AMA About The Last Vacation · 11:25pm Aug 16th, 2015
It's not the end, of course, just the end of this story. I wish I'd kept some thoughts on this story as I wrote it, like thoughts on what I was thinking at the time, or what I wanted to accomplish with this or that like my editor, Minds Eye, did for his story To Serve the Hive. Alas, I did not.
But, the story is finished, so the first thing I'll say is: Do you have any questions about the story and what anything of it means?
I may not answer directly if it spoils something in the next story or is not something that I have decided firmly on.
I will say, however, that the outline of the story changed as I went along and the view forward looked different from inside a scene than from the outside. However, looking back at my oldest outline, I see much of the oldest parts stayed in.
So... What questions have ya got now that it's over?
Having seen a lot of the changes on the inside as well, there is one thing I'd like to know. Was there one specific moment that made you shift your plans, or was it all based on reflection of your ideas and what had already been written down?
Good to see this one finished all the same. We started these stories pretty close, didn't we? To Serve and TLV. And we finished them in the same week. Good synergy!
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I would have to say that the ending of it started to change around the fourth chapter. By the fifth, it was almost certain where it would end. By the sixth, I knew, and I knew the shape of the ending, if not the specifics or when certain events would have to happen, but I also knew that they had to happen in order to get the story to the point I wanted it.
It all mattered on building up the idea, and building up the end, and both Rainbow's and Twilight's actions and reactions following her morning encounter with Dash. That's when I knew what would have to happen, and what would happen.