Chaos and Luck · 4:24pm Oct 8th, 2014
Hey everybody,
I want to take this moment to apologize for the relative silence on my end regarding updates to my stories. I am still working on them, promise! I have all of the stories narrative outlines complete, I just need to sit down and write the darn things. I've gotten so familiar with the dialogue chains that I often have conversations with myself as the characters speaking to ensure that they flow well!
However, since my return from leave to visit my family, I've been incredibly busy. As a result, I've been incredibly fatigued. I get home on most days after physical training, I take a shower, put on my Rainbow Dash footie pajamas, and proceed to lay dormant on my bed while a movie or TV show plays in the background until I finally drift to sleep. That fatigue and busy schedule has left feeling a tad unmotivated to fire up my antique laptop and devote actual effort to think and write!
However, I received not one, but two chunks of inspiration and motivation. The two primary stories I've written, Scootaloo & The Cabinet of Seers, and The Play's The Thing, have been accepted and approved in the Twilight's Library Group! I'll be completely honest, I didn't have hope for Scootaloo, being that it was my first fiction and thus suffered from an unsavory amount of conventional and mechanical errors. I'm in the process of going back through and fixing up the ones I can find.
On it's initial review from Twilight's Library's contributors, Scootaloo was given a tentative "against", citing the aforementioned mistakes, but also the slow burning pacing of the story. As the story moved to the Reviewed - Rejected folder, I pretty much forgot about the story being in the group. However, early this week, one of the administrators of the library accepted the story into the library. While there will still some misgivings about the conventions, the slower pace was attributed to character development (which is what I had intended), and the story made it in for the merit of simply being an enjoyable read.
I'm very proud of this accomplishment, and I really want to update both Scootaloo & The Cabinet of Seers and The Play's The Thing in short order. Expect to see some movement soon!
