Status Report 3/1/2014 (New story coming soon) · 7:05am Mar 1st, 2014
Hey guys!
Just wanted to give an update on how things are going on my end.
First of all, you may have noticed yesterday that the Vinyl Scratch Tapes was on the featured section of Fimfiction, I wanted to thank all of you that have read it over the years, as well as all the new readers now!
Now you may be wondering why the Vinyl Scratch Tapes is in the featured section now when it's been around forever, and the reason why that is is that the story was never actually submitted until now. On fimfiction, your story can be linked to even if it's not submitted. For the longest time, I had no idea I hadn't submitted it, but since you can still link to non-submitted stories, it still showed up on links, Google searches, stuff like that. It just didn't show up in groups or most listings on the site here. Once I realized this, I still didn't submit it since I knew there was a rule against script fics, but today I noticed a fic written in screenplay format, so I figured I could submit it without anything bad happening. So in case you were curious about that, that's the story there.
So now that we have that out of the way, some more exciting news.
The bad news is that the A. K. Yearling idea I posted a preview of is being shelved for a bit. I hit a bit of a snag with the story and it ended up not working as well as I would have liked. The section I posted in the preview was probably the best part out of what I had written. I haven't given up on the idea entirely since I did have some good ideas for it, but it's on the backburner for now.
The good news is that I have a new story in the works that I've already written a bit of and it's working really REALLY well so the risk of it getting shelved is rather low. Basically the idea for this story came about when I was writing the A. K. Yearling story and was writing first person, I basically kept wishing A. K. Yearling was a character I could write noir-ish narration for. And out of that basically came the idea, "Well why don't I just write a noir story?"
So I got to thinking and the idea basically evolved into an AU story with the cast humanized in a noir setting (think Equestria Girls if all the high school stuff was replaced with Sin City and you wouldn't be far off), with Rainbow Dash as a private detective on a Raymond Chandler-esque murder investigation. I really like noir stuff so the idea really appealed to me. I did find out after I started writing that there was a tumblr very similar to this called Noir Dash (which you can find here and you should because it is awesome), but the direction I'm going in is a bit different so I didn't let it deter me from writing anymore. Now, since it is a noir story, it will be a fair bit darker than Vinyl Scratch Tapes, but it won't be completely devoid of humor. One of the things I like most about Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe stories is how much of a smartass Marlowe is, even in the face of almost being murdered, and that's definitely a trait I'd make sure Dash has. I don't think I'd really have it in me to make a story completely devoid of humor. So if you like noir stories and don't mind that this story might be a bit darker than TVST, I hope you check it out once it's released.
And just because I like you a lot, here's a rough draft of the prologue (again, like last time, this is a rough draft some I'm certain there will be grammatical mistakes, so keep in mind that the final product is subject to change and will likely be a lot more polished).
So that's all I got for now. Expect that noir story to be coming soon. If you have any questions or comments, let me know below. Thank you for reading and have a nice day :)
I was wondering why The Vinyl Scratch Tapes wasn't submitted. I figured that it was just because of the "no script fics" rule. But it's nice to see it "officially" on the site now, and I'm sure the featured box will bring some lucky new readers it too. I remember when it was still being written, back in the days before fimfiction, when we had to read ponyfics on Google Docs or deviantArt. Oh, how far we've come.
I might have to give it a reread sometime soon. It's been quite a while, and this is still one of my favorite fics of all time.
Congratulations on finally getting the Vinyl Scratch Tapes here on FIMFiction. I've never read a noir story but I have seen noir influenced things so I might check out your noir story. It seems slightly interesting.
The preview is definitely cool though. Are they going to be Equestria Girls colored or properly human colored?