Third divagation of AM&HD

Soooooo...
Sooooooooooo...

PLOT.

Yeah.
Last time I went for action, it was the incubus. That chapter was forced, awkward, rushed, and a lot of things besides. This was, mainly, because the a-chapter-a-day-focusing-on-a-day doesn't allow you to focus too much on anything. Its really annoying when not writing the spicy brand of Slice of Adventure I like to have in it.
But this time, I went for the opposite option: A chapter a day, each carrying a fragment of the day. Why?

PLOT.

Yup. There are many zones I hate in writing (Rhymezone is pretty high up there, by the way. Curse you Zecora) but plotzone is a case of love-hate for me. Because for plotzone, everything is suspended in the air waiting for the

PLOT

to take and move it. And most of all, because you have to keep several groups moving at once and not go mad keeping it somewhat sane.
But dude, asks the tiny voice at the back of my head, everything is plot
Nope it isn't. Slice of life, which I much preffer in this story, often fills its purpose by not having much of a plot.
Adding to that, my writing is generaly marked by three things I like:
-Very short, to-the-point scenes. Normaly my scenes will start with the conversation, rather than a few moments before.
-Slife of life seeping everywhere. I just can't stop putting those little details everywhere, mentioning offhandedly small bits of daily rutine here and there.
And my favorite,
-Worldbuilding. My pitfall is taking too many projects at once. Why? because I can't keep them small. To give future scavengers an idea, this is a series of events that happened to me not too long ago:
-Writing thing about horses and balloons
-A horse mentions months
-I remember the mention of moons
-Suddenly I made a calendar for horses based on moon phases, each with its own historical explanation, a slightly longer year (Eleven moons of forty days each), linguistic rationale behind the names, the effects it has in the planet, etcetera. This was done in around half an hour.
See what I mean? My projects tend to grow insanely fast because the worldbuilding grows insanely fast which expands the plot.
This is why I wanted to write AM&HD-- I freaking love travel stories, and when the first draft of the idea came to me (Applejack and Winona are transported to the other side of the world by magibable, dark magibable menaces Equestria, they have to go back before the bad magibable destroys the good magibablers AKA Twilight and Luna) I just couldn't resist it.
But then the

PLOT

happened and I was stuck with...
Lessee: A bad dream boy, a lot of TES and Lovecraft references, lore, PLOT, Twilight, clocks, old people, spies, kings who trick bad boys, golems, Quibra, soul zebras staying in the plot for longer than expected (Most of the things Nanda is doing? She was supposed to be a one-shot character, and Amber was supposed to do them. I honestly don't know why is that I killed Amber, as cruel as it sounds), Twilight, Reddo, and more. And most of all, PLOT.
So, to go to it: I don't like this arc, albeit for diferent reasons to the last one. AM&HD is most of all an excuse to fool around with ideas before puting them in works with more dedication put into them, and this is mainly me experimenting.
The last arc, Prasante->Surane, was annoyingly stagnant, and had my sanity metter going to negative numbers. This one is annoyingly PLOT-y, and has my sanity metter going to negative numbers too.
Its not the pressure. Writing this is relatively easy, because a lot of it (Even the pre-planned parts) is just going with the flow. Its the... grounding. This story is mainly pretty normal, with most things being natural fenomena (Except for those in PLOT-zone, those are over-the-top, and I admitedly haven't even reached the top of the over-the-top meter for this arc yet ) and trying to balance interesting and acceptably normal is something of a torture for someone who likes to write plant-golems that can pierce steel fighting against dragon soldiers.
But, well, the arc isn't that far from the ending (It should be done by the time I catch up) and I have much worldbuilding to do when it ends.
By the way, not every country will be like this. The next PLOT-zone I have in mind will be in a desert, and Applejack will have to cross an inner sea and swamps immediately after getting out of Surane so I have time to build something more enjoyable to write and read.
Right now, as I write this, I have around five unpublished chapters writen, and they should be up as soon as I've finished writing the arc, because some things are changing a lot as I write them and... yeah, I should have put a lot more planning in this chapter.