OH MY GOD I DID SOMETHING! IS HELL FROZEN? · 9:57am Sep 14th, 2012
So y'know how I've been having no visible updates in the last billion years? That's no good for anyone. I need public facing work so that I can absorb nutrients from watching the view count go up and also so that I can prove I'm not dead. For months now, I've been spinning in circles, writing and throwing out thing after thing. Enough is enough. I'm going to keep working in the shadows on things that I've already said I was going to do, so don't worry there, but I'm also going to spend a little time here and there getting something done. And so I present to you (as soon as it shoves its way through the moderation queue here) a silly thing what I'm gonna do.
I will NOT throw out any of it or do any editing beyond grammatical/continuity stuff, so it won't take a trillion years. I'm gonna write some crap and throw it at the public. It'll be a good exercise in remembering what it feels like to write without the crippling doubts about quality. I'm not SETTING a quality bar for this one. It is what it is, because as much as you all deserve something good, you deserve SOMETHING while you wait for something good.
Also? I'm a sucker for time travel and it's been too long since I've written any (and none of the things in my project queue have a place for it). So I pulled out this old idea I had forever ago that I never really got working on. And here it goes. It'll be ongoing for a little while, definitely ending before Christmas, probably earlier than that. Other things will be posted if and when they manage to reach their respective quality bars.
So yeah. Keep your eyes open for the next... few hours? I dunno how long the posting process here takes anymore. I'm gonna give you the first few scraps of a thing, and then I'll update the thing at a semi-reasonable pace because I won't give myself ulcers worrying if it's good enough or not. It's not here to be my magnum opus. It's here to revel in the joy of writing instead of stagnating in the pits of editing that have become my home.
ALSO also, psst... check this thing out. "Secret project" may have been the wrong term for it. We're stumbling around and giving everything away.
IS hell frozen?
*pokes goatse*
Nope, still warm and moist.
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Oh.
Oh sweet Celestia.
You're writing another time travel story?
...my body isn't ready.