Response to Last Chapter · 3:51am Dec 2nd, 2013
Okay, now that I'm refreshed, I think I'm ready to elaborate on this a bit. I literally just got home from a long trip to visit family for Thanksgiving and didn't have the energy to write a lengthy blog post.
So, from the little I've heard, the latest chapter had a bit of a problem: Pinkie Pie made it very difficult to read. This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I wrote Pinkie Pie, so naturally it doesn't make much sense to keep the chapter around the way it is.
In essence, I had two choices:
1) Take the bastard route and keep it the way it is, despite it being unenjoyable *coughgeorgelucascough*, or
2) Take the high road that Bioware took when they screwed up their Mass Effect 3 ending: listen to the reader base, take their feedback to heart, and give them what they want. In the case of this latest chapter, a better Pinkie Pie.
Now, as far as Pinkie Pie is concerned, unless I want to completely write her out of the story altogether, I will have to write her in a potentially dramatically different way. It may take some time to make the change, particular whilst preserving the layout of the chapter. Pinkie Pie will be showing up in future chapters (albeit not as center-focused as she is in this chapter), and I won't stand for her ruining entire scenes later on. This needs to be fixed before I move on.
In the mean time, if anyone else has read the chapter and has any other comments or concerns while I address this issue, please feel free to mention them below. I do not plan on changing anything in the chapter that was not problem-bound, which as far as I can tell is anything that's not Pinkie Pie. For everyone else, just sit tight, and a modified version of the chapter will eventually be re-published.
;_;
Ah, I see. Well, if you're sure, it is your story. It'll be interesting to see what you do with it. Good luck with deciding what to do!