A note about the next chapter... · 3:51pm Feb 14th, 2018
Hi everyone,
When I first started this story, I'd intended it to be a lot shorter, hoping to do weekly or bi-weekly updates of roughly 3000 words. That's clearly fallen by the wayside. I'm averaging about 7000 words a month. The thing is, I'm going to be going on vacation in a week or so, and will be away for three weeks. Because of that, chapter 7 may be a bit more delayed. I've already begun writing it, and may even get it finished while out of town. But the Field Day chapters will most likely be pretty long; I've shooting for two 7000 word chapters, but there may end up being three of them, if I'm not careful.
The one thing I don't want to do is start churning out words just to fulfill audience demand. From the comments I've gotten thus far, a lot of you really like the writing in this story, and I don't want to sacrifice that in my haste to move things along. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you might need to be a little patient for the next chapter.
Hey man, don't sweat it. We all love your work and want to see this story succeed. I feel there's potential for this fic to go up there with the big ones, at least in my mind.
"A project delayed is a project eventually good. A project rushed is a project that will be forever bad." - Shigeru Miyamoto
(Also, where are you off to for vacation? You wouldn't happen to be going to Savannah Comic Con, would you?)
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Nope. First a week in Spain and then about ten days in Ireland.
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Also, up with "the big ones," huh? That's really high praise, although I've only got a vague notion of what those are. I never really read any fanfic here, so I know about stuff like Fallout: Equestria and Past Sins only third hand. At the moment, my ambition is to just make sure that Field Day ends up being fun and a bit emotional. Once I've cleared that hurdle, we can get down to business.
That's all right, just take your time. Some of us need to recover from the cuteness after all.
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I can assure you, there will be more cuteness. I don't think I'm capable of writing anything but that.
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By the way, I'm curious: do you have a favorite scene so far?
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One of my favorites was when Trixie was telling her story to Starlight. The one where Twilight was being motherly to Lulamoon and Starlight and making them put on sunscreen was also cute.
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She uses that sunscreen because kissing them both goodbye would be a little too obvious.
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I loved the image of the scene of Trixie's story in my mind: the two of them in bed, looking up at the lamp hanging over it, fireflies flitting around to act as a nightlight. I've always liked the firefly lamps on the show, and wish they'd bring them back.
I think my favorite scene so far was the race behind the castle. I see it so clearly in my mind, and I love the emotions from Trixie as she runs. I wanted to convey her seeing the possibility of not losing as this transformative moment for her. It's exactly the sort of thing that Twilight hopes will happen to Starlight. That moment when the little voice switches from the second person to first person is the moment that Trixie becomes Lulamoon again.
My second favorite moment is Lula hanging onto Starlight's back as they look into the mirror together in Starlight's room. I see Lulamoon as just being a nicer and more thoughtful version of Trixie. She's got the sarcasm and isn't afraid to speak her mind, but has less of the nasty need to tear others down to build herself up.