Wow! Fallout: Equestria - Of Shadows has passed two hundred total views! It's a bit surprising considering that there hasn't been a new chapter since before it reached one hundred. But... that's soon changing.
I wrote an article about editing, how to get better at it, and how to be a nice guy while doing it.
I am very proud of it, and I hope you will all enjoy it.
Let me just start off but saying HOLY CRAP!!!!
So in my second blog post that I know no one will read and for the most part is just a journal entry, I'm going to gripe about editing. So far I am doing all the editing by myself. Whilst I am consciously aware that this is a flawed plan, unconsciously I am loath to bring an editor on board.
Just a little heads up that I'm going to try and start some post-book-printing bookkeeping I need to do. After all, a lot of typoes were fixed to make the stories that went into "The Life & Times of Nyx" and "Face The Dark" fit to print. Now I need to back-populate them to Fimfiction.net. Shouldn't be anything anyone really notices, unless you got a keen eye for grammar, but just wanted to give everyone a head's up.
Editing some grammar errors, story will be back momentarily.
Every once in awhile I come across a situation where I'm reading over a completed draft of a chapter only to realize that I may have gone to far in writing it based on requests for certain fetishes to be inserted into stories. My more recent story has this problem in chapter 2 and reading it again i9 realize it doesn't add anything to the story that i couldn't just gloss over in a later chapter (in this case being a dream). Chapter 2 adds nothing while chapter 3 adds some sorely needed humor.
===Work in progress===2/1/16
Will be online editing for the next few hours.
Will remove this before I go to bed.
Will also post progress reports here.
CURRENT TO DO LIST
>SWLGOS 2 Chapters At Least. [1/2], will finish second chapter next.
>Guest Chapter Draft, For IAGA, Generated ideas, will be looking to create draft next.
>Finish edits for the last 2 chapters of YCHWYL
>Everything else
OTHER ITEMS.
'Cause I've got a robotics end-of-year banquet to put together a highlights reel for. Stabilizing a shaky phone-recorded video isn't fun in any way.
No, this thing isn't dead. The entire plot is written out in a neat three arc format, I just need to fill in the details. The problem is I'm struggling to get a lot of the scenes to hit just right, and early on I relied heavily on input from Web of Hope as he looked over my plotline and scenes. He's not interested in staying on as an editor due to personal
In most chapters that correlate to episodes, my standard procedure is to take the script and add some more reader-friendly formatting to it. What a very important reader has mentioned to me is that it feels like Gilchrist doesn't exist during the episode. While this is partially intentional, I would like to hear everyone's opinion.
Never thought I'd have a story featured on the site. But it had finally happened.
I'm super stoked about the amount of faves I got as well. Right now I'm staring at the newest chapter of Mare and thinking about posting it soon, i recieved an email about getting an editor so I'm waiting to see how this pans out first.
Thank you all again.
I love each and everyone!
Undyne.
Thanks to the red tape and death threats, I have managed to drag my lazy ass out from under a rock and edit a few chapters. I am NO author, only a Roleplayer, and for the final time. I write in the fashion I RP, it isnt for everyone...clearly. Still hope its worth enough for every pony to stop sending me the picture of the Brony pouring bleach into his eyes in regards to my work, lol.
And no, I do not know a Editor, do you?!
Nice to have the site back. ^^
Unfortunately the site decided to shut down as I was editing the latest chapter, not that I lost that much progress, but It would have been out yesterday if not for the interruption.
I can't promise it will be out tomorrow, because I will be out celebrating my little sister's birthday, but I am working on the chapter and it should be out soon enough.
Secret Invasion.
I gave it a re-read, honestly I feel it's an absolute Trainwreck.
I can't believe how weak my writing was, tenses just every which way but loose.
I was editing it, fixing up mistakes on the fly.
Then I read the whole television scene.
Dear lord that was cringe.
Anyhow, I'll be doing a total rewrite of the story.
As promised, this is just me letting everyone know that all of the current chapters of Tartarus Forged that are posted are now edited by Cyberfire22 if you feel like re-reading them. I don't personally think the edits are significant enough to warrant that, but that's for you to decide.