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Author's Notes: Hm
The End
Link loosened and retightened the saddle straps on Epona, aimlessly fiddling with his gear while he waited for Edric and Zelda to arrive. The sun had just begun to rise over the horizon, and the air was surprisingly cold for a spring morning. Far to the east, the hazy blue outlines of the Allechion Mountains rose above the forested hills of central Hyrule.
Dragging, heavy footsteps reached his ears from the road behind him. Edric led his horse toward the city's drawbridge, looking as if he hadn't gotten a wink of sleep. His eyes were baggy and his head drooped, lolling lazily from side to side. A packhorse followed him from behind.
"Morning!" Link chirped, beaming at his friend. Edric did his best to glare at him.
"Glad to see someone's so chipper this early."
Link's grin grew even wider. "And no rest for the wicked, it seems."
THE END.
Author's Notes: HOOOO BOY. Long time no see, fellas. Seeing as I managed to gain at least a little respect as an author here, I feel like I ought to give you guys the story.
This work is what brought me into writing here, and as I note in hindsight, it's also what kicked me out. My friend and I, the same friend who's been excellent for bouncing ideas around with an generally proofreading this stuff, originally developed this idea starting way back in my freshman year of high school. As is generally the case, it was loaded with Mary Sues and pure, unadulterated terribleness. We managed to sort of get out of that phase reasonably quickly, and I took over the development while he generally just provided momentary flashes of genius - literally NONE of which have been able to make an appearance yet.
As it turned out, we realized that while I had shifted to a more reasonable outline, a select few - and I do mean few - elements from the original draft remained. Unfortunately, despite overhauling just about everything we could without me going back and rewriting it from the beginning, those select few elements had us stranded in the water. As writing continued, it became clear that unless we figured out how to get around these problems as quickly as possible, it would only continue to get more and more convoluted when I tried to resolve it at the end. As I'm sure you can guess, we didn't figure it out. It was, and is, physically impossible to take the premise we started with and resolve it with the ending we wanted short of flying in the face of reason and hoping for the best.
So, about a year ago(?), I stopped writing and turned to development. The solutions hit roadblock after roadblock for three months until we finally decided we were sunk and I boxed the entire project. This is as far as I got in the next chapter (for whatever reason, I guess as some sort of joke I'm now not understanding, it was titled temporarily as Holy Bible). Feeling like I wasted a ton of time for nothing, I just ultimately stopped writing period.
Now though, almost done with my freshman year in university, I'm aiming to get started again. I went back through all my old files, especially the outline for this disaster, and decided to consider revising it. The story is workable, though it needs revision. The premise will need to be completely overhauled, however, and that will take some time. I hope to restart it from the beginning by the middle of September, but no guarantees can be made there. In the meantime, looking through my old drafts and proposals, there are a few things I can do while redeveloping "Triptych" (I also intend to retitle it).
So, if any of my old readership is still alive and seeing this, welcome back. If you're new, be glad you missed the confused inconsistency of the writing process for this story. If anyone's interested in seeing what I have planned out while I work through this, go give my profile a visit. There'll be an explanation there.
Thanks to everyone who supported me while this lasted, and I'll do my best not to disappoint in the future. See ya soon!
~Tux
