NORTH · 8:30am Aug 3rd, 2015
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It's been a while. In the past year and a half, despite occasionally crawling back here to whine about the show's direction, I've largely stayed away from Pony and spent a lot of time in other fandoms. My writing and my understanding of writing has been improved in important ways, and I've come to realize certain bad habits I used to have, (primarily in jumping in before properly fleshing out my ideas.) Furthermore, this time away from Pony has extended to my own multi-chapter stories, which
It's been a long time.
Only the first 20 seconds are relevant, but I do reccomend watching the full video if you somehow haven't seen it before
Admittedly not much has changed on the lineup, but I wanted to let you know of an event that has occurred today that promises all the stories one heck of a boost up into the "Needs Editing" and "Awaiting Release" sections. I have made an actual, measurably significant jump forward in progress on The Atlantis Scenario! Given the last time I made this amount of headway was back in early 2014, I was half-expecting to have to release everything else while this and OR remained stuck,
First off, decided to remove Mentor, Teacher, Princess, Principal from the lineup. That one's a bit of a fixer-upper, to be frank. On the upside, another oneshot has been added instead. But I have even better news! TAS Chapter 2 is finally done! Still needs editing, obviously, but hey; we're getting there!
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Needs Rewriting
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2) ~90%
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~33%
Contrast (Prologue) ~52%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~15%
Sirens In The Distance is finished! I intend to turn my focus to Lunch Break and Contrast, and then once one of those two is also ready, it'll be time for me to tackle the big one: Of Responsibility! Progress is being made, folks.
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Rewriting
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2) ~90%
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Contrast (Prologue) ~85%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~20%+5%
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~90%
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Rewriting
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2) ~90%
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~33%
Contrast (Prologue) ~52%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~15%
Pretty Much Good To Go, Probably
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon)
Lunch Break (Oneshot)
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1)
Needs Revision
Contrast (Prologue)
The Jamming July Jaunt is still a thing, despite OMEGA TREE HUGGER's abrupt arrival. I have another story that I'll be adding to the lineup, as I wrote the first chapter's first draft yesterday and today. I've also made some further progress on The Shore Of Infinity and Sirens In The Distance.
So, the current lineup:
Needs Editing
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Mentor, Teacher, Princess, Principal (Chapter 1)
Needs Rewriting
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Contrast (Prologue) ~52%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~20%
I got a good chunk of progress on TSOI done over the weekend. We're getting there...
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Contrast (Prologue) ~75%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~20%+5%
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon)
Lunch Break (Oneshot)
Needs Finishing
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~70%
Well, after a year and a month, I've finally finished and released my planned chapters for the Jamming July Jaunt/Amazing August Avalanche.
I don't think I'll be doing something quite like that again, but it was rather helpful with making some much-needed writing progress. I've learned from this. I will be trying to release updates as they're written in the future, but having a to-do list (and an outline!) will be seriously helpful moving forward.
So what's my new itinerary?
So I finally revised Day One Morning, though it ended up taking less change than I expected. I also thought to revise some of the dialogue between Luna and Chrysalis at the end, but now I think it may not need it as badly as I thought. Their exchanges will be more subtle in the future, though.
Oh, but there's more! For all two of you following progress on my planned JJJ event, I have good news!
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)
Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~65%
Let's kick off the Amazing August Avalanche!
On the schedule for y'all folks, in order of release:
1st: Fluttering, Shimmering
2nd: The Shore Of Infinity
3rd: Temptation Waits (Update)
Break on the 4th
5th: Harbringers
6th: Lunch Break
7th: The Atlantis Scenario (Update)
Break on the 8th
9th: Contrast
10th: Sirens In The Distance
11th: Of Responsibility (Update)