Two Hundred Chapters · 2:34am Jan 3rd, 2018
It's been a long time coming, but... wow. I've taken a daily through two hundred chapters without missing a single day, according to fimfiction (only in my timezone, granted), never dropping below a thousand words at a time, and never buffering more than one chapter in advance. This is kind of surreal, especially given this story's inspiration.
I'd like to say it's also completely stunning and in defiance of my expectations for what would happen when I started publishing this, though that isn't exactly true: I prepared for a long time prior to starting to be sure I'd be able to do what I envisioned, and have always intended for the story to go this far and beyond. A lot further beyond, in fact. More than another two hundred chapters. So for the thirty-odd people who stay caught up and have stuck with this crazy story this far, thank you, and here's to the next leg of this journey.
For everyone else who follows me for some reason other than The Olden World, I've been... pretty silent. In fact, I've done basically nothing since publishing TOW - I've been pouring everything I have into this story, and that means other projects have fallen to the wayside. At least there's nothing sitting around with a big fat Hiatus tag, or anything, but there hasn't been any new content, either. I'd like to change that. I'd like to enter more contests, write a Sunset Shimmer story that's actually good, work on the sequel to Stay Determined... but new years' resolutions are meant to be broken, so this doesn't really seem like the best time to make promises, especially since I've been saying I'll do it for months now. Maybe, though. Fingers crossed.
Well, I'm going to go write Cht.201. Have fun, everyone.
Congratulations! And thanks for your hard work on TOW. It's been a great ride so far!
I've been wondering where we are in the overall story, and it sounds like we're not quite halfway. I only wish you had more readers of this - it deserves to be way more widely read and enjoyed!
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