Running full steam again. · 5:48am Jul 9th, 2015
Whenever I take time away from writing, I always forget that I do my best work when I skip around chapters and scenes like a little kid in a sweets shop trying to decide which candy to buy. And then I inevitably try to write things sequentially because it makes sense, and because I wrote an outline and everything, you know, and then I get stuck because I've forgotten to run around between scenes like a crazy person, which is really the only way I ever finish anything.
So the crazy nonlinear writer is back, which is good, bad and difficult. Good, because it means progress is solid, and fun, and there's some really good scenes coming out now. Bad, because it's a lot harder to build up chapter padding when you're polishing off chapters in random order. And difficult, because now I'm even less convinced I should release the damn story until it's basically complete. I hate missing opportunities to link events because I wasn't smart enough to think of them the first time I wrote something, and I'm pretty much guaranteed to fall into that trap if I'm doing the nonlinear dance.
So for now, I guess, wait a little longer. It's still coming. Just let me figure out whether I want to let everyone see my dirty laundry or not first.
For what it's worth, it's called 'Deathless,' it's a HiE/PoE story, and it's about what happens when we don't let things die, which one might reasonably surmise from the title. For the stalkers, it's got a heavy emphasis on Twilight and Celestia, with an unusually heroic role for our Solar Princess. For the HiE haters, it doesn't involve mares in heat, insanely overpowered self-inserts, universal love or wish fulfillment. And for everyone else, it's an adventurous romp with awkwardly romantic moments, clever antagonists, good intentions, bad decisions, and a couple of scenes with Celestia in battle armor.
Finally.
FACT.
I'm just so torn. I want to RELEASE, because instant gratification and feeling of tangible progress. But I want to wait, because dirty laundry. Considering airing the laundry, since rewrites seem to be de rigueur anymore, but it just seems so sloppy. Who wants to re-read the two sentences you added to Chapter 2 because you realized belatedly after you wrote Chapter 18 that having someone wear a flower in their hair early on would be a wonderful symbol near the end of the story?
So torn.