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FCMTS and 2016 - What The Fae?
9 years ago
Commission Status: WAY too busy
Current Writing Focus: Furry Visual Novel (Void Dreaming)
Current Writing Focus: Furry Visual Novel (Void Dreaming)
So, let’s get the obvious out of the way.
It’s been a quieter year than you might have thought was coming from me. I had a lot of big plans for the year, but the vast majority of them were superseded by even bigger things that wound up snapping up my time. Let’s first run down what I wanted to have done for the year, so we can then work back through it and see what I actually did!
First, early in the year, I teased my work on a sequel to Blood And Water. This novel, Insurrection, has completed its initial drafting and is just being cleaned up at this point. I’m still looking for particular people (I’d have asked you already if I was going to; I’m very picky about my beta readers!) to finish reading it over and critiquing it so that I can make sure that it’s a worthy sequel to a series that a lot of people seemed to have enjoyed considerably. I had honestly wanted it out a little after September at the latest, but a lack of feedback and stuff we’ll get to later conspired to keep me from it all. Don’t worry, though. It’s still coming!
Secondly, I had two more non-furry novels I wanted to finish up and publish this year as well. Unfortunately, both of those would have been worked on in the second half of the year, and that is what turned out to have been stolen away entirely by other, more pressing things. No further progress was made on those projects, but I plan to pick them up again very swiftly in the new year. They will see the light of day!
EDIT: Let's insert something awesome here I forgot when I quickly slapped this together and posted it. I was published just recently as a part of Hot Dish #2 by Sofawolf Press! My story, Cold Sleep, is (in my opinion) some of my best work. Pick it up! It's got a lot of other, better writers, but also some of my good stuff! It's good! I promise!
Finally, as is my yearly custom, Fae’s Christmas Music-Themed Special was always going to be the last hurrah of what has been a shitty year (and let’s be honest, did we really think 2016 was going to be this bad after the shitshow that was 2015? What the actual fuck, 2016? It’s not a fucking contest, and you win anyway; just don’t give 2017 the same ideas!). Five stories modeled after or inspired by songs I enjoy, for Christmas day and the four days leading up to it. In this case it was going to wind up as seven, to make up for the two that I never completed in time for last year’s Special. And… yeah. So now we get to the bad news and the reason why.
I recently went back to taking classes in an active attempt to better myself in the form of certification required for particular employment. It took up the full second half of this year, and it took my full and complete focus through the entire period. I think I literally wrote something on the order of two thousand words across all of my various projects in that period. I probably wrote more regarding my D&D campaigns than I did any of my actual writing projects. I wanted — indeed, needed — to make sure that my studies could be completed, if only so that I could ensure that I would have a future which would allow me to write. Now that I’ve done that, I may well do. It’s just a shitty time to job hunt, what with the holiday period sapping away all the jobs I just completed training for.
The obvious conclusion is that there won’t be any Fae’s Christmas Music-Themed Special this year.
BUT YOU WOULD BE FUCKING WRONG, YOU ARSEHOLE; GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD.
Ahem.
It’s true that I won’t be able to put out the seven stories I had intended to at the start of the year, but that doesn’t mean that I have nothing to add. Fuck no. The least that I can do is finish the two from the 2015 series and provide them on the days they would have gone up. Or try. These stories (or rather, one of them) require a more deft hand than the others last year did, which is part of why they were never completed in time. I’ve made slight (but growing) progress on them both leading up to this period, but here we are. Day one of the Special, and there’s no story up.
That’s the real reason for this journal entry. To explain why there’s no story up right now (at the time of posting) and what to expect. I’m sure I’ve disappointed a lot of people that enjoy my work, but that’s just the way it goes. If nothing else, I’m also going to let you know a little more of what to expect from the stories you ARE getting, so let’s see what’s worth waiting a year for!
The first story of the pair is titled I Know You’re Out There Somewhere, another Moody Blues song. This is your mandatory, scheduled Alisha story of the Special, and I’m sure some people missed Alisha’s exploits last year. Here you’ll get to see him in attendance at a political fundraiser, getting up to all the usual mischief you’d expect from our crossdressing little con artist. Unfortunately for Alisha however, there’s a little more going on in attendance than he might have been ready for…
The second, of course, is the continuation of Lucas’ story. The tale of this poor fox, first begun in Luka, will reach its explosive conclusion here (hopefully on Christmas Day as scheduled), in the story Pleasure And Pain, named for the Divinyls song. When we last saw Lucas, his past had caught up to him in a big way. In Pleasure And Pain, Lucas and Taylor’s story will be resolved. I… honestly don’t know what more I can say right now that won’t spoil it. I do hope it’s worth the wait. I’ve been agonizing over this story for a year.
I hope the holiday period is going well for everyone, and that you’re all happy and healthy little critters. With any luck, 2017 will be a vast improvement over 2016 (admittedly not a great feat), and we’ll see things on the up for everyone. I’ll be back to writing plenty, uploading more often, and with any luck there’ll be more than just Blood And Water books to talk about next year too. More information will come later, but for now?
