In four bite-sized chapters instead of the large ones I use in the parent Nightmare Night story in hopes of gaining/sustaining more new reader interest. Check it out if you haven't already:
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After writing six chapters over the past two and half months for Into the Storm: The Flight of Firefly, I'm heading back over to Nightmare Night to resume work there in a few days. But first, I need some down time after the heavy push I put on the last two Firefly chapters, which contained some very difficult action and exposition scenes. I also need to reset my focus and mindset from warfic to clopfic.
I accidentally overwrote chapter 5 of Temptations and Transformations with chapter 8 when I published the latter. If you're a new reader and were confused—which is likely since the three inside mail worker characters hadn't been introduced yet—my sincerest apologies. It's fixed now, so feel free to go back and read the proper content. Thanks to Cobalt Ravenscroft for pointing it out.
It's been a long and patient climb. But for reaching that milestone, a slight change in plans and yet another question to readers:
I asked readers in yesterday’s blog post as to whether they’d like a Nightmare Night side story containing tales of the corruption and conversion of various background ponies, and the answer was a resounding yes. But for it, I’ll have to delay the launch of the final main story chapter I had ready for now so I can launch the new story concurrent with its release. Have to find some artwork, and quickly come up
Thanks in part to one final comment that came to me over PM last night. It wasn't a mean comment. In fact, it was nothing but a simple, politely asked question from a reader I hadn't heard from before: do you have to read the griffon chapters to understand what comes after?
But writing motivation has been lacking as issues in my personal and professional lives have picked up. For the latter, I've worked a slew of additional hours the last couple weeks, and on the home front, I've got a painful shoulder and knee as well as a home desktop that just failed and requires replacement.
Coming in at 6000 words; it'll be a nearly double-length chapter to close out the Ponyville Post Office story arc. Which is not to say we won't hear from this group again, both in this story and in the parent Nightmare Night adult epic! I'd like to thank AJ_Aficionado for the rapid preread, and I'm pleased to report he liked the stuff I was doing. As for who the focus is on, as there's only one unaltered pony left, it'll have to be Priority Parcel by definition, but making him the center
I have been advised by no less an authority than CHS acting Vice-Principal Ms. Cheerilee to use the upcoming Midnight Rising chapter as strictly a recap to relaunch the story, and not get into Lemon Zest until the following chapter, when I can devote a full entry to it without any split in focus. No, really. She did. You’ll see what I mean when the chapter launches, but basically, I’m going to make this kind of an interlude chapter where I catch new or returning readers back up and
Just as soon as my prereaders have finished with it and I've given it an editing pass or three, possibly as soon as tonight. Readers of Nightmare Night who enjoy the figurative plot more than the literal kind may wish to give this one a look, as the chapters are shorter and completely given over to M-rated action without any of the scene-setting or world/character building I've got in the parent story.
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.
Hey, folks. Just wanted to let you know where things stand with the main and side story.
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.
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.
The anniversary is September 1st, and I can hardly let it pass without a new chapter release. Though I’m getting a late start on it, we’re going to try to get a new chapter ready in time. And by ‘we’ I mean me and AJ_Aficionado, who will be guest-writing a new Highborne sequence. We saw the Nightborne last chapter, so we’ll see the other side of the thestral divide in the new chapter. Needless to say, the griffies are playing both bat-pony factions against each other here; they don’t mind one
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