Reshuffling the Story Deck · 3:18am Mar 19th, 2016

So to distract myself from the conundrum that is the... less than enthusiastic response of 'Dinky,' I've decided to take a look at the stack of stories and ideas that are either currently in progress or in development and decide which ones to focus on and in which order to do so.

1. 'The Changelings Have a King' - Status: In Progress
2. 'Letters from War' - Status: In Progress
3. 'The Tell-Tale Horn' - Status: Late Stage Development/Rough Draft
4. 'For Ages and Ages More: the Wages of Life and Death' - Status: Late Stage Development
5. 'For Ages and Ages More: Tales of the Immortals' - Status: Early Stage Development
6: 'For Ages and Ages More: Until the Last Trumpet Sounds' - Status: Early Stage Development
7: 'The Story of Tonight' - Status: In Development
8: 'You'll Be Back' - Status: Late Stage Development/Rough Draft
9: 'The Wicker Mare' - Status: Late Stage Development
10: 'Nopony Does It Better' - Status: Late Stage Development
11: 'The Nightmare Before Hearth's Warming' - Status: Early Stage Development

So let's break these down.

1. Priority numero uno. The problem is that the story is more than halfway finished and the next few parts are incredibly emotionally draining. In essence, I'm having to force myself to write towards the scene that will define everything I've written up to this point. It's... not a fun task.

2. This is actually paused while I actually lay out the entire timeline of the war, the various battles and what have you. I want the whole thing to have a very Ken Burns vibe by the time I'm done with it.

3. The plot of this is set in stone. The issue is whether or not to tell it in first or third person. If someone could make that decision for me, that would be great.

4. Also ready to go, but it's essentially one giant dialogue scene. Never done one of those before and it kinda makes me nervous.

5. Straight to the point; this will not happen unless it's a collaboration. I'm currently evaluating the writers that I will invite to take part in this.

6. Gonna have to be in a bad mood to do this, but all my bad vibes are currently aimed squarely in other directions. This gets moved to the bottom of the pile.

7. The raunchy high school comedy I was talking about that will complete my 'Equestria Girls' Trilogy. I'm currently banging out how the three sections will work together. The order to write this one in will depend entirely if I decide to publish all three chapters at once or separately.

8. The sole survivor of what what was supposed to be a series of fics inspired by songs from 'Hamilton.' I really think this will be a wonderful comedic piece. It will also be quite short, less than 2000 words. Honestly, expect it next.

9. My unwritten horror masterpiece. The full treatment is written, it's just a matter of finding the right time to begin...

10. Same with this one. The way this story is to be written is that half of each chapter will be happening in the "real" world (written by me) and the other half will be in the "written" world (written by someone else but supervised by me). I need the right co-writer, otherwise this will be for nothing.

11. This was only supposed to be a joke, I swear. After my little scene at the end of the year (pitting Grogar against the Slender One) I decided to entertain Number One Slendy Fan Swirling with a treatment of how the story would actually go. The problem is... it's actually kind of good. Don't be surprised if this pops up during the holidays.

I think that's everything. Your thoughts? Anything you'd like to see before anything else? Interested in helping out anywhere?

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