OK, so maybe "redo" is the wrong word. "Reupload" would be more accurate. I just don't think the story is working, for 5 reasons:
1: Constantly replanning the story as I'm writing. As I progress through all the different chapters, I keep coming up with other ideas, characters, and even whole subplots to add into The Endarkenment. For example, the Xolotl plot twist? Yeah, I never even considered that until I was almost finished with Chapter 2, thereinsowhich I added the part where Kage steals the Codex. If I keep on with the story I currently have, I'm only going to add even more random ideas which will make everything a disjointed, inconsistent mess.
2: Cramming in too many characters. The Endarkenment has slowly but surely turned into an excuse to reintroduce characters I haven't used in a while, e.g. General Shade, Candystripe, and The Zoomonger. I've even been bringing in other users' OCs into it, only for them to do one or two random things. So I may have to cut out the characters who aren't really doing anything for the story so I can clean it up a bit.
3: The story is becoming less about Kage. This might be my biggest concern out of all of them. Kage has been moving from the main villain that the whole story revolves around to a vague threat who's now all but in the background. When I rewrite the story, I'm definitely gonna reach more into his backstory and internal thoughts.
4: Disjointed subplots. Starting in Chapter 4, there were basically two main subplots: Gingerbread Man going to find the female Limitless tribe, and Awenasa going to find the Four Ancient Kaiju. Even though they ended up on the same planet, both of their plots seem so detached from each other. So I definitely hope to find a better way to weave these two segments together,or even cut one out completely if I have to.
5: Too much quantity, not enough quality. I think this is likely the reason why my chapters have been so far apart: I've been so focused on adding as much into one chapter as I can so that I have less to do for the next one. But all that does is make the writing process more tedious and sucks away all my motivation - hence why I'll take 4 weeks to finish a chapter. I will definitely need to focus on making the story the best it can be, rather than cramming stuff in.
So, yeah. I'm probably going to delete the chapters I've already posted, then rework and re-upload them. And I'll make sure to maintain some discipline so that chapters won't be posted weeks apart.
