Cancelling The Enchanted Carousel, restarting as a new story · 12:16am April 12th
Hi all!
I've already made the announcement in other places, so I figured I might as well do it here, too, to cement the change.
The TL;DR is The Enchanted Carousel, as the continuation to The Enchanted Kingdom, is back online and marked cancelled. I've decided I want to finish off the series, and in order to do that, I need a fresh start. The new story, The Enchanted Era, which I've already started writing and is going very well, will be bulk uploaded here every five or so chapters written. This is because I will be creating an entirely new story file for it, rather than reskinning TEC's file, and I don't want to do that until I have more material written, and because I'd like to be able to bulk upload here.
That was the TL;DR.
Anyway, as those of you who read my most recent blogpost, I'm finally on the other side of what I can call the Great Writing Crisis. The Great Writing Crisis affected all of my stories, but none more so than The Enchanted Library series. I've spent the better part of the last few years trying to convince myself to just let it go and cancel it, letting the story end on the incomplete but high note that was the end of Enchanted Kingdom.
Thanks in part to a lot of hard work on myself, and a very difficult year spent completely recreating everything I am inside and out, I'm finally at a place where I am starting to write again for the love of it, which has led me to accept that I simply will never be able to live peacefully unless I finish off the series. I literally can't. I want it done. Not because I'm sick of it hanging over me, but because I had great ideas for it, and I want those out there like they deserve to be. I want it done for me.
It not being finished has always been one of the most personally painful points of my life, especially because the reason I stopped working on it was because I reached a point where I was no longer writing the story I wanted, but the story I had built up in my head I had to write in order for people to like it, and validate me, and prove I was Good, and live up to being The Winner Of The RCL's Contest.
Essentially, it's all bullshit reasons, which I knew, which is why I stopped.
So, I've decided I just don't care anymore, and I'm going to do what I should have been doing all along which is write the story I want to write and people liking it is a plus, not a requirement. This means I can't and don't want to continue from what I had before. It was written by a person who I no longer am, and there's so little written for it at all that I just don't see the point of trying to continue someone else's story instead of starting fresh.
I debated just reskinning the actual story file here and deleting all the chapters, but I realize in order for this to work, I need to truly and sincerely start fresh. I debated for a hot second doing that because of the likes and the comments and not losing those, but the need for all those things was literally what poisoned me so...
Anyway, that's mostly it! There's evidently voices in my head already going at me for this, predicting and anticipating thoughts like 'why even try? what if it ends up in disappointment again?'', and the reality is that while all of that is true, and who knows what's going to happen, I'd rather go down trying again and again than just letting it die with a whimper.
To new eras!
mwa
Mono
Ya know what Mono? Good on ya, write because and what you want to write.
You've more than got the ability, and I believe in you.
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This. 100%
Best wishes doing what makes you happy.
Write that which you believe in, Mono. Be the writer you want to be, for you being happy is what matters here.
Always write what you enjoy, it helps no one of you force yourself to write something you aren't enjoying as all that does is male the work suffer along with you as it won't be something you can look at and say you like existing.
Also I thank you for not just deleting the work as it's nice to look at things and see the differences as it can help things stand out more.
Keep writing what you want to write and being your awesome self, I know doesn't mean much coming from some random guy but still.
Here's to a new dawn and what it brings.
Are the horses still gay
Welcome back to what makes writing fun.
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Well, of course the horses are still gay!
It takes a lot of courage to admit what you've been working on for years isn't working. Restarting takes even more. I'm glad you've decided to write the story that'll make you happy.
Mono I'm proud of ya!
This reminds me of the vlog post Papa Meat did on youtube about he felt like he was creating shorts to generate maximum views and what was expected instead of what HE wanted to make.
You are an artist.
Unless you are getting paid on a specific commission? Make the art you want to make!
Wonderful! Write for the fun of it! Write for the love of the story!
Go for it!
Woohoo!
While I won't pretend that a teensy bit of me is disappointed by TEC being canceled, a much greater part is glad you are in a better place health wise. I am also glad you're comfortable communicating with us instead of just going radio silence or indefinite hiatus.
Here's to new stories and opportunities
Sounds like you found what you needed to find for you to get back to loving what you loved to do. Happy for you, and excited to hear more about what you develop!
You writing for yourself, self-indulgent, epic, whatever. That is what drew us (most, anyway) to you in the first place. You took something you loved, Raritwi in this case, and created a monolith of a story with an interesting and entirely new take on the classic premise of FiM. Your characterization and motivations are simply fantastic.
Keep writing what you enjoy, at the quality level you always had, and the rest of us will follow. Don't be what you think you /need/ to be. Just be yourself and have fun.
And it looks like you've already figured that out. Now to see it through to the end.
Hell yeah to starting anew!! Looking forward to the new look of The Enchanted Era!
Congrats you <3
You got this Mono, and we got your back.
Write for the you that wants to see the ponies kiss, among all the other good things.
Not sure I understand why you're delaying uploading new chapters here, unless you mean you have to redo all the formatting of the chapters when moving them between sites which would suck and I can understand that at least.
Still, it would be great if you posted the first chapter so we could star/bookmark it to get notified on new chapters. I just don't want to forget, and I am not really interested in making an account on another site, sorry. :)
Since a few cancelled stories, I rarely read incomplete fics, but one of the few exceptions I made for The Enchanted Series. It is like an exquisite sword: sharp, so it should be handled with caution, but also beautiful. It's certainly painful in moments, but the catharses are so worth it. I still can re-read my favorite chapters (which I've done occasionally) while waiting for your next masterpiece.
The last two years has been especially a disaster for myself (it's certainly enriched my understanding of mental issues, first-hoof, so to say), but hey, we're still living, so things can be fixed, and old new projects be finished. Thank you for doing your part~