I am not dead. · 3:34pm Nov 14th, 2015
Hello everyone,
First and foremost, Pericynthion will be continued and will be finished. I've had too many of my favorite stories left incomplete to do that to my own readers.
Secondly, I owe an explanation as to where I've been. Bottom line... I fell out of the fandom. It wasn't really a conscious decision, "falling out" is really the most apt description. I went from rabidly keeping up with every post on EQD/My Little Brony, to not being able to keep up, to feeling as if I had too much to catch up on, to... not even paying attention to the fandom. Moving across the country and getting busy had a little to do with that, but otherwise, I just moved to other things. I don't even know how many new episodes have come out since I left. A year and a half ago, wrapped up in the community as I was, I would not have comprehended being in such a place, and yet here I am.
I've thought often about the fic and cringed, and the farther I got away from last July when I published the most recent chapter, the harder and more daunting the task of returning became. I can do nothing more than apologize. I should have come back sooner.
Here is the plan:
Before I started the move last year, I went through all the old chapters and made another sweep for typos and other such corrections. I'm going to read through them again, both to tighten up anything I find and re-familiarize myself with the story. Then, I will re-publish those corrected chapters. For you who have already read up to this point, please do not feel the need to re-read anything. The changes have nothing to do with content; the plot will not change one iota.
Once I'm back 'in the groove' so to speak, I'll finish and post Chapter 10. It's actually a lot farther along than I remember... just over 8600 words.
As for the rest, all I can say is that it will come. My life is not so much busier now than it was before, but I am more drained when I come home each day after work. I'll need to shift my writing to the weekends in order to make quality progress. Valve Time will probably apply, and I'm sorry for that, but I've always been a quality over quantity person.
I was shocked to see so many comments over the year I've been gone. I went into this never expecting any fans (I really wrote the story to just get it out of my head) and came away with the best readers I could have asked for. Thank you. I will try to finish in a reasonable amount of time.
I figured such a thing, thats why I havent read the 3 most recently posted chapters. Just curious, what is the estimated total word count in the end? Oh! I almost forgot, you might want to add the <scifi> tag that was recently brought to fimfiction as well.
Awesome to hear you're back.
Just be careful with any 'rewriting impulse' because I've seen people go down that road only for it to give them a perfectionism complex.
The longer the gap is between updates, the better they feel the chapter must be to make up for the wait. It's a viscous cycle.
Boy, it's always a pleasant surprise when a good author returns from hiatus. Welcome back!
Good to hear from you :)
Good to see you around. Take the time you need to take to keep writing. As somebody who frequently goes loooooooooooooong periods between updates, I totally understand how that happens!
Meh, you don't need to be a part of the brony community to like your own story on something. I've never truly been a participant in the brony community and I like MLP FiM and EQG just fine. Keeping up with a fandom only saps the time and energy you have away from what's really important - the content the fandom revolves around.
I'm really glad you are back!
Pericynthion has consistently been one of my favorite stories on the site. I had debated removing it from my top favorite stories on Fimfiction, not because it didn't deserve to be there, but because I didn't want to direct people to an unfinished dead story. I'm very glad that won't be an issue!
Please take your time, we are just glad to know you are still around.
This. This story, the one that wormed its way into my head so hard that I thought I was suffering maladaptive daydreaming for a while. Ender telling the ponies his story has literally become the imaginary 'framework' for half of my daydreams. Like, what if he had some different backstory that he was telling to them? It got stuck in my head and never ever left.
This news thrills me.
3541966 Also, the Drama tag?
Also, the Ridiculously Awesome tag?
Oh wait, we don't have that one yet.
Glad to see you back, and good luck.
Well, I've finally finished the re-read and re-edit. ~160k words is entirely too much. O_o
After as many times as I've read these chapters, i was shocked at how many errors I was still able to find. I really, really need an editor.
Alright... on to Chapter 10!
3541966 <scifi> tag added, thank you! Also, the original outline for the story had 14 chapters + an epilogue. The trouble is that events planned for one chapter expanded to more, so we're at the end of chapter 7 on the original timeline. As far as final wordcount... no idea. I'd estimate being about 40% complete.
3544632 That's incredibly high praise. Thank you, and I'm sorry for any excessive daydreaming, lol. That exact framework stuck with me for a very, very long time and was the central driving factor in my writing this. I had to get it out somehow, and this was the form it took.
You look pretty dead to me.
Here’s hoping that you’re doing alright. Your story is still one of my favorites and I do hope to see it continue. Know that there are still those that are rooting for you.