Couldn't let this pass! · 1:52pm Apr 12th, 2018
So, if you've been checking out the feature box today, you may have noticed this little gem:
The City that Breathes
Buried beneath the Dragon Lands, there is a city. It rots, and it bleeds.
And it breathes.
Despite his protestations, I've actually been aware of Pearple Prose for quite some time -- he's a popular author and his friend Venn diagram overlaps with mine in places. And today I woke up with a note from him in my mail and this frightening, disturbing, beautiful story in the feature box.
Lost Cities has somehow become one of my most influential stories, though it defies the traditional story rulebook in just about every possible way. I wrote it in pieces as an experiment, and I was happy with how it turned out. But the modular, dissociated structure of the story did something I never expected -- it invited other authors to try writing their own versions. Nothing I've written before or since has been so successful as a collaborative effort.
If you get a chance, please give The City that Breathes a look. It's short and haunting and it may just send you in search of a lost city of your own.
On a related note, all this attention to Lost Cities brought something else to my attention: it's sitting at 986 upvotes and 9.2k views. That's pretty close to 1000 and 10k, respectively!
Just, you know, sayin'.
In more boring writing news, the next chapter of The World is Filled with Monsters is just about ready, though it's going on much longer than I expected. For some reason I get ideas in my head for a chapter that'll be nice and quick and bite-sized adventures, and by the time I'm done they're like five chapters long. My attempt at a "monster of the week" style story is turning into more of a "monster arc of the season."
Well, anyway. The next chapter will be out soon!
Horse words tend to do that to a person.
Pear is a wordsmith of considerable skill. We'll see him on a book cover one day soon, you mark my words.
Pear is a classy lady.
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Lost Cities is by far one of my favorite stories of yours. The worldbuilding and descriptions are on a level of their own.
Have you ever thought of doing or commissioning a map of your version of Equestria/outside Equestria or does one already exist?