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Equal Opportunity Ascension: Chapters 13–16

Chapters 1–4 (GDocs) (2020-09-30 23:50:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Equal Opportunity Ascension: Chapters 9–12

So, this was a productive month!  Not only did I manage 30,000 (ish) words, but I have an actual title and cover.  It's not the greatest, cover, but it'll do, and it means I can finally post to fimfiction.  I'm thinking I'll post the first 20,000 words in one chunk, then...

New Story, Chapters 5-8

Words

Okay, this is becoming an actual problem.  It's been two months and I haven't ben able to actually come up with a name for this story!

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Twilight Sparkle is a bit underwhelmed with her ascension to alicornhood, and after a disastrous coronation ceremony it becomes clear that she j...

2020-08-31 22:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post

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New Story (HTML Version)

Tags: [Twilight Sparkle], [Sunset Shimmer], [Starlight Glimmer], [Slice of/Adventure], [I'm bad at tags]

Description: Twilight's coronation doesn't go quite as smoothly as it could...

Nothing this month. Sorry.

I think I'm going to have to rethink how I do things.  Patreon has really helped me learn how to write on demand… but more and more, that just seems to be giving me the confidence to procrastinate until the very end of the month.  Of course, I then feel justified in taking a break after rushing something out and the cycle continues.<...

Inertia (Oneshot) & Sharing the Nation: Chapter 22 (Due Revisions)

Oof.  Have I mentioned how I hate always posting nothing but excuses here?  This month really conspired against me… though it's really just an extension off of last month.  If you read last months chapters, you know that I ran into a logic burp at the end that cut things short.  I eventually decided that I could do what I h...

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 20–21

For every 20k word month, there's another one where I just manage to scrape by… I was going to try and get at least 5k out for A Sparkle-ling Perfection, too, but the first 5k I wrote for Sharing the Nation just wasn't publishable, so I had to continue working on it.  As it is, it's a little bit anticlimactic and I'm going to have to go b...

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 18–19

Surprise!  More words!  I'm calling on the holiday exception for the lack of previews this month.  I sorta wrote both POVs of these chapters side by side and only even decided at the end what order they would go in, so oh well.

Regardless of all that, I'm pretty happy with these chapters, too.  We meet the dragons! &nbs...

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 16–17 (Special)

So!  This is a bit of a… unique situation?

You see, once again I wanted to do something for April fool's day and once again, none of the ideas (many of them based on my previous successful AFD chapter) just seemed to work out in my head.

But then I had an idea!  What if I wrote something kinda crazy that people would expe...

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 14 & 15

Edit: Cutting it off at 9,700 words.  A little low, but not bad.  That was just where it wanted to end.

9,100 words, and I'll probably have 500-1,000 by the time actual midnight rolls around.  This is not "maybe in editing," but actual, "I still need to finish the scene and close things out," which tends to ...

Do you (still) care about previews?

After the  limited  response to the last poll, I've been wondering if I haven't been overthinking things.  It's no secret that my track record with actually providing previews according to the tiers has been… rather poor… and believe m...

【February Scene Preview】 Sharing the Nation: Chapter 14

I regret nothing.

…Okay, I regret lots of things, not the least of which that I have once again managed to pack all my writing into the last few days of the month (and you have no idea how grateful I am that this is a leap year), but even so, any chapter I can end with massive amounts of awkward innuendo is a good chapter.

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 12 & 13

Whelp.  It had to happen sooner or later.  It's the end of the month, and I've still got 500-1500 words to go.  That means I post the live document link and anyone who catches it gets to see me write the last little bit.  Fear not, though, because I will finish it tonight.  That I guara...

Sharing the Nation: Ch. 10 & 11

Note: Chapter 10 was posted on Christmas.  Chapter 11 is new and unedited, and I'm hoping to add some words to it in the editing pass.

So… suddenly things are happening!  There's a lot of silliness in Chapter 11, but also some things coming to light that can't be taken back.  Well, 'coming to light' might not be the best w...

The Dragon is in the Details

Story Description: Twilight Sparkle is delirious from lack of sleep; Rainbow Dash is Rainbow Dash. They fight crime. [Placeholder]

Well, for the first time ever, I'm posting a one-shot.  It's 10k words and… unique.  This is actually something I've had kicking around as a half-complete idea for years, and while ...

A Sparkle-ling Perfection: Chapters 20 & 21

Coming in a little short at 9,180 words, but they might inflate slightly in editing.  Considering the amount of time that's covered between these two chapters, there's certainly plenty of room for expansion.

