Project Spectacle and my future writing

When I first started writing back in December I never imagined that I'd be penning anything more than a simple one shot or two here and there, and yet I'm here with 3 published stories, weekly updates for one of them, and two other projects in active development. Each of my stories has served as an important learning experience to me and in the case of Departures it really shows a lot when you compare the early chapters to some of the latter ones (Chapter 3 is especially hard to re read for me just because it is so disorganized and all over the place). It's been very clear to me that the story is well overdue for some major TLC, and that's where Project Spectacle comes in.

Project Spectacle is what I'm calling the upcoming wave of rewrites and changes to better reflect the direction and tone I want this story to be. As such, everything up to chapter 6 will likely be seeing some pretty significant rewrites and revisions to fix pacing issues and other personal issues I have with them. Chapters 7-12 will likely be seeing less significant revisions to line up with early changes and rectify some other issues. Chapters 13 onward will likely not change much given that they focus more on the group working towards their dream now that they've established their base.

This has been a long time coming and in some cases has occupied my nights as I work away on better ways to convey the concepts I had for the story from the beginning. These changes will likely not be rolled out for a while, but I'm hoping to have them finished by the end of Summer at the latest. As rough as my early stuff is I'm still proud of how far I feel I've come as a writer, and I'm really looking forward to sharing my future projects!

So about those future projects:

Pandemic: Desert Getaway, the collaborative project with Lawra, will likely be broken into at least a few chapters and should be ready to publish shortly after Departures Wraps, likely mid to late July if all goes well. There's two more planned chapters for Departures plus an epilogue and Desert Getaway picks up right where it leaves off.

I have at least one other Pandemic story in mind for right now, a sequel to Departures and Desert Getaway that will serve as a sort of stepping off point for my characters but still leaves it open for future projects.

Stardust's Oddyssey: In a departure from almost every other project I've planned, this has no clear outline. Instead I went into it by developing the world and it's little intricacies first, and then coming up with events and a little history that I could then use as a tool to base the story's narrative around. I know the beginning, middle, and end, but the rest is left to be fleshed out. I find that this works a better system for me because it leaves me room to play around with the characters a little more and develop them a little more naturally. I'm hoping to continue updating this at least once monthly, but with some potentially big life changes coming up this could wind up changing.

I have at least one second person short story planned as a tie in for Stardust's Odyssey, but that's likely a long way's away.

(The pony pyramid of Pandemic AU side characters!)