I figured this deserved a blog post, and I might as well confirm that I'm not exactly dead.
I'm just very, very slow sometimes.
I've been working through a lot of concepts for the Atramentverse, and I figured I'd present some of them in blog posts for others to examine and provide feedback on, if they so desire. As always, feel free to use any of the concepts here in your own works if you want. Also, a warning: the following is full of severe author head-canon, proceed at your own discretion.
Some few of you may remember that I had written a story in 2012 called "Sometimes you just need somepony to talk to" - Since renamed to "A Shy Shrink" - featuring Fluttershy as an ad hoc therapist for characters from my first attempt at creative writing, "Ursae Majoris". Only the first chapter was ever published, but several more were already written. I recently unpublished the first chapter with the plan of attempting to rewrite and finish the story, but same as then, I'm not happy with
Another quick little story in the Atramentverse, Memory Fade's is basically an introduction for Fade, who will likely be playing a semi-important role in an upcoming story.
This Atramentverse thing just keeps growing, and I'm even entirely sure where this inspiration came from. I guess inspiration is just kinda like that, huh? Alicorn Support Group actually started as something for me to explore what the princesses interacting in non-serious situations would be like. I came up with the idea of them having to turn to each other to emotional support, since it would be difficult for a
Oh hey, I'm writing pony stories again. How did that happen? Anyway, "The End of the World" is a short bit of minor world building. I have plans for a few more stories, including one with a focus on Sombra. I want to build up some substance before I start publishing them though.