Hello there! · 6:11am Apr 11th, 2014
Not too long after this post goes up (more than a few hours, but less than a few days) there's likely to be some extra traffic to my page. Hello, people who otherwise might not have come here! I figured an influx of people is as good a time/excuse as any to update this thing, like I really should be doing more frequently than I am.
The state of my works today in the most honest terms I can give it - including when I would like (but can by no means promise) each thing to update and/or finish - is as follows:
1) TBaG still only has about 7k words put down (out of a planned > 100k), despite having been "in the works" for literally years now. The outline gives broad strokes about the three-or-so most important things that need to happen in each chapter for the entirety of the story, so it's not a matter of not knowing where to go. It's... a messed up kind of perfectionism, I guess. I don't feel like much of anything I've done is good by the standards I seem to think of as objective, and I wanted this story to be the one to break that. I wanted to make something not just good, but great. I have actually, truly lost count of the number of drafts of the first chapter I've gone through. The second chapter has had only a dozen or so, but mostly because I keep turning back to the first one. I'm never, ever going to hit my original quality goals, though, so the sooner I can let myself call a "suboptimal" chapter finished the sooner we can all get going. We'll get there someday. I hope I can get this moving by early/mid July. Finishing it... we'll worry later.
2) Friendship Camp, like TBaG, has a handful of super-important events outlined for each chapter. The third chapter is at... ~250 words (out of a planned 3-5k, with a planned REDACTED chapters to follow that). It's relatively high up there in terms of writing priority (which roughly follows the order things are listed in here), but there are other things in my life that need attention before writing gets my time. I hope I can get you folks the third chapter this month, and a finish by the beginning of July.
3) A Ball in the Hoof is Worth... Nothing You Idiot (Working Title) is at ~1k words (out of a planned ~4-8k), with a very very vague outline. What is it? Well, we'll leave specifics for when it's up, but it's a fun little one shot where Rainbow Dash gets frustrated at just how bad most of her friends are at sports. This, we might be seeing sometime in May.
4) Tooth 2 - Tooth Harder (Working Title) is at ~1k words (out of a planned ??? words) with some ideas and fluff and no real outline to speak of. It's a sequel to The Whole Tooth. How ridiculous do you think it is? It is five times as ridiculous as that. This will probably wind up being pounded out in a single night when I find myself unable to work on other things. Let's say... the next four weeks?
5) NO TITLE (Working not-yet-title) is at ~3k words (out of a planned 10-20k) with a wispy outline that fills out toward the end. It follows the daughter of Apple Bloom and the son of Sweetie Belle finding weird junk going on in Ponyville. Definitely a darker tint to this one. I HOPE to finish it around the end of this month, but we'll see. There's a lot to be done.
6) Orphan (really-really early working title) is at 0 words and has no outline. It is ideas I like too much to let go, so I keep them in a pile that I will sort into an outline at some point. It is not about the standard things you'd expect from this title. It is instead a sadder take on the standard things you can expect from me when I decide to mess with causality/the universe/time.
7) Rainbow Dash Dating Game (really early working title) is at 0 words and has a vague outline. It is a dumb idea that I like anyway, but that won't be happening soon.
8-13) Non-pony words I will link to IF AND ONLY IF they are finished and "published" in the right place (which is not under my direct control).
14) It's not even words. What is it? Who knows! Unlikely to ever be seen around these parts, for one.
15) That Mystery I've Wanted to do Since MMMystery on the Friendship Express but Haven't Gotten Around to Starting (working title) is at 0 words with less of an outline and more of a pile of clues and red herrings I want to use.
So there you go. Those are the things I'm trying to make, in roughly the order that they currently matter to me, along with the timeline of when things will move that I'd like to pretend we'll see happen. It's not likely that timeline will be accurate.
And just for those wondering, no, I'm probably not deleting that thing. It is a source of too much amusement.
Oh yeah. One last thing. This person right here translated this thing right here into French and that's pretty neat.
Good to hear from you again.