numrex

So...I may have been gone for...3 years after reading the original. But after looking at the old posts here in conversations and the old comments in the original, I will finally post/comment again!
          
          Seeing all the challenges: personal problems, free time to writing being non-existent and definely some burnout or blockages here and there. (I have never been a writer and yes a artist, but because of this I have a ideia of how it is and how horrible it is). 
          Yet despite all this, you still here, writing the shorts and doing the remake of my favorite Ori fanfic that I will DEFINELY read! (I also need to read the shorts)
          
          About your posts of being sorry about the slow work pace, being busy and taking breaks. It's okay, who loved to read about the Spirits Within will be back to read and see more of the world you building, I'm literally a perfect example! I have been gone for 3 years and now look where I am posting here! Yes, it's slow pace but everthing takes time, nothing is instaly.
          
          Well, why I'm writing all this? Well, to again say "Thank You!" and also this time "Congrats!". In the end I'm only here to support you and by what I have seen, I'm not the only one. Yeah we all are only 33 followers. Yet, here we all are. Funny how life works.

“Oh yeah… it’s all coming together.”
          
          Thought to give an update and an apology for my slow work pace, but I believe it’s all coming together nicely. It’s weird that I spent so much time on something that doesn’t change much of the original story. The main reason for remaking this was to enhance the original story before reposting it to AO3. But hey, I’m happy with how it turned out.
          
          Furthermore, I think I learned a valuable lesson from my time working on the Short Stories and the remake. Trying to do every little bit of writing before posting is… not great. I’d probably have a much easier time working on one or two chapters at a time before moving on. So… I think I’ll do that from now on, but it doesn’t matter much (considering the staggering amount of work I already did on the short stories). Next time, though, I’ll learn my lesson.
          
          As for posting the remake of the Spirits Within… it starts on October 4th at the latest, and from there, I’ll post chapters daily. It’s still the same number of chapters as before (29 including prologue and epilogue), so it’s about a month’s worth of releases. Again, the story doesn’t change much of anything except for making the story as a whole more fluent, grammatically correct, and make more sense both for the characters and plot. I’m sorry the (unnecessary) remake took so long, but it’s almost done, and then it’s back to the short stories that will hopefully come out at a faster rate (no promises though). See you later!

Almost there… Almost…

Basically a whole month later I’m back once again :3
          I hope you are doing well buddy. I also hope you’ve been having a great summer ^^

I hope you’re doing well! I hope you’re enjoying your summer break. (If you have one) I also hope you have made progress, even if a little. I still wait patiently :D

*sigh*
          
          Another long break… I don’t mean to keep doing this.
          
          Long story short, this past semester was hell for me. Incoherent teachers who get their own material/slides wrong, stress and anxiety in general, and lackluster assigned partners in group projects who didn’t give me the chance to do work on it until FIVE DAYS before the deadline, then scolding me for “not doing anything.”
          
          B****, you didn’t give me a chance to work on-!
          
          *sigh*
          
          Yeah, I was frustrated. But it's over and I can get back to writing and creating. I promise I’m still working on the short stories, but… I have something else that I would like an opinion about.
          
          I wanted to put Ori and the Spirits Within (and the short stories) on AO3 for a while now, and that it would take a while to do. As I read and corrected things, I realized how… shoddy it looked. Not to say it’s a bad story (btw, 10k reads on the original, thanks so much!), but I just wanted to make it better. That's what I've been doing for a while now...
          
          I then thought about what to do with the original story here, since it was being overhauled. I had 2 ideas, and I'd like to know what you think I should do.
          
          1) Post the new story in place of the old one, essentially deleting the original story from existence. I would place the new story in the old story’s file, which would keep the views, votes, and (most) of the comments.  OR
          
          2) Create a new story for the updated version. I'd modify the original to be outdated, directing people towards the new version. I'm not going to put the old version on AO3, just the new one.
          
          I have my own choice on the matter, but I want to know your thoughts too.
          
          I'm still working on the short stories... and some other, secret projects, but I want to do this before I continue updating them. I'm currently planning on posting the next chapter day and date with uploading the short stories to AO3, and then, I'll update both sites simultaneously.
          
          Again, sorry for my absence. Thanks for understanding! :)

Once again, I hope you are doing well ^^

Hope you’re doing well man.

Hello...
          
          I am very sorry for my prolonged absence from posting updates to my work. I honestly didn't expect that I would be away for so long, but life became weird and I needed to get myself sorted out, and in order to do that, I needed to step away from writing and clear my head. My motivation was a little drained at the time, which hasn't happened in a while.
          
          I am sorry that I haven't been posting as much as I honestly could have been, given that I have already written so much that I haven't posted yet. But as I was on break and I was starting to write again, I looked back over the stuff I had already written and realized that I don't believe the stuff I have is at the quality I would accept for myself (because perfectionism is a curse on my mind...).
          
          So, for the past two weeks or so, I've been dedicated to polishing and editing the stuff I've written. Good news: My motivation for the stuff I'm writing is coming back, slowly and surely. If I'm not too busy this semester, I'll try my best to write as much as I can and do the best I can. I might be able to get a chapter or two out in early February, so here's hoping.
          
          I think I learned a valuable lesson while writing the short stories, though... honestly, I'm not sure what the lesson is. Take your time? Don't bite off more than you can chew? Have faith in yourself? Don't stress too much about the littlest things? All of those combined?! I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm learning and hopefully I'll bring more stuff out soon.
          
          Again, sorry for my absence, but I'll try and be back on the road again! Have a good day!
          
          Also, happy new year!

Hope you’re doing okay.