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otherunicorn


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  • 368 weeks
    All things must come to an end,

    All things must come to an end, and that time is near. H'ven Sent is almost at its intended conclusion. The final chapter has been written, and now needs checking over and tweaking.

    5 comments · 544 views
  • 413 weeks
    The big reveal?

    In the next installment, I reveal the species of the Warners - the aliens that have stolen the ponies' world. So, what will this creatures be?

    7 comments · 483 views
  • 433 weeks
    Off the rails.

    Life has been a bit awkward of late, including multiple trips to doctors, dentists, catscans, an ambulance trip due to chest pains (fortunately NOT my heart), so the latest chapter has been a real struggle to get out.

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    4 comments · 413 views
  • 442 weeks
    Break out the bubbly

    Break out the bubbly (not that I drink). I have half a chapter written. Boy, was this chapter a tough nut to crack. Difficult decisions. How to get it to hold together. Most importantly, going back to the root of the idea - what started this adventure. Originally, I expected this would be about chapter two...

    4 comments · 389 views
Aug
19th
2015

I write and I write... · 5:37am Aug 19th, 2015

I write and I write... yet somehow the latest chapter of H'ven Sent refuses to grow! Is there a black hole swallowing my words. Is there a write-once, read-never buffer between my brain and my keyboard?

WHY?????

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Comments ( 7 )

It happens... though my usual method of "just leave it for a couple of months" is probably not what you're looking for as solution :facehoof:

Nope. Definitely don't want to do that.

I have this problem when trying to write anything. Though ideas aren't the problem, I get stuck in "editing-loops" where I know I can make a sentence better but can't think how. Then I get angry and delete 2k words.

3413693 Indeed. Or you get most of the way through a chapter and have a better idea.

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"All these words are now meaningless!"

3414339 And I've done that a few times this chapter....

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Ouch, but as long as you are more satisfied with what you have just written compared to what had been deleted, that is what matters.

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