I think I'm going to use it to purchase a Chromebook that I found at a local retailer. It'll allow me to use Google Drive (my preferred writing platform), and it will free me from this ancient, loaner netbook that I'm currently using.
Absent: I need your input! · 3:00am May 18th, 2012
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Okay, everypony, I'm about 80% done with Chapter 5. I will continue my work on it, and I hope to have it completed by Sunday, 20 May. In the meantime, I'd like your input. Several of you have mentioned some issues with the story so far, whether it be characterization, canon/fanon adherence, or plot continuity. As most of you know, I have never written fiction before, let alone such a long work of fiction. Even so, I want Absent to be the best that it can be. You deserve no less. So, I'd like to hear some input on the future of the story. Don't worry; I'm going to finish it, just as I promised. But you guys get to let me know how it will be finished, technically (not the basic story premise; that's already set in very soft stone). I would greatly appreciate everyone's thoughts on this! So...
What should I do?
1. Rework Chapters 1-4 with the help of a pre-reader, then re-release them and continue one chapter at-a-time.
2. Don't touch Chapters 1-4, and release Chapter 5 as-planned. Do all the rewriting after the story is complete.
3. Rework Chapters 1-4 with the help of a pre-reader, but release the story in multi-chapter chunks.
4. I have my own idea! Here it is...
I await your responses with bated breath. 
You can either comment on this blog or send me a PM, I'm not picky. Be as thorough as you like with your answers.
you can prob stick to whats done as it is. i don't think there's many problems
As far as im concerned, it's excellence given form as literature. And you dont mess with excellence. But ultimately, its your story, so screw with it as you will. In my opinion though, wait till after you finish it to decide if it needs a rework.
Consider looking over the older part and seeing if it the changes would impact the story to come; if not then rewrite can be put off.
Hold up, this is your first fan fic?
Woah.
Oh yeah, and right now, don't touch it. You can probably go through when it's done and revise as you will, but I feel that it is fine as is.
121513 "Hold up, this is your first fan fic?"
Um... Yeah?
All my writing prior to this project has been for scientific papers and research proposals.
121902
Jesus H. Christ dude, you've got some skills. Most people's first fanfics on this site (that I've actually bothered to pay attention to) are some bullshit-self-insert-mary-sue fucktards. Some of them might actually have a grasp of how to write a non-cringe-inducing story, but that's only a stupidly small minority.
Just wow dude. Color me impressed and a few shades of envy.
Wow. Frankly, I'm surprised by the responses I received to this. I expected to hear overwhelmingly to fix stuff in the beginning. Since the vote is pretty unanimous, I'll leave it be until it's done. Most of the changes I would likely have made would be to fix some inconsistencies in characterization, allow for the existence of a fourth alicorn (that abomination, Cadence
), and condense the extraneous introspection.
The ponies have spoken!
I like it how it's going at the moment! Although some paragraph spacing could help a little to easily tell where a new paragraph begins. Could you also use italics for Twi's thoughts, you know, to seperate them from the rest of the story. It's okay if you don't do the latter, I'm more conserned about the first. I hope you have a great ending planned out in the end!
I don't know why, but I'm somewhat expecting this all to be a lusive dream Twilight is having, and that as things get even worse, she ends up waking up to the real world, finding Nyx in her room and the elements in their responsible places. This, of course, is just a point of view for me. I can't wait to see how this story ends, man! Keep up with the good work! PS: Nyx is best alicorn filly.