I've changed my mind · 5:03am Mar 25th, 2015
After my training today — it's amazing the kind of clarity of thought you can have after an hour of kicking things — I realized that I have unicorns on the brain.
The Unicorn and the Stranger has had a profound effect on me in a way no other story I've written has. Sure, it is not presently as widely-read as most of them — e.g. The Other Jake has about 300 times as many views — but writing it was, as I said, about the least stressful story I've written. More than that, it's also the only one where, once they reached the end, readers had the general reaction of, "Well, where's the rest of it, then?" Clearly, I've done something right.
Disregard, if you read it, that previous entry about finishing something I have up first before starting something new; I've changed my mind. It isn't much yet, but I have the tiniest bit written for the tentatively titled The Stranger and the Princess.
I'm not terribly fond of that title, but it's all that I could think of for the moment. I'm not sure how long this will take: UatS took about two months, but that may be in part because I'd built it out of an idea I'd scribbled down about six months before I really started working on it, rather than having a solid foundation like I do now.
In hindsight, I'm a little impressed at what I was able to make out of "surfing changeling?"
If I may say; sweet.