Possible fun little side-project with Fluttershy and... not exactly her friends · 3:08pm Nov 22nd, 2014
NorsePony recently dropped this rather intriguing article about writing novels -- specifically, the Nine Things You Need in order to accomplish such.
It's great reading on its own, but as I'm wont to do, I found my biggest takeaway wasn't remembering what those Nine Things Were at all. Rather, it was this declaration:
In a way, writing is saying to your loved ones, ‘Go away, because I want to talk to you’. I want to talk to you in a more articulate and truthful way than I ever could if you were there in front of me. ‘Go away, because I want to talk to you.’
Those three sentences do a better job of summing up my past year. I just couldn't write much, but I just didn't feel much like engaging with folks because I had nothing to show them. Vicious spiral, that.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because that's pretty much what I've been telling folks for most of this week, too -- Button Cash WILL receive its final chapter by next week, so help me God. But more importantly! I've had this other idea rooted in my brain for a little while now, though only just recently it stopped being a fic and demanded to be something more, even as I forget what catalyst came crashing in like a Miley Cyrus song you were just about to forget. It's something I've already faltered on in that I've told one person about the driving conceit behind it, but otherwise I've labored to keep it away from other peoples' eyes to avoid poisoning my momentum with complacency.
Wow, I really dig into the dollar words when I'm sleep-deprived. In a nutshell, we follow Fluttershy on a journey that takes her into the heart of the Everfree Forest, but there's a thing or eight out of place.
It's 7 AM, I've been at this since about 9 the previous night, and it means tons to me that you stopped by to take a look at this. I'll probably spin up a Tumblr for it soon -- I'm just struggling with what to call it at the moment.
Also, go listen to some Walk the Moon, 'cause I've had them on repeat for the past 48 hours and I'm not stopping.
- Couch
Wat
It just never ends with you. Spider Rarity, Spider Fluttershy...
What next, Spider Celestia?
(Looking forward to the tumblr)
2609912 Yo, SPR happened after I came up with Spidershy. Still a little salted over the fandom's choice of arachnimare, but it's a call to action to get off my ass and make shit happen!
Not everyone's a spider in this universe, just to head that question off, though.
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p. much this
Is there something you need to tell us, Couch? :V
Also you put your stories back up, hurray! :D
2609914 That you didn't know already?
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Well, you know what happens when you assume things...
Butt why._.