Three Years · 8:54am Jul 7th, 2014
It's been three years (and ten days, forgetful me) since I published the first chapter of Fillystata, my first real piece of fiction. Since then, I've written half a million words of pony stories. What began as just an idle attempt at writing a small story has quickly become a passion for me. It shows that if you want to write, you just gotta start writing, and keep writing.
And keep writing I do, albeit at a snail's pace sometimes. So what does the future hold?
I intend to finish Uniformity and Back and Forth before I concentrate on any more pony stories, though heavens know I have enough drafts and ideas to last me many more years if I wanted to keep writing pony. Hopefully I'll finish at least a few of them once Uniformity is complete. When that will be, I have no idea. There are at least several more chapters to come. I think we're maybe two thirds of the way, as a guess.
Now that I've found my taste for writing, I'd like to write something more serious, as well as my own. I guess it's a natural transition; fanfiction is great, I love fanfiction, but now I'm curious what it's like to write something entirely my own. Writing non-pony is a new challenge, though, but I'm sure I can handle it. I have a story, which I've been idly planning for quite some time, and I hope now to get it off the ground; no better way to figure out a story than to start writing it. Maybe I'll talk more about it and my experiences writing non-pony later on. Wish me luck.
Does anyone know of a place like FiMFiction, but for fiction in general, not just fanfiction? Any of them any good? Right now my best option seems to be deviantArt, where people at least know me, but dA's support for literature isn't the greatest.
Fictionpress.net isn't the best, but it'll work. Alternatively, you could do a GDocs file and share it somewhere, or try and get it published. Good luck with it!
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But it'd be nice to have a place like this for short stories and random stuff, if I should feel like writing something like that.
Oh, I intend to get it published, of course
Writing.com is passable, but the free membership is pretty limited.
I recently had a story submitted (at Bantam) where the main character was a pony. I sat there gaping for at least ten minutes before I could even make a run at it. Turned out it wasn't MLP based.
We rejected it, but still. My coworkers wondered at the open gasp followed by uproarious laughter coming from my office.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I must admit though, writing.com doesn't impress me from the looks of it. None of the sites I've looked at really do, but writing.com might as well have been a blank page for all it enticed me.