It's been a long month.
A long journey.
9100 words has brought us to the point where I feel we're one chapter away.
In July, we reach an ending.
...I just took a deep breath. Something of dread, wonder, and fear. Knowing that it all comes down to this, and then...
2022-06-30 03:21:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In the very rough spirit of my trying to figure out what to do for luggage with Everfree Northwest (because there's still four days left on the Ko-Fi drive), there's a lot to unpack.
This chapter isn't the last -- but it pro...
2022-06-27 00:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, Natural Chapter Break. My oldest enemy.
Originally, I was thinking of this chapter as a pair of scenes. The first one wound up coming in just over 6K, and gave me a last line which I had to close on. So the second has to be its own chapter -- and for those who...
2022-06-24 00:23:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep. This is going to be Cerea Month.
8100 words on this one, and the chapter title alone should be a pretty strong hint as to the current focus. But we're still tracking through the wrapup process, and that landing mat is as terrifying as ever. Plus this is exactly...
2022-06-19 01:47:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The race down the homestretch begins.
In this case, I wound up tweaking the course. I had originally considered that this chapter could potentially go up to four scenes -- but then realized that two of them had to stand on their own. The pair which needed to be here wou...
2022-06-12 01:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Before we go any further, I want to apologize. I know I didn't get a sponsored blog up this month: this is partially due to less-than-ideal time management on my part, and largely the fault of my last vaccine booster shot. I lost a good part of May's middle third to sitting very...
2022-06-01 00:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
"I have been writing for sixteen hours."
...okay. I took a couple of breaks. I went outside twice. Ate once. Coughed a lot. But I didn't sleep, because I couldn't stop. I've been trying to reach this chapter for a long time and when I was finally...
2022-05-29 10:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I was going to work on Cerea's story today.
Then yesterday happened.
I have avoided as many news sources as I could for the whole of today. Twitter is sh...
2022-05-26 00:27:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm exceptionally tired, so I'll keep this short.
The 7500 words of this chapter represent the last of the fans being turned on.
In the next, everything hits.
2022-05-23 01:47:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is something which hasn't really come along lately: the single-day idea-to-publication story. My original intent had been to go for an DELWMG ch...
2022-05-19 02:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post
(Random Sidebar Image Grab! It's been so long since we've met!)
...so DELWMG ended April on a cliffhanger after all.
I did have a reason. ...
2022-05-01 00:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
...I did not mean for this one to reach 10K on the word count.
We are now poised on the edge, and given the sheer number of things which have to happen in the next chapter... in truth, I'm not sure I can get it posted in April. There's one more pledge-charge publication...
2022-04-28 03:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been looking at the pacing on the story and, with two postings left for April, I have to make a decision. Because if I split the remaining postings between this and anything else, then I am going to end the month on a potential cliffhanger.
Y'all might kill me.
...well, not...
2022-04-24 23:58:53 +0000 UTC View Post
So as long as I've got your attention, it's time for a semi-public apology. There are times when I compose in the site's own window, and I hit Publish on this chapter when it was still both about a thousand words away from completion and unedited. I revoked it immediately, an...
2022-04-21 00:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This slot nearly went to a Canterlot Deportation Agency story.
...no, really. I had an idea for one, and I was fully ready to go back into that world for a one-shot. I still intend to site-publish that idea. But it turned out to be the flank steak of story...
2022-04-17 23:48:49 +0000 UTC View Post
First, to calm the crowd: ideally, there should be another Glimmer chapter in April. However, to thoroughly mix metaphors, new one-shot stories may have to wait until the current headlong rush reaches some level of pit stop.
Second: I got ambushed b...
2022-03-30 23:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post
And here the chaos begins.
(Not that chaos. The other chaos.)
(It's MLP. I keep having to clear that up.)
This is a case of Natural Chapter Break Point. (They do come up now and again.) 5900 words, and then -- well, it's been noted in the comments that th...
2022-03-28 01:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Those of you who's played or run tabletop RPGs will be familiar with the problems imposed a scattered party.
This isn't about the issues which rise from splitting up after the worst of it kicks in. We have multiple characters involved in this story. When it comes to current even...
2022-03-24 23:18:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been writing for eight hours.
I've been planning this moment for years.
Tartarus wasn't the end of the story.
8900 words.
The Siege Of The Palace begins.
2022-03-20 02:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
A few days ago, someone in the chat server asked me when and if this story would resume.
I said "March 15th."
I consider myself to have kept my word. And, at 7100, my word count.
...if anyone left as a sponsor because I wasn't updating this one, you don't have to come back...
2022-03-15 23:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I said something very much like this as the first comment on an 8000-word chapter. I’’m going to repeat myself here.
The original plot arc and story plan for Cerea’s tale saw its first construction in late 2018. I continued to develop the concepts and master blueprint thro...
2022-02-27 02:16:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is what I have notes for…
(I keep waiting for the backlash. Or more backlash. There may have been some backlash. It’s hard to tell and I’m not exactly in a good emotional place anyway.)
I was able to find the needed hours today, because yesterday was spent...
2022-02-24 01:49:14 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s very possible that some of you haven’t seen the recent blog, or been in the chat server. So I have to try and explain what’s been going on.
My best friend’s mother died.
I am writing this while sitting within an enclosed back porch in Florida: the same p...
2022-02-21 00:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
So there's been this ongoing annoyance in the Comments section for a while. Someone who apparently hates everything I've done to the show's extant cast, but insists on sticking around because he wants to know what happened to Cerea. And he doesn't seem to be quite current in the story...
2022-02-14 02:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post
About 10,700 words on this one.
For those of you who've been reading since the beginning, all I can really say is this:
It's not as if I didn't warn you.
Here come the Comments screams.
My personal Tartarus will always allow those to go through.
2022-02-09 04:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Two centaurs.
9400 words.
The meeting.
The talk.
Some of the answers.
(The reveals are part of what terrify me for these sections. Showing how it all fits together, and hoping others agree that the pieces belonged to the same puzzle.)
And a natural chapte...
2022-01-31 01:42:32 +0000 UTC View Post
There's about 9700 words in this chapter.
I was terrified to write every last one of them.
The next run will be harder. More draining. Saturated with fear.
The next chapter is where I have to explain myself, and hope the pieces all come together for the readers. &nbs...
2022-01-28 03:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a case where the scene didn't just take over the chapter: it wound up needing an entire chapter to itself -- just in the name of pacing. As with Twilight's dream in Triptych, I had to keep...
2022-01-24 22:28:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Abandon all hope, ye who read this chapter.
...actually managed to work that in.
This update came in at just over 8K. The next one officially moves into the Chapters I Am Terrified To Write stage of the story. And those of you who've been around for a while know w...
2022-01-22 03:49:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This hasn't been a good month.
I didn't want to post the first chapter of January this far in. But... it's January and for the last four weeks, it's felt like every other day has been an anniversary. One year since my mother tried to escape the care center and broke her hi...
2022-01-19 00:46:21 +0000 UTC View Post