2 Years of WEcon · 4:22pm Feb 14th, 2016
God damn has it really been that long? Well, a couple things out of the way before I get all misty-eyed. Chapter 13 is still in editing, as you might have guessed. The pacing was just far too rapid-fire, and so I'm rewriting whole chunks in a fairly major set of revisions. But some good news is I'm going to start posting weekly to this blog, trying to keep y'all up to date on stuff happening behind the scenes, if you will.
And on that note - WEcon's 2nd birthday, huzzah! The birthday of WEcon going live on FiMFiction is kind of an odd date for me, if I'm being honest, mostly because it almost marks the end of a chapter in my history of writing the story, rather than a beginning. Alloy was a character originally drawn up for a PnP campaign back in the mid- to late- summer of 2013, with a similar backstory to the one she has now but not set in the bayou. She came alive in my mind almost, sticking in my head so vividly that I felt like I needed to write her story down. I had plenty of worries, but in end, I just really wanted to write. It was something I hadn't really done in years, not since I was a college freshman or sophomore, and even then all I ever wrote was a single scene out of a magic/sci-fi story, and the backstory for an alt-history Earth.
I actually wrote the first scene of Wasteland Economics (originally titled Forged in Fire, which my editor Pipistrelle firmly rejected) late November of 2013, on the plane to visit my grandparents for Thanksgiving. I won't tell you when that scene is coming, but I will tell you once the chapter with that scene in it goes live. So after three months of planning out the story, writing more scenes that would come later in the timeline, and finally sitting down to write a few drafts, I finally uploaded Wasteland Economics to FiMFiction. I was nervous, and forced myself to walk away from the computer for the day to try and keep it out of my mind, but I never expected so many people to come out of the woodwork to read my story in so little time. I guess to wrap up my ramblings here, I just want to say thank you for reading. Two years later, I still love to write this story (even if I do get distracted by video games a biiiiiiit too easily), and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get this far.
So thank you, all of you, for being on this ride with me so far, and I sincerely hope to be here next year.
Happy Valentine's Day, Tofu <3
I always like hearing the behind scenes and rough drafts of stories, characters backstory and names changing, entire plotlines change and scarp. That stuff interest me more to hear then the normal story.
Wow. Looks like I have some catching up to do. Apparently I only finished up to Chapter 6. So was the objection of your editor over the title or that scene in particular?
P.S.
It's a little scary to realize that the original FoE story has been around for a substantial part of the fandom's formation.