Is it finally over? The story I had worked for almost four months on, the only story I worked on for a while, finally completed? It's hard to believe, since it was such a massive story by my standards, and now I can safely say it's over...wow, you guys have no idea how this feels, after so many hardships, a moment of a rush, and everything inbetween happened with the story.
It's hard to know where to begin, now that I can reflect on what I did at long last. As soon as I found pictures of TwiLuna in July, I instantly loved the shipping and wanted to write my own story of that fashion. In the end, with some changes in the second half, I followed the blueprint I made that far back, 15 chapters and all. Feels great, really.
But it was also possibly the most brutal writing experience I ever had. The only story I felt anywhere similar to this had to be my first story over on DeviantArt, a 12 chapter furry story poem called Nefas Latruseries. It was around chapter five out of 12 that I came to the thought that it was crap, but still felt the need to finish it. And boy, when I finished that story, I wasn't happy that I finished it as much as I was relieved that I never had to work on it again.
My feelings on Within The Seas are a bit more mixed. On one hand, I think it's decent, kind of. I don't know, I'm still so close I can't judge it like I should, even though there were days where I felt, even when I was working on the giant last chapter, that I thought it was $#!t.
But I think it was the stuff surrounding it that made this project overly difficult to work with. I actually took the story down and almost abandoned it after the first chapter from the early negative comments, and I'm not going to lie, some of the later comments with people who originally liked it saying they quit reading the story did hurt. I guess I overrely on compliments to make it through, but yeah...
And the stuff that happened in my real life was just soul crushing. I will not give details, other than...well...I didn't like being put in the position I'm in right now. That's all I will say, and there were instances where I was even suicidal there. Hell, maybe I still am. I can't tell at the moment.
But in the end, I do have to admit it was the support and compliements I got from both the people here and a few of my friends over at Equestria Forums(shoutout to Destinae and P. Luna for your support there, both helped me with the story a bit) because if it wasn't for you, this story might have not been completed at all. So I want you all to get a hug from me *hugs everypony* and hopefully I won't have such a chaotic experience with whatever I choose to do next. I got a lot of ideas to pick from, it's like a candy shop for me, and they all look appealing.