Equal Opportunity Ascension: Chapters 13–16
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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 post the rest chapter by chapter. Regular, reliable updates will be a new experience.
The only problem is that I apparently need someone ...
2020-09-30 23:50:35 +0000 UTC View PostNew Story, Chapters 5-8
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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 just doesn't measure up. With all that she seems to be missing, couldn't somepony else do the job just as well? Sunset Shimmer and Starlight Glim... 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 have, and things get more complicated from there.
This might not seem like as much of a departure as I promised last month, what w...
2020-07-31 23:42:19 +0000 UTC View PostNothing 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.
That's not really how it should be. I legitimately want to write, but I've just turned it into a chore, and the mess that Sharing the Nati...
2020-06-30 23:31:43 +0000 UTC View PostInertia (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 had wanted to do anyway, but I still wasn't happy with the chapters, so I delayed posting them to Fimfiction.
This is more of that. It took...
2020-06-01 03:52:28 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 back and retcon the timeline a tiny bit to add more time before the CMC get their party, but at least things are moving along.
It's 8,400 words a...
2020-05-01 02:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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! The dragons meet the ponies! SO MUCH HAPPENS!
2020-03-31 23:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 expect to be a joke, but the actual joke was that it was canon?
If that seems kinda weird in hindsight, you're not the only one.
So, here I gi...
2020-03-31 23:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 be much more reliable.
That said, I'm not actually, 100% sure that I'm going to keep Chapter 15. It's… a little darker than my usual far...
2020-03-01 04:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostDo 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 me, every time I come in just under the deadline with barely any reason to even update the progress bars, I cringe.
Does any of it matter, though...
2020-02-28 05:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post【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.
2020-02-28 05:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 guarantee.
Edit: And now it's finished. I didn't notice anyone stop by, so it's almost like I actually finished on time! The fina...
2020-02-01 05:23:00 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 word for it…
2020-01-01 04:07:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 I admit that part of the reason I dug it up and finished it was to fill my monthly quota and be able to actually buy Christmas presents this year, I'm...
2019-12-01 01:24:35 +0000 UTC View PostA 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. I apologize for holding off on that for so long, but I wanted to make sure I had a handle on what I was doing about Sunset's third childhood b...
2019-12-01 01:10:41 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 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 something fresh and new for NaNoWriMo, but that just didn't happen. I might still finish up an old half-written one-shot and post it, though. &nb...
2019-11-26 20:30:13 +0000 UTC View PostA 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.
2019-10-01 01:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 day… and a third. I missed a little over a week of writing… and then the problems started.
Writing chapter twelve of Sharing the Nati...
2019-10-01 01:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 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.
2019-09-06 13:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostA 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.
2019-08-31 22:40:32 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 earlier this month.
2019-08-31 22:35:34 +0000 UTC View Post【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 individual patron to actually change their pledges to reflect the change.
This is kind of a big issue.
I respect and appreciate all of your pled...
2019-08-16 19:34:47 +0000 UTC View Post【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 are drafts, unfortunately.
As I neared the end of the last chapter, I had every intention of skipping ahead to Sunset hatching from her egg, but a...
2019-08-08 01:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 5 and 6 tomorrow.
2019-08-01 21:16:32 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 chapters to the 【Preview】 file as I complete them and posing one chapter a day on Fimfiction, starting… either today or tomorrow, I'm not sure y...
2019-07-31 17:44:19 +0000 UTC View PostSharing 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 already added a small number of words to the Epilogue Epilogue and a large number to Ch. 1. I will be adding the edited chapters to the 【Prev...
2019-07-31 17:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post【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 day to hit my goal, but I'll definitely be working up to the line.
2019-07-25 15:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post【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 integrate into pony society, and so on.
Oh, and Luna spinning in her chair, of course.
Chapter 6.1 【1,750 Words】
It's good to see Twi...
2019-07-11 22:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostTentative 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 above them in the story… probably…)
2019-07-09 19:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post