Can I just say I'm glad I found a way to explore my changeling headcanon naturally?
Can I just say I'm glad I found a way to explore my changeling headcanon naturally?
Keeping it short and sweet so I can get back to Chapter 19. I am nearing completion of the first draft, and I wanna get it done ASAP.
And there was much rejoicing!
She was a fairy by @blacksswan on Twitter
Don't let the hissing fool you. Rejoicing is occurring!
I finished the first draft back in mid April. It took until today to make it work. And of course, I hit my arbitrary 10K limit again.
Hello everyone! Chrysalis isn't cooperating at the moment...
And we're back in the normal swing of things. I released Unchanging Truths latest chapter right before crawling into bed, and it showed. I went through it just now and made a few more changes. I might revisit this chapter again at a later date as I sorta dropped the ball with the narration's flavor. It's not country enough, but it's hard to be with the content of the chapter. I'll probably do so in my final review of the fic after I've finished writing it.
Heyo everyone. Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and New Years. I'm just dropping this blog off here to let y'all know I'm coming off my winter break and will be writing again. I purposely have avoided writing any words since the last blog, even going so far as to stay off of Discord to just be for a bit. I'm glad I took the time off. Feeling refreshed and ready to get back into words.
Tomorrow...
Because it's 10:30 PM now and I'm going to bed.
One of the good things about being stuck on a chapter for so long is my mind wanders of what I'd rather be writing. In this case, Unchanging Truths 11! This one came together quickly as a matter of necessity. This chapter wasn't supposed to go this hard, but then I remembered a little detail I'd left alone and how this would be the time to strike. It's a little bit of a departure since many of the things inside it are so self-contained. I usually like letting a few things stew for longer, but
I completely forgot to come up with the name of the chapter. I kinda knew what song I wanted to use, which I'm running out of Katzenjammer to apply so I'm gonna have to branch out. Luckily, we're not in constant gloom and doom mode anymore so it'll be fine! Time to actually have fun with these two now that the stage is set.
Sweet Celestia and by the Light of Luna... so many words were slaughtered. 3K to get the chapter even started in the first place, another 4K from scraping and restarting the latter scene of the chapter, and around 600 words of Zecora couplets now sitting in a scraps folder in the event I can work them in somehow somewhere else.
Unchanging Truths was supposed to be the easier fic to write...
Oh my gosh, why did I do that? You know what I did last weekend? Wrote. I wrote like... a lot. I basically channeled the time I used to spent gaming in MMOs to grind out levels to grind out words. I think I spend a combined 20 to 30 hours writing. Since I've gotten the help from a few others, I feel like I can just go. Editor, Proofreader, and Prereaders really sped up my output. Great for productivity, but this must be unsustainable. The work is fun, but it's still work. I'm pretty sure
Quick turnaround on these two, huh? I knew I was going to be hammering these out back to back, so I wanted to leave the blog plugging Kingsredarmy's Harmonic Cognition for a bit longer.
Did you check it out? You were supposed to do that.
King worked hard and I worked him over to get that hard work out.
Well, this took longer than I wanted it to. Spent a few hours over the past couple of days just staring at lines of dialogue going "This is how I would say this, how would a narcissist say the same thing?" Trying to keep Chrysalis in villain mode and not being outright villainous is hard.
No seriously guys! You just need to give her a chance!
See the title? That means lots of writing will likely occur for a month barring the few responsibilities I have to work and if I wind up going anywhere this summer. If I don't make any plans, it's just words occupying my time. Nice way to save money at least.
Yay for quiet summers!