Where I've Been · 4:54am Jul 22nd, 2018
Hello everyone! Geez, it has certainly been a long while, hasn't it? I guess I should start by apologizing for how long I have taken with the next chapter and for still not posting anything, no updates, no nothing. I'm sorry, I know there are people who have been waiting a long while for it, and I really should have posted something sooner than this.
As for where I've been, well...I'll break it down. I'm a college student so it's no surprise to anyone that school does take up a lot of my time, but I'm very close to graduating! I just need to pass this one math class and I can get my degree, I'm not aiming for anything too high, I just want to get my associates degree and be done with college. When I started writing here I did it because I had hit an artist block and I felt that I had lost my only way of being creative, which is what I love being and when I started writing, granted it came out very awful when I wrote the very first version of chapter one, I found it exciting and fun! With art I felt I could give life to the ideas in my mind, draw the people I wanted and be happy with it. But with writing, my mind became open with more and more ideas, it was amazing for me, and when I took a writing class I decided to pick an old idea I had come up with during my time in high school as my material for projects. The criticism I received from fellow students helped me to fine tune it, so when I took another fiction writing class, they loved it, the characters, the world, the story, and I knew I had something. So this brings me to another reason why I've been gone for so long. I have been working on this other story during my spare time, and I want to make something out of it someday, like a visual novel, or a series of books, maybe even make a pilot and try to make it into a cartoon someday. I know it may seem a bit far-fetched, but we didn't get the amazing books and series we have today because their creators didn't give up on their ideas when they first had them, so neither will I.
Next on this big list of distractions I've had is my work. I work as a host at a family restaurant, always during weekend mornings and at least one day during the week, yes it may not seem as much work but remember I do go to school so juggling those two together is a pain for me. And I always register for full time at school, so I go to school about four days of the week, Mon-Thu, and work three days, so I'm very busy during the week. And I always want to make room for my friends as they're very important people in my life so that's more time taken up.
Now here's where things get a little more complicated because of myself, I decided to start a web series with a group of friends, an abridged series, we haven't made the first episode yet, I'm still having them record their lines, then I have to do that whole editing process and that's gonna take a whole long while. I did have a gaming channel with another friend, but his work has put a bit of a big ol fork in our way and we can't sync up our schedules to continue doing that, it's unfortunate, but I understand that he's busy.
The final reason, that I can think of, that I'm so busy is because I recently started creating digital art! It's fun, but it's also difficult to learn as it really goes against what I've learned as an artist. Especially with my art pad as it's just a pad without a screen, so before I was always taught as an artist to always keep my eyes on the pencil and paper to watch what I'm doing, but now my pencil is on a plastic pad while the actual drawing is being shown on a screen, dividing my attention. So now I'm trying to watch the screen where I'm trying to draw, without looking at what my hand is doing because if I do then I won't see what I'm actually drawing on the screen, very confusing and conflicting for me. But yeah, I've been making digital drawings, posting them on tumblr and instagram, though I've only made Steven Universe art so far as I'm really into that show.
So yeah, I have kept myself very busy. There's just so many things in my way and so many things I want to do that it's hard finding the time to juggle everything. I know people have been waiting a long time for an update, you guys deserve the next chapter and I should be done with it by now. I've been trying to set a bit of a schedule, or rather I'm trying to take turns with the smaller things that are in my control. What I mean is that I want to try to order it as: Make a digital drawing, Work on next chapter of story, Write next chapter of SEoH, Work on animations, Take time for myself. That is the plan, because the work on the abridged series is out of my hand if I don't have the recordings needed to work on it. I'm trying to make this work guys, I really am. I now it's a lot to ask for just a bit more patience, but I'm trying to find a balance to everything, especially now in my life. I just need a bit more time, please try to understand.
As usual if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me anything. I will do my best to answer any question to the best of my abilities with the upmost honesty. Thank you if you've taken the time to read all of this, I appreciate it a lot. I hope this answered the question as to where I've been all this time.
like i said on the story i understand life is a thing and that it can take up time, but i also believe that one should stick to there commitments so i'm here to tell you that i believe in you. i know that life will be busy but us here on Fimfiction know that creativity is something that shouldn't be stopped. so do what you need to then work on what you need to. Here hoping to hear from you again with a smile because of how many people support you. this is falconstrings and i hope to read your story again soon.
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Thank you, I very much appreciate your understanding, your support, and your kind words. I hope to get this drawing done very soon, it's nearly done. Then I can put my effort into writing and get to work on both stories.
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, at first I didn't know if I would like it 'cause the protagonist got turned into a pony but it's really really good you can't just leave it like this 
, especially because Luna need some kind of comeuppance for trying to arrest Alex that and the last chapter was a Part 1 which just makes the whole thing worse, PLEASE COME BACK!!!
Dude please I'm begging you, you have to come back and finish this story at the very least
Oops guess I need to take back what I said about Luna but still please come back to finish this story
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Okay. I will get the next chapter out as soon as I can.
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You're Awesome!!, I can't wait to read it!!