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Fervidor


The Tomorrow King.

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  • 280 weeks
    Mistakes were made.

    Familiarity chapter 11 keeps causing problems. I sat down the day before yesterday with the goal of pushing it a bit further to completion, and when I looked everything over I realized I'd made a terrible mistake in the planning.

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  • 281 weeks
    Belated Familiarity Update.

    So, Familiary has been on hiatus for way longer than I hoped it would. Unfortunately, this is not very surprising considering my non-existent work ethic, incredibly fickle muse, short attention span and tendency towards procrastination. Don't get me wrong, when I do write I tend to write quite a lot. I just wish I was capable of being in that mindset for more than just, like, two months a year.

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    9 comments · 410 views
  • 315 weeks
    Familiarity status update.

    Well, I finished publishing act 1 of Familiarity, but I'm now out of chapters so continuing the previous update schedule is currently impossible. As such I've put the story on hiatus for now. I still don't know how much of act 2 I will bother to write before I continue. Ideally I would like to complete a decent number of chapters and continue like I have so far, but if the writing progress takes

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    8 comments · 461 views
  • 316 weeks
    Familiarity, chapter 10.

    In which Fang faces a terrible monster, a broken bond is mended, Rainbow does something stupid, and a rumor begins to make the rounds in Ponyville.

    TFamiliarity
    Scootaloo's life changes forever when she meets Fang, a strange magician who is not what she seems. As the two grow closer, secrets are revealed. What does it mean to be a familiar?
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  • 317 weeks
    Familiarity, chapter 9.

    In which a terrible battle is fought, Scootaloo finds out what Fang really is, and things take an unexpected turn.

    TFamiliarity
    Scootaloo's life changes forever when she meets Fang, a strange magician who is not what she seems. As the two grow closer, secrets are revealed. What does it mean to be a familiar?
    Fervidor · 69k words  ·  153  8 · 2.6k views
    0 comments · 323 views
Nov
2nd
2018

Belated Familiarity Update. · 11:32am Nov 2nd, 2018

So, Familiary has been on hiatus for way longer than I hoped it would. Unfortunately, this is not very surprising considering my non-existent work ethic, incredibly fickle muse, short attention span and tendency towards procrastination. Don't get me wrong, when I do write I tend to write quite a lot. I just wish I was capable of being in that mindset for more than just, like, two months a year.

Anyway, the good news is that I'm back to writing on it now, and I've made progress on chapter 11. (Which gave me some trouble even during the periods I could muster the motivation to work on it.) It's actually more finished than not finished - I think I'm only missing three or four scenes. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up for a while. If so, it shouldn't be too long before I can have the chapter up. Knock wood.

I've also written most of chapter 13 already, so that's good.

The bad news is that - due to a computer crash and the documents not autosaving like they're supposed to - I seem to have lost most of everything I wrote on chapter 12. Granted, that wasn't much, but what I did write on it kicked ass. I was hoping I could recover it from the auto-backups, but no such luck. So, that's kinda frustrating.

Oh well, I'm sure I'll be able to rewrite it. Point is, the fic isn't dead, y'all.

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Comments ( 9 )

Would you happen to be writing on Google Docs?

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Nah. I probably should since I have one, but I'm old fashioned - I like having my documents as actual files on my computer.

So I use OpenOffice, have been for years. It usually autosaves and restores any document I have open even if my computer crashes so I tend not to worry about it. It's just that sometimes it randomly does this thing were it resets everything and I lose what I was working on. I have no idea why that happens.

I've been able to find lots of old stuff I never even bothered to save in the backups, but sometimes things just vanish, alas.

I'm going to have to reread the story! I remember a lot but there might be missing details and I remember and it was a fun read anyway so win-win!

Glad to hear that the story's still going!
Sorry to hear about the computer crash, that can be an absolute pain to deal with...

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Yeah, I know the feeling. "Oh, look, this story I liked finally updated! Wait, what the hell happened in the last chapter, again?"

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Well, I say "crash" but it's more that the entire thing just suddenly freezes without warning, and there's nothing I can do about it besides forcing a hard reboot. It happens seemingly at random on a fairly regular basis and I don't know why.

Whoooooooooo!!!!

Yay! So glad we'll be hearing more about Scootaloo and Fang!

Good to hear. I didn't really expect to like this fic as much as I did, so I'm glad to hear it might be coming back soon. Can't wait to see more of Fang!

I'm glad to hear it's not dead! Though you should really use Google Docs instead of local files. Much less chance of them being lost.

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