Okay, so there's something I suppose I should address. I had to take a break from this story for the moment because I was burning myself out and needed to step back from the project before I completely lost interest. I've also been suffering trying to move out of my father's house who's been verbally, emotionally, and sometimes psychically abusive, and that was really beating the steam out of me. I know this is a familiar speech a lot of writers give that usually translates to, "This story is dead." It's not.

I'm planning on coming back to Emerald Fires at the end of the year. I've got the next chapter halfway done, and I have the whole story laid out from start to finish. However currently, and some of you may have noticed in the blogs, but for those of you who haven't I'm announcing that I'm working on a special 18 chapter project that I'll be releasing in the Fall of this year called, 'A Nightmare in Eidolon'. I've already finished the 5th chapter for it and I'm currently juggling chapters 6 and 7. I've had a lot of stress and hardship these past few months and I've been translating that in pouring my heart and soul into this project, and my editors have expressed confidence that this story is going to be one of the special ones on this site. It may not be this story, but I hope that it's something that you may consider a bit of compensation for my negligence.

This is something I've needed for a long time. ANiE has revitalized my interest in writing and has improved it greatly. I'm writing faster than ever before(average 2 to 3 chapters a month) and I've become impassionated again. I feel alive once more. I apologize for the delay, I promise I am working on it, and I will return to Emerald Fires soon.

Update: Panic(But not really)

Okay, Okay, so I guess I should have made this about a month ago, but I've been so busy with classes and things that I neglected a few responsibilities. So, I guess I should get to the point.

I started a new story called 'A Nightmare in Eidolon', which, for those of you who don't know, is a reworking of what would have been part of Act 3 of Emerald Fires. Now you may be wondering, "Folklore, if it was originally supposed to be part 3 of this story, what's going on?"

Well, If I'm being honest with you... I'm done with this story. OR WELL MORE ACCURATELY, I'm done with it in this form. Let me explain. The first act of this story I'm fairly satisfied with, in terms of structure. However, there are certain character dynamics, chemistries, and mishandling of the underlying narrative that, as I've grown as a writer, I'm actually embarrassed by and generally unhappy with. And THEN THERE'S ACT 2. I HATE Act 2. I started writing that when I first entered college and was still mostly optimist with my future, but over the past two and a half years I was beaten down by an abusive household living with my father that I tried to escape, but couldn't. Because of this, Act 2 got sloppier and sloppier until I didn't even know where I wanted to go with it in order for it to flow into Act 3.

So, I took a break in October of 2018, and during the period between then and December I started to become inspired again as I focused more and more on that third Act. The more I thought about it, the more I realized it's potential, and the eventual realization came that I needed to make it its own thing, allow it to stand on its own merits. So, for the past 8 months, I've been doing nothing but writing, I got ahold of some editors, I'm writing two to three chapters a month whereas before it took me three months just to do one, and the quality of writing has sharply improved. I feel fresher and far more talented than I was when I released chapter 21 of this story, and honestly, I'm in a better place as well because I feel proud of myself again.

So now you might be saying, "Alright, asshole, you left us hanging all this time just to tell us your fucking off with this story. Now what?" Well, actually, my current plan is to finish 'A Nightmare in Eidolon', go to work on a secret project that I've been working on in my spare time, and then, when that's all said and done, I'd like to come back to this story and rework it. Even though Emerald Fires is a mess, the ideas behind it I still find interesting, so I'd like to change it around a bit and give it a better format. Some things I put in back in 2014 I'd like to throw in the garbage, while things I was too scared to do I'd like to push.

So yeah, I want to do a remastered edition of Emerald Fires. I won't delete this, and I'm going to switch the incomplete status to hiatus. And, a part of the original vision for the last act of this story will live on in 'A Nightmare in Eidolon'. I'm sorry for ending it for now, but I am still working, and I hope that my work on NiE can in some way make up for the neglect on my part for this story. So for those of you who want to check that out, the link again is provided here: A Nightmare in Eidolon, and for those who aren't interested, I understand. Just keep your eyes out, I'll make another update on this when I start working on the Remastered Edition.

Thanks,
Folklorebrony