As usual, expect these on FimFiction as soon as the preview period is over, and I'll be posting Chapter 19 on FimFiction tonight...

November Scene Preview

I try not to post negative things here, but it's really difficult when I get so little done.  Sometimes I feel like the me who actually writes these things is a completely different person who's never available when he's needed.

Anyway, I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about StN, so here's some ASP.  I was going to write s...

A Sparkle-ling Perfection: Chapter 18 (finally) on FimFiction.net

I probably should have posted this several weeks ago, but I'd decided to post it when the next chapter was ready for preview and… yeah.  Well, better late than never.

Sharing the Nation: Chapter 9 & A Sparkle-ling Perfection: Chapter 19

Oh god, this month was a trainwreck.  After two months into writing 1k per day, I thought I'd been setting a comfortable pace.  Then I missed a day.  The problem with trying to maintain a streak of daily achievements is that once you actually do miss a day, you lose all that built up momentum and it becomes easier to miss a second...

September Scene Preview

✱ Sharing the Nation Chapter 9 【 +1,850 Words】

Not suuuper happy with Twilight sitting around alone thinking things through; it's a bad habit I really need to break, and there's a high chance of revision in the editing phase.

A Sparkle-ling Perfection Chapter 17 on Fimfiction & 18 on GoogleDocs

I've been falling into a habit of keeping chapters in preview until the next one is ready, so expect to see 18 on FimFiction in 5-6 days.

Sharing the Nation Chapters 7 & 8 on Fimfiction

I left this to the last minute to actually post thanks to the poll, but since only ⅓ of my patrons responded to it (and one $10 patron even left for some reason), it looks like we'll be continuing with business as usual for the forseeable future.

Jeez, though, with as much as I've been writing, it's hard to believe I wrote these only ear...

【Poll】 Should Patreon reflect 5,000-word chapters?

【tl;dr】 Please vote to indicate that you at least read updates.

So, I've been saying since Sharing the Night finished that I would be moving the Patreon to match the 5,000 word chapters I'm actually writing now.  Obviously, all goal and reward tiers would be cut in half if I did this, but it would be up to each indivi...

【August Scene Preview】

✱  A Sparkle-ling Perfection: Chapter 17 【+2,860 Words】

I'd been holding off on this for a few reasons; I had to rewrite the first scene, and there are still some placeholders.  I did the rewrite, but it's clear I won't be resolving the placeholders until I get around to editing it, so oh well—drafts ar...

Sharing the Nation now on FimFiction.net!

For anyone who has been waiting for the official post, it's now here!  Don't forget to stop over at Sharing the Night first to read the Epilogue to the Epilogue there first, and come back every day for a new chapter until I run dry!

As a side note, Chapters 1-4 in the preview file have been through editing and I'll be doing...

Sharing the Nation: Ch. 【5 & 6】

So, to explain again—I'm just linking the merged file, so this and the previous post are identical.

Do note that these are still 【Previews】.  I'm in the process of editing them, and I've already added a small number of words to the Epilogue Epilogue and a large number to Ch. 1.  I will be adding the edited ...

Sharing the Nation: Ch. 【3 & 4】

So, it occurs to me that I should have registered this 10k section as a paid patreon post as soon as it was posted for everyone.  Oh well.  I'm just linking the merged file, so this and the next post will be identical.

Do note that these are still 【Previews】.  I'm in the process of editing them, and I've...

【July Basic Preview】 Sharing the Nation

✱ Chapter 4

As promised.

Chapter 3

I didn't intend for it to take this long for the previews to reach this tier, but I was a little lax in posting them for Tier 2 and here we are.  Expect Chapter 4 tomorrow,  I'm working on Chapter 5 now, so it'll be a few days for that.  I'm on track writing 1,000 words a ...

【July Scene Previews】 Sharing the Nation Ch. 1–?

Chapter 6.2 【+3,700 Words】

And that's it for the chapter AND the month!  Now I just have to edit over 32,000 words.  There are a couple of things I definitely want to add—a bit of more romantic TwiLuna fluff at the start, making sure to describe some things, making it clearer that the dragons didn't just instantly integra...

Tentative cover for Sharing the Nation

Assuming I don't hate it in a week or two, I'm probably going with this for the cover.  Bit of copy+paste, but I like it and it matches the last cover.  Actually, the two line up conspicuously well when side-by-side.

(Rarity's tower is behind the viewpoint; shush)

(No, they don't actually have giant glowing cutie marks abov...