Chapter 7 update, past chapter editing and general update. · 9:22am May 17th, 2017
Chapter 7 is slowly rounding completion and is on schedule to be released at the usual time. Thanks to both me and my editor, Mike, both needing to take extra hours and extra days in out day jobs, things have slowed down a bit on the editing stand point. Life is cruel like that sometimes but hey, what can you do but roll with the punches and make the best of things.
This chapter has proven harder to write than the others. With several key moments needing to be placed and dealing with very little dialogue in comparison to previous chapters, it has made it difficult to hash out what I want on paper. When I write about joey and what he is thinking, I have to put my mind inside of his and daydream about being a pegasus with all the same woes that he is dealing with. Sometimes it is fun, others I need to listen to depressing piano music for a few hours by myself.
In this case however, it has left me to be alone for days at a time and reflect on my past mistakes and missed opportunities that have cost me dearly. It has also made me do a great deal of thinking about what it would be like to lose somebody close to me that I would gladly lay my own life down for. Overall it has been a roller coaster ride of emotions and clever puns that have lead to the completion of this chapter, well, than and a healthy dose of music and quiet time.
Once this chapter is published, I will be taking a few days to go back through what all I have written in order to fix many many mistakes that were made when I was still new to writing. Things like capitalization, missed punctuation, miss spelling of key areas of the FoE universe and fine details that I have noticed went missing back when Mike and I first started editing together. I am pretty heavily invested in this story and I want to see it succeed and be something everyone can enjoy.
I also got my first copy of the 3rd printing of the original FoE that started all this mess that has become my life. Unfortunately, I can not bring myself to read it, display it or even pull it out of the box for more than a few hours at a time. Not because I have started to walk my own lonely road in the universe, but because my destructive ass child will more than likely murder it with something sticky. If that were to happen, I would be trying to find a place to hide the body and nopony needs that in their life! Shit... I have been at this for so long that I used "nopony" instead of "nobody"... Screw it, i'm leaving it in.