Why I should right faster... · 7:07pm Mar 7th, 2016
I'm slow. I've been working on writing a single, non-plural story, for just over 2 years. Carry On Wayward Storm is just a simple story about my pegasus OC, Stormwing. Right now, it's just over 35k words, and 81 pages long. That's about 48 words a day, roughly.
So yeah, needless to say even though my story takes place in the middle of Season 4, Season 6 is right around the corner. But on the plus side, I was on the last 2 chapters or so for my story. Huzzah...
Except, then the promo for Season 6 hit.
Everything was going so good, and then Flurry Heart causes a giant snowstorm. And that hits at the crux of the story I was working on. Stormwing was being written to go to the Crystal Kingdom, and become a weather pony for the place, mostly because hey, while the weather is (or at least in my brain) controlled and mitigated by the Crystal Heart's power of love and stuff... you could always use a few weather ponies for official stuff like taking care of things further away from the kingdom, where the weather isn't yet mitigated by the Crystal Hearth.
Yeah, that giant-winged baby just blew up my fanfic.
Maybe if I just did it faster, I wouldn't be in this problem. But no, inspiration and lack of drive killed any sort of speed, then Flurry Heart blew it up with an accidental spell. I was so sure of myself.
Salen: "Salen, you've got this fanfic down. Just write down the last few chapters and you can publish it and pretend this never happened."
Salen's Brain: "Good idea. And I can use the Crystal Kingdom. No one cares about it. And even less about what type of Weather Ponies a place like that would have."
Salen: "Indeed. There'll never been any official mention of an official Weather Team in the CK, so my story will be in-canon, or at least canon-neutral."
Salen's Brain: "True. Oh, hey look, Season 6 promo!" 
Salen: "Wait, Weather, Snow Storm, Blizzard, Crystal Kingdom. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-----!" 
Salen's Brain: "Guess what kingdom has no official weather pony team now?" 
Salen: 
Salen's Brain: "I wonder how we're going to get back to canon-neutral status. Oh, wait, that's my job. Huh. Maybe I'll figure that out in a year or two."
Salen: 
That may or may not have happened. Needless to say, I suck at writing and Flurry Hearth is a cute, giant winged destroyer of fanfics.
AU tag ftw
3796106 Ferrets were trying to avoid that tag. Or try really really really hard anyways.
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A lot of people do, but it's your only recompense if you're unable to get stories out before canon screws you. :B
3796268 I think I'm gunna wait for the new season to start, then see how badly I have to do a rewrite. The idea could still work, I just might have to change a few things. But it's easier if I don't worry about it till it's actually out. Easier than worrying about what I don't know.