*le sigh* Hello Everypony. · 2:06am May 2nd, 2012
I had typed up two paragraphs on my iPad and mobile Safari Crashed. Something about this site just screws with it. Now that I'm on my Lappy, time to retype it.
So I have wanted to do a real blog post for a while now. Without further ado, words.
Regarding my current story, I have the first chapter of the alternate ending typed up! It will be published shortly after the current story line finishes out. I will warn everypony, that this if you thought the current chapter was sad, I considered it by far and away the happier of the two chapters that I wrote this last week. That may just be my unhealthy feelings for a certain pony, though.... Anyway! I really don't mean this to be a soul-rending experience, but my writing style might have something to do with it. I write in a way that can be easily described as amateur. I basically sit down and write, only a goal and ending in my mind. Planning be damned. When I started this, I had planned on planning. I had a whole document with ideas for plot events and devices. Slowly, but surely I had to cross them off the list, though. When I got to a place where the events were valid, they would have felt very forced to insert them without catering the chapters completely to those events. That just didn't feel natural to me. So, now I freehand pretty much the entire thing.
Regarding future stories, I have had some ideas. All of which are shipping. Its all I read, it will be all I write. I've been bouncing a few ideas around my head. I thought of possibly doing a you X Fleetfoot, but this is a touchy subject. I would want it to be the same Fleetfoot that is currently portrayed, but I don't want to undermine my current work. I also entertained taking up a story idea from one of the SFG guys, but this my be a bit too close to my current work. I don't want to look like a copy/paste junky. I'm not writing scripts for Call of Duty, after all. BUT, I do like the premise of the proposed story, and I do like the premise of love emerging from painful, events. That, and I may like describing near-fatal injuries. I think, I'm fairly decent at it too. ;P I've also entertained the notion of a you x somepony(not ruling out another mare) or a fic inspired by Sophistication and Betrayal (and as weird as it was (and as embarased as I am to admit I like it (What, with all the weird fetish stuff I'm not into involved)) Preggity. I mean, once you got past the weird stuff, this was a really good read.)
On to some personal stuff. So, basically I'm going to come out and say it. I have a medical condition. Some days are completely normal, and some I'm surprised that I wake up the next morning. My doctor tells me its benign, but the symptoms feel anything but. When your heartbeat is very noticeably erratic, it becomes something of a worry. While I don't fear for my life (mostly because I've been faced with my mortality enough where it no longer scares me. I've had a serious concussion, my radial artery was pierced at one point (leaving my entire left side covered in blood), etc.), I wouldn't be surprised If it doesn't last nearly as long as most. I'm not here, saying this, for sympathy or anything like that. I'm here to say, that I'm not the kind of person to leave you hanging. I would not leave works unfinished, or good-byes unsaid. If I do disappear for an unnaturally long time without a word, I'd like to thank every one of you for reading and enjoying.
Thanks everypony I'm off to continue working on the next chapters. Hope to be able to post them ASAP.
-M@
Ooh, this new chapter is going to be... heart-rending. And don't worry, I also write with only the end in mind. Usually everything else comes naturally, unless I realize that I'm terrible at pacing. Which I am.
And, hey, if you want to pull something off like Sophistication and Betrayal (which is fantastic, by the way, no need to feel ashamed for liking it. It's actually rather tame on the fetishism if you ask me), then all the more power to you.
And best of luck to you with your medical problem. I've been able to hear my blood vessels pumping through my head when it's all quiet at night, but I'm pretty sure that's just midterms getting to me.
Thanks for the update, and stay strong!