It is finally time...

It is essential to the next chapter and the furthering of the plot as a whole, I have to write about things I am not too fond of. It should come as no surprise my most hated and most loathed chapters I have written of TWD is 'Everything Has A Price' due to the amount of set up that was involved. I will freely admit that I am an emotional writer, allowing my heart to steer the words to what I want to see. I write things that feel right to me at the time, mostly being greatly influenced by music or a particular mood that I am in. So deep abstract plot does not come naturally to me. I love the characters, their relationships and their goals. Sometimes it can become easy to get roped into a plot and forget all about the MC's, for me this is not the case. That is why the plots of my stories are deeply tied to the characters in a significant way.
I want Joey to correct a wrong and make things right for others. I want Caliber to be that pony he knows he can be. I want Zuri to have what she never has had before and I want everypony and Zebra that comes close to them to be better for it. That being said, sometimes this writing stuff means typing things out that hurt me as an author. I project a lot of my feelings into my work, probably why it is not that popular, but even still, I am writing much of this for me. If you all are enjoying the show, then I could not be more happy and I will count that as a bonus in my favor. But understand that not all rain storms come with rainbows in my world. Sometimes things will get dark and a little uneasy, but know that it is what has to be.
I will be completely honest, I have avoided this part of the story. When I sat down two years ago and really tried to plan things out, I had a lot on my mind and even more that I wanted to get out. I was fighting my own war inside my head at the time and even though I knew what I needed to write, I avoided it. But that was then, and this is now. A lot has changed, I don't even have the same friends anymore and I miss them dearly, but I had to work on me. This story is important to me, it is a life line vent that I use to keep from screaming into my pillow at night. But continuing it will mean a lot of things and I do plan to do so.
There will be loss, there will be pain and there will be self harm from it. I know that I have my own reasons, but know that the things you read are not out of malice. Without giving anything major away, I will say that I plan to touch on some pretty hard issues that will pull at heart strings and could trigger some. I wrote Letting Go to practice MC relationships under duress, I wrote TLRH for an completely different reason. I needed to see what pain was and I found it. Just know that it will get darker before the dawn, but I promise that the sun will come back out one day and I promise that this story will have a rainbow at the end.

I felt I needed to say that before I could write and publish what will be the series of events that I have been avoiding for two damn years. Know that I love everyone that reads this and that I mean no harm with the words you will read over the next few 100k.

Rocco.