Listening to Bonfire Hearts and writing WSY.

This job and parenting and health and family thing is hard you guys

I'm sorry for the wait :P

Selling a condo. Buying a house. Struggling with some personal things and some health things. Working on the next chapter.

Definitely feeling the pressure because this next bit is maybe the most important and difficult part of the whole story?

Tldr: I'm not dead or AWOL I'm just experiencing some Real Life and also some Difficult Chapter

Got a good first draft going, targeting end of May? Earlier if I can swing it. Would love to get it out on my b-day next week but that might be pushing it.

Just wanted to keep you in the loop. You guys are the best and I don't want you to worry that I'm running off again or anything.

Chapter 11 is through the first draft and into revisions. It may end up being on the short side but if it is, 12 will be big to compensate

And the great news is a bunch of scenes got moved to 12 so basically I have a small headstart on 12 already. Yey.

Ok, one of you said you wanted the long version.

This is...

Well, this is the extended short version

Finished undergrad (on the third try), actually published chapter 10 within a couple days of graduation

Had writer's block

Got VERY ANGRY at myself for having writer's block

Felt ULTRA ASHAMED for slipping my own internal goals for when 11 would go up

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2200 words and counting. Productive evening. Gonna rip yall's hearts out.

Thinking I might discuss what changes I would make to bring WSY back into canon

As I see it, here are the major canon issues:

1) Spitfire's mom is alive
Solution: Scrap the uncle. Dad's out of the picture and Spitfire is running away from Mom. Don't worry, they'll obviously patch things up before season 5.

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11 status: 1100 words in first draft.
4 scenes written, 5 left to write.
Then proofreading and punch-up
(my first drafts tend to be very bare-bones, almost like scripts or screenplays, mainly dialogue interspersed with terse descriptions of the actions between the lines. I usually have to go back and add details in a second run-through)

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I'm feeling very talkative right now and, for the moment at least, don't have anypony to talk to. I got to thinking: my "hey, I'm back" post got a positive response, and staying engaged with the community is definitely going to keep me writing.

So, as often as I can manage, I'm going to blog here
- about why the hiatus happened,
- about Wild Sky Yonder,
- progress reports on the latest chapter
- etc.

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So uh

what can I even say?

It's been a rough.... five years.

I could talk about the many, many changes in my family situation, my education, my career, my health, my mental health, etc but none of it would excuse just sorta... ghosting like I did

Bottom line: if anybody's still out there with an interest in Wild Sky Yonder...

I just wrote new content for it, for the first time in 5 years. And it felt good. It felt really good.

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Look out, Spitfire! Bigs wants to settle this rivalry once and for all, down on the beach!

(Click here if you don't get the Top Gun reference)