Leaving Tracks: Nine Years · 11:49am 8 hours ago
I'm a few days late. Happy ninth anniversary to "Inner Strength", and to the rebirth of my passion as an author.
I'm a few days late. Happy ninth anniversary to "Inner Strength", and to the rebirth of my passion as an author.
So Inner Strength turned six a couple days ago. I didn't do anything at the time because this week's been hectic, but now I have the time, and thedarkprep offered to interview me for the occasion
Hey, y'all. I've been listening to audiobooks, and that got me wanting to record some audiobooks again. But due to some hardware issues, I haven't been able to do that. So I was looking into the cost of what it would take to get a decent mic and pop filter to do this thing properly (previously I had been using my wife's gaming headset, which is part of what causes the noise level to be too low on my recordings; I don't use a proper dedicated mic), and it's around $65 to get both, from what I
EDIT: This book is temporarily out of print because Lulu introduced new options which will allow me to sell the color version at a reasonable price. As a result, I decided to pull it until I have time to make a few fixes and put it back out at a drastically reduced price. If you're interested in buying this book, leave a comment and I'll know to get my ass in gear and do the things I need to do!
Recently commissioned my friend Jay to do a picture based on Twilight and Fluttershy’s first date for the upcoming Inner Strength print edition! He’s a new artist (well, new to posting his art anyway, he’s been arting for a while), so it’d be super cool if those of you with a Tumblr gave him a follow to help him get off the ground, and of course anyone interested in commissioning him feel free to hit him up! His rates are fair and he’s quick as hell
The final chapters of the Inner Strength update just went live, so if you’ve been waiting for that before reading, now’s the time!
I thought I might do a retrospective of sorts. More than the story, however, I want to talk about my life and the four years that have passed since I first started writing this story. Which means this is going to get depressing
Since I’m prepping Inner Strength for print, I needed new cover art. The last one was hardly the appropriate size for print, after all Plus I needed a back cover. So naturally I got Pasu to do it, and wow, it looks fantastic. Both the front and back covers under the cut!
So my Patreon hit $40/month, and my goal for that amount was to get monthly art commissions for my stories. Most months will just be line art, but I couldn’t resist making the first one a full commission And since I’m working on Inner Strength again and getting that ready for print, I decided to get a scene from one of the new chapters done. It’s below the cut, and while it’s from a new chapter, it’s not spoilery (hell, it would be
So I should be working on ‘Looking Glass’ right now, but I’m kinda struggling with the chapter I’m writing (not the next chapter, so update will be on time; I write them a bit in advance). Plus ‘Inner Strength’ turned two like a week ago, so I’ll make a blog post about my thoughts on it, two years after the fact. By which I mean I’ll complain about things that I don’t like about it, two years after the fact. Because I’m a salty rabbit who likes to complain, even about myself
So I've mentioned several times that the back story of Fluttershy in Inner Strength comes from an unwritten story by ArchAngelsWings, the editor of Inner Strength (and all my other stories). Well that story is no longer unwritten Or, well, most of it is, but the first chapter is out
So something I've been dying to start for months is around the corner. I can hardly wait because this is the real beginning of the story I've wanted to tell all along, but I'm also kinda intimidated because this is the real beginning of the story I've wanted to tell all along.
I was gonna wait until Saturday to announce this, but I'm sick of waiting (plus I miss you all so much )
You know what sucks? Editing. Sweet Celestia I hate editing. I'm trying to turn the first draft of Inner Strength into it's final story and I'm almost tempted to say 'screw it' and leave it how it is until I'm a better writer. But a huge part of why I'm writing fanfiction is to practice writing since I plan on being a professional writer someday, and part of that is editing a rough draft into a second draft (and then a third and fourth, but Inner Strength shall stop at the second draft since