One year ago tonight… · 3:20am Jun 11th, 2014
One year ago, tonight, I posted the first five chapters of A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies. That night feels like it was so long ago. That night, I was completely overwhelmed with constant pings from favorites and comments of praise and excitement for a sequel that was two years overdue. The sheer thrill of this sudden popularity of my work rendered me unable to sleep that night, and the praise followed for days on end after. Immediately, I made it to the feature list on the front page of this site, and then I climbed to the top and enjoyed a spot there for some time. Within a short period of time, I accumulated hundreds of likes and was the center of attention.. Of course, my popularity can be attributed to Pen Stroke, not myself, but yet, I have taken the burden to finish what I have started. I remember how invincible I felt, like I could do no wrong. Oh, how wrong I was, and what a harsh lesson that was to learn. I've grown so much in that year, and I've learned so much. I've made great strides, and I've made glaring mistakes, but ever further shall I persist until I am done.
I was in school back then. Now I'm graduated and with a full time job that eats so much time away from writing. I did not think it would take over a year. I hoped it would have been a lot less than that, and I don't know how much longer it will take before I am done. But I swore an oath back then, to you, the reader, that I would write a sequel worthy of the original. It would be a great shame for me to fail that oath. A year has gone by, and still, I am not finished this story that I have devoted my life to. So, I cannot say whether I will succeed or not to create a sequel worthy of the original.
Within that year, I have accumulated nearly 150,000 words and 720 likes. Yet, much to my disappointment, the sequel to Better Living Through Science and Ponies is still unfinished. And now, Chapter 22 is awaiting my review and editing before I will post.
I have tasted both the sweetness of triumph and and the bitterness of failures, yet the flame burns on. Hopefully, what I have to deliver will be something truly worth reading.
congratz
I love your story and how you write it. The story, The everything is of top tier and I enjoued reading your story
That cake is a lie and you know it!
Anyway, concratz
It will be MOST interesting to see what you have wrought since i have last read through it. Most interesting indeed I should think.
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'The Cake is a lie but the Cube is forever'
I feel that I most tell you that even if Pen Stroke original is good I feel like yours is better. To explain why, is that you have the same excitement and slice of life in this as the first one, but what makes this so much better is the emotional drama you have created in the background. I thought that this was a decent story up until the chapter you revealed the theory of GLaDOS being chell's mother. I first thought it was an idea from you but then I saw one of your comments with chell's background story video that I had not seen before. That video made me see the whole portal series in a totally different way. So after watching the video and looking at the artwork you put at the bottom of a chapter while listening to the turret opera (which I now know what it meant) brought true tears to my eyes.
it is not often I cry that way but it is an amazing feeling when I do, so from that point on this story was better than decent, it was GREAT! and I can't wait until how you will reveal the truth and how chell's reaktion will be.
You deserve that cake completely.
I remember how I started working over my first story over 2 years ago, and waited almost until the next one to bring it to fimfiction, because I wasn't sure if it will be received well.
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It's feedback like this that lets me know that my story matters and encourages me to persevere. I believe in that theory with 100% of my heart, and it will continue to show. It is one of the core elements of my story. Expect a lot more feels later.
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I wish I deserved that cake, but it's impossible for me to rest until I am completely finished.
There will be a new chapter this weekend. Also, I'm looking for help writing a chapter. I'll explain more in the author's note of the chapter.