MEGA UPDATE 199 Subscribers, School for New Writers Monthy Q/A Is Up, New Most Popular Story, A Realization about My Writing, a New Story, royalty for a Day, and T the Tiniest Troll. · 10:48pm Oct 1st, 2015
Hey All,
Long time no see: If it seems like it's been a long time no see that's cause it kind of has been. I haven't been away, I've just been busy. My work actually has me doing the job I was promoted for (in addition to my old job for one more week) and I've edited two fics for others this past week.
Subsribers: In addition, I am now at 199 subscribers and oh so close to breaking that 200 Mark. Can I get it by the end of the weekend? Probably not, though I need to go and post the latest School for New Writers Podcast around to some of the groups so maybe I will get one.
School for New Writers Q/A video: The topics for the most recent Q/A include conveying emotion, foreshadowing, determining if a character is needed, how to deal with too many characters in a seen, combining dialogue and action simultaneously, fragmented speech and tips for writing a mystery. If any of these sound interesting the video bellow has annotations to each question in it's description. and if you have any questions about writing that you want to ask please feel free to ask those here.
Statistics and my new most popular story: For those of you who like statistics my story You Can't Break Me Discord has 798 views as of this posting. This makes it my most read story sense Excessive Worry which was posted over two years ago and has been featured on several positive reviews. Now, I like You Can't Break Me Discord, but it was the fic that I have spent the least amount of time on per word other than a few excersises that I decided to post like Sunset shimmer and the Ogre.
In fact You Can't Break me Discord has more down votes than any fic other than my very first one which is terrible and has twice as many down votes but more than 7 times the views.
So, this got me to thinking, what is it about You Can't Break Me Discord that has helped it's relative popularity. And the answer came to me, it's simple. I don't mean the answer is simple, though it is, but it's that the fic itself is a simple story. Not only that, but almost none of my other stories are simple.
You see, I like to experiment. I literally even created a story that can be read two different ways by using hidden text. I've written about Scootaloo contemplating suicide after accidentally getting Snails killed, but deciding to live for his memory instead. I've written a dialogue only story. Even my first real romance was an experiment in romance for me as it was my first real attempt (I learned a lot but it didn't turn out the best).
My conclusion is that the majority of my stories are really, really weird. I push myself, but that's not a bad thing. I constantly learn new things and I mean people as part of this great community that help me as well.
New Story: But, I've decided to write something a little more normal. A simple crossover about defeating an evil that I hope to publish chapter 1 of next week. chapter 1 is done, I just want some time to get ahead before posting it. It won't be long chapters, but they won't be super short either. As for what the crossover is about, that's a surprise because I don't think anyone else has done one with this universe yet. If that sounds far fetched there is a reason for it but I won't tell you now. Just know that the writing is going well and it's a fic that is not hard to write as the uniqueness is that it's a combination that hasn't been done before.
Other things in the works.
Finishing Royalty for a Day: The story takes a lot of work. The story ended up being a bit different and harder to write than I thought it would be, and that's even before I added in going all out on the accent, trying to get Pipsqueak's just right. I've made headway but it takes a lot more out of me and the writing is a lot slower. By contrast the crossover I am working on took me about 8 hours to write and do a basic edit on 5.6k words and I had a lot of fun doing it.
T, the Tiniest Troll: I keep meaning to go back and finish this story. The next chapter is done but I want to wait until I have a T chapter to post. At the same time every time I look back at it I re-read it to remember how to write T in the fun interesting way that he writes. I know some people are really disappointed that it's taken this long, and I apologize. If anyone want's to try and co-write it with me working more on the plot and edits than let me know. I will give full credit but right now it's not where my passion lies and that story takes passion to write well.
Future Writing Guides: As for future writing guides there is one that i have been off and on about for a while because it's a hard topic and I can't find anyone else who's talked about it. So, if anyone is interested in learning about How Writing Fanfiction Teaches People about Writing in a Different Way from Origional Work, And How to it can Help You then let me know and it might boost my motivation for it. And yes, I need to work on that title.
Maybe a good shortened title for that writing guide could be something like, Why Fanfiction is Different, and How That Can Help You, or even just, Why Fanfiction is Different.
3435303 Ooooooh, I like the first one.