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JohanssenJr


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  • 507 weeks
    Ermagherd... The Interloper...

    So, I haven't updated in a while. Mostly because of the Army keeping me busy for a few weeks and work making me close up shop a lot lately, which means I go home and veg out before going to sleep.

    However, not all was lost in that time.

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  • 516 weeks
    Welp....

    I finished those chapters I was working on, which means I now have to work on a few more chapters from the ground up. But I feel as if I've gotten a system down pat. Which is good, it means I can add more to the story more efficiently.

    Hell, within a week I managed to add over 17,000 words and like 4 chapters. I think that's pretty good.

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  • 522 weeks
    More work done on story.

    So, Like I mentioned in another blog post. I work on about 3 chapters at a time, putting in a rough outline and fleshing them out from there in a chronological order. It also helps to keep me from painting myself into a corner and having to use the "Deus ex Machina" which I REALLY hate.

    Anyways, a TINY spoiler:
    Chapter 6- Burn the Witch ~35%
    Chapter 7- Rusty Cage ~25%

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  • 524 weeks
    I'm Interloping on through, again.

    Next chapter of the rewrite is up. I originally intended to put it up last week with about an 1800 word count and use it as a transition chapter, but I decided to flesh it out. Which in the end felt like a good thing.

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  • 527 weeks
    The Interloper

    Well, I've currently restarted work on the Interloper and a good portion has changed. I'm currently working on Chapters 3, 4, and 5 as I type this up. The rewritten chapters have been posted and the great Maromar for volunteering to clean up the mess I make as I write this story. And definitely thanks to the readers willing to read the drivel!

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Mar
9th
2014

The Interloper · 11:11pm Mar 9th, 2014

So, I've been thinking about bringing down The Interloper and rewriting the first 8 or so chapters. I feel like I wrote myself into a corner and I'm all out of ideas. Thoughts?

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Comments ( 3 )

well the evil alien monsters or whatever want to exterminate all humans, and humans are native to equestria, so invasion maybe? i dunno

I was thinking something similar, but I'm not too sure how. I may go about it (still part of the outline), however I'm not sure HOW I want to do as the current story arc makes it difficult.

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Take a break for a week and read the crap out of as many T.V tropes pages and works of literature as possible.

Hell, on second thought, experience stories of any form via any type of media handy. As the Bible says; "there is no new thing under the sun", the ideas of other works will implant their DNA into your skull, making themselves known to you.

Under no circumstances are you allowed to write anything related to The Interloper during this time, the bad ideas will come and fester and fade away, the good ones worth remembering will stay, fresh as twice purified water.

At least, that's what works for me. (I say that, yet I still haven't finished the first chapter in my own fic :raritydespair:)


As far as the re-writing goes, if you feel it is necessary, do it. Good writing is felt by the brain rather than contrived by it, know that the pink, squishy organ will (intentionally) do you no harm.

But above all else, no matter what you do; Jr.

Don't stop being awesome.

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