Just Winging It On Temporary Hiatus · 7:51pm Nov 3rd, 2014
Alright, I've been thinking about doing this for quite a while, but haven't really wanted to. At this point, it's already pretty much gotten this way anyways, though, so I may as well bite the bullet.
As of now, Just Winging It is officially on hiatus. This isn't intended to be permanent, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting in the mindset to write this while working on Cubic Zirconia, and most of my creative energy ends up going there.
As such, I plan to either have Just Winging It on hiatus until Cubic Zirconia is done, or alternatively, I have most of the remaining chapters finished and ready to post of it.
I'm also not planning on working on anything new that's multi-chapter until I've finished some of the things I've finished. Possible exceptions would include:
a) A sequel to Making Friends that I got 8 chapters or so into but never published.
b) A side fic to Cubic Zirconia where each chapter would be loose scenes from the Cubic Zirconia universe, mainly from other perspectives. This would really be a collection of oneshots, all in one fanfic.
c) A collaboration that I started with a friend of mine that stalled out on both sides early on.
You may be wondering about the status of Magical Filly Apple B if you read multiple fanfics of mine. Long story short, I'm putting it on hiatus, too, but I'll talk about the reasons in a separate post. (One tagged for that story.)
Aw.
Oh well... Can't be helped.
~Twi
2571957
Yeah, I really didn't want to put this on hiatus, or I would have sooner. And I do plan to finish it eventually. I know roughly what happens until the end...
--arcum42
I think this is a wise decision.
Fanfic is like anything else; the more projects you try to take on simultaneously, the less likely any of them will ever get finished, because you're dividing your attention too many ways to make any progress on them. I see far too many authors succumbing to this, trying to juggle a dozen multi-chapter epics at once...
2572006
Yeah, that's a large part of why I'm doing it. The pity is Just Winging It is probably closer to the end than Cubic Zirconia, but that's where my energy is.
Part of the trouble, too, is that Scootaloo is a different character in this story than in Cubic Zirconia, and it gives me whiplash going between them. And I was trying to alternate for a while. It just kept making me lose writing time...
OTOH, I hate not finishing anything I put up, or at least having someone finish it, so I am going to pick it up again eventually, or try to get someone else to finish it, if it comes to that.
--arcum42
That's why I limit myself to one multichapter story at a time. Until the time I didn't, and now I'm swapping between updates on two stories.
2572290
I can certainly see why, and Just Winging It was the older of the stories, too. Cubic Zirconia just swept me up when I started writing it. I think I wrote rough drafts of the first couple chapters in a span of a few days, which I haven't matched since, though all those chapters needed a lot of revision and rewrites before being published...
Ah well, live and learn.
--arcum42
Yeah, I can understand why you would have to pick one over the other. It would be frustrating to try and write the same characters in different scenarios and not have them start to bleed into one another.
Still, I've got faith that you'll come back to this one, once you get the time/drive. I read both fics and I think the AB one as well but I can't quite remember.
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God, yes. Orphaned, homeless, street-savvy Scootaloo vs. a more realistic orphaned Scootaloo who lives with her aunt and has never been out on the streets on her own? Two entirely different and incompatible reasons why she can't fly? Crippled, grouchy, and not making herself the most likeable character Apple Bloom vs. chipper, upbeat, lets-play-with-chaos-magic (and Winona) Apple Bloom?
Both are very different flavors of story, and if I start writing Just Winging It in a Cubic Zirconia mood, it majorly would not fit.
And, yeah, I'll come back to it. I'm still planning on coming back to the never published Making Friends sequel, after all, partially because of how much of it was already written...
--arcum42
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Yeah, that's another problem with trying to carry on multiple stories, especially if the same character(s) are in them; it's easy to lose track of which "version" of the character is in which story, and have traits from one bleed over into the other.