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.
Good afternoon my lovely angels!
It's actually been a while since I did a blog post on anything really. So I have quite a bit to say … I should probably do these a little more often to at least let you people know what the state of things is.
It's already 3000 words long and I don't see it being much more than 5000, so a release should come later this week. Focus shifts back to what's happening with Spike, with a side of the CMC thrown in. So as to not spoil the Spike scenes, here's a teaser focused on the latter:
So it has finally been rewritten!
Something Magical This Way Comes is back up and running! Or at least cantering gently along!
Been looking forward to getting some fresh momentum going on this story, it was my first one, and I set it on a back burner after a break up with my special somepony of the time. But that was then and this is now, so let's ride this train!
At 4pm Eastern time (9pm Greenwich) on Friday, September 1st with the launch of Into the Storm: The Flight of Firefly.
Having been given a head start with a section of the new chapter already written by Leo Archon, I launched into that next chapter and now find it coming quite quickly. Already at 6000 words, it is likely to be finished by the weekend, and depending on how quickly my prereaders can get to it, it might even go out on Sunday.
Hi there to all, from the title you can probably guess what I'll be talking about in this blog - if not I'll give you that answer. Another chapter of Odd Beginnings is being released! How exciting right? More to read on the story. I will be releasing the chapter tomorrow at around 7-8am if you're in the Australian Eastern Time Zone. Try and be there when it releases!
But in the meantime, enjoy reading!
-Mr User
Oh my god I can't believe I finally did it. This story has been the the making for a long time, to give you a idea how long the reason I joined Fimfiction was to write a Chessverse story. At first my story got rejected by the group admin for my lack of writing skills and going back and reading it I can see that it was. So that put me off for a while. I became a lot more active in the group and kept trying to get people to help me and although some did I could never get the story to a level I
After struggling to write a few hundred words a day, the dam broke once I figured out the flow of battle and I wrote the final 3000 words in the last day. Part 13 has reached 9373 words as of this writing, and the first prereader to get his hooves on the full chapter loves it. Chapter will release on Sunday morning or sooner if all prereads are received in time.
A teaser? Sure, why not...
As you might guess, I’ve been taking it easy the last couple weeks, slowing down the pace of my writing, but I haven’t stopped completely. The next Nightmare Night chapter currently stands at around 4600 words and will have a surprise opening section taking place from a new perspective in Canterlot and hopefully whetting appetites for the big Thunderlane scene, which I’m writing generally a few hundred words of at a time. Sex and battle scenes (like in Firefly) are a bit weird for
Sorry to not keep readers updated, but I've found it hard to feel creative over the past week. You'll understand, it's a little difficult to be interested in writing, especially sexual stuff when you're recovering from knee surgery (or really any surgery), as your body devotes its energy to healing instead of to more pleasurable pursuits.
Tentatively titled “Change of Command”, it’s currently coming in at just shy of 9000 words and it’s going to test my writing ability to create extreme tension and suspense in readers even without an actual battle.
Let me start by saying the last chapter release was a roaring success, with a long-lived visit to the feature list, resulting in five new likes spread across both Firefly stories. The original Before the Storm is now closing in on the 300-like milestone, and I'll have an announcement for when it crosses it. So a warm welcome to new readers, with my great thanks for all the upvotes and comments. Can't say enough how much getting good feedback drives authors to create more!
The next Nightmare Night chapter is on the way and may be draft complete this weekend. It is likely to be a shorter chapter this time, perhaps around 6500 words or so. Highlights include Eclipse vs Celestia--in which I attempt to plug a major plot hole from the MLP movie--and action on the other side of the portal as Twilight and Sunset get ready to answer the map's call. There will also be some check-ins with the CMC, and Spike's group.
Or even sooner if all prereads are in and everybody’s happy, most notably the original commissioner. After reading what I had, he asked me to extend the main sensual scene further, so I did, adding another 1800 words to it. Now waiting for his input, and that of prereaders, who have promised to get to the story today. In the meantime, I’ve readied the story for launch:
WARNING - This chapter is, for a lack of a better word, saucy...
The end is in sight, both on this software release for my day job and the new chapter of C&C I've been promising for a month. With regards to the latter, I finally settled on showing three new perspectives—Giraldi, Tribune Cipio, and his aide, Optio Virgo—and limiting the chapter to those, as any more than that would overwhelm the reader and already had overwhelmed the author.
As promised to certain readers who aren’t interested in clop, all R-rated and M-rated chapters of Feathered Hearts - Continuation and Chronicles will be getting T-rated equivalents from here on out. That includes the first M-rated chapter I posted, which was Part 29. Its T-rated counterpart will be published this evening.
4000 words in, and as usual, the chapter's taking a bit of a turn from what I initially intended as I find myself shifting from section to section, working on each a little in turn. But that's fine. There remains at least a slight chance I'll have it done by this weekend; it depends on whether I finally break through and start knocking out the rest quickly, which sometimes happens in my writing. The first half comes slowly, and then the rest comes rapidly as I get more into it and the chapter
7500 words down, with likely another ~2500 words to go as work has eased a bit if not entirely relented. Unfortunately, just writing the draft it isn’t enough; this will require some graphics before it’s called ready to go. But it should be going to prereaders this weekend, at least. I’ve given the first half of it to Silentwoodfire and AJ_Aficionado, who have given it their thumbs-up thus far. The chapter will be almost entirely about the Battle of Harness Hill, and thus will be titled that as