New Story... Sort of · 3:08am Apr 1st, 2020
Here's my relationship with my Writer Brain in a nutshell. "Hey, Writer Brain. We're stuck at home with an excellent opportunity to write. Why don't we work on something like A 14th Century Friar, which has a big following, or Homecoming, which is near and dear to my heart and hasn't been updated in an embarrassingly long time."
To which Writer Brain replies, "Nah. You're going to finish and post the first chapter from an old story that you started years ago and never went anywhere with. A story inspired by a comment from a reader of The Tab (Sunset_Shimmer83) back in 2018."
Leading me to reply, "Um... okay? I mean, that's not a bad thing, just kinda... random."
So... yeah. The New Blood. A companion story to The Tab (insofar as they take place in the same Crystal War-timeline canon), but that has a very different tone, taking place during the war itself and examining it from a certain familiar pegasus: Lightning Dust.
What, you were expecting Rainbow Dash?
I wanted to examine the effect of a war on someone who never used to take the serious things seriously. So many of the most interesting wartime accounts I've read over the years have been from people like this, and I wanted to try my hand at a different writing style anyway - this story was the result. Hope you enjoy.
Isn't it funny how writer brain works sometimes?
Me, for example, I've been trying to get the next chapter of Empress Returns done... but for the time of me I can't shake a My Hero Academia/Miraculous Ladybug crossover plot bunny that's latched into my head, and I've never even seen the latter!
I can't say I know about writer brain, but I know reader brain and gamer brain.
"Hey, Yutah. Nice story you want to read there. We're going to read the other one, over there. Why? Why? Because I say so."
"Yeah, I want to play that game, but it's boring right now. Let's just stare at the Main Screen for 10 minutes."
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Man, our Writer Brains must hang at the same crazy bar. Slackers.
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This. I'll have like, 10 games I'm vaguely inclined to play, but I can't muster the will to dedicate to one, so I just end up staring at the Steam Library page like a dumbass
Welp, time to go listen to *Aces in Exile* for the 200th time.
Just @ me next time, Antiquarian, srsly.
No joke, I have three fully complete - yet less than 1K words - stories, two of which were 30 minute challenges on a prompt. A fourth was in the works, but then I realized my ambitions outpaced my writing, so that's been backburnered for the time being. Can't bring myself to review and add to any of these shorts, but they're different enough that posting them as a collection would feel dishonest.