For now, have a lovely holiday period and watch this space; Fae’s Christmas Music-Themed Special has been reduced in scope this year, but it WILL come!
… and so will you. Hopefully. Maybe.
- Fae
It’s been a quieter year than you might have thought was coming from me. I had a lot of big plans for the year, but the vast majority of them were superseded by even bigger things that wound up snapping up my time. Let’s first run down what I wanted to have done for the year, so we can then work back through it and see what I actually did!
First, early in the year, I teased my work on a sequel to Blood And Water. This novel, Insurrection, has completed its initial drafting and is just being cleaned up at this point. I’m still looking for particular people (I’d have asked you already if I was going to; I’m very picky about my beta readers!) to finish reading it over and critiquing it so that I can make sure that it’s a worthy sequel to a series that a lot of people seemed to have enjoyed considerably. I had honestly wanted it out a little after September at the latest, but a lack of feedback and stuff we’ll get to later conspired to keep me from it all. Don’t worry, though. It’s still coming!
Secondly, I had two more non-furry novels I wanted to finish up and publish this year as well. Unfortunately, both of those would have been worked on in the second half of the year, and that is what turned out to have been stolen away entirely by other, more pressing things. No further progress was made on those projects, but I plan to pick them up again very swiftly in the new year. They will see the light of day!
EDIT: Let's insert something awesome here I forgot when I quickly slapped this together and posted it. I was published just recently as a part of Hot Dish #2 by Sofawolf Press! My story, Cold Sleep, is (in my opinion) some of my best work. Pick it up! It's got a lot of other, better writers, but also some of my good stuff! It's good! I promise!
Finally, as is my yearly custom, Fae’s Christmas Music-Themed Special was always going to be the last hurrah of what has been a shitty year (and let’s be honest, did we really think 2016 was going to be this bad after the shitshow that was 2015? What the actual fuck, 2016? It’s not a fucking contest, and you win anyway; just don’t give 2017 the same ideas!). Five stories modeled after or inspired by songs I enjoy, for Christmas day and the four days leading up to it. In this case it was going to wind up as seven, to make up for the two that I never completed in time for last year’s Special. And… yeah. So now we get to the bad news and the reason why.
I recently went back to taking classes in an active attempt to better myself in the form of certification required for particular employment. It took up the full second half of this year, and it took my full and complete focus through the entire period. I think I literally wrote something on the order of two thousand words across all of my various projects in that period. I probably wrote more regarding my D&D campaigns than I did any of my actual writing projects. I wanted — indeed, needed — to make sure that my studies could be completed, if only so that I could ensure that I would have a future which would allow me to write. Now that I’ve done that, I may well do. It’s just a shitty time to job hunt, what with the holiday period sapping away all the jobs I just completed training for.
The obvious conclusion is that there won’t be any Fae’s Christmas Music-Themed Special this year.
BUT YOU WOULD BE FUCKING WRONG, YOU ARSEHOLE; GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD.
Ahem.
It’s true that I won’t be able to put out the seven stories I had intended to at the start of the year, but that doesn’t mean that I have nothing to add. Fuck no. The least that I can do is finish the two from the 2015 series and provide them on the days they would have gone up. Or try. These stories (or rather, one of them) require a more deft hand than the others last year did, which is part of why they were never completed in time. I’ve made slight (but growing) progress on them both leading up to this period, but here we are. Day one of the Special, and there’s no story up.
That’s the real reason for this journal entry. To explain why there’s no story up right now (at the time of posting) and what to expect. I’m sure I’ve disappointed a lot of people that enjoy my work, but that’s just the way it goes. If nothing else, I’m also going to let you know a little more of what to expect from the stories you ARE getting, so let’s see what’s worth waiting a year for!
The first story of the pair is titled I Know You’re Out There Somewhere, another Moody Blues song. This is your mandatory, scheduled Alisha story of the Special, and I’m sure some people missed Alisha’s exploits last year. Here you’ll get to see him in attendance at a political fundraiser, getting up to all the usual mischief you’d expect from our crossdressing little con artist. Unfortunately for Alisha however, there’s a little more going on in attendance than he might have been ready for…
The second, of course, is the continuation of Lucas’ story. The tale of this poor fox, first begun in Luka, will reach its explosive conclusion here (hopefully on Christmas Day as scheduled), in the story Pleasure And Pain, named for the Divinyls song. When we last saw Lucas, his past had caught up to him in a big way. In Pleasure And Pain, Lucas and Taylor’s story will be resolved. I… honestly don’t know what more I can say right now that won’t spoil it. I do hope it’s worth the wait. I’ve been agonizing over this story for a year.
I hope the holiday period is going well for everyone, and that you’re all happy and healthy little critters. With any luck, 2017 will be a vast improvement over 2016 (admittedly not a great feat), and we’ll see things on the up for everyone. I’ll be back to writing plenty, uploading more often, and with any luck there’ll be more than just Blood And Water books to talk about next year too. More information will come later, but for now?
For now, have a lovely holiday period and watch this space; Fae’s Christmas Music-Themed Special has been reduced in scope this year, but it WILL come!
… and so will you. Hopefully. Maybe.
- Fae
