Just a general update · 1:52pm Oct 10th, 2020
You know how there's this sentiment that a lot of people don't go to the hospital even when they should?
I'm not entirely convinced about that's a valid feedback to give in general. I mean, the medical community have enough on their plate, even without pandemics, without everyone going to see a medical professional every time they have the flu, or a stomach bug, or something.
But if the meaning behind the sentiment is that a lot of people feel the need that they should "walk off" a lot of things that the medical community is there to help them with, well, that might have some merit.
After the last few months, I suspect it applies to mental issues as well as physical ones.
It's been tough lately. Not sure why, probably because there're lots of issues. Lots of things gnawing at me and not enough things going my way perhaps. I don't think "getting help" the way people think would have been for me though, and this isn't machismo speaking, it's just not an issue, it's many small issues.
What I'm getting at is that it's been really tough writing things the last few... not just weeks, months, more than a year even. The last few days have been feeling better, and I hope it's not a temporary thing. So anyway, that's why I haven't been able to write a lot, and what I'm managed to do with my human club story has been done in an uphill.
So, should my recent feeling of normality not be a fluke, I might be able to finally get something done with MLAABQ: Noble Goals finally. I've decided to scrap a bunch of ideas for it, and considering it was like a year's worth of frustrated planning, I feel strangely good chucking so much of it out. Yes, I'm restarting at square one, but I'm no longer trying to build a build a city with a handful of gravel. No more throwing good ideas after bad ones I hope.
In fact, I was so willing to write again that I whipped up a demo for a crossover with Friendship is Magic and Harry Potter, where instead of ending up in the Equestria Girls world, Sunset Shimmer ends up in Hogwarts. Not the most original idea, but I don't really care.
I wrote it because I wanted to write something... easier. Instead of building these elaborate scenarios where the heroes mettles are tested just short of their breaking points, this story would be... sloppier, in a sense, where the hero will run in circles around every challenge laid before her. And really, how could she not? She's Sunset Shimmer.
I hope you enjoy it if you want something light and easy to read, and do tell me if you want me to turn it into something more than a demo.
Snake in, Snake out.
PS: Why is mlaabq in the group motherhood is magical under the Applejack category? I don't think I put it there. I have to assume it ended up there by mistake.
Good to hear you're feeling better.
5375017
Thank you. Yeah, it's been a little rough lately, and it's nice to hear that people care.
5375021
It will get better, eventually. But, you have friends to help you through.
Hope you feel better soon!
5375049
So do I. Thank you
Good to see you're improvin'. Wish you the best :)
5375508
Thank you
Friend, that sounds like a wonderful idea, and I'd be very pleased to read your take on it.
5375598
Thank you. I don't know if you're interested in pre-reading it when and if I actually get something substantial?
Very glad to hear that you are doing better and I am looking forward to reading more mlaabq.
Scrapping ideas that don’t work is good. Unclogging the creative drain so to speak.
5375933
Glad to hear you're looking forward to it. I'm gonna do m best to not feel pressured
5375842
I suppose I could, though I'm a very poor editor if that's what you're asking.
5376072
Well, feedback in general is appreciated
5376103
I can do that.