Chapter 16 done · 4:54am Oct 9th, 2018
16,700 words. Really close to 17,000. I'm planning on not doing that again for a really long time. Cause it got a little difficult to both edit that mass of words and keep every scene straight in my head. I don't know what I was on during most of this but this is probably the most times I used the word blood or described horrible deaths in a chapter and I don't think I'm going to be doing that for a while. Sure I can do it, but it took me to be not in a fantastic place to describe the stuff I had in my head. But here's the warning for gore cause while I won't put the tag in my story due to it really only being semi prevalent in this arc- especially in this chapter, it isn't like I'm writing a gore heavy story. But yeah gore is here. Kind of happens when the last hundred thousand-ish words have set up a small war in a tiny town. It's kind of a bloody mess. So be warned.
Would have come out sooner if I hadn't been working most of the last month and a half but think of it as like a chapter and a half in total to make up for that circumstance.
But I guess it'll be back to your generally slightly comedic drama. At least I don't see horrible amounts of gore in the future. But hey now there's going to be a plot thread of militarization now due to the end here so that's 'fun.'
After this dark and ridiculously long arc, I feel like Ponyville will be sort of a breath of fresh air, even if I might have some dark stuff there it doesn't matter cause I ended this really dark. So medium roasted depression and comedy is better than black depression and little to no comedy.
considering what you're doing, I would say this is quite a giant release. I'll be sure to leat you know what I think of the chapter once Ive read the monster
Makes the nearly 3k words I have for the next one-shot I'm lining up seem tiny...
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3000 words is still a great accomplishment. I just have spent most of my weekends off just writing for the last month to catch up. Been doing that so often now for the last sixteen months that it feels weird when I dont write at all.
So when I wasn’t able to write during the week I spent most of my time thinking of the next few thousand words. Really by this point this story is almost writing itself.
Can’t wait to see what you’ve written when it drops.