Happy Third Anniversary, The Stereotypical Necromancer! · 7:01pm April 4th
It's been three whole years since I started writing! Woohoo! All that time wasted thinking about ponies!
It's been three whole years since I started writing! Woohoo! All that time wasted thinking about ponies!
Hiya! How's tricks? Are you doing well?
Sorry I've not been around or writing much for, like, a month. I put out a side story a 'lil while ago, but it's honestly not my best work. You can go read it if you haven't, but I can do better—and I should've done better. It's just that writing has been... a tenuous activity for me for awhile now.
What it says on the tin!
Just thought I'd give a 'lil heads up, since I'm anticipating total completion of the chapter in the next few days. Three, tops. i've said stuff like that before. hedge your bets, 'cause it might take four
I think it came out fairly interesting in the minutia, not to mention I'm dropping a biggol plot bomb! This is going somewhere. I promise, you're gonna get something out of this chapter.
So, I'm guessing there's one of those two things you're probably more interested in, yeah?
Well, too bad! I'm talking about the dream I had last night, first!
Hiya! How's tricks? Keeping well? Sitting comfortably?
...I'll assume you're doing okay, since this is an evidently parasocial conversation between me and a completely fictional second party with which I share no apparent relationship.read: you
As always, I'm feeling a bit badly for leaving people in the lurch for longer than a week- or a month- so I thought I'd check in and let everyone know I'm not dead.
I really don't have anything profound to say; I just wanted to throw an update out there. For a while, progress was going really great- until it suddenly wasn't. I don't know if the specific section of the chapter is throwing me off or if I'm just going through another drought, but I'm consistently finding myself staring, dumbstruck, at a page that's empty from the waist down. Like... a pent-up teenager.
yyyyyeah, so I realized today that I kinda wrote the entire section of my notes on Dark magic while referring to it as Black magic, and I further realized that I'd meant to call it Black magic in the story and always deferred to Dark magic on instinct. I wrote an entire well-reasoned explanation on why it's specifically called 'Black' magic, as well, so in the face of either changing the details of the unfocused story verses my extremely
I've had this picture in another tab pretty much the entire time I've been writing the next chapter, because it's just the perfect facial reference, and she's so pretty.
https://derpibooru.org/images/1255029?sort[]=1767&sort[]=1255029&sd=desc&sf=upvotes&q=applejack
Look at that mare. Is there any wonder Light's in love with her?
chapter's probably coming out tomorrow
Woohoo! Let's give it up for two years of waiting for Necromancy!
Hey guys/gals/other, I've got a quick question for anyone awake enough to answer.
Would you prefer a ~4k word chapter posted literally right now, or a ~7k word chapter posted in... around two to three days? When I posted the last chapter, I had the chapter I'm sitting on now finished at 4k words, but then I decided to expand on it by tacking on the next little bit of the story.
i cropped a stolen picture of bon bon for this and i give NO CREDIT
unless asked for
Mmmmm that submit button is riiiight next to the edit button.
I'm sorry.
it took two months.
it took over 40k words, most of which were cut and recut over and over again
it took a year and a half to get here
it took 100k words of buildup
i've got a massive headache and i'm badly dehydrated
expect it soon
by soon i mean a few days because it needs a ton of editing first sorry
It's come. The time has come.
For another delay!
mmmyeah next chapter's not done, and it's not likely to get done by tomorrow. It's got, like, 3k words so far, and that's unedited.
That's right! I'm rereleasing an HD version of TSN for full price with no other additions!
No, wait, I'm just rebranding chapter 40. Where'd that come from?
Yeah so, if you keep in touch with my blogs, you'll know that I recently asked whether I should retitle the disparate parts of the ever-arduous chapter 40, and as one person replied telling me they thought it was an okay idea, I went ahead and did it!
...That I could go back and redo the first three parts of chapter 40. :T
It's been a general slog althroughout, right? But the first three parts were just so- blegh. I had barely any idea whatsoever about how to take the scene, and rather than try to pen out a clear outline and really think through character motivations, I went instead for heavy-handed descriptors and 'moments.'
Although, I hadn't ever really left. In-between last chapter and the one I just put out, I did write an entire story. As well as a side chapter a month after- so really, my period of pure inactivity only lasted two months. Technically my longest one, but I wrote a loooot of notes in the interim~
Mmmmyeah-hi. It's me- I'm back- miss me- my issues- hiatus-
None of that matters. I'm uploading a chapter like, tomorrow, and I'll be putting a blog out about where the story's going someothertime, but i'm tired, and I'm asking this question at 2am for a reason.