OK, I know, moar Friendship is Escape Velocity. I'm working on it.

I'm also working more than full time hours, and on getting over what's either chronic or stress-aggravated depression. You see, until next week I'm working two jobs, one of which ends this Saturday. I'll have a full weekend for myself back, oh happiness joy and explosive rectal bleeding.

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I just responded to an email from a member of WRITE, who was interested in doing a review for Shetlander 1.0. I was tickled about that, and in responding to his innocent query about what I was going to change, I found myself undergoing a process of narrowing down what I'm going to change.

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One of the clangers that mars the original Shetlander is the terrible mess I made of Shetlander names.

For the rewrite, I'm going with two simple rules:
1. All Shetlanders have a personal name followed by their clan name.
2. All clan names are some cheezy pun based on the prefix 'Mac' and assorted Scottish stereotypes, cliches, corruptions of existing surnames, and symbols.

This should make it easier to read the names, as there won't be Google Gaelic.

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So the Kiwi radio stations are playing Coldplay's Sky Full of Stars to death - which personally I might purchase as a single, it'd make a nice euphoric club tune - and my imagination grew hooves.

For some reason I'm seeing a video for it. It starts with a girl in a hospital bed - possibly the oncology ward. It's late, and she's nodding off, as the camera closes on her worn face, surrounded by her favourite cartoon franchise and a big deep blue plushie.

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That's what my exposure to the Caribou Empire / Fall of Equestria alternate universe makes me think of.

That is all.

With regards to Friendship is Escape Velocity, I'm currently wading through the next chapter. It's not a good one. In fact, it's entirely possible that Haversack Joe might die.

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There's a chance that later on I'll port Friendship is Escape Velocity over here, but I'm in two minds about whether I should consider tightening up the story.

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My very first blog post on this site was a grouse about how this... manuscript... needed a rewrite. Well, after about forty thousand not entirely well-chosen words - maybe I will. But I'm not starting today.

NaNoWriMo 2012 taught me that when it comes to the blazing fires of unquenchable creativity, I'm actually pretty quenchable. I had a vague idea, started in with the charge, burned out, and ended up in a place I had to struggle to get out of.

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Well, it's almost done. Over a year since I attempted NaNoWriMo in 2012, I'll finally finish this story in the next chapter.

I'll freely admit I've made mistakes. There's the whole Colthulhu Mythos business that finally culminated in Chekov's Abomination finally being summoned. (I'm sure you know the adage: The cosmic horror mentioned in Act I has to eat the cast in Act III.) I had only the vaguest notion of plot: just the following list.

* Scottish ponies

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TricornKing asked me what status fluffy ponies have in my story Shetlander, and I've been pondering about that.

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