Woof. · 6:33pm Feb 15th, 2019
I'm sorry I haven't written new chapters on all my stories. More than anything, I want to know which one my readers like the best, and a little feedback beyond thumbs up and down ratings. Maybe even a proofreader. As it is now, I'm having trouble finding the motivation to write more. It's not even that I don't like the stories I've created! I'm biased, but I find them fun to read, and the later ones still make me laugh. A Crossover though? I reread it often, and it kind of looks like a mess to me. Granted, a mess that gets a lot better the more recent I go, but that's another problem: going back to the beginning to fix the first few chapters feels like a massive undertaking. It probably wouldn't be if I just did it. Is this fun to read? No? Well then I guess I'll try harder.
I'd like to publicly apologize to Soapbox, who gave me feedback when I was just starting out. My comment about "it's a crossover, I'll do what I want" still seems rude to me now, and I'll admit that I was quite upset when I wrote it.
"Are you joking? That's the mildest insult I've ever heard!" you might say.
What can I say, I'm used to living with loads of passive aggressive people whose sentences can often be read closely as veiled insults. It's tough on the internet to get the full context, and all we have here on fimfiction is a textbox and a profile picture.
"So are you going to cancel all your stories and take a break?" I expect you to ask.
Not really. I'll be busy until June at least, but I'll make an effort to work on them all the same.
"How much is done that you haven't published yet? Are you hiding loads of chapters away because you don't like them enough?"
There's a few hundred words unpublished on Cars in Equestria. I'm pretty much trying to map out where everything's going to go ahead of time, and I pretty much know that part, the trouble is how I get from here to there.
I have over a thousand words on Lapis comes to town. I was working on it just recently, and I won't spoil anything but some of the dialogue I've got is really funny. It shouldn't be to difficult to complete in a timely manner.
A Oneshot is complete. Thank goodness I have a completed story!
Which brings us back around the coin drop funnel to A Crossover. Look, I'm sorry I haven't mentioned the princess of prance in a while. I forgot about her plot thread because it wasn't important. I'd be interested to know how many of you like the bits in the human world, since they strike me as hard to write. As for Sonata and Ritornello, I love writing scenes with them, but I'm uncertain where they'll meet with everyone else. It's my most disliked story, and I think it's obvious why. The quality of the chapters is inconsistent, and readers aren't sure where this is going, and four chapters in I decided that everything took place in a different time but I didn't go back and fix a lot of things that in hindsight seem really obvious.
"This is kind of sad. Make a joke!" you probably aren't saying at this point.
Life.
Thanks for reading.
Life is a joke at my expense, what changes is whether I laugh with or at myself.
Oh, and A Crossover has nothing hidden. I'll probably overhaul the beginning before moving forward with it.