I'm Sorry!! · 1:06am Oct 6th, 2021
Forgive me dear readers for I have sinned......
I haven't written anymore of the story. I have been trying to write ch 4 for the last month and words are just struggling to make it out on the paper. That being said, I am still working through things with ch 5 to 10 (because I still have no idea how those are going to play out yet because the timing part is due in part because several stories intercept) so that everything lines up time/plot wise.
If you've read a story that doesn't have timings lined up/worked out right it can be annoying and this story is about to get hella complex in the middle because YAY time zones, they cluster buck the hell out of things at times. LOL.
I also bought a train sim game called Railroads Online and I'll be building a railroad empire that allows me to build tracks and run steam engines. Which is awesome.
If anyone wants to play it with me just PM me. I am looking to rebuild a similar representation of the E.R.R. in Trolley Car Brony's story that is based on events/story details before the events in my own story.
Anyways, I'll try to get this story a new chapter within the next week or so.
If the stories you're trying to intercept happen to be Five Score stories, let us know anyone from the Five Score group can help! I happen to know the timelines pretty well.
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Well, I think my issue is that I'm trying to figure out the timing with some of my other characters. See I'm trying to make it to where different things happen in the timeline for my characters. So it doesn't feel like a 100% rip off of the story it's based around. So that's where I'm having a hard time in the timeline.
I'm currently struggling with ch 4 (which is going to be the last we hear from Ben for a bit) because I'm trying to figure out how to move the plot/story along without feeling like I'm just saying, "things happened, now prepare for this scene. BTW, I didn't build it up or anything." I don't want to do a massive time skip and then jump straight into the next thing that I've got planned but I'm not sure how to write it out without making it feel like you're watching paint dry.
The struggle is real. LOL. Also, I'm not the strongest of writers and I have a hard time getting my words to sound right.
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Oh sure! I think I get you. It can be hard to go from scene-to-scene!
Sometimes we just gotta write the transition paragraph about traveling or find a way to connect the two scenes and make it flow as best as we can. Maybe ending a scene with dialogue that anticipates the next scene shown so that the jump makes sense for the reader's anticipation?
I'm not the strongest of writers either! Sometimes you just gotta put down a Horizontal Rule
and jump to the next part, especially when things get choppy. Sometimes when I do that I'll come back to that jump when editing/finishing up the chapter and figure out how to make the transitional paragraph or two fit.
The most important part is you get it written! Once it's written down, even poorly, it can be fixed easier! Plus readers are a lot more forgiving than we are. We are our worst critics and all that.
I hope things go well! I want to read more about the railroad ponies!