Two years ago I read the last chapter you published... and then you went silent, I was sad because I thought I would never know the end of this journey... but this morning when I saw the update before leaving to work, I genuinely smiled... I can easily say that the wait was worth it... please, don't take another two years to finish this.
I promise I won't. I've already started the next chapter. Did you see "A Perfect Pair" yet? It's one of the best, if not the best episodes of the series (in my opinion) Sorry for not keeping up - but feel free at ANY time to shoot me an email at idigapony@optonline.net to give me a kick in the butt! It's really encouraging to know that someone out there cares if I add to my work or not. It's funny, I was just reading that chapter with Dash and Twilight before going into the woods. When you're away from something like that you forget you wrote it. I love their conversation but kind of from an outsider's point of view. I hope I can keep up that level of writing. When you get Dash's voice, she is so much fun to write for. Actually I have been working on Not So Quiet on the Set and Don't Pass Me By. I'm having a real struggle with Harmony waking up and the subsequent "dance" with Rainbow. I've been busting my butt trying to make it sound like the real Dashie and her approach to sex. You think you have it then you leave it and come back to it and think "WTF was I thinking?!!" Also moving ahead with the BIG one - Carry that Weight. Back at the Castle with AJ, Celestia and Luna. 1/2 through with that chapter. Much on many fronts... But keep bugging me!! It's really encouraging.
Oh - about this chapter and the mare and her cheerleader friend - that is an homage to Killryde and his brief comic Bridle Girls. A NSFW piece for sure, but really well done. A brilliant artist.
8249693 Good to read that you're re-taking your writing, I'll be expecting the nex chapter with eagerness, as for the question if I have seen the chapter you mention, the thruth is that I stopped seeing the show after Equestrian Games, the show kind of lost its magic for me on that point and haven't seen a chapter since that, I have read some good comments of the latest seasons, but I'm not that interested in the show anymore to try and jump back, don't get me wrong, now and then I see one or two chapters of the first and second season, but that's not enough to hook me again, I blame life and kind of maturing for that, but... do you think I should give it a second chance?
I stay in this site because, same as you, some people are awaiting updates of my stories I have posted, and I know that just as I did with you, they'll be really happy when they see the notification of a new chapter. (And of course because here I can let my imagination fly away, the joys of being a fanfiction writer... of course... while it last.)
I guess part of it is what you get out of it. J D Salinger (Catcher In The Rye) wrote for years after he stopped publishing. He wrote for himself. It seemed to me like kind of a weird idea at first, but now I can understand. When I write, as when I read, I escape to wherever the author or story takes me. As I've said, when I write Pony I am with them, letting them speak. I could never come up with all this, I just tell their stories as they somehow tell me.
I have to believe in the Ponies to write about them, and I do. What does that mean? I don't know, I guess I feel like I'm channeling them. Very weird, I know, but it makes me happy in a world that lacks happiness - they give me refuge. As I fall asleep at night I think about what will be happening next in a chapter and I fall asleep.
Season 7? "A Perfect Pair" really blew me away. When you spend as much time getting into the heads of the ponies as most of the writers do I suspect, then you can't watch that episode and not be moved. Every time I see it there are tears in my eyes throughout the episode. That may be somewhat unique to me as a parent and someone who is more than grateful to continue living.
I have the next chapter finished except for editing it on this site (I work in Google Docs) The chapter after that is 75% done and the one after that is 45% done. Expect the 3 to roll out, soon.
Finally, with respect to maturing I would defer to the brilliant novelist C. S. Lewis:
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence, they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
Two years ago I read the last chapter you published... and then you went silent, I was sad because I thought I would never know the end of this journey... but this morning when I saw the update before leaving to work, I genuinely smiled... I can easily say that the wait was worth it... please, don't take another two years to finish this.
I promise I won't. I've already started the next chapter. Did you see "A Perfect Pair" yet? It's one of the best, if not the best episodes of the series (in my opinion)
Sorry for not keeping up - but feel free at ANY time to shoot me an email at idigapony@optonline.net to give me a kick in the butt! It's really encouraging to know that someone out there cares if I add to my work or not.
It's funny, I was just reading that chapter with Dash and Twilight before going into the woods. When you're away from something like that you forget you wrote it. I love their conversation but kind of from an outsider's point of view. I hope I can keep up that level of writing. When you get Dash's voice, she is so much fun to write for. Actually I have been working on Not So Quiet on the Set and Don't Pass Me By. I'm having a real struggle with Harmony waking up and the subsequent "dance" with Rainbow. I've been busting my butt trying to make it sound like the real Dashie and her approach to sex. You think you have it then you leave it and come back to it and think "WTF was I thinking?!!" Also moving ahead with the BIG one - Carry that Weight. Back at the Castle with AJ, Celestia and Luna. 1/2 through with that chapter. Much on many fronts...
But keep bugging me!!
It's really encouraging.
Oh - about this chapter and the mare and her cheerleader friend - that is an homage to Killryde and his brief comic Bridle Girls. A NSFW piece for sure, but really well done. A brilliant artist.
8249693 Good to read that you're re-taking your writing, I'll be expecting the nex chapter with eagerness, as for the question if I have seen the chapter you mention, the thruth is that I stopped seeing the show after Equestrian Games, the show kind of lost its magic for me on that point and haven't seen a chapter since that, I have read some good comments of the latest seasons, but I'm not that interested in the show anymore to try and jump back, don't get me wrong, now and then I see one or two chapters of the first and second season, but that's not enough to hook me again, I blame life and kind of maturing for that, but... do you think I should give it a second chance?
I stay in this site because, same as you, some people are awaiting updates of my stories I have posted, and I know that just as I did with you, they'll be really happy when they see the notification of a new chapter. (And of course because here I can let my imagination fly away, the joys of being a fanfiction writer... of course... while it last.)
I guess part of it is what you get out of it. J D Salinger (Catcher In The Rye) wrote for years after he stopped publishing. He wrote for himself. It seemed to me like kind of a weird idea at first, but now I can understand. When I write, as when I read, I escape to wherever the author or story takes me. As I've said, when I write Pony I am with them, letting them speak. I could never come up with all this, I just tell their stories as they somehow tell me.
I have to believe in the Ponies to write about them, and I do. What does that mean? I don't know, I guess I feel like I'm channeling them. Very weird, I know, but it makes me happy in a world that lacks happiness - they give me refuge. As I fall asleep at night I think about what will be happening next in a chapter and I fall asleep.
Season 7? "A Perfect Pair" really blew me away. When you spend as much time getting into the heads of the ponies as most of the writers do I suspect, then you can't watch that episode and not be moved. Every time I see it there are tears in my eyes throughout the episode. That may be somewhat unique to me as a parent and someone who is more than grateful to continue living.
I have the next chapter finished except for editing it on this site (I work in Google Docs) The chapter after that is 75% done and the one after that is 45% done. Expect the 3 to roll out, soon.
Finally, with respect to maturing I would defer to the brilliant novelist C. S. Lewis:
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence, they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
I see she's now more or less accidentally come on to all of her friends ...