The Steadfast Sky 17

Chapter 17

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'Short' Update, for one, because the next three chapters really all go together, and for two, IT HAS BEEN OVER TWO WEEKS SINCE UPDATE 8I Horrible, I say! No excuses!

Again, setup. Setup Setup Exposition Worry Worry I swear, it'll stop eventually!

Good Reads: The Star in Yellow

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Read this ages ago, never made a post about it. The story made an impact, I can say that much. Whenever Twilight opens a book in the show, my boyfriend and I now have an in-joke for it:

Oh hey there Yellowstar.

So now to write a review from a hazy memory! Um... this'll be a short one.

This story is actually pretty fun, and despite, you know, being about insanity. It's actually somewhat light, especially the B plot. Sometimes when a story is split in half between two major actions, one tends to be more interesting than the other, and I wind up skipping over one of the parts. But the two parallel threads in this story are both very good for very different reasons, and my attention was held by both of them.

I remember the only really weird part was the heavy focus on the OC, Saddle Stitch. I mean, he was a well-written character, and was pretty funny himself. I could see his point and purpose in the story. But he's treated like a main character, and a show-sealer at that. It felt... very weird to read. Again, well written, soooo Your Mileage May Vary.

Score: Even a month later, its still worth talking about.

Fostering Intelligence

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A lot of my writing is pretty light-hearted I'd say. Or... more like I always look for opportunities to take the piss out on myself, on a situation.

This is... not like that.

And it makes me kind've nervous to post.

But I wrote it. And now I can focus on more important things.

Like more fanfiction.

Oh, and I have a FimFiction account now

Babble: Acceptable Friendshipping

I've mashed out over 4k words today, and flipping through what's still left to be done, I wouldn't be surprised if this work turns into a 10k one-shot. No, it's not the next couple chapters of Steadfast Sky, that's percolating on the back burner for now. I'm talking about a prequel and standalone thing, Fostering Intelligence.

Art: The Legend of Hearts and Hooves

When Sweetie Belle read the origin story of Hearts and Hooves, this comic popped right into my head. I thought someone else would have done this before me, but I guess not?

Comic after das break!

Babble: And then Nothing Happened

1) Four papers and a presentation due this week

2) Writing an entry for that FIMfiction contest

3) Plotting out next arc of Steadfast Sky a bit more carefully than normal

Adds up to a whole lot of nothing to show for myself this week. Especially since I cant post what I'm writing for FIMfiction... There's a quick comic I want to write, so that may pop up over the weekend, to make up for lack of chapter.

Happy Valentimes! ... A day late! Yay!

Still Reading: Eternal

Nothing ever starts well. Never, ever ever. Ever. Unless, it's like, a professional book where somebody has gone over the beginning a billion million times and knows exactly where things are supposed to be, where they're supposed to be.

I think, a major problem I had with Eternal when it first came out, is that, at times, it was just so damn vauge and dreamlike, a level removed from reality. Where it was going and what it was trying to say was somewhere in this fog, and all the reader could do is wonder what the ever loving hell the setup is trying to set up.

But when the story became about actual dreams and mindscapes, that writing style stopped becoming a hindrance. It actually bolstered the mood of the world, the flow of it. You are reading a particularly coherent, yet still inherently removed from reality, dream. You wander through the images presented, unable to see the path, but press on anyway.

So, I think Eternal gets a revised score. The score is now: A Vat of Choco-Carmel (Minus The Innuendo)

Also: How do you write 30k words in five days?!