October, 2017 Update

This update kind of sneaked up on me. I was just "finishing up" with college (read, deciding to procrastinate), then trying to motivate myself and decide what to start writing, when I realized, "Wait, crap, I need to do some blog posts today..."

From a writing standpoint, I didn't do anything useful all month! And I'm not okay with that. I think I worry myself too much over this, though. My intent is to start writing again this month, but as I said in the first paragraph, I'm struggling with it. What do I want to write? I can't decide...

Things are kind of calming down for me so far as life is going- hopefully, I'll be able to resume writing to past levels. I really want to. It's killing me not having the motivation to write.

A recap and summary of my writing in October...

I don't remember writing anything in October. I was kind of busy, and my motivation has died. I want to get it back. I still plan on finishing Civil War of Harmony, but with my main prereader still MIA, it's hard to get motivated for that. Even moreso when confronted with the fact that I need to reread the story to resume writing it, and I absolutely dread the idea of rereading it. Please feel free to comment bugging me about writing it- it might help motivate me to see that you really do care about this story. Comments really help me find motivation.

I don't really have an update for my Meltdown/Reaction/Critical Mass series. I'm getting further along with planning the next story in teh series, but a lot of the details are still missing. That said, I'm looking forward to writing it. On the topic of this series, I think I'm going to be putting the Author's Commentary series on hiatus for the time being. It's a big investment of time, and I can't motivate myself to reread chapter 5 in Reaction for some reason. Every time I start reading that first paragraph, I just can't keep going.

The End War... I'm disappointed in The season 7 finale for killing two fanfiction ideas I had, thus I will completely disregard the season 7 finale when it comes to writing them. I hadn't made any progress on figuring out what I needed to figure out for this story during October, however, earlier today (or maybe last night, I can't remember) I had an idea which I think would solve my current predicament. I do want to continue and finish this story, but unfortunately, I just don't have the motivation to work on it. It feels like I'd be forcing myself to write it, and I feel like that would be a mistake.

I think I did get around to writing some of a one-shot in October, the story where Rainbow is Celestia's filly, but... I don't know when or if I'll get around to finishing it. I'm struggling with it. I can picture the story, but it doesn't feel right.

I may start writing random things just for the sake of continuing writing. Free writing, I think is what I'm thinking of. I don't know if I'll publish much (or anything) of it. I do want to get back into writing- it's kind of my life, and I haven't been doing it, so... yes, I'm thoroughly disappointed.

However, I do have two ideas I'd like to work on. How many times have I said this? Unfortunately, I don't know if I'll start on them, since I recognize a possible flaw in this plan, being that if I start on more stuff, I might not finish what I've already started, and personally, I feel that an unfinished story is one of the greatest possible tragedies there can be.

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Additional comments...

I thought the MLP movie was great. I loved it. I saw it with a friend.

I made a new group, Tempestlight. I really want to write a story for this group.