This is one of the older concepts to reach story form: I blogged about the issues I was having with birds in my dryer vent in 2014, and then -- nothing happened. For a very long time.
(What is 'In nine words, summarize Estee's writing?')
But we have some fairly heavy mom...
2017-11-24 01:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a one-day story -- literally: I had the idea this morning, and the 11k result is going up before midnight in my time zone. It's a holiday story and, because the focus character is Celestia, it's also a story about how some things aren't a holiday for everypony.
Nightmare...
2017-11-01 03:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostSomething's been weird with the Patreon link post format. I wasn't able to get it working at all in September: that's why everything was composed as text. Then yesterday, when I posted the Triptych update notification, everything worked normally. And today, p...
2017-10-30 03:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Over 7500 on the word count for this one -- and somehow, that isn't the important part. Getting back on some level of track? That's a very significant bit. But for some reason, here's what stands out to me right now: when you discard deleted ones (me, posting replies from the...
2017-10-29 03:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnd got it in before October 1st came over the horizon.
This subject was a last-minute decision. I had originally considered putting up a piece about how Cadance came to be Twilight's foalsitter, titled Something Normal. That story may still wind up being told -- but i...
2017-10-01 03:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostBecause I was in that kind of mood. The one where I feel like being completely ridiculous for the sake of being completely ridiculous, abandon continuity (shortly followed by reason), toss all hope for actual character development and Plot out the window, and finally kick the results ...
2017-09-29 03:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostBack on the horse.
This one wound up running longer than I originally thought it would. When I originally had the concept, I thought the story could wrap in 9k on the word count. By the time I hit the midpoint, it was starting to look like 15k. When I actually reached the ...
2017-09-26 23:45:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Make that definitely going to feel this one tomorrow.
It's not the longest chapter: around 5700 words. But it's basically a single scene. It's something which has been building for a long time, and a lot of that ultimately came out. If I did it right, the inten...
2017-08-01 02:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Pushing through it. Somehow.
(I'm probably going to feel this on Tuesday.)
Two new chapters up on this one, totaling out to a bit over 7k words. (I'm currently guessing this story may have a few more chapters to go, and if so, the last ones will hopefully be put up in a single ba...
2017-07-31 03:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
So it's been a really bad month, and... well, those who follow my blog know why.
(I also know that everyone's trying to keep me upright while it's going on. I appreciate that, mor...
2017-07-30 03:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll keep this short: it's just under 7k on the word count, it is setting a few things up, and the next chapter is going to be vicious.
So -- four postings for the month, which hopefully gets me closer to resuming a normal rate. I'll post my ...
2017-06-30 23:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post
And the link post function is working again! Yay! I can track just how many people aren't going to the story from here on FIMFic's Statistics page!
...that came out wrong.
The current plan is for this one to go up in two big chunks: one today (three chapters, about 12k on t...
2017-06-30 00:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe funny thing about this one is that I can almost hear TD's review in advance, and I'm going to agree with what I think it'll be before I ever read it: this is an equal mix of story and ramble. (Well, he may not consider it to be [i]equal[/i]...) It's basically a day-plus spent w...
2017-06-27 03:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis is one of those stories for which the concept first appeared in a blog post and basically got written into a full work for two reasons.
* To clear the mental queue for something else.
* To see if I could break the 300-downvote barrier.
It's about 7k words of ...
2017-06-25 00:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
And the party begins.
Something over 6k on the word count for this chapter, which -- I admit this freely and of my own will -- is basically an extended introduction consisting of quite a few extended introductions. But we are here at last and now that we've arrived, we can hang up our coats ...
2017-06-01 00:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's running a little longer than I thought, for word count and writing time alike: it's been a much-less-than-ideal month. However, I want to get something out there before May runs out of calendar. And while I have faint hopes of getting two updates posted between ...
2017-05-26 19:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostFor having posted a second story (yes, the one below. Perhaps needless to say, that's now a no-charge) which wasn't connected enough to the show for site standards, added to the verbal slugfest I had with another user a while back. With no way to write something on the site itself, I'm p...
2017-04-28 23:44:18 +0000 UTC View PostI came up with this concept some time ago: the initial idea is archived in an old blog post. It's a crossover without the actual meeting: the characters of one series watching those from another via the expected medium and trying to take lessons from it -- followed, naturally, by h...
2017-04-28 19:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Speaking of bringing things up to the very edge of party...
So three slots filled for the month, a chance at four, and pretty much no shot at five. (I'm so tired right now, I almost put in a word which was very close to 'shot'.) My best-case scenario right now is to get someth...
2017-04-28 02:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post
So at the absolute minimum, I managed to keep that promise: a double-chapter month. (This one's in the 9000 to 9800 range on the word count -- I'm still trying to figure out exactly how FIMFic adds things up there.)
The world seems to be trying to fight me on updates: &...
2017-04-26 21:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
About 7k on this chapter -- although I've recently been told that FIMFic's method of word counting doesn't necessary produce the true number, and now I'm a little worried about that. Still, it's a decent size for a fresh portion, and I still intend to put up at least one more chapter on it bef...
2017-04-22 03:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post
And we close what's very much turned out to be Rarity Month on a final comedy piece -- one which clocked in at 11k on the word count. As such, I'm also (re)declaring this as Verbiage For The Buck Month, and ask that no one expect this kind of word composition total at the end of April. B...
2017-04-01 02:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo does anyone happen to remember yesterday, when I said we were probably looking at two short pieces for the rest of the month, and they might average out at 5k in word count?
Click that link.
...yeah.
So if the final one for March is short? That's why. And ...
2017-03-30 03:45:22 +0000 UTC View Post
So for starters: I'm going to try and do two more things before March runs out: these will potentially be story updates. (However, if it winds up as one or two new short pieces, then I promise here and now that April will be a double-update month for Triptych.) &nb...
2017-03-29 03:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt's really not the sort of thing I could stretch out into a series.
I struggled with this one in two ways. The first was the style: I originally thought to render it as a meta-referential story along the lines of a certain Sherman Tank appearance, and ultimately rejected th...
2017-03-17 00:44:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a Rarity focus story, set in the days before the Boutique, with what might be a slightly surprising guest star -- somepony I left out of the cast icons on purpose. It's also another AU division point because in canon, that pony is not supposed to be there.
I would n...
2017-03-14 06:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, to close out the month. It wound up coming it at about 6500 words: not one of the longer chapters, but it was at a natural break point -- and if I'd pushed to the next scene, I would have gone beyond, and then a little more beyond, and then it would have been March.
This c...
2017-03-01 00:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
About 9700 words on this one, which is just about all I want to say about it -- with the exception of one thing.
I swear this was meant to be a light romp when I first thought of it.
*sigh*
Where we wind up isn't always where we think we...
2017-02-27 02:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Four chapters, nearly 26k on the word count and, because I promised it in my blog, one post charge for all of it. Consider this to be like Goosed or Sick Little Ponies: every so often, I try to provide a little extra value/verbiage per pledge.
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2017-02-25 03:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
A touch over 7700 words on this one, which brings us to the point of a time skip. Things are being set up in this chapter, and we'll have to skip over a few days to reach the first of them. It's not in anyone's best interests for me to use Fleur's first week in Ponyville as a day-by-day ...
2017-02-21 02:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post