So I might as well admit that the Fine Structure rewrite doesn't seem to be happening. It's too big a project and I have no enthusiasm
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I write about one chapter a month, at a push. Fine Structure is about two years long by that metric and I reckon I'm only 2-3 chapters in
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I regret saying I was going to do a thing and then not doing it. I try not to do this. I may come back to this one day. Now the good news:
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Another reason it's hard to work on Fine Structure is because of more interesting projects lurking around.
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I am working on a follow-up to my SCP Foundation series "There Is No Antimemetics Division", provisionally titled "Five Five Five Five Five"
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I'm aiming for something like: "Aliens" : "Alien" :: "Five Five Five Five Five" : "There Is No Antimemetics Division"
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I'm also trying to rewrite the ending of Ra. I think that's much more tractable than the full-length Fine Structure rewrite.
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Dedicated followers will recall that some time ago I outlined the way Ra should, in hindsight, have ended.
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This will entail rewriting half of "Why Not Just" (done) and completely replacing "Destructor" with 2-4 new chapters (of which 0.75 done)
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I will *not* be doing what I once threatened to do, and forking Ra right before "Abstract War" and rewriting the entire second half.
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Although I will be the first to admit that "Abstract War" was the kind of narrative decision which deserves a "??" chess move annotation
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