Arch9CivilReactor
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I remember writing 100+ of a novel a good portion of readers mostly disliked because it was being ‘too meta’. This was the opinion I got early on but still continued to write out of passion.
It was a post-modernist story planned out.
—“Postmodern literature is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference.”
It was basically pure chaos with time travellers, reincarnates, a narrator who gained sentience that rebelled against its author, and ‘reformed’ anarchist cult members that were very expressive. Each main character well-defined.
Around the 100th chapter mark a plot twist happens that gave the narrator ‘character development’. He gets betrayed by a meta defying being like himself due to being naive and suffers the consequences of his innocence.
Did I mention I’d used Text Emoji a lot?
I feel like there are more readers who might appreciate the work now. Though even if not then I might as well finish the first arc, right? I was so close to finishing it too if it weren’t for IRL reasons and my low self-esteem at the time.
Will have a look over it beforehand though to see if there a tweaks that can be made. I have done my best to improve the story over these years while crafting a non-linear narrative that can be read in different ways.
Might as well just post it and think about all this stuff later. No reason to overthink things.
It was a post-modernist story planned out.
—“Postmodern literature is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference.”
It was basically pure chaos with time travellers, reincarnates, a narrator who gained sentience that rebelled against its author, and ‘reformed’ anarchist cult members that were very expressive. Each main character well-defined.
Around the 100th chapter mark a plot twist happens that gave the narrator ‘character development’. He gets betrayed by a meta defying being like himself due to being naive and suffers the consequences of his innocence.
Did I mention I’d used Text Emoji a lot?
I feel like there are more readers who might appreciate the work now. Though even if not then I might as well finish the first arc, right? I was so close to finishing it too if it weren’t for IRL reasons and my low self-esteem at the time.
Will have a look over it beforehand though to see if there a tweaks that can be made. I have done my best to improve the story over these years while crafting a non-linear narrative that can be read in different ways.
Might as well just post it and think about all this stuff later. No reason to overthink things.
