Coming in for a landing. · 1:22am Jul 15th, 2019
I've got my notes. I know all the points I want to hit along the way. I know how I want this to end. And my doc is blank.
It feels surreal seeing how much I've written. Unbound was actually my fourth attempt at a pony fanfic, you know. At first I was going to write an AJ centric story about her meeting her favorite author, but I got two chapters in before I realized I hated it. Next, I tried a story about Fluttershy having a crush on someone, and her friends getting too involved in trying to help her catch her crush. I didn't care for that either. Then I tried to go back to my original fanfic idea again, and got much further. But the premise, the characters, none of it worked for me. I hated it.
Heck, during the zeitgeist when the show was at its most popular, I tried for years to just make up pony oc's. They all felt so bland and awful to me. Not a shred of personality between the lot of them, just archetypes.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Unbound and Unfurled feel really good to me. Not perfect, obviously, I'm the last person to fall into back-patting. But it's definitely the longest I've been able to stick with my writing. I have so many stacks of unfinished stories throughout the years beyond even just the fanfiction; Red Collar, Servitude, Across the Soulless Lands, Dogpack Tales, Bowl of Seas, Skin of Stone. Yeah okay, that last one is a working title at best, but you get the picture.
But I look at these fanfics, and like, they're novel length. Like, what? I can do that? And realizing I can, it just feels good. I finally feel good about my writing after all these years.
And now there's just the one chapter left to write for Unbound. Hmm. Not sure how I feel about that. Ambivalent?
Maybe I could make this a trilogy? Maybe. I mean, I do have an idea, it's just not all that cohesive right now, and I don't know how strongly I feel about it. I guess it will depend on how Unfurled ends, and the reception of course. So. I'm gonna work on that and we'll see what we see...
Just take a nice hiatus after its completed & relax. We can wait, while you decide what to you next
Never push a story beyond where it wants to end. as the man said, "start at the beginning. and when you come to the end, stop." With that in mind, if you think there's more to tell, then by all means feel free to follow the thread for as long as it lasts.
Just be sure to pace yourself, eh?