::sigh::

[farla]

Got a review for Ice today where the reviewer wanted to know about Maelstrom and if I'm ever going to do anything more with that.

Pretty much the only thing that comes to mind is along the lines of 'delete it, purge hard drive, and deny it ever existed.'

Meanwhile, I'm reminded that I really need to get on with reposting Pokemon Revolution. I'm procrastinating because I'm not really sure how to do it - it'll need editing to be readable anyway, as FFN strips out several symbols I used in it, so should I rewrite my chapters or just post them as-is? Rewriting that story's an absolute nightmare. I made a stab at it a year or two ago - I think I made it up past Ch10, but I was introducing new problems as I did so. And there are all sorts of underlying problems I can't fix with a surface rewrite anyway. Then there's the question of if I should post the chapters individually or all at once, and...

And there are all the other stories I really don't like, yet other people seem to. I can never decide if I should take them down or not.

Comments

[jaxmalcolm.livejournal.com]

...Why would he (assuming it's a he) review one of your stories asking about another, rather than just going over to that other story and leaving a note there? ._.

On the other hand, I suppose you are talking about FFNet here...

Anyway, what sort of problems did you wind up hitting when rewriting Pokemon Revolution? Personally, I'd say just rewrite it to make it readable, but I don't want to be too cruel.

As for your other concern, I'd say post them slowly. Personal experience has told me that apparently putting up two or more chapters at once automatically marks the fic as not being worth readers' time (in a nice, tl;dr fashion), but that might just be my luck.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Oh, he was talking about both stories, so it might just have been he thought of it while reading Ice. Although yes, it'd be nice if reviews could go with the story they focus most on.

Well, there's an underlying structure to each chapter, so while I can reword things, I can't really mess with the actual events, especially since half the chapters aren't even mine so I can't alter anything that'd affect them. And it doesn't help matters that just trying to read the original chapters is almost impossible for me. I just spend the whole time cringing and thinking 'Oh god, people read this with my name on it' and 'oh god, I wrote this'.

Yeah, but my desire to whore for reviews and attention is matched by my desire for no one to notice the story as I'm uploading it. It's a weird feeling.