Story Coming: Striking the Right Chord · 10:21pm May 31st, 2015
Good afternoon everyone! I've got a new story coming down the pipes, and hopefully in the few days, so... I guess this is a "Will be published sometime this week" announcement. Gonna wait until con travel traffic dies down.
Striking the Right Chord sits close to my core Slice of Life storytelling ability: a slower pace, a deeper look at who the characters are and what the world around them means to them. This follows Sonata Dusk, in the aftermath of losing the Battle of the Bands to Sunset Shimmer, Earth's Twilight, and the other girls, as she tries to relieve the stress of living with two alpha personality sisters, each convinced the other is to blame. This is a side-story to The Last Vacation, not a sequel. It happens on the same day as Chapter 7/8. It's also pretty standalone. The major plot point (Pony Twilight never came back through the mirror) is hinted at and somewhat explored - it could hardly not be with Flash as a main character.
Following the Battle of the Bands and their spectacular failure, Sonata and her sisters have isolated themselves. Aria and Adagio, constantly fighting over who to blame for the failure, constantly drag Sonata into their bickering. They ignore that which made her happiest: music, any music.
Sonata, always the pawn in their power games, always the lesser sister, always too weak to assert her own will, leaves her sisters to their own devices for a day to try to find some solace to lessen the burden that's driving her slowly insane.
What she finds is one of the students they victimized: Flash Sentry, playing guitar in the park—alone.
Sweet
I don't need more to read. ;)
Looking forward to this.
I'll admit, just because you are daring to use Flash, I'm interested.
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Glad to hear it! I'm probably going to publish on Wednesday or Tuesday.
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Hope it captures your attention throughout. I think it's an interesting look at both characters.
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