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JinxTJL


I write too much too little for no reason. Now I'm off to hyperfixate on detailing that bush.

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  • 4 weeks
    Happy Third Anniversary, The Stereotypical Necromancer!

    It's been three whole years since I started writing! Woohoo! All that time wasted thinking about ponies! :pinkiehappy:

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  • 4 weeks
    [untitled]

    new story

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  • 17 weeks
    Jinx, where ya been?

    Hiya! How's tricks? Are you doing well? :twilightsmile:

    Sorry I've not been around or writing much for, like, a month. I put out a side story a 'lil while ago, but it's honestly not my best work. You can go read it if you haven't, but I can do better—and I should've done better. It's just that writing has been... a tenuous activity for me for awhile now.

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  • 28 weeks
    Next chapter's done! (In the editing phase)

    What it says on the tin! :twilightsmile:

    Just thought I'd give a 'lil heads up, since I'm anticipating total completion of the chapter in the next few days. Three, tops. i've said stuff like that before. hedge your bets, 'cause it might take four

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  • 29 weeks
    A freaky dream, and the continuation of The Stereotypical Necromancer!

    So, I'm guessing there's one of those two things you're probably more interested in, yeah?

    Well, too bad! I'm talking about the dream I had last night, first! :rainbowwild:

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Dec
7th
2021

Need some input; how would YOU like it? · 1:52pm Dec 7th, 2021

Hey there peoples of the world and thereafter, it's me! What a surprise seeing me after clicking on this blog I published, right? :pinkiegasp:

Okay, so it's been a while, yeah? Just about a month, a holiday, and a whole lot of miscellaneous, worldly change. And through all the time, I still haven't put up that next chapter. :twilightsheepish:

Well, that's because it's not done yet, obviously. It's coming along, for sure; with about 20k words into it through many thousands of words changed and/or tossed out. I certainly haven't been sitting on my butt this whole time, so don't worry about actual progress.

Oh, but you poor readers. I've left you on such a horrible cliffhanger for so long; anybody that still cares must be positively brimming with impatience! :raritydespair:

Well fear no longer! I am here to offer a big honkin' choice to the minority who read blogs! How would you like it if I cut up some of what i've got already, and have a chapter put out today!? or so

Okay, to be transparent: I really think it'd be better if I cut the chapter up a bit. For one, and most prevalent for the current moment: it would mean a little somethin' somethin' for you people to read sooner rather than later. I've been feeling badly about leaving everybody hanging for the umpteenth time, so getting some words in you guys' hands would certainly ease my conscience.

It would also really just help me with writing the chapter. The longer a chapter goes on, the longer a scene goes on: the more cohesion it tends to lose. for me, at least The more and more words there are, the less and less comfortable I am with every new phrase. 'How many times have I used that? Am I saying 'eyes' too much?' It's a vicious cycle. :ajsleepy:

If I were to put, say, 6k words out now, it would really help me focus. Having details set into the stone of a published chapter would take a lot of the load off of my mind, so I don't have to constantly wonder about going back and changing little things in what I've got so far.

It'd also probably end up being a better experience overall. Rather than reading a chapter that'll probably end up being thirty to forty thousand words long sometime probably next month, I spread It out to an indeterminate number of chapters over an indeterminate amount of time. Maybe some of the tension would be lost, but it wouldn't be much better all together like that.

So, really: I'm thinking about doing this either way. I'm kinda just making this blog to appease my various complexes, since external validation never fails to make me happy.

Let me know what you think, I guess? Nice to see you all again? :twilightsheepish:

Comments ( 6 )

A massive 20k chapter is pretty hard to digest as a reader at times. Cutting it up would work well I think

Comment posted by Witchery deleted Dec 7th, 2021

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Congratulations! You've fulfilled my entire quota for external validation! :pinkiecrazy:

I'm off to procrastinate on splitting up that chapter, now!

This ain’t Fallout: Equestria, cutting it up is probably a good idea.

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Oh, but isn't the ultimate goal of writing to emulate Fallout Equestria? :rainbowhuh:

Maybe I've been doing it wrong this whole time..

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Well now I'm curious how we're going to get from Nightmare Moon and Necromancers to Balefire bombs.

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