"Regular Updates" he said... plus new short! · 9:09pm Mar 12th, 2013
So, yeah, I did say I'd try to post things on a regular basis, didn't I? Unfortunately that promise was made immediately prior to my life up and exploding on me.
Not in a bad way, exactly. More in a "hey here are some cool opportunities are you ready to drop everything and work your ass off for them?" sorta way. So the past few weeks have been filled with scripting and then frantic studying for my big final English Major exam next weekend, since the huge amount of script writing I did ate up a ton of time that would have been good to put into studying for that.
Anyway, I'm on break now, which means that I can give 6-8 hours to studying every day and still take a few seconds out to deal with some unfinished business. As such! Have a new-old story, The Old Mare's Speech, previously written for Thirty Minute Ponies, now coming to you with a few minor edits. (Yeah, this was another one that I took about an hour to actually write. I can't write ~2k in 30 minutes. What can I say, I'm awful at pacing myself to a prompt... something to work on when/if I go back to doing TMPs) It's a sweet little story about the political machinations of Mayor Mare.
Oh! And one good thing to come of all this is that, as of next Saturday (sidebar: AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!) I'll have completed everything to do with my English major other than finishing my last set of classes, which means--maybe--time to actually hold to my promise to EVENTUALLY finish Good Cop, Ghost Chop and Lost Friends. I even have another Twilestia story in a weird state where lots of words have been written but they turned into a story I didn't actually mean to write, and so need to be rewritten.*
Stay posted.
(Sorry, that was to the blog. But if you want to check back now and then I will eventually have more things for you to read, I swear)
* There's two schools of thought attendant upon this sort of thing. The first says that when you write a story you often don't know what you really mean to say until you've reached the end, and when the ending surprises you it's because you've figured out what the story really was. Thus it's better to let go of your preconceptions of what the story you were working on was "supposed to be" and find a way to write the story you obviously had inside of you all along.
The other school of thought says that you let yourself get carried away with drama and painful confrontations in a fic where they don't belong, and anyway you already wrote a fic about the bad-ending of Twilestia and this thing was supposed to be light and funny, so get in there and fix it, dammit.
It's been a month since I updated a story I was planning to do every week because I'm an agoraphobic attending uni in the middle of the city.
It's not bad, and it leaves me with the overwhelming urge to write, but it's thoroughly exhausting in every sense and meaning of that one simple word.
Err... Not meaning to one up you, or take time away from your spotlight, I'm just saying that it's really funny that when you really promise to buckle down and write...
That's when the universe decides to fuck with you.