Update, long overdue · 12:58am Aug 19th, 2020
To anyone out there still listening. Hi. I hope you're well, and safe. Obligatory 2020 is hell comment and all that jazz.
I'm doing well. Not amazing, but amazing is a hard trick to pull right now for any of us.
I sit here, trying to articulate the emotions I am feeling, and somehow convey them in words. And it's not going very well. I am failing.
So I'll instead begin with the informational side of things.
Fel Equestria - Revised Edition is officially canceled. Most of you probably already considered it abandoned. I don't blame you one bit. Honestly, I should have been ready to make this announcement earlier. But I wasn't. Ready, I mean. I have clung very hard to this absurd optimism that I started the whole process with. But ultimately, truth wins out, and I have to admit that I have failed. And since I abhor the silent abandonment of stories that I see elsewhere languishing in an unfinished state forever, I guess I have to at least bring the curtain down properly. It's perhaps the only courtesy I can offer you now. And isn't that a sorry state of affairs.
I'm sorry? I hope that doesn't sound trite, but I wanted you to know that. I'm not sorry to have tried, but I regret that ultimately I couldn't make it happen. That it came to this disappointing squib. There are dozens of reasons for that, and I could list them out and try to salve my pride and sense of being injured and doing injury to others. But I won't. In the long run, it hardly matters. I'm just a scribbler of scribbles who tried to scribble something in a different medium and didn't stick the landing.
Maybe I will find new words more worthy of attention, or maybe I'll return to the art I started with and find my center again. Or maybe this admittedly maudlin apology will be the last movement. Only time will tell. But for whatever it may be worth... Thank you.
Thank you for kind words when they were needed, and kinder words when they were surplus to requirements. I will always remember that glowing, you-can-do-anything optimism that buoyed me through things going bonkers in so many ways. And while I feel completely unworthy of them now, throwing in the towel and disappointing anyone who is still out there, I will cherish them always for what they represented then.
Be well, and take care.
Ash
Aww but it was good
But still thanks for being upright and telling us directly
May your muse find you again my friend
It was fun while it lasted... thank you for your efforts and hope you do well in life.
Sometimes stuff like this just happens, hun, as we all well know.
It's sad to see that Fel won't continue, but you did your best when you WERE writing it, but sometimes, stuff just happens somewhere along the way that derails what was, and still is, an excellent story.
I hope that your muse finds you once again, and you can find find your writing mojo again, hun.
And THANK you for bringing us, your readers, closure on this story.
Like you, I've seen stories languish for years on end (I have a CRAP-ton of them in my own Bookshelves, ESPECIALLY in my "Tracking" shelf!), and a good many of them haven't been updated in literally YEARS!
So again, thank you, dearheart.
Much luck to you in the future and your writing and art endeavors, and I look forward to anything that you give us in the future.
Well, crap. I was hoping this was going to be better news. But if this is how it is for you, then this is how it has to go. A shame, as I was really intrigued to see how that was going to play out, and it was being really well written. But if you can't find the motivation, better to cancel it than try to write without the spark.
stuff liek this happen alot sadly,
if i wish it would go on, and will hope someone take the idea and start a new or take what there and continue on.
take your time. Find your muse. We'll be waiting, if there is ever an encore. But I am glad that you have at least brought it to a close, at least for now, while you find your way.