End of Life for My Story · 2:19pm Dec 22nd, 2017
Today, I have decided to cancel The View from Rock Bottom.
Today, I have decided to cancel The View from Rock Bottom.
Only 94,648 written in an entire year... I need to step up my game.
Anyway, for anyone that still cares or remembers this story, I am working on the next chapter and hope to release it sometime this month.
More details and sorry excuses after the break.
Yep, looks that way. I am working on the next chapter. It is at 11k currently and on the final scene.
Think I found my mojo again for writing. Still not a writer, but I am getting there, or at least getting better at not doing anything at all.
2016-09-29 Edit: Waiting on approval from pre-readers/proofreaders and it will be out before the month is over.
Also, I haven't been playing Mega Man fan games (The only place Mega Man continues to live.), Dark Souls (The first one because I'm that far behind.), or Pokemon Uranium (Habits formed as a seven year old are hard to break, but at least I'm sworn off the official stuff.). All those things in parenthesis should be ignored, and are things I would be saying if I did in fact spend the past month and a half playing video games. I've totally been writing, casually weight lifting, and eating less fast
Well... I was close to finishing chapter seven... then realized it was terrible. Now I'm down from 12k words (which was about 70% completion for the chapter) to 3k. The massive scrap wasn't because I'm a perfectionist or anything (Payday 2 killed that part of me long ago), but because I genuinely didn't think the direction I took the chapter was good.
I think my struggle to write is due to both a lack of alcohol, and a dispassionate association with life at the moment.
Well, the next chapter is half done. Got it all planned out, and have written a little over half of what I have planned. I continue to be a terribly slow writer, but I'll get it done eventually.
You can stop reading now, the rest is just about how incompetent I am.
Currently the chapter comes in at 10k. I thought about releasing it where it's at right now, but I think it needs at least one more scene after the one I'm currently on. My PPSEFF (Pre-reader Proofreader Sometimes Editor Friend Forever) said a couple things that made me think about the pacing, and I decided the story needs to be sped up a bit, so the next chapter will see things moving along faster than they have.
I feel like I'm letting you down. I know what I'm going to write for the next chapter, but I just never seem to write enough each day. It is shaping up to be a long one, well probably not that long, but at least around a 10k word count. I suppose my lack of any actual writing throughout my life is the biggest cause, but I just feel like I should be able to at the very least 1k words down everyday, and not my pitiful 200-500 word count.
For anyone that read that broken import from Google Docs, I'm sorry. Forgot to see how it looked, since I never had a problem like that happen before, and you paid for my mistake. I'll remember to look at my chapters in the future, before I publish.
After the break, is a bonus for reading this blogpost; a what-if scenario where Twilight didn't trigger and get her cutiemark.