New one-shot story: A Dirge In Fugue Major
I'll keep this short.
Most of you know what happened. The rest are about to find out.
I'm a wreck. I cry at almost random times. ...
2021-01-18 01:43:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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New one-shot story: Princesses Produce Persistent Plumbing Problems
There's an argument to be made that this was the only way to finish 2020 on an appropriate note. Namely, with a crackfic, because this entire year has been a crackfic of history writ large and honestly? At this point, I think most of u...
2021-01-01 03:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostNew one-shot story: Advance Directive
Most of you know what's been going on. And if you're a little behind on the blogs, with that statement just leading you to wonder what the latest disaster is... 2020-12-30 03:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post
New one-shot story: For The Alicorn Who Has Nothing (Which Fits)
I'm going to keep this brief.
It's holiday-themed, but it's belated because Real Life has been kicking me in the face all month.
It's a little over 10000 words, and I had to manage that when Real Life also kicked me out the door and pu...
2020-12-28 05:23:15 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Glimmer
I'd like to say the full assortment of disasters stayed out of the way for long enough to let me finish this chapter, but the truth is that I finished the last portion of it during a two-hour period of waiting for the nurse to call me back. ...
2020-12-24 03:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
(This may be the record for shortest pledge post.)
This @$#%ing month.
If you've been following the FIMFic blogs, you know why.
If you haven't, this is a good time to 2020-12-22 03:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Second update: Glimmer
First: I'm desperately hoping that next month lets me find the centering required for comedy, because November wasn't it. Just know that Anchor Foal has not been, and will not be, abandoned. This just hasn't been...
2020-11-30 02:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Glimmer
Dark moods may be good for creating dark stories, but dark times mean it's hard to find quiet hours in which to work on them.
There should be a full medical blog soon, because I just got a vital piece of information about my mother's physica...
2020-11-24 22:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostThird update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
The original plan was to hold off on this particular 7500-word chapter until December, because other stories need updating. But, put bluntly: Harwick happened.
Who's Harwick? Well, if you missed the blog in question, all yo...
2020-11-19 22:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostSecond update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
Word count: 12,700.
So there's the other reason why the previous chapter was split off.
*slumps over*
G'night.
Update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
And we once again meet one of the writer's greatest enemies:
The natural chapter break.
We're coming up on Cerea's meeting with Cheerilee's class, and this chapter turned out to be the final section preceding that scene. And I th...
2020-11-11 18:34:01 +0000 UTC View PostNew (freebie) one-shot: The Eagle And The Squirrel
I went for a long walk yesterday.
I shouldn't have done that.
*sigh*
At 4100 words, this mood (or in-a-mood) piece falls under the 5k line which I use to determine whether to check the Charge For This Post box. &...
2020-11-05 18:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostThird update: Glimmer
I want to start by apologizing. I know I'd said I would try to get an Anchor Foal chapter up in October, but... bluntly: right now, it wouldn't have been anything worth pledging for. I'm not in a good menta...
2020-10-31 01:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostSecond update: Glimmer
Things are bad.
I don't even have the strength for a supposedly-dramatic ellipses in that sentence, let alone the desire. Things are bad. I spent just about all of yesterday in the emergency room with her and for a couple of hour...
2020-10-29 00:19:40 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Glimmer
That image was originally viewed as a placeholder.
I have trouble commissioning art. Part of this is fiscal, but a significant percentage comes from my twinned troubles in finding anyone who will take money from me and deliver...
2020-10-24 23:38:57 +0000 UTC View PostSecond update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
So it turns out I can't really write at the bedside in a hospital room.
You know that little half-swinging table which the nurses put supplies and meals onto? I thought I could use that, because most of this chapter was written before ...
2020-10-22 23:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
This is how tired I am: it took about twenty minutes after publishing an 8k chapter before I remembered that I should probably head to Patreon on that.
...yeah. It's been a rough few days. Without going full blog, let's jus...
2020-10-19 01:16:29 +0000 UTC View PostNew ongoing story: Glimmer
This has been a day (and night) of terror.
I said that checking in on Tish was the last part of the bridge. I stalled enough on that, and it was due to fear. But that story went up, and after that... everything else would h...
2020-09-30 23:23:18 +0000 UTC View PostSecond update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
Almost all I want to say right now is that there's a fairly major medical-related blog coming -- with 'fairly major' meant in the sense that there's just a lot to cover. This has been one of those cases where I couldn't stop and sum up becau...
2020-09-29 00:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostNew one-shot story: Belle Époque
This one scared me.
It's not the length. (I swear I didn't mean to hit 14k again.) It's because this is the last link in the bridge. I announced that I was thinking about this story on Twitter some time ago, I got ...
2020-09-27 01:17:37 +0000 UTC View PostNew one-shot story: Aftercrud
This was not originally meant to be 14,000 words.
@$#% it, me.
*sigh* Well, try to think of it as Value For Pledge. In any case...
In the most recent blog, I said this was inspired by my mother's recent experiences wi...
2020-09-25 02:14:15 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
I'm not going to try and recap the chaos which made the first posting of the month take place on the 21st. (I'll try to reach five, as the last two scheduled appointments for September both take place tomorrow. I just don't ha...
2020-09-22 02:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostThird update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
Closing out the month with 9700 words of what may or may not qualify for 'bang'.
I wanted to give Cerea the last word because it felt as if I'd left her in a somewhat awkward place. At least this way, the cliffhanger isn't h...
2020-08-31 00:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostSecond update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
I know: this post doesn't line up with half of the publication timing, because there's two chapters in this update. The problem was that it was originally meant to be one. And there may be another chapter yet to come this month, ...
2020-08-28 17:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
It's partially downhill from here.
...oh, come on. We had a moment of emotional connection and recovery, also known as 'most of the previous chapter'. Y'all have some idea of how I tend to occasionally work, this story isn't exac...
2020-08-25 01:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostAnchor Foal: second update
Scootaloo's withering stare didn't expect this to have 9200 on the word count either.
(Seriously: I thought this chapter was going to top out around 6k. The lesson, as always: I know nothing. Also that I'm too tired r...
2020-08-22 03:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Anchor Foal
So I owe everyone an explanation, because I'd said I was shooting for the first weekend of August on this chapter, and... this isn't exactly it. We are a good temporal distance from 'it'. So, without going full blog...
The ...
2020-08-18 00:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostFourth update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
Ultimately, the choice of which story to update was about emotional tone. There are readers who feel this story edges along the cliff for one of the worst tropes: Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy. They believe that things are so ...
2020-07-29 17:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostThird update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
I'm torn. I know I said I wanted to close July with a chapter of Anchor Foal, but I know where this particular story is going next. The scene is in my head, it wants to come out, but I can't neglect An...
2020-07-27 01:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostSecond update: Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl
And so Cerea meets her greatest foe:
The natural chapter break.
I swear: I hit the 6300 word mark, and every instinct looked at the natural cliffhanger and shouted Stop here! You reach the point where going on mean...
2020-07-25 00:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post