Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Straydog Saga has Returned!

Hello Dears,

It has been some time now since I last updated my Warcraft fanfic, "Straydog Saga" something I loved writing very much and after a year of solid updates I was still going strong. That was until a few things happened and I think I owe it to those who stuck with the story to give a bit of an explanation before going into the update itself. For those who aren't sure what I'm talking about you can find Straydog Saga along with my other fan fiction here: http://www.fanfiction.net/~oriwhitedeer

Why did Ori take so long to update?

Wayward warrior: Shandori

Reason #1: Cataclysm was devastating on the fanfic's lore accuracy

This story began being written during the tail end of Wrath of the Lich king, and while I did my best to leave room for the expansion's lore changes, the new lore was just TOO new and completely fracked the plausibility of the story despite me taking great pains to keep things are lore accurate as possible while adding my own story to it.

Some things were easily tweaked (explaining why the worgen have Gilneas, why Booty bay is rebuilt, why Auberdeen no longer exists, etc) but other things were just too much an integral part of the story to be revised. So I was pretty pissed off, not mentioning I really didn't like the direction Cata took the lore; they could have done much better.

Reason #2: RAAAAGE QUIT!!

I did have a bit of a major burn out period with WoW. My progression guild blew up in my face, I finally got Val'nyr on my priest at level 85, after 2 years, only to have the final quest turn in bug out and I got no lore RP from it, among other things. With all that negativity towards Warcraft and the many a table-flipping moments, I just didn't have it in my to continue to write the fic. I didn't want to force myself to keep a schedule when I knew I'd only be rushing to get the story done and I owed it to people who still read and loved my story NOT to pump out forced garbage.
Dragons hanging out in Wyrmrest. Why yes, that is a Val'nyr bubble...
Reason #3: Wanted to write other stuff for a while

With reason's 1 and 2 wearing down on me, I really wanted to get into writing some original work. 9 Threads of "The Red Thread Tapestry" later, I'm at a stopping point there and can return to writing Straydog Saga. There aren't many chapters of Straydog left, so I can get back to the original stuff soon without it going cold.

That's all for now. The screenshots came from my actual, in-game characters so if you play alliance and are on the Stormrage server, stop by and say 'Hello!'

That's all for now, dears!

- Ori

Monday, May 21, 2012

Checking in after a long, thoughtful pause

Good morning dears, I'm posting this from my iPhone so please excuse more typos than usual. I just wanted to check in and say that I'm still alive and I've been keeping pleanty busy. I'm working great deal slower on the plushie making due to the fact that my fingers are still chewed up from the needlework and can't heal properly if I'm constantly using them. Still, Im hoping Zecora will be finished by Bronycon which I plan on attending. So in the meantime I've been working on the latest chapter of my World if Warcraft fanfic "Straydog Saga". Yes after 4 months of nothing Shandori and company are back! I'll give a full explanation of WHY this happened in another post. That's all for now dears, -Ori