Forward, march! · 12:48am Jan 7th, 2015
As you may have read in my last blog post, I am finally working on Back and Forth again. Since making that post, I've written (the first drafts of) two complete chapters. There's one more chapter and maybe an epilogue left to the story after that, unless I grossly misjudge things.
I'm going to finish that last chapter (and possible epilogue), then do an extensive editing sweep of the whole story before I publish the update. A few minor changes to the existing chapters (mostly added details) will be necessary, but I strongly believe it is for the best. I'll make a list of important changes for those who don't want to reread, but I figure after this much time a lot of you may want to go back and reread anyway.
In return, you can look forward to three new chapters (plus maybe an epilogue) and the whole complete story in the very near future. I hope that makes up for the way, way, way too long delay plus any inconvenience of the edits.
Three chapters and an epilogue? Considering how long your chapters have been, I thought it would be longer.
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It was always meant to be a short story. Originally I thought it would be around five chapters, and that it wouldn't take me very long to write those chapters. Obviously, I was a fool thinking that
It was meant to be a story in which Cadance went and had a single "sleepover" with these two fillies, inspiring them to take destiny into their own hooves and teaching them to be brave so that they wouldn't actually need Cadance, but could lead a rebellion against Fenris themselves.
It wasn't meant to be a big adventure where Cadance actively helps them do things, and my biggest mistake was probably to make it a little too much like that. If I hadn't already published some of it, I would have taken this realization and gone back to rewrite the whole thing.
Aww. Now you've got me all excited right before bed.