Hello everyone, the author speaking here.
I'm sorry to say that for a lot of reasons—mainly lack of motivation and plain laziness—I stopped writing fanfics.
Or more precisely, I stopped posting them.
Every time I uploaded a chapter, I would get that familiar anxiety. Is this any good? I think it's bad. I could've done better. This is crap. I'm embarrassed to post this. I should just delete it.
Still, I kept writing for myself using Writer. In there, I've written and scrapped so many stories. Any inspiration that popped into my head, I turned into a chapter.
For example: a Bleach fanfic where the protagonist is a Buddhist monk seeking enlightenment. He defies the rules of the Soul Society, follows his own power system, saves souls in his own way, and purifies Hollows with the power of Talk-no-Jutsu.
It's just an idea—I never actually wrote a chapter for it.
But out of all the ideas I've had, one stood out because of how often I worked on it, how many inspirations I had, and how many chapters I'd written by that point.
A Danmachi fanfic.
The first chapter—or really just a bunch of scattered ideas—was from February this year. And now in July, I realized I'd already hit the 50-chapter mark.
Like... wow!
I think out of everything I've ever written, only three stories have made it this far—and even then, they were always some version of the same Pokémon or Naruto fanfic I had in mind.
But this one? Sure, I stopped sometimes, even gave up—but I never deleted it. Maybe I felt bad about erasing months of effort when it wasn't hurting anyone, since nobody could read that embarrassing mess anyway.
Then I picked it up again and wrote a bit more... then abandoned it again... then wrote a few more chapters until one day I realized:
— Dude, this has potential.
So, I decided to grow a spine and post this crap! Will it work out? I have no idea! If it doesn't, I'll just delete the whole thing and keep my private version.
But beyond that, I decided to take it more seriously.
This is going to be the first work I publish in English. It's not my native language, but with ChatGPT's help, I think I can make something decent.
Please understand that I'm not a professional. I'm not perfect. I deal with anxiety too. I have things to do and things I'd rather be doing than beating myself up over this.
So I'm not promising anything about schedules, punctuality, or upload frequency. I'll post when I feel like it, and if I think it sucks, I'll delete the whole damn thing.
Also, I'm not asking for Power Stones or anything like that. I just ask that you leave a comment and rate my work.
Seriously, I didn't know how much that motivates a writer. There was one story—I won't say which—that I hadn't touched in months. But then someone left a comment saying they liked it, and that alone filled me with motivation.
In two days, I wrote five chapters! I posted them as soon as they were done... and then I abandoned that story again, so it didn't make much difference, but you get the point.
One last thing!
It's been years since I last watched the Danmachi anime, and I don't plan to rewatch it either. Everything I know about the series came from other fanfics. So if there's anything inaccurate in this story, my sincerest apologies.
I really tried—I edited, reread, and researched as much as I could on all sorts of things—but some stuff I just couldn't find, and had to leave to my imagination.
Please consider that kind of thing as something expected from an amateur fanfic.
Do I have anything else to say? I don't think so. So I'll wrap it up here. Thanks for understanding, and for reading all the way to the end.