Yep, April Fools' · 8:14am Apr 2nd, 2017
So yeah, the first letter of the middle 2 paragraphs of last post say "APRIL FOOLS"...
It's pointless if it's too obvious, I wanted to mess with people a little - but just a little, so I wanted it to be obvious, say, after a few seconds. Hope that worked out well enough :q
In actuality, I am doing good things with the re-write.
For one, I really dislike the "Twi spell gone awry" premise, it's a bit over-used, and while "crap happens for no real reason" is a bit of an interesting message on its own, it's not nearly as interesting as a much better, newer inciting event to cause all of this to happen. I think the parallels are somewhat obvious, but I still won't spell them out, and the reason it happens matches a strong, overarching theme I want to convey way better.
Paying attention to themes and motifs, that's something I'm really excited about in the rewrite. Again, I feel like I'd break the spell if I spelled it out as the author, so I'll leave those to be picked up by the reader.
But what's staying the same? Well, Rarity jumps in first, and the same 3 follow, and more or less the structure from there is basically the same. So it's not by any means a major overhaul, but in terms of quality, I think it might as well be.
Ugh. To think I wrote those first chapters. I mean, they're not awful - especially not the prologue (which came way, way later, and I'll probably keep, though maybe tweak some?) - but it's very clear it's one of my earliest works.
Earliest works? You mean as opposed to now that you've written dozens? You're sooooo experienced now.
Shutup, little me.
Anyways, I'm very hopeful that things will turn around soon. Truth be told, there's no reason I can't be writing for more than an hour a day, and so far I've barely been touching this. I don't want to promise anything, since it seems every time I do I fail to meet that, but I'm not giving up, I do want to tell this story that I absolutely feel must be told, and now as we enter the last month of schooling this semester, I have hope that things will start looking up.
Who knows. I've had a major surgery almost 2 years ago now, and every attempt to get back into school since that surgery has been... Far less than satisfactory. I still have one doctor in particular who's particularly adamant I should take an entire year off instead of little semesters here and there. I'm so exhausted this semester, I'm seriously considering taking Fall off unless something major changes. Who knows? Doctors are still tinkering with my meds, maybe some miracle will happen and I'll be able to write at the same time I take 14 hours like the good'ol days.
I do confess to another thing, though. As I put in older journals, I don't want to dissapoint everyone again with a little jot of progress and another long haitus, so I think I'll have a lot written before I start publishing again.
And a big thing - how should I do this? I want to archive away the old version, and I want there to be notifications of releasing new re-written chapters, but I really want some way to be able to distinguish the old version from the new one... I know it as "A World Apart", it's hard to imagine a name change. But maybe I can get something satisfactory...
excited to see this happening again glad you're not dead
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And I'm glad my followers aren't all dead
Interesting how these posts seem to not get any comments until they reach 30 or so views...