Normally I don't post two blogs on the same day, but... · 5:44pm Jun 8th, 2023
...one CyanLightning was nice enough to handle a commission of Ebony Evening for me. Check out his excellent work at Derpibooru at the link below!
...one CyanLightning was nice enough to handle a commission of Ebony Evening for me. Check out his excellent work at Derpibooru at the link below!
Just wanted to let those following me and M.L.G. know that I'm going to take a break from writing for a few days.
Want to know why?
Got another commissioned art piece for you from EvanRank at DeviantArt. Here's an image of Drama Heart in full Burning Salamandra attire, from the M.L.G. chapter "A Limitless Chest of Tales".
You can find the original here. If you like what you see, feel free to click the link above and check out more of the artist's work!
I've accumulated a fair bit of junk since I began working on M.L.G. Care to check it out? >^_^<
First up are some outtakes, along with some notes if appropriate. This is stuff that I considered at first, but never made the final cut in the story proper. There would've been a lot more, but these snippets I actually thought to save.
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CHAPTER 6
Some of you might remember the Sunata story I wrote for the sunset shimmer shipping contest that happened not too long ago. For a rush job, the story was alright, but not great. There are plenty of ways I could improve it.
What I'm wondering is, should I? Should I take the time to fix it, or does it not matter? Will anybody read the fixed version? Please let me know one way or another.
Do you ever have those times when you severely overestimate your ability to get things done on schedule? Or how about days when you feel like everything in the world wants to distract you?
First, some mood music:
I'm feeling somewhat better after Friday and I've had this brewing in my mind today, so below is a few of the questions I've been asked regarding Manehattan's Lone Guardian since I began two years ago. Some are frequently, others not so much, but either way I think they still have relevancy.
This may be updated as time goes on. We'll see.
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Writing can get a little bit annoying sometimes when you make up new characters on the fly. Or in this case, on the snake.
The next chapter's currently in progress, but one of the reasons for its delay---aside from the usual excuses of work, tiredness, and gaming---is that I'm having difficulty writing a scene with a one-chapter character in it. In an earlier chapter Leviathan detected a sea monster down in the ocean depths, and I was going to have the two of them cross paths.
So I've been working on the latest chapter of M.L.G. recently, and along the way I've been thinking to myself: what songs, heard in-story or otherwise, would fit the characters the best for the sake of their appearances?
What luck... so Foal Fable was passed. I really didn't know if I was going to make it lul. So you know what that means... sit your plot down and read it! Lul ... on a side note. My followers list is quite lonely, ish all empty. Oh well. Adios amigos.
I've lost my friends. Now what...
I...I...
I don't know what...
I don't know what to say...what to do... What to feel
I... I just don't know
So... let me begin with saying that I'm not dead. To those of you who still wish for me to write and update stories, I say thank you for still following me. Now, I have good and bad news.
Good news: I finally have found the motivation, energy and most importantly time to take up writing again!
In preparation for the next chapter of M.L.G., have the profile of the first of Levi's opponents.
Name: Trifecta, formerly known as "Springboard"
Species: Earth pony
Approximate Age: Mid-forties
Coloration: Light brown coat, blue and green mane and tail
Cutie Mark: A coil
Special Talent: Unknown
...and mine's full of de-Lays.
Let's see... slight increase in work at the office? Check. "SimCity 2000" being as attention grabbing as ever? Check. General tiredness? Check. Tax season? Check. Favorite YouTubers and Twitch streamers playing stuff like Pizza Tower, Hi-Fi Rush, Luck Be a Landlord, etc.? Check. Needing to spend time with the family (and the family's cats)? Triple-check.
But all things considered... yeah, I'm good to go to work on another chapter. Back in business.
The good news is that there's a real chance that I'll be able to post the latest chapter of M.L.G. sometime tomorrow. I'm having a lot more fun writing this chapter than I did Glintlock's (partially because a certain gold-digging ditz is making her return), so I'm typing it out at a pretty good clip. The bad news is that work's probably going to get in the way tomorrow, so if it doesn't get posted on Friday, it's going to have to wait a day or two.
Been a while since I started the process, but I'm almost done mirroring M.L.G. over at Archive Of Our Own. I've gotten as far as "Shine Aqua Illusion", and I expect to have it fully posted within the next 3-4 days. So if by some chance you want to read it over there instead of here, feel free.
Some background music. You're going to need it: we're going to be here a while.
To find out who I imagine some of the OCs (and Leviathan in English) to sound like, the story's Trivia page at TV Tropes here has a list of them under "Hypothetical Casting".
I copied the latest chapter of M.L.G. to my flash drive as usual. I took it home with the intent to post it today. I double-click the file.