Tinker Farmer Fluttershy

Hi. I'm the guy who is really bad about keeping my promises to update the story more than twice a year.

When I started this story, I had an overall idea for the entirety of it, and I generally tried to write chapters so that they would hopefully fit.

Looking at the idea, as well as what I've written so far, almost two years later, it's helped me realize something.

It's bad.

But that is a good thing. Kinda. See, it's made me realize that what I wanted from the story, and how I was writing it, were two vastly different things. I wanted this moderately serious story of friendship and awesome, with large overarching plot points, but I was coming up with the chapters as I was writing them. And that was part of the reason that I was so inconsistent with updates. I honestly didn't know where I was going.

So I took the time to figure out what I wanted to do with the story. Because, contrary to what my actions might have said, I DO want to keep writing.

However, I came to understand that what I want to do NOW, isn't the exact same as what I wanted to do when I created the story.

As such, I'm going to be revamping some of the earlier chapters so that they can fit more with the story direction that I have for it now.

Since it's not a total rewrite, it won't take that long, but I wanted to just give a heads up before I started changing things.

Now that that is out of the way, I want to briefly talk about what the story will be.

My plan for the story is for it to be slightly episodic. And by that, I mean that the story is going to be comprised of mini-arcs. These mini-arcs are going to be two chapters each, roughly taking up a half of the arc each.

Doing this will allow me to be able to come up with story ideas, and be able to flesh them out, without having to worry about a giant overarching story. So hopefully, that will mean that I will be able to put out chapters more often. However, this doesn't mean that the arcs are going to be completely separate from each other. The arc's will dictate the story, not the story dictating the arc.

Now, that being said, the first six (yes, I know there are only currently five) chapters of the story don't follow that rule. Basically, I'm using the first six chapters as the basis for the story. Think of them as a super long pilot episode. So once the first six are done, the mini-arcs will begin.

Now, I know that I haven't gone into a lot of detail here, but that's just because I want to get moving on revamping the chapters, as well as finishing chapter six. Once that is done, I will go into more detail about the future of the story, in another one of these little notices. On that topic, once I finish writing the first six chapters, I will move this notice to my author's page, and just leave a link in the description.

So, thank you for reading this, and if you have any questions just pop them in the comments, or message me.

Thanks for the patience,
CptDemos