About Savage and a question. · 4:04am Feb 11th, 2015
This is me these almost three weeks since last chapter.
...yeah, not a single word written...
I've just not felt like writing, also it doesn't help that I discovered that horribly addicting game known as Civilization and started watching Korra. Also I'm back in school. Last semester before I'm done with Preparatory and its looking to be the hardest semester of all. I was looking forward to update at least a chapter a month or even earlier... but I guess that's not going to be possible at least for this month. I don't know what to do with this story, if things keep up like this then it's going to take for ever to finish it. I think I may leave writing down the whole story and instead just stick to what I had in mind at first, which was going to be Encounters with a Savage Man, which would have been the same but only writing the important encounters that happened between him and the ponies that I have planed, plus others that might pop up later. But don't worry all this time hasn't been badly spent, I've kept thinking of how to write what's coming next. I always have to play out what happens in my head before I start to write. Anyways, I'd like to know what you think. Should I keep going at Savage as a long story or just as encounters?
Don't worry too much about updates. As long as you're still writing, we'll keep reading. Besides, there are enough other stories to keep us amused in the meantime. Don't sweat it, we can wait.
After reading your thoughts, I'd vote for just encounters. The main reason being if you don't see yourself finishing the story in the foreseeable future, it probably wont happen. I say this because you'll likely lose interest in fanfics, the fandom, the community, whatever. I also have a strong personal preference to actually get to the end of a story after spending long periods of time reading it.
World building is good in its own way, but I can also point to the first chapter and say that was why people followed this story. If the story was nothing but chapters of encounters like that it would pretty awesome.
Anyway that's just some random guys two cents.
Keep at it as you intended to.
Both!
No, really. I'd try to tie up this particular line well enough to start a side-story about the little encounters on the side. Work on the Main as you will but on the side story as you want.
2787190
I agree, that sounds good.
2787190 Wait, what do you mean? Write the encounter chapters first and then write what happens between those chapters later?
2787937
I mean tie up this 'introducing the creature to the world' part, leave off the aliens for now and when the introductions are done, move on to a 'slice of life' story involving the guy and the ponies (I kinda assume that's what he means with the encounters - or maybe he means filling in more blanks about what happened to this guy, in which case ... stop? We get the idea and no more blanks need be filled?). Leave this story for when he has inspiration to write it but have the slice of life thing going so he doesn't end up not writing anything for six months and going out of practise.
2787190
Double agreed!