I appreciate honest criticism, although I must ask for clarification on something- if it's all shit that no-one cares about, why is anyone still reading it? I know I've stretched myself thin by doing the story this way, but I think that could be a matter of opinion. Or maybe I'm completely wrong about it. At this point, the story is coming to an end, and the significant focus is going to be on the people still on the island, who will sooner or later become a single unit of whoever's still alive by that point. I don't see myself going back to redo the story again, although I've considered writing a few one-shots as epilogues. Still, unless I start making serperate threads for all of those, they'll still look like episodes of a story. I can learn to do things differently in the future, but should I really scrap this whole mess now because it didn't come together neatly? (This is a hypothetical question, I'm not crying in a corner or anything. It's interesting getting some real criticism.) I don't want to come of as an obnoxious person who thinks everything they do is perfect- because I know it's not. It was an experiment on several levels (Can I write more action than occasional fight scenes? Can I write something that's not fluff, angst or schlock? Can I write a TF2 story that gives all the members of the team some useful screen-time?), and it didn't work out. If this was a manuscript I was sending to a publisher, I'd obviously be more inclined to go back and make major revisions- as someone trying to get a book published, that would be my bread and butter. I'm doing this as a hobby to enjoy myself, though. That's no excuse to do things in a slipshod manner, of course. But all I can ever hope to do by writing fanfic is entertain some people. I've been too sick these past few months to enjoy writing sometimes, or to find the impetus to write at all. I don't have enough energy to redo the story, and if I found that much energy, I'd put it towards a fresh project instead of diddling over something people have already seen. God knows, I have enough other things I'd like to work on. I still plan on ploughing ahead and trying to finish this thing, though, because I think that it would be a shame to just leave it. Is this wrong? When you've got something like this that's not worked out to people's satisfaction, is it better to go back and write it again from the start, even if you know you don't have the strength?