New Story will be out for Halloween/Nightmare Night... I hope · 11:43am Aug 13th, 2017
So I'm sure a lot of people were wondering if I had stopped writing, or coming on here. The answer to both questions is 'no'.
However two things have slowed me down considerably.
One is work. Summer is our busiest season, and by the time I make it home during the week, I'm usually too exhausted to do anything let alone be creative. Usually it's shower, anime, food, and bed, not necessarily in that order.
The second thing is... harder. As long time followers have known, I had a mental collapse back in January. It took me weeks to recover, I almost lost my job, couldn't eat for almost a week, and you have know idea the mental hell I went through. Anyway, they put me on a daily medication to keep me 'sane'. And for the most part it does a good job. However it has caused major changes to my personality. The worst of which, (in my opinion), is that it seriously retards my creativity and imagination.
It is a struggle to make myself sit down and write even part of a short story, or one shot. For example I had this story idea months ago, that I have been pecking at, that I want to have ready for Halloween. It's a one shot, and since I plan to release it Halloween, it's safe to say it isn't a love story...lol. It centers around a certain young colt that likes to play video games... yup, Button Mash has done hit the jackpot.
Here's a little (safe) teaser.
It looked like every Ponymon player in Ponyville was here! Colts, fillies, even the grown-ups had come out for the raid. They were all talking excitedly, and looking toward the center of the clearing.
In the real world, there was nothing there, just a bare patch of ground, but on my My-Pone, there was a huge black archway spotted with dark green, nothing like any gym I had ever seen before. Where there would normally be a raid boss, there was only a black question mark, and below that the familiar ‘battle?’ icon. I quickly hit it, and it opened to the raid lobby screen.
There was the familiar sight of the raid lobby, and there was my character icon, next to all the others. I quickly scrolled around, looking for my friends, and saw to my relief that we were all in the same raid. But then I noticed something odd. Normally you could only have a many as twenty ponies in a raid, that was the maximum allowed. But as I scrolled around I saw that there were almost a hundred ponies in my raid, it must be every pony here! Wow! How tough was this raid boss? We were all eagerly looking around as the timer counted down toward zero. Anticipation was mirrored on every face.
Finally the count ran out, and the raid began.