Story plans for 2018 and the foreseeable future

First of all, I might get a job at some point so I don't know how I'll do this exactly if that happens. Probably the timescale of releases will be more spread out or whatever. I'm slowly working on that- wish it would be a faster process but doing assessments of what I could do for a job and all takes time.

Now I really want to focus on three stories- Wearing the Inside Out's the main one since that is really fun to write and I feel- not entirely, but mostly- happy with it. I've also blogged the crud out of this so you don't need to know how fun it is to write. It's fun. It's rewarding. It's also a bit of a long process. But longer stories, I guess, are now turning into my forte. Or my curse. I don't know which. But this is okay and at least it taught me that I don't have to write a chapter in one entire sitting to feel happy with it and feel like my fans like it.

Next is the little crossover with Star vs. The Forces of Evil. I don't want to redo that story even though points should have been written better. I'm okay with it since I did write it in a two week period and now it's been about 2 and a half years since the last update to that. Slowly working on that. It's thankfully going quicker than I expected and sure I haven't written much and I probably won't this week but that's because I'm going to be really busy with life stuff. But it's at least in that "zombie state" where there's not an update yet but I'm dredging up a previously cancelled story because I felt like that would be fun and continue another line of stories. There was personal reasons I stopped writing almost every one of my stories. I've gotten past that- it's taken nearly a year but I think I can bring back some zombies. Some other cancelled or hiatus stories are going to stay dead for a while. I like focusing on only a few stories now. Easier to manage and provide a semi reliable schedule of release (minus of course illnesses or family vacations and the like) that people can be down with. I want to bring other stories back but this is good for the moment. Bring back one or two and one new one sounds fine to me.

Finally I actually want to completely revamp my Mysterious Ways story. Or as I keep thinking of it in my head the "vampire Fluttershy but also literally Monster High with humanized ponies story" I won't actually change the locations of stuff or the tone. Or the characters. The characters will stay the same and keep logical sense. I probably would keep it teen but I don't know yet. At least the setting is cool and the story in my head makes sense. I just need maybe a lot more words to flesh it out cause rereading it goes quickly and it just jumps about like crazy. That's what I mean when I say it needs a rewrite in my personal opinion. That one just I don't know needs work. And unlike the Star vs. crossover, I definitely wrote that over about a year and a half and it's honestly a bit of a mess to me now. Not entirely, since I like the framework as I've said before but I honestly have to say that having a good idea and one executed properly are completely different things. I love the ideas that I had in that story but it just goes by too quick and comparing a lot of my even year old "big stories" now feel lacking. And that one somehow got a lot of traction.

I don't know why besides the idea was cool? That is why I always wavered about rewriting it because people liked it but I felt like I didn't understand why others were. I kept thinking I could do better. And honestly, I probably can. So I'll focus on this one the least since I might actually release the whole story up til now expanded and better off in one chunk or maybe release the old chapters weekly because then it's not complete spam.

I am unsure about that because certain parts of the story are just crammed into chapters and not given time to breathe. So maybe it's going to take a long while before I release it since looking at the story I'm doing now is commonly 6000 plus word chapters each time and if I add new stuff, that also brings in new plot threads and things of that sort, but I want to fix that story. Idea was really fun to write and all, just man did I keep throwing stuff and just introducing characters and zooming through arcs and all. I mean it was going to be a whole multiple story idea but man did I keep doing weird stuff that never paid off. And I really want to finish this story so I can get on the like ten or so side stories and things that are in unhappy limbo. Or maybe I could fold all the stories into one story and make it be like my current story where I'm juggling smaller plot threads and let things happen in the background.

I don't know but I want that one to come back strong and for me to feel good about it. I mean when I look at it now I notice the authorial mess I was then. So personally I want to just not move on, per se, but rebuild.