2017 May Update: The Story Grows · 12:41pm May 19th, 2017
It's still May, right? Right. Good. I'm safe.
"Work on the story progresses". That's the canned phrase, and it holds true. If anyone thinks I'm sitting on my hooves doing nothing, well, I'm not. I don't want to go into details on exactly how much time and effort I'm sinking into this story, but the long and short of it is "a lot".
Presently, the story sits at somewhere between 3/5ths and 4/5ths done, tending closer to the latter by my estimations. Writing is on hold, however, because I've paused to perform the first—and hopefully the biggest single editing pass this story will need. Imagine dragging a huge comb through the entire story. I'm bringing early elements in line, settling things written while later details were still in flux.
It's not very different from rewriting it. Adding segments, or strings of segments, deleting others.
It'll need lots more editing later, make no mistake, but this is the pass that's taken me close to a month so far, and I'm barely coming up on the half-way mark.
Tl;dr? Good money's on this summer, but it sure as hay won't be very soon.
Remind me, have I told y'all what the story is even about? Did I mention the ship and the cast involved, or did I just say "it's probably adventure shipping"? I've lost track of what I've said and what I haven't.
Okay. What else? Not much. For those of y'all who like art, I still upload the stuff I draw over on dA. Drawing helps keep me sane, I think, and most of the stuff has no real value beyond that, but hey. Maybe you find something you like.
Cool! Excited to see all your hard work come out.
I think you mentioned the ship in a previous blog post, and that it would have a heavy adventure focus, but nothing else.
You have said that the ship will be FlutterDash, but I don't remember you going into any more detail than that.
Huzzah! Glad to hear that work on it is going so well and that you still love us! I appreciate all the effort you go through to give us the best damn pony fics you can (and they are, indeed, the best). I, for one, can wait for as long as it takes.
Wooo! Cloudy time approaches! Beware!
4538563 Thanks, and hey, I'm excited too! It's very exhausting to have been excited for half a year already, and know that there's a lot of work yet to be done, but eh!
4538611 4538621 Yeah, that sounds about right, thanks! I'll probably share a little bit more in a blogpost soon, I guess. Let's be real here: This story is going to be extremely specific and appeal to a very small subset of readers, I suspect, so I may as well dash some hopes, right?
(Okay, I exaggerate, and I hope any adventure fan can enjoy it).
4538723 Aw, those are some extremely kind words, and I hope it's actually worth the wait, and that it doesn't disappoint. Statistically, there's gonna be a non-zero amount of people who're looking forward to it even now, and who will also hate it, right? But hey, I'm gonna focus on the part there, also statistically, more than zero people will like it, so that means it'll have been worth it!
4538812 In the same manner a train "approaches the station" long before you can hear or even see it with binoculars!
4539176 Hey, statistics mean nothing to the individual. You have a lot of people being happily excited. And you will make even more people happy who are new to the fandom!
I remember you saying you were working on an adventure story and you might have said the ship, but to be honest, it's been long enough that I forgot.
4541207 With the speed at which I attend comments, thoughts, messages and such, I wouldn't begrudge people who forgot I existed. Spending all my time writing probably isn't ideal, but hey.