Sequel(s) to What Lies Beyond the Dance · 9:07pm Apr 25th, 2016
Hi. How are you doing? Me? I'm fine. Let's talk about sequels.
A little while ago I wrote What Lies Beyond the Dance. If you're reading this, it's probably because you liked it enough to follow it. Well, while I intended the story to be a one-shot, I liked the premise enough to write a sequel, and forgot to tell anyone about it. This is me correcting that mistake.
As Emperor pointed out, I can let people who follow a story know what's happening by tagging it in my blog post. Amazing. What newfangled technology will people come up with next? But enough of talking about my ignorance -- let's get to what you want to know.
The sequel to What Lies Beyond the Dance is Because She Can, another one-chapter story. Unlike before though, I'm not closing the books on a follow-up story after this one.
Is it next on my to-do list? No, because I don't have one. Also, I've made a semi-pledge to write a new story each time a new episode comes out so that takes up some writing energy. But it is a plot I would like to complete when I have time and the right inspiration and words to go with it.
Anyways, I'm working on another longer series that hopefully won't take six months this time. Everything is so much slower with a job. Money sucks.
But I'll let you all know when I write another sequel story, now that I know how. I'm still trying to figure out how to avoid being overly verbose when I write and maybe get a proofreader. I like being able to write and publish stories as soon as I finish them, but I realize that approach also stunts the quality of the story. Which would you prefer? Can you recommend anyone good who'd read and help edit? Leave me a comment, or ignore me and let dancing Pinkies float around my head in the solitude of my madness.
Either way, until we meet in the next story,
--Erisn
I can't wait to see the next chapter! The story was incredible, and I'm sorry you're so busy. That sucks. Oh well, I hope things get better for you, and I'll be eagerly awaiting the next chapter!
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It really is a case of having too much to do every day. Besides your average job, I also draw a picture every day for my daily blog, and juggle writing fanfiction with actual novels. It means that writing 400 words per day is sometimes really hard to do.
If I had a better job, I think it'd make things a lot easier. Money tends to make mundane problems dissapear if you have enough. Sadly, since fanfiction is my thing all of what I write doesn't feed me unless I print it out and eat it -- a huge cost in paper, ink, and medical bills.
If I wanted to earn money writing, I could write a novel -- but I tried self-publishing and failed on the self-promotion side. Also, Patreon + MLP Fanfiction doesn't' yield good results. If you check out The Abyss, one of the most followed users on the site, he/she earns a little less than $250 for having around 3,000 followers. If I wanted a bare-minimum salary based off of that, I'd need to have 12,000 followers. New goal, I guess?
On the other hand, sex sells. A certain internet game-maker working in the x-rated field raised over a hundred thousand dollars for a game on a crowdfunding website, and earns over a $100,000 per year from Patreon alone. His game is text-heavy and, well, reminds me of a lot of clopfics on this site, only written to a higher level.
Based on that, if I wanted to write for a living outside of the traditional publishing novel route, I should go ahead and start making clopfics and MLP-based clop-games. Do I want to write a story that combines porn and MLP...?
This is where my mind goes after too much thought. Thanks for the support, and I'll try to keep writing! Just let me know if you hear of any good job opportunities. Maybe I should go into Youtube...
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Yeah. I agree with all of that. Money helps with most everything and sex sells. (Fifty shades of grey much??) I think that if you want to write clop, go for it. But if you don't want to, don't let others force you into it. And I'm not sure where you live, so I wouldn't know of any good jobs. I don't know. Good luck with everything though!