Yay, It's Still Alive · 3:17pm Nov 24th, 2015
And by it's, I mean both me and Blanked. As I have (*cough finally cough*) uploaded Chapter 11.
Obligatory happy Apple Bloom.
Now this is what I'm expecting you guys to think, and my answers.
Q: Yay, we finally have our new chapter! But, will it take yet another year or so before the next chapter?
A: I honestly don't really know. As you could probably guess, I don't really do as much writing nowadays as I did before, if at all now, and my motivation for it has kinda been dwindling ever since my best friend on this site, Soothing Stone, kinda stopped writing here to pursue writing for Legends of Equestria, as well as other real life writings. Now don't get me wrong, I'm really happy for him, he is even working on a game I love, but he was my biggest inspiration for writing stories here in the first place. In fact, if it weren't for his help, you guys wouldn't have even gotten a Chapter 11 yesterday. He helped me with it, so please, please thank him for helping me. My motivation had been dwindling over a year or so ago, and I kinda took a break, and a long one at that, in favor of doing art on Tumblr, for my lovable pink unicorn Ember Spark (see avatar) and other stuff.
Q: So, you are not quitting writing, but you're not motivated to do it? I am confused.
A: So you are, Question. Well, there is a chance that I'll pick up the pencil again, so to speak, to write Chapter 12 of Blanked sometime soon. Because I'll be honest, I missed writing. Whenever I wasn't dragging myself to write something, it was actually kind of fun. And over the past year, I've been wanting to write maybe another one-shot story for Rarity and Princess Luna (I have done two stories for that before, check those out if you want), but sadly have no ideas for one.
Q: So... was it worth it to finally update Blanked?
A: Oh hell yeah. I can't even begin to tell you how big of a metaphorical weight it has lifted from my shoulders. Plus it needed to happen sometime, didn't it? But... I didn't actually expect people to remember me or this story. When I saw the comments on my previous blog post (and a few on the story itself), like... I felt kinda nice. I forgot what I was like to have people say some stuff about my stuff. It feels pretty nice.
Now then, I will finish off with this: thank you guys so much for being hella patient with me (maybe too patient, heh). Next time I write a thing, it will either be the next chapter of Blanked, which will go back to Ponyville, or another Rarity/Princess Luna story. I'm going to need ideas for that one though...
~Salnalus
awesome! i liked this story.^^ can't wait to read more chapters.^^