Commitment · 9:27pm Jan 2nd, 2015
Happy New Year, my loyal followers, I hope it brings you many good things.
I'm sure some of you have been waiting impatiently for updates or news of any kind from me. I'm very sorry for the unseemly wait I've been putting you all through, but that was then and this is a new year, so let's get to it.
I've been writing this stuff for some years now, and in that time I have found that I really like writing, and I like the idea of writing for realz. I think I've said so before, yes? But the thing about doing things for realz is ... it's like a marriage, turns out. It's all about that scary-as-shit word, "commitment", man.
That means "every day". That's what it means. You get married, you do the married thing every day, not "tomorrow" or "when I feel like it". Well, writing's not so different, if you want to do it for realz.
I do.
Every day. That's what I intend to do. I commit myself to write every single day, no exceptions. Most days, I will dedicate at least two hours to focused writing and another two hours at least to focused reading. Focused meaning no distractions. I know I can do it, if I just commit to it.
My first priority, starting tomorrow, will be to finish Back and Forth. I will work on no other story until the whole story is complete. Sadly I ran into some trouble with it, because I found out I didn't like what I had planned for the next chapter, meaning I had to figure out something else. Unfortunately that was a bit of a challenge, because I'd dug myself into a bit of a corner with the last chapter. I think I've found a way, at last, but it took a lot of thinking.
Once that is done, I can hopefully focus properly on Uniformity again. Both stories have suffered terribly from my tardiness, and I feel like Uniformity has suffered the most. I'm a little afraid that it's not the story it deserves to be, that it's not as good now as it was to begin with. But I've had similar doubts with other stories before, and maybe it's just worse because of the long delays. Whatever the case, they both deserve more love, which I can hopefully give them now.
I won't just be writing pony, of course. I have been struggling for the last few months, trying to get somewhere with a non-pony novel I've had in my head for a long time. Sadly, with the constant distractions, all I've managed is to write (and scrap) a million different first paragraphs. I've learned a lot about the story that way, however, and hopefully with proper focus I will be able to get it going finally.
That said, I still have a ton of unfinished stories and raw ideas involving ponies just waiting to get some writerly love. Some of them have been waiting for years now. Who knows what will come of all that.
Are you looking forward to 2015?
No need to look forward to anything. Now is fine.
And I'm glad that you're
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Hehe, likewise