Trapdoor Days and other Flights of Fancy · 7:16pm Apr 27th, 2018
It’s been nearly a month since I started writing MLP fanfiction again (“again” meaning I’ve written several stories half a decade ago and was too nervous to post them online; I’m content to write, but to have people actually read and judge my work is something my thin skin hasn’t developed immunities against), and I think I’ve made up a decent enough backlog that I think I’m ready to start posting them here. As I said before, I feel like I’m wading in murky crocodile-infested waters, just waiting to be torn apart.
The first four chapters of “Making Wishes…” are finished and will be posted. Not in succession, preferably with one or two one-off stories following each one. I have an idea for another series that I’d like to work on involving Rarity, likely a much shorter one than “Making Wishes…”, but we’ll see. I have a nasty literary habit of taking a single sentence and turning it into several pages.
It was my initial intention to do my own cover art for these stories, but I’m not the artist I used to be. I’ve given up drawing for writing a long time ago, and that’s pretty plain to see in the number of paintings I’ve done. I don’t know if I really want to use them for the covers, because that would mean having to scan them, and that would mean having to remove all the books on top of the printer, and that’s just too much work…
I’m starting to get worried that working on pony fiction is doing exactly what I hoped it wouldn’t do, chiefly devouring up the small bit of leisure time I should reserve for working on my novel. I have a list of short stories I want to write going into triple-digits, and a number of novel concepts in the mid-twenties. Pony fiction is wonderful to write, and even better to read (especially if it’s written by someone who isn’t me!), but I’m a perfect-sentence writer. The discrepancy of one lousy word is enough to be the monkey wrench that ruins the whole factory.
I’m going on a trip in early May with my folks. I haven’t been on a plane in over ten years. And I watch the news (the most addicting and debilitating drug in human history). I get scared just walking out the door to go to work! Complex aircraft are not infallible machines.
On a side-note, a side-reminder, I haven’t read any of the comics, I haven’t been watching season 8, and I’ve only seen snippets of season 7. If my stories contradict some vital information provided by these, then I apologize, although, at the very least, I pay attention to EQD episode follow-ups.
Now I can allow myself some free time to squirm over how these stories are going to be received, if at all. Woo-hoo.