Sleep is not overrated · 8:07am Aug 28th, 2012
Dang, my head feels so heavy right now, I'm starting to wonder how it still stays on. Last night was quite a bit of a pickle. Remember how I said that last time that chapter 6 was only part of everything I wanted to write? Well, in order not to completely screw up the episodic structure, I had to pad out what might have been only third of a chapter into a full chapter. Which is all fine and dandy, until you start to get all these great ideas for new pieces of padding while writing a different piece. I can assure you it takes quite a bit of extra time. Anyhow, time for a few personal thoughts:
I'm not too sure about the result. The whole thing just didn't feel right, you know? I probably could have been a bit funnier in places, a bit more descriptive in others. I blame lack of sleep for that one. By the time Fluttershy dropped by, I was already in quite a sorry state and just phoning it in to get it done. I should really start working on the this a little sooner than Monday evening, but if I could get myself to do such a thing, my therapists would be out of a job.
But I suppose the whole chapter was a bit more serious than usual, and now the plot is actually moving into what seems to be a direction. Well, that's pretty good I suppose.
You know, sometimes, I feel like I should be writing a comic instead. I'm sure that my prose isn't particularly bad (as compared to most of the drivel that finds it's way to this site), but I think that sense of humour would certainly benefit from a more visual medium. Can't do too many expressive faces and poses in prose, you know? Or at least, I can't. Maybe I should learn to draw one of these days.
In any case, we are getting close to what appears to be the finale of this first arc. This took a whole lot longer than I wanted it to, even discounting my hiatus, but I suppose you sometimes don't actually get to choose what's going to happen in your story. I just hope I can manage another amusing arc after this, since I haven't really but much thought yet in the things that are going to happen between the end of this and the final arc. It's really weird, whenever I try to think about it, my mind just goes fast-forward to all these awesome things I could pull at the end, even though it seems to have no ideas on how to get there. Eh, I'll cross that bridge when I get there. For now, Let's just have a little fun with what we have,
I wonder if, at the end, I should actually write a friendship report? It would be pretty cool if I could pull of a genuine-like, but it's pretty hard to do so.
In other, unrelated news: I'm not angry, I disappointed.
I think a comic would be hilarious. Of course, that requires some art skills. Still, this story is funny enough, so I'm content.