#fractures atla

That’s right! 7 years ago, on August 1st, 2019, the first chapter of Fractures was published. Now, this ongoing story could be entering second grade. Wow.

To celebrate on my side, I purchased myself a cupcake.

Okay, so for anyone who doesn't know, here is the deal with Fractures:

I have issues with the first work. This is primarily in the order of events, some characterization, and the writing style just in general. It comes from me not having a plan for the story when I started, not fully having a grasp on the characters, and being 14 when I began writing it. Things have changed.

Now, I am currently in the process of rewriting all of the Prologue/Book 1 of Fractures. The first chapter is the rewritten version, already published, with the original first one still being accessible to read in the Fractures Archive work under the series on Ao3. Because going forward in Book 2, I plan to use the rewritten characterization, I do not want to continue with Book 2 until the rewrite is done.

However, it looks as though I am not really doing anything. This is not true, I promise. The problem is that the rewrite is being published over the original work rather than as a separate work altogether, with the original chapters being ported over into the Archive. This is because the original work is always going to have more kudos, hits, comments, etc., and I want it to therefore be the best (rewritten) version of itself. As a result, I cannot publish any of the rewrite until it is fully completed, because events are being moved around (i.e. Tora and Azami are introduced in Chapter 2 rather than Chapter 20-something). It would be too confusing.

So instead, I have to finish rewriting all 285k words worth of fic before I can publish any more of the rewrite. I have so much written at this point, but it doesn't look like it to you guys because I can't publish it yet.