Time to get back to the old fanfiction game · 7:48pm Aug 30th, 2012
National Pony Writing Month is coming to a close and instead of writing something new, I decided it would be best to work on my big October Project. It was totally within the rules so I was happy. I’m not happy that I didn’t make 50,000 words. I only added about 30,000+ to what I already had, though I’m going to work on it just a little more before submitting it on the last day. I can’t believe how busy I was this month. Heck, on the last day, I’m only going to be able to work on it for about four or five hours in total so there’s no way I’m going to make the 50,000 goal, which is horribly disappointing considering I had the third highest word count last year at 63,000.
Oh well, in light of things, since I haven’t posted anything in a while, I figured I would do a sort of preview for the October Project and post the first chapter which may or may not change slightly when I get to the Project. Even if I don’t finish the whole thing by October, I at least plan to begin posting the chapters I complete.
As it happens I do have a very weird writing style where I write bits and parts here and there, sometimes just one scene sometimes even just one piece of dialogue and then connect them all together later. I frequently write the ending before I even finish the beginning. Because of this (as the story currently stands at just above 50,000) I’ve actually written a bit of every single chapter in the story and I know where it is, where it goes, and how it will end.
So please enjoy Spiral: The Strangeness of Ponyville (which is a partial comedy though not enough to warrant a comedy tag I think) a dark tale not as dark as Onigokko, but still dark enough to satisfy anyone who likes a good dark story. At least I hope it’s good. I think I’ve rambled on long enough.
