Grey Capstan 2.0: You are now leaving Lazyville · 12:58am Apr 1st, 2013
Hey everyone, Happy Easter. ^^ How are you? Enjoying the between-season hiatus? Didn't we just have one of these?
Well, anyway, I want to start this off with an apology. To you, to ponies, and to myself. It seems like a lot of the other writers at least have the decency to explain any lapses in activity, and I sort of feel like an asshole as a result.
So, this is how it is: My free time has heavily dried up as of July of last year. I got a new job that consists of 10-hour shifts, and more mandatory overtime than I'd like. It also happens to be pretty much the only job available in the small town where I live, so until my situation changes it will continue to wear me to the bone.
I've been trying to write, and I've managed to get 2 one-shots out, along with a ton of unfinished ideas that have popped in my head. I'm glad that I was able to mange Another Wedding, but rather disappointed that a big holiday-themed story couldn't come together because of my being forced to work 55-hour weeks in December.
Afterward, I felt the spirit to write returning, but that fell by the wayside after Twilicorn, Equestria Girls, Unicon and Hasbro's attack on the fandom pummeled us all at once. For a few weeks, I reconsidered my love of ponies. What was the point?, I thought. Why am I doing this? The magic was gone.
But then I remembered my friends. All of the people I talk with on a daily basis, people I care about so much and care about me. I would not know any of them if it wasn't for this common, if somewhat unusual interest.
And then the memories. The time my (now) ex exposed ponies to me. Seeing Kyrospawn's clips and being curious about the show. Marathonning the episodes and finally understanding what it was all about. Watching my first episode live via stream (it was Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, btw). Going out to breakfast with the episode fresh in my mind, all of the people being so psyched about ponies in general. It was only a year ago, but I already feel nostalgia for it. I almost wish I could relive those days once again., warts and all.
The warts in question being my unpleasant breakup. Not that you all probably want to hear about stuff like that, so I won't go into detail. However, it was in this state of melancholy that my interest in writing pony fiction rose to a high enough level for me to actually finish something and publish it.
Where does that leave me now? Well, my hope was to have a lot more done at this point. In a perfect world, Character Development would have been done by now, with more stories on the way and plenty of one-shots and I'd be swimming in a pool of bits like Uncle Scrooge.
Here's the deal: From here on out, everything I write will be on a schedule of sorts. That way, everyone will know what I'm working on, and how far along I am with it. That way, there will be no confusion or doubt. The schedule will be on the top of my user page.
I'm also going to try to make more of an effort to write. A lot of my inactivity is due to laziness, fear and my time being wasted by fruitless endeavors. Time time I've spent gambling over the last half of a year could have been spent making something out of my life, and the extra money would be really helpful, to boot.
So, more writing, more transparency, more ponies, more fun! That's the message I bring you tonight.
-GC
Even though I'm probably going to say the same thing elsewhere, this seems more permanent, and I don't want this comment field to sit empty!
Yay! I'm going to hold you to this, damnit. I need more quality ponyfic to waste my time on. Especially under the radar ones, so I can feel like a hipster.