I've decided to write another story, after all

It has now been a month since I finished the third LEGO Equestria Girls story. Now that I've had some time to think about it (and watch Legend of Everfree a few times), I've decided that I will proceed with writing a fourth story after all. As with previous years, I will not start writing until the beginning of January, so for now, it's just in the planning stage.

Of course, there's no denying how much reluctance I had earlier this year in regards to writing another story, and I had quite a few reasons for it. As I've already said before, I'm a rather slow writer, and with each new story apparently getting longer than the last, I've been fearing that I might soon reach a point where I just can't keep up anymore. In addition, I've noticed a rather significant drop-off in likes with each successive story (the first has over 200, the second has less than 50, and the third has barely more than half of that), which, I'll be honest, is a little discouraging. However, seeing some people are still commenting on every single chapter does give me hope that my series of stories is still highly appreciated by others. If you're someone who has read my fanfiction series and really liked these stories, then I would highly appreciate it if you could share it with others so they can see what a great and unique series of fanfition this really is.

If I'm going to go through with actually writing a fourth story next year, I'm going to need to make a few adjustments. Now that I've seen Legend of Everfree and thus already developed ideas for how the next LEGO Equestria Girls story will go, I've decided that I will essentially be going back to basics. In other words, I want something structured a little more like the first story than the third in terms of setting, so there will be less seeing new regions and more revisiting familiar ones. And as much as I like to provide as much detail and great moments as I can throughout the story (especially during the epic battle near the end), I'll need to try to tone down my ambitions in hopes that I can shorten the story (I'll be pleasantly surprised if I can get it done in under 100,000 words) and thus reduce the amount of time I'll need to dedicate to writing the whole thing. Of course, that's not going to stop me from doing the best I can to write another good story for my series.

As for any additional side stories, I'm in a rather interesting position on that. There were no shorts preceding Legend of Everfree, but we did get a blooper reel for Friendship Games. As I've already stated before, Lego is famous for its quirky humor, and if I were to write a series of "bloopers" from each of the LEGO Equestria Girls stories, it would actually be surprisingly appropriate for such a world. I've heard that there's going to be a blooper reel for Legend of Everfree as well, so I'll wait for confirmation on that before I decide whether or not to pursue this idea. I suppose you'll just have to keep an eye out for the next few months.

I've had a number of other fanfition ideas over time, and for the last few months, I've actually made some efforts on writing one of them. It is completely separate from my LEGO Equestria Girls series, and focuses on the events of the video game Lego Dimensions. The basic idea is this: What if My Little Pony had been included among the many other franchises in that game? What if one of the main six ponies got to join Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle on their multidimensional quest to defeat Lord Vortech? What's especially unique with what I've been doing with this idea is that I've been writing only a basic scripted summary of the events and dialogue of each chapter, with the hope that I could ask someone else to fully write it all out into an actual story that can be posted on this site. This method is meant to save me a lot of time that I can set aside for other things while also proving readers here with what could possibly be a very interesting story, with the added benefit of allowing the co-author some creative freedom. Lately, however, I've been having some difficulty finding a co-author to handle the other half of the work. If you're willing to write a very long story (very likely exceeding 100,000 words) that involves exchanging Word Documents through email, then please let me know if you're interested in helping me write this story. (I would even be okay with having more than one person try to turn my summaries into a story, because with how vaguely I've written parts of them to permit creative freedom, there will almost certainly be a number of differences between each person's effort.)

I think that'll cover all the important things I've got for now. I hope to see that people will still be interested in the next LEGO Equestria Girls story, and we'll see if anyone is willing and able to help me out with my Lego Dimensions crossover idea.

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[markzilla6895]

I wanna help with the Dimensions crossover!