Nightmare Night Report · 4:40pm Mar 2nd, 2020
Hey, folks. Just wanted to let you know where things stand with the main and side story.
Hey, folks. Just wanted to let you know where things stand with the main and side story.
It's been a while. In the past year and a half, despite occasionally crawling back here to whine about the show's direction, I've largely stayed away from Pony and spent a lot of time in other fandoms. My writing and my understanding of writing has been improved in important ways, and I've come to realize certain bad habits I used to have, (primarily in jumping in before properly fleshing out my ideas.) Furthermore, this time away from Pony has extended to my own multi-chapter stories, which
After three months working more or less exclusively on it, Nightmare Night goes on a brief hiatus. Here's the full status on it plus future plans:
I kept my promise to get two more Temptations & Transformations side story chapters posted this past week for seven total. With more content comes more likes; I picked up four new upvotes there over the past couple days.
The first of several chapters in the runup to Halloween is underway. As I've delayed it long enough, it's time for the resolution of the duel/mating round between Night Owl and Shadowdash, as well as advancing the story further over in Canterlot.
Also, I've just about decided to make a new bonus chapter for the original Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising, as the new chapter will reference a previously unseen event in it involving Rainbow and Gilda.
The Jamming July Jaunt is still a thing, despite OMEGA TREE HUGGER's abrupt arrival. I have another story that I'll be adding to the lineup, as I wrote the first chapter's first draft yesterday and today. I've also made some further progress on The Shore Of Infinity and Sirens In The Distance.
So, the current lineup:
Needs Editing
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Mentor, Teacher, Princess, Principal (Chapter 1)
Needs Rewriting
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Contrast (Prologue) ~52%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~20%
I got a good chunk of progress on TSOI done over the weekend. We're getting there...
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Contrast (Prologue) ~75%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~20%+5%
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon)
Lunch Break (Oneshot)
Needs Finishing
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~70%
BOOM BABY!
That took forever.
Simulations is a fic I’ve been working off and on for about six months, so it’s really nice to see it finally posted.
SPOILERS UNDER THE BREAK
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Rewriting
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2) ~90%
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~33%
Contrast (Prologue) ~52%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~15%
Pretty Much Good To Go, Probably
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon)
Lunch Break (Oneshot)
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1)
Needs Revision
Contrast (Prologue)
Sirens In The Distance is finished! I intend to turn my focus to Lunch Break and Contrast, and then once one of those two is also ready, it'll be time for me to tackle the big one: Of Responsibility! Progress is being made, folks.
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Rewriting
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2) ~90%
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Contrast (Prologue) ~85%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~20%+5%
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~90%
Admittedly not much has changed on the lineup, but I wanted to let you know of an event that has occurred today that promises all the stories one heck of a boost up into the "Needs Editing" and "Awaiting Release" sections. I have made an actual, measurably significant jump forward in progress on The Atlantis Scenario! Given the last time I made this amount of headway was back in early 2014, I was half-expecting to have to release everything else while this and OR remained stuck,
First off, decided to remove Mentor, Teacher, Princess, Principal from the lineup. That one's a bit of a fixer-upper, to be frank. On the upside, another oneshot has been added instead. But I have even better news! TAS Chapter 2 is finally done! Still needs editing, obviously, but hey; we're getting there!
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Needs Rewriting
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2) ~90%
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~33%
Contrast (Prologue) ~52%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~15%
Well, folks... the past 30 days have been one of my post prolific periods of writing on a single story ever, excepting perhaps that massive push I had last Spring on writing Feathered Hearts - Eros. I did indeed release one Eros chapter for Christmas, but also, count ‘em, six Feathered Hearts - Continuation and Chronicles chapters, and the cherry on top of all of it was a new Harmonic Resonance chapter that seems to have been well-received.
Well, after a year and a month, I've finally finished and released my planned chapters for the Jamming July Jaunt/Amazing August Avalanche.
I don't think I'll be doing something quite like that again, but it was rather helpful with making some much-needed writing progress. I've learned from this. I will be trying to release updates as they're written in the future, but having a to-do list (and an outline!) will be seriously helpful moving forward.
So what's my new itinerary?
So I finally revised Day One Morning, though it ended up taking less change than I expected. I also thought to revise some of the dialogue between Luna and Chrysalis at the end, but now I think it may not need it as badly as I thought. Their exchanges will be more subtle in the future, though.
Oh, but there's more! For all two of you following progress on my planned JJJ event, I have good news!
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)