#fractures rewrite

[evienyx]

Rewriting any interludes with the Gaang now that I'm not their age but rather years older is a struggle, they make me so emotional. They're all so little. My sister is older than them now, someone please help them ???

[evienyx]

Rewrite!Zuko is angry. That is the thing that I have come to know the most about him. He is still kind, and he is desperate for peace, but he has been hurt, and he is angry.

All things considered, I think he deserves to be.

[evienyx]

I just started reading fractures two days ago and finished what's out today so im new here. i kind of thought that it might have been abandoned since it hasn't been updated in a year but then i looked here and saw mentions of a rewrite? i figured you must have talk about what you're doing w/ fractures earlier but like i said im new here and was wondering if you could clear some things up, please. i also want to say that im a huge fan of your work and i made a account just to ask you about this

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.

But I swear, I am working on it, and once it is done, I will also feel comfortable continuing on with Book 2, after offering up over 250k-worth of new stuff to read anyway lol. I hope that'll make up for the 'hiatus.'

[evienyx]

Whatever I have referred to before as the 'strangest thing about the Fractures Rewrite' was a lie. The real strangest thing is the idea that I am one day actually going to be done with it. It's going to be uploaded for all of you to read. That's insane. I can't wait.

[evienyx]

I keep having to take breaks from rewriting Ozai's Interlude just because it makes my skin crawl lol. What a miserable guy.

[evienyx]

In the rewritten Sokka Interlude (chapter 12), Iroh makes Jasmine tea for the Gaang, but disagrees when they say it is his favorite. He says he makes it all the time because it reminds him of someone important. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot remember who.

[evienyx]

I’ve been meaning to read fractures for aaages but should I wait now until you’ve finished the rewrite? :)

I also wanna reread so goes the moon soon I think it’s my favourite atla fic it’s so cool…..

I mean, in my opinion the rewrite is going to be drastically better lol. Especially the earlier stuff in Fractures is not indicative of my writing quality now because it's literally like almost seven years old.

On the other hand, I don't know how long the Fractures Rewrite is going to take. I mean, I'm really hitting a stride with it at the moment, but who knows if that will last you know? The original version of Fractures will still be readable once the Rewrite is done though.

Fully your choice lol. In an ideal world, I continue on my pace of about a chapter worth of work per day and it's done within a month. I have long thought this world to not be ideal, though.

[evienyx]

hey out of curiosity is your burst of motivation for the fractures rewrite directly correlated with the new ATLA movie releasing next week ? if you watched it already due to the unfortunate leak please no spoilers

That's actually a happy accident! No, the burst of motivation actually comes from me finding out a couple of weeks ago that one of my best friends has never seen any of ATLA. We hang out every week and make our way through shows that she hasn't seen (just finished Steven Universe and planned on doing Gravity Falls next until I learned about this) but I had just presumed she'd seen ATLA, because "well of course she has, she's my friend"

I learned that she hadn't however (literally didn't even know anything about it either. I'm still shocked) and was over-the-moon at the prospect of being able to introduce this show to her. When we last hung out yesterday, we ended after watching 'Appa's Lost Days' (which oof there is a reason I don't rewatch that episode often).

It'll be at least another two weeks for us to finish ATLA, and then we'll also be watching LoK, as well as the movie (which I am going to save because I did not watch the leaks and I want to experience a new ATLA thing with her 'cause this is a kinda rare chance). But yeah, it was that that gave me the actual motivation lol. Not that I'm complaining.