I Hate Everything · 6:34pm Mar 1st, 2018
It's already March, and I haven't posted anything since December. That resolution is off to a great start... Basically, since the new year began, I've been dealing with a lot of stress, some of it unnecessary (But I must enjoy suffering, because I do it to myself anyway). In addition, I've had a perpetual cough, since January 1, that I can't get rid of and have finally decided to go see someone about it.
But the worst thing is that I just don't seem to want to do anything. I wake up, tired as shit, go to work, get stressed out there (though not every day), come home and sit at my desktop playing games and watching videos that no longer do anything for me (I haven't even seen S7 finale despite wanting to, and I don't know why). I do it out of habit now, more than anything. If I didn't stick to the habit, I don't know what I'd do, but it probably wouldn't be writing. I don't see anything good coming out of this mindset. I don't know what to do. Sometimes I wonder what I'm even doing, and think it'd be okay if I didn't wake up one morning. I'm NOT suicidal, I just... lost all interest in everything I guess?
Also doesn't help that, for reasons I don't know and can't explain, Icannot write using a desktop. I spend a good amount of my evenings at my desktop, but even when I decide to do some writing, I just can't do it there. If I had to guess, I'd say 98% of PoW has been written on my laptop.
Right now, I'm mostly just thinking about where I want to take the story, and if that direction is the one I already had in mind. I did get a good chunk of writing done in January, so I haven't been completely neglecting the story. Maybe I'll hit my head at work and it'll snap me out of this malaise.
It’s okay, take your time. I’m sure you will get back to it eventually. Try listen to music, it’s very relaxing, helps me to focus on my stories.
Well I don't have much in the way to talk when it comes to writing speed, but your story isn't leaving my tracker anytime soon so I'll be right here once you get back into a swing.
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Got any suggestions? I'm always in the market for new music.
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Well, no, depends what your taste is. When I write a story, I listen to music that suits to it. For example, I have a story set in the vietnam war, so I listened to music from the 1960s and 1970s. I would suggest you should listen to music that you like and that suizts to your story and/or current chapter you work on. Hope that helps.
Oh I understand that completely dude. I do it everyday myself.
Can't say I know really how to get out of that funk except to go out and have FUN! Go see a movie, go to entertainment centers like atomic trampoline, bowling, mini golf, arcade, THE BEACH!!! Lol
Or if you want something more tranquil go hiking, heck take a trip and see monuments, both natural and man mad. The whole point of this is to break your current routine, reaenergyzing and waking your brain from hibernation and such. Xd
Basically, just do something new! Xd take friends if you want, the more the merrier. Xp
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Yeah, that does make sense. I usually just set my music to random and just let it play. I have figured out that I tend to prefer instrumental music when writing.
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Maybe it's time I took a trip to the gun range. I do love the smell of gunpowder. Also kinda wish it wasn't winter, I could go for nine holes of golf, too.
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Okay, i hope it makes you Feel better
I recognize the feeling of being a zombie after a day of work related stress. It's a bad cycle that you need to break by increasing your stamina with running and a better diet. Going about your day like you're a machine running on fumes can be problematic in the long term.
As for the story direction, there are ways I'd personally prefer and some not. You could go the bog-standard route where the ponies and humans join up arms against a common foe (changelings) and have the ponies faun and marvel at humans in general. I'd not recommend this path. It's been done a million times and if you've read one you've read them all. The reason why your story is one of the few human/pony war stories I find tolerable is because it's not a 'human's are superior' supremacy fic.
I'd prefer the idea that there was an armistice between humans and ponies, but no real joining or disarmament. The humans simply agree on a ceasefire, but will stay put until they receive new orders. Duran, on the other hand, returns to Canterlot as an informal diplomat. Basically, where he already was but with a room instead of a cell. The captured changeling can be the new 'prisoner of war' that creates intrigue and moves the plot further. The reason I'd prefer this is mostly because I liked the slice-of-life interactions between the two sides, with the military conflict mostly looming in the background for added tension.
If you find a third path that might be interesting as well.
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Lol
That's the spirit!
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Thanks for the support, you two, it does help.
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Your thoughts on what I've written are great. I always enjoy reading stuff like that, so thanks.
As for the superior part, I never intended for any side to just be superior. I like the idea that they would both have strengths and weaknesses that would sort of balance them, but not completely, especially in the current standing, so that's why I wrote it that way (Even if some people disagree with you and don't like it that way).
As for what I'm thinking for the immediate future, well... That'd defeat the point of writing the next chapter, and so on.
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Your Welcome!