Yo so it's me again been a month or so since I returned and I have an update.
For the past month I have been thinking about the rewrite trying to rack my mind around how I wanted to even write this story until now where I think I have an outline and have a story I am willing and capable (I think) to proceed with. But I do have some warnings and things I would like to hear feedback on as I begin to rewrite.
First, I am going to have to practically rewrite the story. Now I will explain my reasoning.
- The main character as he is, is pretty bland. I didn't have much of a character arc with him and he seems kinda bipolar. Overall I have an idea and some working thoughts on a better protagonist.
- I included a lot of unnecessary details that didn't really add on to the over all plot or story. It bloated the story and is the reason why I only barely got out of initial training in like 100k words.
- I stuck extremely close to canon in this rendition and I want to get a fair bit more Au in the next one (not to the extent where I completely change the source material but rather I give a twist or my own spin on it)
- Overall had I continued I feel as though the story would have been rather bland.
Now, this doesn't mean I won't recycle a couple ideas (I will). But I will mostly be starting from scratch again. Though if we look at it optimistically I won't be re-telling the same thing we have all read before right?
My other major warning is that for what I have planned... This story is going to be LOOOONGG. Like before Reach I have 9 arcs (both mini and major) planned. Now I really want to write them but not at the detriment of the story and reader's enjoyment. Because I don't only want to write because I enjoy creating stories, but because I want others to enjoy them as well. So I am open to any feed back on that, and if you need to hear more I will list a couple of the arcs and whether they are major or minor.
-Defense on Harvest and Tracking down on Arcadia (Major)
-Operation: GREY VEIL (minor)
- The Fight for Algolis (Major)
- Head Hunting days (minor)
And that's all I want to reveal of course with a couple of Halo wiki searches you can guess where I am going with some of these, but probably not what will actually happen. Now the reason I want to do so many events is simply because the story isn't fully about the main protagonist, or at least that's not all I want to convey. The story is about Halo and more importantly what the Human-Covenant war looked like.
Anyway I have done enough rambling (at least for now). I will start writing out chapters soon and I hope to have enough so that I may start uploading by the new year or maybe a little later (finals are coming up but so is the break).
Tell me your thoughts...
Am I on the right track and this sounds Awesome!?
Or is this literally the worse thing and idea you've ever heard of?
O̶r̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶h̶u̶t̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶?̶
Well that's it may grace and peace be with you until the end of the age See You Star Side