So as I'm typing this, I'm well past the three-month mark for updating Hardcore Grinding. That's partly because I've been pushing off this announcement despite having made this decision months ago.
Chapter 13 was and is basically finished, but I had a realization while writing it.
I fucking hated it.
I just hated the chapter, and what I was trying to do with it. Worse, I didn't feel like I could just cut out the things I hated in it since I felt I had built up those things too much to just ignore them.
That made me step back, and I realized it had been a while since I actually enjoyed writing this story, evident by the fact it was taking me multiple months to write a single chapter. I somewhat had expected this to happen, but I thought I would've gotten further with this before then.
But this story was meant to be a train wreck from the beginning, I didn't plan much and just did what I thought was funny or interesting at that moment. That quickly became problematic as I tried to build off of those ideas.
So I've got to cut this story off here for my own sanity/productivity.
But, I haven't been idle these three months though.
My main focus has been finally writing my Hexblade Hero rewrite, for the first time I damn near have the entire fic planned from the start and have full plans to start releasing chapters on a bi-monthly basis when I finish the first "act" of the story. I've managed to write almost 8 chapters in the last three months, so it's coming along fairly well.
Not only that, I've been tinkering with plans for the rewrites for this story.
Yes, multiple rewrites.
I've struggled with trying to do several things in this fic, things that I didn't feel mixed well or where things I didn't feel like I could commit enough to in this fic. So I decided that I'm going to split them and write two gamer stories that get more from them.
At the moment, that's looking to be a story focused on Izuku with United we Stand along with a harem that includes Katsuki and Toga, and a story based around a magic-using Izuku with Tsuyu and Kyoka in his harem.
I have absolutely no timetable for when either of these will come out. My new writing policy is that I'll only write the stories that I have a strong enough outline for and that I'll take turns on different bnha stories that fit that quality to avoid burnout in any given one.
So when I finally start posting Hexblade, I may get started on either of the rewrites, or I may get started on Gnarled Roots. It depends on which one is in a better state then.
I think that's about all I can say without going on a rant about everything that causes problems for me in this story and subsequently out how anal I am about writing.
Anyways,
Have a good whatever now!