I write MLP: FiM fan fiction in my spare time, which is approx. once a month due to my current schedule. I don't put out much, but what I do put out hopefully will be good, if not now then later.
The new chapter of My Little Poem is up and published! This is something to celebrate! A brand new chapter!
After four-and-a-half months....
Ehh, I'm sure other folks have it worse with their stories 
First off, my writing schedule has nosedived because I have started school. Which means Mechanical Engineering Senior Design. Guess where my free time went? :P
Second, I have been following the most recent hot button topics in the gaming industry news from a distance, and I feel like I am finally comfortable forming my subjective, personal opinion about the main, general issues.
Hello FimFiction folks,
I once again tweaked the first chapter of My Little Poem. It is strange how the smallest bits of advice can help you gain a deeper understanding of your own work... at the risk of your own personal vision. I hope I managed to reach a happy medium with this current revision, but time will tell if it stands the test of time.
You can see it here:
I responded with a rather lengthy comment already on that blog post, and I wanted to explain why I went so in-depth with my response, and why I felt like it was necessary.
For contrast, I will compare how my long-form story, My Little Poem, has so far performed against my contest entry for Obselescence's Most Dangerous Game contest, The Janitor Named Dustbowl.
Hello everyone,
I'm giving a brief update on something I've worked on for the past week or so. It's a new story, this one a one-shot I decided to write for that contest Obselescence is holding: The Most Dangerous Game Contest. I had a whim, and I followed it for the heck of it.
Some questions that some folks may have:
Should you all expect a change from my usual writing format?
As a rare few of you may have known, I have been writing My Little Poem over the course of a year-and-a-half. As I have written it, the story has morphed from something more or less pathetic into something that actually has a modicum of artistic craft behind it. However, the first chapter has always stood out as a sore thumb no matter how much I tried to soldier on and complete the story.
The specter of the semester has come and squashed my free time. Couple that with Diablo 3 on consoles, and it's like I don't have time or writing anymore.
So, am I giving up the ghost? Course not, silly! I would never give up writing unless something happened that made me physically incapable of doing it. In this case, it is simply business and laziness as the main culprits behind my drop in output... which was already scarce as it is.
Well... NaNoWriMo came... and went.
And I got about... oh.... 10% done.
I did what I could. But then I realized something: I wasn't ready for it.
I can't handle more than 1k words per DAY. My schedule, especially in November, just doesn't cut it. And things will likely get more crazy now that I'm getting close to wrapping up my BSE in Mechanical Engineering.
Not only that, but the stress I was putting on myself wasn't healthy. Like, at all.
I've been hawking around my story My Little Poem to several groups. Let me give you a rundown of just how many threads I made over the past month:
http://www.fimfiction.net/group/394/struggling-authors/thread/45553/i-posted-the-first-couple-of-chapters-of-my-new-story
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