Status update (in which somebunny actually got some chill) · 1:49pm Apr 4th, 2018
Are updates like this pretentious? Do people actually care about the status of my writing, or is it just as well to throw out a story whenever it’s done? I dunno, I’m kind of a pretentious bitch anyway so I guess it hardly matters. There’s hardly anything essential in this, so feel free to skip it if you like! To be frank, I just like rambling and this is my platform to do it lol
Real quick something extra low on the importance scale: I finally updated the fucking grammatical mess that is By Blood or Choice 
Nothing that makes it worth rereading and it’s probably the worst story in the WWB series anyway, but should be smoother for people who haven’t read it (it really needs a whole overhaul to be decent, but I’m not doing that). Also finally stopped being lazy and threw a title on the cover (there was empty space specifically for that purpose, but then I just kinda... never bothered 
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Right, so, much more worthwhile is that I’m not writing that Guiding Light story I talked about in the last few blog posts. I do think it would be a good story, but when I first started planning it, I planned on five chapters (one for each of Sunset’s new friends). Then I added a chapter at the end for Sunset herself. Then I started writing it and realized I probably would need another chapter in the beginning to cover the immediate aftermath of the Fall Formal. There was an inevitable talk with Celestia, what Sunset’s punishment was, what happened with Snips and Snails, probably her first time seeing Cranky and Matilda again, probably something with Violet Dusk unless Celestia decided to hush the whole thing up, I’d need some sort of reason why she wasn’t expelled, her early interactions with the other students, and man... I do not care about any of that shit. Honestly, the only chapter I was really excited about was Fluttershy’s. Even the Applejack chapter couldn’t really sway me too much, and y’all should realize by now that I freaking love Sunset and AJ’s dynamics.
So yeah. The whole thing was starting to feel like work more than something that would be fun to write. Seven chapters would be at least two months of writing (and that’s pretty iffy) and I just decided that while it would be a great story, I didn’t really want to dedicate that much time to it. Might put the WWB group’s forum to use and give an outline of what the story would’ve been, because I’m honestly really happy with the plan.
So instead, I’ve been outlining Unwritten (working title), the novel-length Looking Glass sequel I said I was gonna do once LG finished. I planned on diving right into that, but then I got involved in a secret project. Can’t really talk about it right now because it’s a tie-in with a friend’s blog, and she hasn’t released the comic it ties into yet. Basically she’s doing a comic story arc as part of her blog, then I’m gonna follow up on that with a oneshot sequel. It’ll be romantic drama, which is in line with the majority of the stuff I write. Should be a fun project!
I’m trying to write like hell, but it may still be a while before I actually post anything. On top of the fact that I can’t post that secret project until the comic it’s based on goes live, I need to finish the outline for Unwritten and then build up a content buffer to hit those weekly updates. I think what I want to do from now on is finish writing an act (usually six to nine chapters) before I start posting it, since that will give me a long buffer and I can go back and tweak things in the earlier chapters to work better as the story comes along (I’ve run into places before where I regretted not being able to do that). In theory, as I’m posting act one at a chapter per week I’ll be writing act two, so there won’t necessarily be huge breaks in between acts – just a long delay in getting this first act out since I won’t have anything to post while writing it. But I strongly prefer updating on a schedule, and I’m sure y’all can find some other things to read in the meantime 
Now let’s just hope my awful mental health doesn’t keep me from all this writing 
Honestly many like myself care and are grateful of updates
BUT
Many more are too lazy to reply or coment
I care! (\
You take your time and write whatever works for you. I know you will pick the best next thing. I am waiting for the LG sequel to then read more WWB, so if you prefer to jump into it, that sounds great for me; but it would be cool to know a short version of what would have happened in that in between story.
Always good hearing from you bunny.
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lol that’s fair! Thanks for taking the time to do so
Updates on a writer's writing on a writing website's built in writer's blog function are literally the best use of said function. It ain't pretentious, fam.
So thanks for that.
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After writing this blog, I wound up starting a document with that summary, so it’s safe to say I’ll definitely be sharing that 
And lol I’m definitely looking forward to this gap being closed so no one has to wait to read stories that are already written anymore. Hopefully soon!
Thank you for the support
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Indeed, I’ll certainly try to keep blog posts relevant and worthwhile. But being the rambly bun that I am, I do sometimes wonder how well that works in practice haha
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You know, you do make an extremely good point there
I'm more of a reader than a writer... plus, I only read half of one of your stories and look forward to reading the rest of it later.
But, there's so much to read and you're competing with thousands of other writers that have some equally facinating concepts and ideas... Although, I will admit that I like your work as much as Fluttersisshy's and I've read half of the stories in his/her queue so there is a chance I might comment more frequently on stuff you've written in the future, just not immediately.
Not to mention, it's entirely possible I will bug you with questions about things you wrote years ago and question attitudes you may no longer hold dear (or something to that effect).