'Cause seriously. Stock images were enough back when this was supposed to be a one-shot, but I think the story deserves more at this point. I don't have any way to pay, nor do I really have the money to, but I can instead write a commissioned story in return for a more scenic cover art for the story.
You can either reply right here, or PM me for more info.
And with it, some new (non stock-image!) cover art as well! For the most part it's complete. I've just gotta run it through some effects and finish tweaking the coloring a bit.
As always, thank you for reading. This may be the last time you hear about Pony-Me, or it may not. Who knows? For the time being, I'll be turning my focus almost entirely to my next project, Splintershard.
Outside of major plot points, character names, and places, My Own Reality will not be a carbon-copy of Pony-Me with MLP stripped away. While previous blogs might've made it sound like that was the direction it was heading in, I'm treating the new story as an essentially overhauled version of Pony-Me, complete with several revised elements that would set the story apart from the original. Though, there will still be small Easter Eggs tossed in referencing Pony-Me. For example, the date of
Twilight thought it was all so real-- the crisp morning air, the warmth of the rising sun, the ponies that went about their day-- it all seemed real to her. Yet, with the breaking of a single connection, everything comes crashing down, leaving a very confused girl wearing a VR headset.
Though I initially thought that writing a spinoff AU to my AU would be fun, it turns out that it's been rather bland, and at worst even stressful in a way. Given how it's on a parallel timeline to the main story, Rogue has to update at the same time as Pony-Me, thus requiring me to write double the chapters for a single update.
With the story nearing its final stretch and resolving multiple conflicts, all while setting up new ones for Part 3, I'd very much appreciate it if I had a couple more prereaders, or just people to bounce ideas off of.
Idunno, with my personal hiatus in full-swing, I've been able to get a good amount of study time in. At the same time, replacing my writing time with reading time either to study more or to whittle down my library has actually been quite nice to have.
But at the same time, things still feel the same. The only difference is that I now typically study some notes and/or read some unread chapters over the course of my regular writing period. Same workflow, same load, etc. etc.
After scrapping the old plans to just directly adapt Pony-Me's entire plot to original fiction and instead rewriting everything from the ground up, it's only taken three months to hit 10k words across six chapters.
Short to say, based off of that alone, I'm pretty sure that the original fiction adaptation is gonna be quite a bit longer than the OG Pony-Me, even when counting the guest chapters and bonus bits such as the April Fools' chapters.
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