Why I'm Not Continuing Song of the Stars

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I don't even know how im gonna say this but... Chapter 30 going to be the last chapter im gonna do for Song of the Stars and I feel really really bad for doing this to all the people who I know love the series but I've thought about it for months and months and ive decided that there are other things that are more important to me than this series. so here are my reasons why im not continuing SotS #1. Im not invested in the Warriors fandom anymore. I became obsessed with warriors when I was in 8th grade and from then on is when I began to work on the characters and story for this comic. But over the years ive gotten less and less interested. The last warriors book I read was I believe the second one of the starless clan arc (I don't even remember the name tbh) and since then I haven't touched a single warrior cats book. Since then, the only warriors related thing ive interacted with are the comics that im reading here on scratch and DA as well my own comic. Also, given the pace im going at, it would take me around another three years before im done with this comic. My plan was to have 65-70 chapters and im not even halfway there (it has taken me little more than 2 years to finish 30 chapters). I don't really see the point of continuing a story im not invested in anymore #2. The story could use a lot of work When I first started this comic, I didn't have a clear storyline in mind, as well as not being really familiar with the art of storytelling and I feel like that really shows in a lot of the chapters. Im a lot more experienced now and ive found it difficult to save the story with what ive put on the page so far. If I could start again I would because some of the earlier chapters I just don't really like. Like the pacing is horrendous and a lot of the characters are really underdeveloped, as well as the actual story itself. I don't think I could make the story any better than it already is so I think it's better just to not continue it at all. #3. Im currently working on another book If youre wondering what TNS is from the thumbnail then I'll give an entire explanation of it here. Back when I was still invested in SotS, I began to imagine what these characters and the story would look like if they were humans instead of cats. And that had me thinking a lot about how differently the world would be, such as what clothes they would wear, what food they would eat, or where they would live. Eventually I began to spend a lot of time giving this idea traction until eventually it spiraled into a completely different story that became the TSN trilogy (I don't want to say actual name). It still has the same characters and more or less the same plot although it's still vastly different. The characters and plot are way more developed and ive added so much worldbuilding that it's almost unrecognizable from its original source. Ive been making art of those characters now instead of the comic, as well as working on the actual trilogy itself. I am planning on getting it published so I would really like to focus on it and right now SotS is not allowing me to that. Im not gonna give any details or anything about the trilogy since I would rather keep all that to myself until I feel comfortable sharing it which will probably be a long time from now. I hold the new trilogy very dear to my heart as ive put a lot of myself into it, more than SotS ever could. I had actually been thinking about canceling SotS since last August and if I had listened to myself right then and there then I would have ended it at chapter 25. But in the TSN trilogy, the end of the first book aligns with the 30th chapter of SotS. The next chapter aligns with the second book in the trilogy so I didn't want to get past that. I was actually concerned that if I were to publish the first book then people might find this comic and find out what happens in the next books (such as what characters die and more or less the plot). So by not continuing SotS after chapter 30, it all would work out. It actually wasn't chapter 30 at first, I think it was like ch 33 or 34 but I rearranged and removed chapters so that it would end on a nice even number. I also thought that chapter 30 felt like a complete arc, so while the story is certainly not complete, at least it feels like somewhat of an ending. Its why I put "end of book 1" at the end of chapter 30 because I didn't just want to put that it was the end, it truly is not, so it was fitting that it was the end of an arc and not a full story (along with the being the end of book 1 in the TSN trilogy) I actually ended up taking the ending sentences of TSN because the ones from the SotS ending sucked lol. They actually don't mean as much here as they do in the TSN trilogy because of everything that happened in those books. So if you thought that ending was good here then it would be around 10x more in TSN. [continued below in notes and credits]