Just finished my pass through chapter ten, which means that I've officially gone through and revised every chapter of PGS up until the most recent one. While the story's still far from perfect, it's at least better than it was, and I don't cringe quite as hard when I reread it. Go read it and see for yourself, if you like.
1. I was going to wrap up editing on the previous chapters of PGS today so that I could get started in earnest on the next chapter, but I came down with a really painful headache that made me really not want to spend four hours editing three fairly dense chapters. So I settled for just going through the two Interludes. That leaves about 40-50k words of real story to go.
For context, each of the chapters in the 20k range takes about an hour and a half to go through.
It's the Solid Snake and Twilight Sparkle Super-Show! *throws confetti*
For anyone who's recently subscribed to the story, let me welcome you to The Document of Pony Gear Solid, individual blogs which illustrate various bits of trivia about recently posted chapters and the writing process behind them, blithely named after supplementary material from Metal Gear Solid 2.
[6:48:18 PM] Poshy Woshy: so let's see, the biggest suggestions you have are
[6:48:22 PM] Poshy Woshy: put Snake on the stairs
[6:48:26 PM] Poshy Woshy: and make Twilight fuck her brother.
[6:48:33 PM] Poshy Woshy: Hmm.
[6:49:16 PM] Daniel Jay: All in all, I think my suggestions are generally quite reasonable.
[6:49:30 PM] Daniel Jay: I mean, I haven't steered you wrong so far, have I?
Three things I want to say in this blog: First, if you're following "Murphy's Law" and you got an update alert for that story, only to check and find it not updated, I apologize. I pulled the chapter almost immediately after posting it after noticing how badly proofread and edited it was. I rushed it out the door and it showed. Frightfully embarrassed over that.
It's always funny when I find little manuscript fragments on my hard drive, because when I read them, I'm hit with the sinking realization that this is how the story would have gone if I hadn't had the good sense to reevaluate what I'd written. What's funnier is finding entire half finished (or even fully finished) alternate versions of chapters. For instance, the original version of the fifth chapter that I'd hoped was gone forever. It's not gone forever, and that makes me miffed.
[4:44:01 PM] Poshy Woshy: oh god.
[4:44:06 PM] Poshy Woshy: do you want to hear some embarrassing trivia?
[4:44:11 PM] Poshy Woshy: that reminds me of some embarrassing trivia.
[4:44:11 PM] Daniel Jay: Always.
[4:44:21 PM] Poshy Woshy: I wrote about this in a blog once.
[4:44:49 PM] Poshy Woshy: the genesis of the story was, of all things, a Cupcakes spin-off where Snake shows up right the fuck out of nowhere and kills Pinkie Pie before she can finish Rainbow Dash.
POSH ABSCONDS WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KONAMI LICENSING FEES AND BECOMES SOUTH AFRICAN BABE MOGUL. FILM AT ELEVEN.
"...Alright, I'm just gonna ask. Snake, what are you doing?"
"Improvising. I think I know how we're gonna solve our little dilemma."
"How? By sterilizing the floor?"
"In a manner of speaking. We're going to burn this place down."
-Pony Gear Solid-
aka Posh still doesn't know what to use for embedding images
...I remind myself that I will never be as bad as the Raymond Benson novelizations of MGS and MGS2.
"Merry Christmas," Snake said as he delivered two powerhouse punches, left and then right, into the guards’ faces. The soldiers plopped to the floor. "I forgot to tell you–Christmas is early this year."
Snake grinned and contacted Nastasha. "Hey, I got me a Stinger. I just wanted to brag."
A small update which seems to have flown under the radar. Significant, though, because it's the first time since the start of the story where Fluttershy has had any part to play in the narrative. The reason why she's been so underutilized is that... well, I just don't really like Fluttershy.
DEEEEEEEEEVASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAATIOOOOOOOOOOOON
WHAT A MESS WE MADE
WHEN IT ALL WENT WROOOOOOOOOOOOONG
I'm sometimes influenced by the music I listen to while I write, and it occasionally results in some tonal shifts, for better and for worse.
What I'm saying is that Kojima's musical tastes contribute to, and detract from, my writing process.
This song was in the recent trailer for The Phantom Pain, if you weren't aware.
Rough draft complete! As of now, it clocks in at just over six thousand words - my shortest chapter in three years.
Good God, have I really been working on this story for three years? I don't suppose I'll ever be done, at this rate. Ah, at least it gives me something to look forward to.
Pre-historical
-Equestria founded. Alicornism develops as a result of interbreeding between the three pony races.
-The rise of Discord. Equestria falls into an era of chaos and disharmony.
-Discord banished by Celestia and Luna, who are subsequently crowned rulers of Equestria.
C. 1000 AD
-Luna possessed by the Nightmare Moon entity, and banished to the moon.
1937
As part of a way of motivating myself to finish the story before I die, I've laid out the remaining eight - count 'em, eight - chapters, and am now going to post their titles in here for posterity, and also to further motivate myself to stick to the outline.
I will also write bogus chapter summaries for them.
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