::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.

[negrek.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'd probably leave the stories up just out of laziness no matter how bad I considered them to be.

As for rewriting stuff, I've concluded that I'm terrible at it and can't really give advice there. I suppose the thing to consider would be whether you'd prefer to post the same story but have it be on the surface prettier, or writing a different story based on the same central ideas. Obviously, the second option would almost be like committing to writing a totally new fanfic, so it all depends on how much effort you want to put into it and how much you really care.

Not in the slightest helpful, but it's the best I've got.