One to Make Him Shine (Progress Update 8/6 or 8/7, Plus SIDE STORY VOTING!) · 6:07am Aug 7th, 2012
Currently, I'm a little over halfway done with the chapter and I'm at nine pages and I'm about a third or fourth of the way into the backstory for Trixie that I promised.
Looking to have the rough draft completed by next thursday at the latest, will be writing on and off for the next couple nights. Currently have ended leading into the second part of the first key scene. A final draft would hopefully only take a week to be ready, in which I will give a heads up for when it's going through the final cut to be published. My prereaders did an awesome job last time and chapter 3 received a lot of positive reception AFAIK, so I want that quality to stick.
I don't know if anyone actually bothers to read these blog posts or not but I assume some of you do. So again, there are some various side story things I wanna drop to offer in terms of what you guys would be most interested. Choices include:
-Shimmer Shield and Prince Emporte (A small story involving Prince Emporte discussing with Dusk Shine the events of this universe's version of A Canterlot Wedding)
-Tempest Dancer and A Currently Unnamed Love Interest (Chapter 2-3 length story [somewhere inbetween...], Big reveal concerning Tempest Dancer, would feature two other major characters who would be revealed later, would reveal a major plot driver)
-Starlight Sonata and Harpford Strings (Medium length story, backstory info for Starlight Sonata, character growth for both and possible development of relationship)
I would like you to choose which one you'd like to see. Depending on which gets chosen, I will determine what to dedicate my creative process to, I.E. what to work on if I fall in a slump of writing again. If I DON'T fall into that slump, the chapter would have a release window of after chapter 5 or 6, the latter to probably be released late october/early november. It is worth noting that the side story involving tempest dancer would provide a 'very' big plot reveal for the overall story, with the Shimmer Shield and Prince Emporte story giving some character to those two ponies and some other explanation on a certain brother's behavior towards his sister. The Starlight and Harpford story would be pure filler, but would be cute and ship-y.
Anywho, I'm tired and have work tomorrow, I'm off to bed. Post in the comments what you'd be interested in, I'd really like to know. Also, this is another offer for my followers for my previous fic to give my current one a try, in case they haven't.
-OYF