Anyhow, a quick update on updates.Murphy is real... · 5:57am Aug 12th, 2014
WARNING: This blog contains information that some of you may find disturbing or distressing.
You know what, Murphy's Law is real, and let me tell you all now that Murphy's an absolute c**t and a half.
So, last week I put out a blog about how the next update for GF&GF would be finished by this Friday. It seemed like an easy enough goal at the time; I had about one thousand words or so in mind, and the plot points fairly much planned out (bit of dialogue to figure out, but that didn't seem too big a deal). All I had to do was survive a weekend and hand in some university architecture group stuff on Monday. Doesn't sound too hard, does it?
Enter Murphy.
The weekend played out something like this. Saturday night I had a friend's 21st, which did originally sound like a pain, but I agreed to go after a long-time best mate of mine (who's also in my studio group) said he'd be going as well. The plan that we agreed on was that we'd do our individual stuff on Saturday, crash at his place Saturday night, and put all the work together on Sunday (Two people = half the time = sounds good), and thus everything would be ready for Monday. Like I said though, that was the plan...
Suffice to say that it's best that I don't repeat what happened at that 21st. It left pretty much everyone there feeling utterly betrayed and emotionally gutted, and shattered any sense of trust I had in one of my best friends. I ended up getting home at 4 in the morning, after driving some two and hours, feeling pretty fucked up if I'm being blunt and honest.
I've mostly worked through it emotionally, but it has meant that I'm now saddled with the work of two group members on top of dealing with the fallout, so the chances of me getting GF&GF finished by this Friday have taken a major hit. I'm going to try, but I can't go making any promises now.
Again, I'm so, so sorry for this.
Freelancer
That reminds me of a super bowl party two years ago when I woke up with two girls and a guy on a couch with a bag of week and some alcohol. I have no idea what happened that night.
I'm sorry that all of that had to happen to someone like you. I hope things improve from here and if you need to post the next chapter of your story at a later date, I totally understand.
Why do people blame Murphy? It's not like he controls it, he just discovered the law, probably by going through a bitch and a half worth of shit himself.
2363757
Did you and he ever really patch things up? You can PM me if it's too personal.
2363762
Thanks for understanding mate.
*hugs*
I have no idea what happened. I'm super confused.
No need to worry. Believe me, you should never let your perceived obligations to pony fiction supersede whatever your real life obligations or relationships are. FIMfiction is a place to relax, and show your stuff to an audience for fun, and should definitely should not be seen like a job. I've seen people literally drive themselves to the point of despising MLP in general because of how many responsibilities they try to pile on, so please, don't burn yourself out.
2364574
Short version: guy mentioned has emotional issues we'd all been trying to help him overcome, the girl whose birthday it was especially so, and he promised us all that he wouldn't drink at this party so we wouldn't have to worry about him doing something stupid.
Then, when we we're all mildly drunk/inhibited and he's sober, he tries to leave so he can go kill himself. Some of us got him stopped, so he then lashes out at us and runs off. Didn't show up again until Sunday.
2365969 Oh. Wow. That's terrible. I'm sorry.