spartan_76
late night rambles
if i had one big complaint about my current stories, it's definitely that i chose to tie my most popular story, Infected days, so deeply into both Assassins creed. if i could go back, i would write out direct connections to both to make the thing more original
for instance Diane and cocheta would probably stay the same, but not directly be the characters from road of the dead 2, the mutants would also probably stay but not be direct tie in.
the biggest thing however would be removing all the direct references to Assassins, and Abstergo and templars and all that
I can't really go back and write most of this out, I've recently picked up that first chapter rewrite (which is looking like I'm just combining the first two chapters into one much better and readable chapter) and plan to cut a lot of direct references to RofD2 but the assassins creed stuff is too essential to the plot, without it the main character has no real reason to be the way they are, nor does the current main villain have reason to hate him so much. i could try rewriting him as just a generic assassin to explain his skills and find some other reason to have the villain be villaining but i don't feel like it would be as smooth.
going forward i'll be leaning less into the crossover territory to be slightly more creative and try to phase it out, but it's impossible to remove completely in my opinion (the prequel series, if i ever get around to it, will also cut out a lot of the references)
there's also the acknowledgement that a good portion of the readers might've made their way there because of the Assassins creed tie in, so leaning away could hurt it, but honestly nobody cares that much about my disaster of a writing hobby anyway (i'm willing to bet most of the views are on the first couple of chapters, and then start to dip as those first several chapters aren't very good, hence the rewrite plans)
anyway, I've made decent progress on the rewrite (tbc in comment)
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oh, also, another change I'd make is changing the main character completely, as it stands right now, he's a god awful self insert type, which can work but is mostly cringe, really got to stop naming my characters after myself
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continuing, I'd say I'm about half way through it, and if this walking dead phase I'm back in continues i might have it done soon, but most of my focus has been on writing the most recent chapter, which I'm mostly happy with and just have to figure out how to end it. though i am about to go on a like 25 hour long trip/flight in a couple hours, as of writing this, so I'll be busy for a couple days.
TL:DR, new chapter of infected days coming soon, hopefully. good progress on rewrite of first two chapters, more rewrites to come, probably. and I am still an Idiot.
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