I suspect this is going to be the first of two updates for the month, mostly because Applejack isn't the only one who knows things are about to intensify. I can even provide the title of the next chapter here: Toccata. And I can say that starting with that chapter, it will finally become pos...
2019-08-18 01:48:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, it wasn't as if I could make one last push on the 31st. I'm traveling tomorrow.
Originally, there were two possible stories which could have gone up today. One felt like it would have been too OC-focused: a tale about the filming of Equestria's first music video, and the title was Cinema ...
2019-07-31 01:53:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I was afraid to write this chapter.
It was like #40 through #42 on Triptych: this is where I have to account for myself. Where I have to explain everything that's come before, as was seen through the lens of per...
2019-07-29 03:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
And this one is Forever 21's fault.
If you didn't hear about that: the chain apparently has an interesting habit. If you order something which is being delivered by mail, they'll toss in a freebie. Everyone gets the same thing, which is usually an item which they're being paid to distribute. &...
2019-07-27 05:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I plead plot bunny.
Sometimes you just have to get the new idea off the top of the hopper in order to let something else through. And in this case, the idea was 'What if R. Lee Ermey met the Mane Cast?'
...look, this is how a ...
2019-07-24 01:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post
About time we got back to the continuing stories, don'tcha think?
This 7,000-word chapter is about moving the story forward into the next stage. We're prepping our main character for her coming-out party: legally, socially, and fashionably. Guess which one of those is going to be the problem. 2019-07-21 00:36:12 +0000 UTC View Post
And so ends what did, in fact, turn out to be One-Shot Month. Updates on continuing stories will resume in July. Additionally, I finally got that blog up about the B...
2019-07-01 02:22:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Somehow, this has turned into One-Shot Month. I can't predict it'll finish that way, but right now, we're four for four -- and as always, I'm not going to go to more than five in a month.
(I'm still trying to fill in the car's gap, and this week has brought a nasty reminder that I cannot get throug...
2019-06-29 02:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This may come out, at best, semi-coherent. I just wrote 13,000 words in one day. I don't have much left.
I've hinted that things had been bad recently. I still intend to post a blog explaining the how and why. But for those who've been following me for a long time, I think this story wil...
2019-06-26 23:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
...I did not expect this one to be eleven thousand words.
Let's just call it one of those (hopefully) value-for-pledge postings: a self-contained Mature comedy about the Bearers discovering that their names have become euphemisms -- but not the exact things which they're euphemisms for. In the 2019-06-25 04:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, that art was randomly code-grabbed from a story which appeared in the Similar column. However, in this case, given the topic... it kind of fits.
It's been a very bad month-plus. (I may be blogging about how and why soon. I've been waiting until it's over. I'm hoping it ends so...
2019-06-20 22:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
...not the @#^^&* random-draw coins again...
(I swear I almost want to commission cover art just to get rid of that picture.)
Just under 8700 words on this chapter, which brings our protagonists back into the same temporal and physical space -- for about thirty seconds. (You didn't think it was ...
2019-06-01 00:39:51 +0000 UTC View Post
And it's back.
As said earlier: with Triptych complete and Duet under way, I can go back into this story without worrying about giving away spoilers for events which hadn't happened in the other two. That means it's finally time to look at how Fleur manages with the activity...
2019-05-30 19:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's spin the Wheel Of Randomly Code-Grabbed Art!
...the second entry in the Similar Stories column.
Well, there were worse options.
Just over 5k on this one, which starts the process of bringing our main characters back into the same area -- if only for a very brief moment. (I can safely say the next...
2019-05-26 23:39:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I know, I know -- but sometimes, to try and project a schedule is to make a deity laugh.
(Said immediately after arriving home following nearly two hours of being stuck in traffic, coming back from one of her dental appointments. We wound up taking a detour from a delay, into a delay, in order to arrive at ...
2019-05-23 22:36:41 +0000 UTC View Post
(One of Firefox's little quirks: from now until the day I wipe my browing history, the main Patreon page will be known as Gateway Timeout.)
This looks to be an update-heavy month: Duet is ...
2019-05-19 00:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It wound up being the Lyra & Bon-Bon piece. It also wound up being about a third longer than I thought it would be: I'm not exactly great at estimating story length before starting composition, but I was not expecting this one to come out at a 10k word count.
It's a 'verse story, and that ...
2019-05-01 02:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post
(And this time, the image should have been from The Slipped Case. Geez.)
Back to Snowflake on this one, as the theme for the last two chapters is The Talk With The Elder: Granny for Applejack, and now it's Celestia's turn. However, it's not as if both discussions are going to be equall...
2019-04-29 00:34:57 +0000 UTC View Post
...stupid random-draw post image...
(Seriously: I thought I was going to get the Badvent Calendar cover!)
We're back to Applejack for this chapter, which is basically a 7k word count of fallout from the previous night's events. (There's a bit of timeline jugging going on right now: &nb...
2019-04-24 23:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post
As this story proves, I'm still feeling the need to do something on the silly side. However, the remaining schedule for the month (presuming I can find a window between doctors) should have new chapters for Duet and Cerea, plus I had an idea for a Bon-Bon & Lyra one-shot: something which w...
2019-04-21 23:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I said it in the blog: I couldn't do something serious today. Life is serious enough already -- along with being, in a rather dark way, completely ridiculous. So I went with Dark and ...
2019-04-13 23:53:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I know: I went to five for the second month in a row. Why? Because the food processor and coffee maker broke down in the same week. (I don't drink coffee, but the current situation makes having a working auto-brewer into a survival necessity.) And this idea? Is entirely Amazon's fault....
2019-03-30 23:56:31 +0000 UTC View Post
...really got to do something about that random code art grab...
About 6700 words on this one, and I decided to stay with Snowflake for this chapter: we'll shift back to Applejack on the next. (Yes, I know that given the ending of the current section, that's a little cruel. When the pacing giv...
2019-03-26 02:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Two chapters this time, with about 13k words between them. (The shorter one went up yesterday, but I wasn't going to hit the Post button here until my personal minimum word count for doing so had been breached.) With this section, we start to shift into the next stop on the Mandatory? Trope List -- only with the <...
2019-03-21 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I've really got to find a way to do something about those random images. That was fine for the tontine story, but when it shows up here...
Just under 7500 words on this one, and there's one aspect where I'm not sure how to proceed from here. The pattern so far was 1/1 for character POV on the first ...
2019-03-15 02:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
A little more value-for-pledge this time: two chapters totaling out to just under 11,000 words. (It would have been a single chapter, but I felt as if the first two scenes needed to be separated out -- if only to avoid hitting a dream/flashback limit.) And yes, I'm aware there's a 2019-03-11 05:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I was going to crash today.
I've talked in the past about how writing can be physically draining. How going for too long, over too many days, can actually wear me out. (It doesn't help that I tend to work through meals rather than risk losing the flow.) So I was tired, I was going to ju...
2019-03-01 02:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Because when you're physically and emotionally exhausted, there are times when you just need some pure fluff.
Well, we now have a new Earliest Story On The Timeline! And not only that, this is a Shining Armor solo piece! When was the last time I did that? Never. When's the next time? Possib...
2019-02-27 23:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, that escalated quickly.
Truthfully? I didn't think this one would catch on, certainly not to this degree. I felt it would be closer to the more limited audience of a CDA story: just those who knew the original work and liked the character. Apparently I underestimated the app...
2019-02-27 03:39:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As semi-threatened in this blog post, we're going anime.
(Not Displaced. The actual character. There is probably something out there which ...
2019-02-26 01:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post
