Anything that can go wrong...

I wish Murphy's Law wasn't a thing.

Bad news everyone. I don't think I will be releasing A New Moon anymore. Earlier this month my computer completely died and I lost everything. It will be another week before I can replace it, and while I have been writing on my old laptop, I'm nowhere near where I should and the quality is appalling. I've given it some thought towards whether I will simply release what I have and write the rest over the coming months, or whether to put it to rest. I've decided the later, but I would like to explain why.

A New Moon has lots of history with me. It was initially born from a collection of information I was going to use in a debate between myself and a friend in regards to what I considered to be the evil nature of Celestia. However, when he pulled out I had all this stuff I had no further use for. It was from this collection of tweets, articles, Hasbro design history, and quotations that I idly formed some of the scenes that were to be in chapter 3. Slowly this also formed into my head-canon to Luna's absence between episodes 2 and 30. When discussing my story with my friend, we at some point began analyzing the likely effects Luna would have been subjected to during her isolation. This quickly made its way into both my story and my head-canon, even though we thought it best to focus only on one corner of the long list of things the moon should have done to Luna if she didn't die.

However, all things good must end, and at the premier of season 4 Celestia spoke one quote that utterly demolished not only half my argument that began this story, but also caused contradictions that forced me to rethink several key areas.
After this point though, I had lost most of the purpose that drove this story forward. I thought that maybe if I started releasing to the public I would find new motivation to move forward. Unfortunately this wasn't the case, granted it worked for a while, but when my new job started up I became stretched more and more stretched for time. NaNoWriMo was pretty much my last ditch effort to complete A New Moon so that I can move onto my next story. However, it seems that it was not to be.
Finishing the story over the next few months means pushing my next one further back, and I really really want to write this one.

Looking at it from my view I had two options. A: Finish a story that I had little motivation left to complete. Or B: Move onto the what I see as something that only drives me more and more as I progress, and will be the largest test of my narrative writing abilities that I have ever undertaken.

I hope you can see why now.
I have already begun my next story, and while I can't tell you anything about it yet, I can say that I will most defiantly be releasing teaser posters prior to when I will start releasing.
I hope you are as excited as I am.

Regards,
Kolibri.