User blog:AustinDR/Staus on Shattered Innocence

So for those who don't already know, I had given that project I was working on for months to a user named theblindwriter95 for several personal reasons. Now, on the one hand, I really regret allowing theblindwriter95 permission to finishing the story. For one, Leni is OOC with her having autism and getting sent to the principal's office after biting someone. Even though I feel she suffers from a learning disability rather than autism, Leni wouldn't do such a thing. And then the writer included one subject that I was keen on avoiding as I didn't want to come off as "edgy." It's not even two chapters in, and theblindwriter95 already destroyed what I was trying to do with the story.

But that doesn't mean I'm taking the story back. I just feel really ashamed of the story because I failed to explore the themes, and I chose to write it a week or so after seeing NSL. I did not hate the episode, but I should've waited for all the heat to go down. Now the story has over 41,000 views since March. It is one of my most popular stories with 96 faves, around 95 followers, and I had even inspired some authors to write. I should be proud of all of these accomplishments, but I'm not. Even when I'm doing other stories, they tend to get overlooked by SI. Heck, my current story "A Broken Heart" only has 13 faves, 13 followers and the like with thousands of views. It is a fraction of the total amount of SI with 235 faves.

I just feel that I'm only going to be known as the guy who made a bad "Criminal Minds" fic about Lincoln getting murdered by a serial killer, and there is nothing I can do about it.