Monthly Progress Update [Aug 2018] · 5:59pm Aug 10th, 2018
Update time!
It's another late one once more, mostly because I've had a bunch of nights where I went without sleeping thanks to an infection growing in my wisdom tooth which I believed got chipped off while I was having a biscuit binge. I'm heading to the dentist on Sunday to have it extracted, though she did mention that depending on certain circumstances, it may end up being a surgery instead. I'm crossing my fingers.
Dental problems aside, not doing much with my life now except indulging in my newfound love for mobile gachas and catching up with the slew of seasonal anime, the last season of which I've yet to cover properly. I have made a few plans, though it really all hinges upon whether I'm chosen to perform in this upcoming musical audition, the results of which I'm still anxiously waiting on. As they're looking for more than 20+ people, it's no surprise that they're taking this long to go through the list, but hopefully, I'll find myself in at least a supporting role.
Alright, real life stuff over! Now, onto the good stuff:
Panthalassa
This story's coming along fine. Swimmingly, if I must say.
Bad pun aside, I'm currently in the phase of embellishing the scenes and prose a bit, since it all seems a bit cut and dry at the moment, especially in the interactions with the characters. Still stuck on the introduction of our temporary resident captain of the royal guard, but once I'm done with that and the little discussion that follows with the team, I'll hit 'publish' and it's on to the next one.
I've got enough for a sneak preview though, so here's the opening paragraphs of the upcoming chapter:
Cape Silverwatch was a three-day trip away from Canterlot, situated on Voskós Crook, a large, rocky Manehatten-sized island off a section of the western Equestrian coastline close to the borders of the southern deserts, connected to the mainland only by an isthmus. The island was mostly forested with a pair of tall mountains in the center, the town itself taking up most of its eastern coastline. Formerly used as a fortress for detaining prisoners in times of bitter conflict, which was destroyed in a fiery explosion as a result of some gunpowder barrels being struck by lightning, it was rebuilt as a small merchant village and trading port, drawing in settlers from all over and quickly became one of the most recognized tourist destinations in all of Equestria.
A total of seventeen carriages — nine for us professors and assistants, four for the guard, and four for transporting our combined equipment and supplies — were chartered for our expedition, traveling through Ponyville and stopping for a night at Appleloosa, before making a leisurely trip towards Seaward Shoals. As the path from then onward was precarious and too narrow for our carriages to pass through, we had to finish the remainder of the trip on our four hooves, hauling what equipment we could carry for the time being. The rest of our equipment will be brought over in the next few days, as I've mentioned earlier, with a select number of guards assigned to stay behind at Seaward Shoals to keep watch until they've all been fully transported.
We arrived at our destination on summer's eve, sighing in sheer relief as the blue-domed roofs emerged from between the last of the rocky hills. The final downward bends of the dirt path before us faded into a road of rigid cobblestone, bridging the rest of the world with this quaint sanctuary. Marking the town entrance on the other end of it was an alabaster archway, adorned with carved bells of bronze that sway heftily in the stray coastal winds with the glummest of tolls. It was perhaps not the grandest welcome for us into the pearlescent embrace of Cape Silverwatch, yet it was breathtaking all the same, for there were many beautiful things that mere pictures could never hope to capture: the distant waltz of the waves, the fuzzy and frivolous scent of the ocean, the calm and soothing ambiance flowing between the whitewashed walls, the gentle caress of each individual stone beneath our hooves as we made our way into the town. One would proclaim that Cape Silverwatch was a paradise that prospered down to its smallest detail, to which I say it's a proclamation well-founded.
Considering the pace I'm currently working on, it will probably come out towards the end of the coming week.
Worlds
Remember this story?
Yep, just wanna mention that I've finally republished the first chapter — second, if you count the prologue — of Worlds, a story inspired by the music of Porter Robinson, excluding the works he made under his Virtual Self persona. It's a story that I've been working in the background for the longest time, mostly on the worldbuilding end of things. It's a story that probably not many of you would've read, though if you did, thanks a bunch!
I've also been quietly working on the second chapter for a long time now. Almost reaching the end of it, so I'm hoping I can get that out soon too. It'll be long, but I do expect it to come out before the year ends, that's a given.
So that's it from my story updates so far. I also have something that's coming down the pipe that I'll be focusing on for a while before getting back into Panthalassa. It'll be a secret as to what it is, but I think it'll be a great one. Expect that to come out in the coming week!
WritingSpirit, signing out!
Albums I'm Listening To This Month [August 2018]
