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Charlie_K


Half the time I don't even know how I do what I seem to do so well. I try not to think too hard on it, for fear of breaking myself in the process.

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  • 4 weeks
    I have an idea, and I need some feedback because this might be a big one

    It goes without saying, I'm not the fastest writer around these parts. Not anymore at least. Anymore it takes time to get an idea figured out, written down, and refined to the point I want to release it for being read. But this doesn't lend itself well to getting the chapters and updates churned out. And unfortunately it leaves you with more ideas being backlogged than you want to admit. It

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  • 12 weeks
    Small update

    Ever since the last chapter I've been stumped on what to do with the next chapter.

    I'm happy to report that I'm 1.3K words into the next chapter, so things are slowly but surely getting done.

    3 comments · 146 views
  • 14 weeks
    Not dead

    Neither I nor the story are dead as of the time of this posting.

    Turns out writing Ulquiorra from the outside perspective of uninitiated ponies is a lot harder than I thought it'd be, and I'm having to spend a lot more time in the brainstorming stage than I'm accustomed to.

    5 comments · 152 views
  • 28 weeks
    Why?

    Why is it so damn hard to write at times?

    Why does the prospect of sitting down to type up an idea and give it physical form, seem to just suck the life and enthusiasm right out of you?

    7 comments · 236 views
  • 31 weeks
    A thought

    The current chapters for HIE are proving to be a lot harder to write than I thought. Even harder when you've got distracted thoughts flaunting themselves at you.

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May
27th
2018

HiE - What's taking so long? · 8:46pm May 27th, 2018

That's probably one of the main questions everyone's asking.

The truth is that when I decided to pay attention to feedback I was getting, I noticed a mess of issues with my writing style in need of being addressed. I had ideas for what I wanted to do in terms of story structure for confrontation and animating the scenes so the descriptions flowed fluently. But as time passed I realized I was making it out to be something far grander than what it was intended to be. So I've had to revamp a lot of my plans, and that takes a lot of time when you have to tear down your own thoughts and explore why they won't work the way you want them to.

I don't know when chapter ninety five will be ready to upload. I don't even know if it'll be worth the wait. All I can do is try and hope for the best.

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Comments ( 5 )

It's always worth the wait.

It's good to listen to your readers up to a certain extent, but remember that this is ultimately your story. Just do what feels right when it comes to the plot and things will work out for the better.

it's good to listen to the readers to a point but at the end it's your story and you need to follow your plot line to it's ending, while improving your writing style and story telling skills along the way

Sorry, but I stopped caring about this story at least a year ago.

I'll look forward to it when it comes out. As far as just constructive criticism goes, I think you're right; you're biggest error in writing the last few chapters was that you made the whole Nightmare defeat thing much bigger than it should have been and that pretty much everything after Ulquiorra comes out of the forest is filled with so much fluff and needless padding that it all kind of gets lost in itself. If you want my advice(for whatever it may be worth) you should go back and look at all the chapters following Ulquiorra leaving the forest. Once you've done that, you should take what you can from those chapters and condense it down into just one or two chapters with Nightmare's inevitable defeat occurring in the second chapter. Logically thinking, this shouldn't be too hard as you managed to do that quite well in the original chapter 92 where you had Ulquiorra make a complete fool out of Nightmare Moon before having her get utterly destroyed by him. With that said, if you could reimagine the original chapter 92 to have a bit more seriousness to it, you'd be golden.


p.s: I still hope he resurrects those foals that Nightmare Moon killed in the forest as a kind of silver lining to all the evil and torment Nightmare Moon has caused.

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