HMSS Chapter 8 · 1:08am Apr 27th, 2014
Hey look, I'm alive!
Chapter Eight of my 'How Twilight's parents hooked up and how Celestia helped' story, "Her Majesty's Secret Service," is finally, finally complete, after nearly seven months hiatus. Hit up my stories page to check it out.
As you can probably tell, this one was a huge struggle for me. Real life distractions aside, I had more honest difficulty with this chapter than just about anything else I've written. Conflict is really hard for me to write well, especially when I don't-really-want-to-but-I-kind-of-have-to, and I went through long periods where I didn't so much as touch this chapter; the first couple thousand words were written probably before I even started my Cloptober project, "Growth Spurts" (which is also still alive I swear). I finally managed to hit a breakthrough though, and the remainder of the chapter finally spilled out of me, leaving me free to move on the the parts I REALLY want to write (I'm already several thousand words into the next and final chapter, not counting the epilogue). With a little luck, I should finally be able to finish this story in the next week or two. *crosses fingers*
In any case, if anyone's still reading this fic after such a hideously long hiatus, thanks for sticking around, we're almost done.
In other news, you guys may remember my friend and collaboration buddy DragonShadow, who I worked with in writing the round-table sextalk fic "Feels Like the First Time." If you liked that story and want more of it, DS has recently started a solo-venture sequel, titled "In the Heat of the Night." You can find that on his stories page right over here.
That's all for now. Back to writing.
--CG
Well baring two stores that haven't updated in over a year this was the next least expected thing to see in my feed.
So why aren't you on the Marvel Heroes 10 weekend?
I am definitely still reading. Usually when there's this big a gap there's some reason for me not to read, but your plot (hehe) is neither too complicated nor too simplistic for me to have to stop reading.
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I was! I played all morning, watched new pony, and then wrote all afternoon, actually, haha. I got a bit screwed on the guaranteed unique from the easter basket, but the rest of my session was super productive! I will be on at least a bit each day, if only for all the reward baskets.
It's a nice feeling, to finally resume a story that you feared you might have lost.
Glad to see you're still hard at work.
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Thank you!
Yeah it was a good feeling to get over this hump. Glad you're still enjoying the story.