Horse Famous--But For The Wrong Reasons · 6:43pm Jun 28th, 2015
Despite all attempts to avoid it, I must gracefully belly-flop into the pool from the high diving board.
I am horse famous.
Because I have a story I haven't updated in almost a year.
One part of the problems with Sunset's Last Glow was that I was in a far different and less pleasant place in my life when I began to write it. It was my escape, my way to try and combat the hand that life had dealt me in a constructive way. Negativity was my companion, dread and frustration filling my days, and each night's sleep only brought promise that it was going to start all over again the next day. It wasn't a good place.
Another issue is that there's never been any sort of outline for this. None. I've really been improvising from chapter to chapter. Some attentive readers were quite quick to point out when the story hit EqD some of the inherent flaws to my writing style, and with as much grace as I could given how direct/unkind these comments were, I accepted them and tried to move forward.
And the story stagnated. I haven't even looked at it recently. After finishing a much-needed Prologue that helped to lead everyone into the setting, explaining how we got from then to now, I have been going through the Chapters, revisiting how Phoenix interacts with the environment, having completely gutted most of his dialogue with everyone in Chapters 1 and 2 because it was just all wrong. He was super angsty and negative--something that a well-disciplined soldier, even in the presence of their sworn enemy--especially one of Celestia's rank--would probably never do.
So, here's the big question--is the story dead? Well, I did blog about it last year--no. It's on life-support. It needs direction, and that involves me sitting down and writing out "Okay, major events need to happen here, here and here; minor events here, here, here and... here, and then come up with the rest as it happens."
But I need to actually write. And between conventions (MLP-MSP and Ponyville Ciderfest), my two Pen-And-Paper games that I run and one I play in, there's just not a lot of time for me to actually do anything with it--so that means if I want this to be finished, I need to make the time.
Stay tuned. Hopefully the news from the Midwestern Front will be good.
