Post #38 · 11:17pm Apr 13th, 2020
Well, I hope that last chapter was enjoyable.
That bar fight scene is one of the very early concepts of this story, and I hope I was able to write it well enough to get the action/vision across. It’s hard to tell if the reader can see things the way I do when I write. This chapter in particular fell at a point when I was really struggling with my writing, and I’ve never felt like I gave it the justice it deserved. Hopefully I’m wrong about that, but I dunno. Some scenes just never land quite right.
When I say it was an early concept, I mean it was planned since before I even started writing, and there a few foreshadows leading up to it that happen pretty early on.
“Seriously…” I continued. “I would pay good money to see you get into a giant scrap with a bunch of bikers or something…that would be fucking awesome.”
This bit is from all the way back in Chapter 44, when Sunset and Golds were out at the Riverfield the day after the school shooting.
By the way, I can’t stand looking at old chapters; my writing back then was shit!
Then there was this scene from Chapter 84, when they were discussing Fluttershy’s pony-up.
Sunset waved Rarity off. “Don’t worry, I wasn’t planning on it. Besides, I don’t think it’d be possible for her to hit that level of emotion anyway. We can’t get each other that upset because we all trust each other and we know we’re not a real threat to one another.” The red-head paused, then looked around the group. “Come to think of it, I’m not sure if I would want to pony-up if the way to do it is to get THAT upset. I mean, we would have to be subjected to something pretty devastating, right?”
There may have been more nods to the bar scene than that, but I honestly don’t remember. This story is so fucking full of hints and references, there’s no way in hell I could ever remember them all. Even in small scenes that come across as slice of life or simply to develop characters, there can be important details that lead to future events, like Sunset talking about Shining Armor becoming a Crown Counsel (which I had to add so that I had a way for Sunset to get into the police station to see the case file) or the scene when Pinkie and Sonata got baked on special brownies and Pinkie talks about Marble’s grow-op in the back lot. That detail turned out to be important because it ended up destroying the Pie family.
Anyway, the Sunset flashback is only one chapter, so after this we move forward and soon we’ll dive into the counterattack. I hope everyone enjoys it.
Sorry if I’ve been quiet around here lately. Things have been busy and my attention is elsewhere these days, but since everything is already written, I just have to spend a couple nights a week working on the story to get a chapter out every couple weeks.
I hope everyone is doing OK in these truly bizarre times, and I look forward to releasing the rest of the story over the next several months.
Later
Silent Lucidity
Empire (1990)
Hey take your time no rush.
You are amazing, that nobody convince you otherwise, because many others respect or admire you, even aspire, I would like to be half the writer that you are.
I love this story wod love to read a chapter (non cannon ) of the group or one of them neading a drink even if that can't happen and end up at a certain bar in the multi vervse but that just a silly thought though I'm sure she's got something to get them pickled.
I gotta 20ish chapter backlog so no rush from me lol