"Fulfilling Pinkie's Dream" just hit 20,000 words. · 1:25am Aug 19th, 2020
It might hit 30,000 before it's done. Firesight is really earning his merit badge in editing for this one. He's caught a number of issues stemming from the unfamiliar style I'm working with and made some amazing suggestions. I've rewritten an entire 1000-word block of chapter 1 based on his feedback and added thousands more to fill in the huge pacing issues that plague virtually every story I write.
I wanted to create this story to force me to confront each and every one of my weaknesses and by god have I succeeded. I feel like it's 2014 again and I'm being told what a piece of garbage The Scent of Prey was by a guy who was following me. But this is how it's got to be if I'm going to get better, and I feel like I am.
I can't control what people like and what they don't like and I sure can't post anything that's going to match the popularity of The Scent of Prey but I feel qualified in saying that this story, from a nerdy technical standpoint, is going to be lightyears better than anything I've ever produced and I really hope you guys give it a read.
ETA for release? Give me another week and a half and I should be done.
Thanks for the shout-out! It may take some massaging, but we'll get it there.