Story Discussion: New Content Has Begun! · 5:15am Dec 6th, 2013
Hello my wonderful watchers. I just want to say thank you to all of you for your amazing feedback, useful suggestions, and overall amazing support for my story, The Private Scrapbook. It means the world to know that you all are able to give me some very good advice on making a story I am already proud of even better than it was before. I have you, my readers, to thank for this, and for the ideas to expand upon it further.
As some of you may have seen, a new chapter called Go Ahead, I'm Listening was added between the trial and retrial chapters. I always hated how rushed that felt, and decided to put something of a gap between to better understand Smithy's crippling depression. While one reader mentioned suicide being sort of glossed over, it got me to thinking it might be a good idea to do something of a psychological evaluation on out main character. That and the Fraiser reference was fun for me personally. The character of Dr. Fraiser Crane is one of my favorite TV characters of all time.
I have another chapter that I am working on soon concerning Kizzy's decision to return to Zebrica instead of staying in Equestria. I plan to do a quick courthouse wedding chapter where Ponyville chases Smithy and Crab Apple out of town square for ruining the town's slave based economy, going into details about the Griffin War brought on by the economic crash in the slave market, and most importantly the issue of the rushed ending. I plan to show the complicated relationship between the mixed family, and how hard it is for Filthy Rich. I hope to turn him into a sympathetic bad guy by the end of the story, and even go into a little bit on his relationship with Honey Crisp. The reason the last two chapters existed was because of this, but I think preeminent set up will be better than just dumping it all at the end.
Thanks again for all the support, and here's to a better, more fulfilling end!