterization the first time around, I absolutely agree with the criticisms that I did a lot of things wrong before.
Plus, that's also the kind of writer I am. I simply wouldn't be able to make it into what you describe as a "remastered route A" even if I wanted to. I'm a bit of a pantser, I feel out how the characters want things to go and write it rather than sticking to any rigid structure. And, from how chapter 2 went, I can already tell that the little changes I've made already are going to start compounding very quickly like a butterfly effect.
@Jemini Alright, well I'll give it a read once around 5-10 chaps are out, thanks for sticking with me trying to explain myself.