Trying to figure out how in the hell I'm going to pull off my overtly ambitious Fallout fic plans.
I've got two massive photo stories that I've been planning to publish on AO3, but they both need a rewrite. The newer story, Wolves At The Door, originally published as a series titled as 'Gun For Hire' on Nexus Mods image share (now deleted by me), needs only editing and some additions here and there.
But the older photo story that doesn't have an actual title, needs a total rewrite. That's not a death sentence in itself, but the fact that the epic-sized story also needs to be completely reshot IS a fucking death sentence. I did literally insane amounts of world building for that story back in the day.
There were several huge locations, towns, fight scenes, and a truly godawful amount of OCs. A part of the story took place in the Capital Wasteland, so I ended up recreating Brotherhood of Steel's Washington DC HQ the Citadel from Fallout 3, and the Tenpenny Tower also made an appearance.
There's a little voice in the back of my head that says there's no way I can recreate this story from scratch. Writing and photographing this story actually gave me my first and worst game-related burnout, so I can totally related to mod creators who try to make these massive story/quest/remake mods and end up quitting for mental health reasons.
There's a very good chance that I'll just have to bury this story for good, because I just can't publish it as it is. The writing is terribly clunky and amateurish, and same goes for these photos. Poses, facial expressions, and the photography itself are in desperate need of updating, especially when compared to the virtual photography I'm putting out nowadays. All of these photos were shot at 1K and with far less know-how than what I've got now. The good thing here is that I don't have to make this decision today.
