The Situation of Elfy: A Mass Update · 12:45am Oct 25th, 2014
I have done fuck-all.
It's not from a lack of trying or anything. Whenever I'm on my computer, I've got a doc open. I'm still mostly aware of what's going on in both canon and fanon, I just don't seem to be able to word. On the rare occasion that I can write, it just never seem to go anywhere. I get down a paragraph, maybe two, but there's a higher chance it'll get deleted than anything else. Instead, when I have free time and I'm not playing a game with Quick, I watch anime or play Dark Souls.
So, I know I was never good with deadlines or regular chapter releases in the first place, but this is sort of the official "I can no longer reliably work on pony words, and am pretty much done pushing myself to try and do things." Maybe I'll go look at one of my older projects, like Not All is as Sweet. Maybe I'll poke at one of the shorter projects that I thought up ages ago. Maybe Quick will be able to knock some sense into me and get me back into writing, who knows. I just didn't want to be one of those writers that disappears. Fans of Last Hope, I'm sorry. I know it's been almost two years, and the story is only like a third of the way through, but I just can't seem to get any headway done on it. Blame John and Eric for getting me into (and supplying me with) anime, blame the show for being unable to hold my attention and set my Muse's ass on fire like it used to, blame me for being a lazy bastard, whatever works for you.
I'll keep working in the background, and posting whatever I can manage to get written in a competent manner, and I'm going to keep sitting around on fimfic to chat if you want to (I'll even keep taking requests, though I promise nothing). I'm just letting you guys know what's up.
--thehalfelf
I've done it once, I can do it again!
It's okay, elfy. I know how you feel. When the words won't come, they won't come. Last Hope is a neat story, but I can't imagine it's easy to write.
The fact that S4 didn't do much for you doesn't help either, obviously.
Thanks for keeping us updated, even when it's not "good news".
Scrub.