This one turned out to be a little weird. I've been working my way up to the next big scene: the press conference. And after some consideration, I realized that said conference wa...
2020-02-17 01:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not sure the Complete tag was accurate.
This story came about because of the joke British stereotype for how to deal with anything: you write a letter. To the editor, t...
2020-01-30 23:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post
And this wraps Nightmare Night, along with sending the story into that next phase. Some readers had felt that Fleur was doing too well in her sentence, was in need of a shakeup -- and guess w...
2020-01-28 01:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first of what I'm hoping will be two chapters for the month, with both sharing the same calendar square and physical setting. The last pairing was Fleur and Fluttershy out and abo...
2020-01-23 23:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay: now this is me being silly for the sake of silliness. And also tentatively treading through the Mature waters again, because this is a sex-themed comedy. Or at leas...
2020-01-21 03:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a case of clearing the queue: I had been working on a new chapter for Anchor Foal and I -- got stuck. Reached the 3500-word mark after two days, and just stalle...
2020-01-19 02:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is an example of how ideas can mutate when you're not looking.
It started two nights ago, and it started during the small hours because that was when my lower-apartment neighbors dec...
2019-12-31 00:42:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to do a holiday story.
I didn't write one this year, which meant I missed being part of the flood of Hearth's Warming tales which saturated the New column for days on end. &...
2019-12-28 04:13:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This story's title has been hanging around for a while: it's the name of a magical effort from the endless abomination that is Corn & Peg. I knew on sight ...
2019-12-25 23:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A few of you may recall this story idea arising from a blog post: the concept of Twilight coming across a coin she couldn't recognize and tracking it to the source. In this case, the Ma...
2019-12-18 00:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In a small way, this story is about building towards (what I'm still hoping will be) the next big project. We've officially been at AU for a while for now -- and in that, we have a setting wh...
2019-12-13 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Because we can't just leave Cerea hanging, can we? In fact, after this chapter, there's no way to leave her in one place any more...
7400 words close out the month, and the one-year ann...
2019-12-01 03:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m not completely sure this one qualifies as a comedy.
As mentioned in the ending Author’s Note, this one was written entirely in the hospital, over the course of two days. The fir...
2019-11-27 20:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, now you know why I stopped the last chapter at a natural break point: this one wound up being a bit over 9700 words.
(Also, I have been working on this part for the last te...
2019-11-24 06:35:47 +0000 UTC View Post
(I have tried to write this post three times, and that is why the final result is so short. When I put a link into this part of the window, it blanks the page while deleting anything accessed...
2019-11-22 05:03:35 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a rough month.
Put it this way: with this week included, I am averaging slightly over four medical appointments for every five weekdays. (And that's hard to do.) I...
2019-11-20 04:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
And so other things begin.
(I really wish I'd found cover art.)
In the end, this was both a bridge and a fracture story. It's starting the process of carrying us towards ...
2019-10-30 02:28:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This is, in fact, the push -- and as stated in the post title, the next chapter will be the final one. I'm going to try and finish in October, because I have faint thoughts/hopes/soon-to-be-d...
2019-10-28 03:02:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is starting to feel like the final push on Triptych, at least in the sense that part of me wants to try and get it done before the end of the month. It means the other t...
2019-10-26 00:18:58 +0000 UTC View Post
With Triptych, there were chapters which I was afraid to write, because I thought they would produce an adverse response.
For Duet, there are chapters which ...
2019-10-21 05:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This wasn't originally meant to be two chapters. However, it was meant to represent one post charge, and that's the way it's coming out: the composition emerged in such a way t...
2019-10-19 03:15:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I really was planning to revisit Cerea today, but... Fleur's been on my mind, and it reached the point where the brief focus walk I just barely managed to get in found itself proceeding throu...
2019-09-30 01:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post
As it turns out, this may have to be an all-update month. The story moderation queue is a little weird right now, and I'm not completely sure all is well on auto-approval either.
... 2019-09-29 02:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
There seems to be a theme with the last few updates. It stretches across two stories, there's a chance that it'll find its way to a third, and it reads as 'Here comes the problem.' In t...
2019-09-24 03:43:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Well... at least now I know I can still write. If I'm lucky.
The last few days have been upheaval. (Short version: she was discharged.) But when she rests -- if ...
2019-09-22 04:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Any writer is eventually going to wind up with one of those search histories.
Mystery authors -- those specializing in crime -- get the worst of it. A mystery writer who'...
2019-09-16 03:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post
As it turned out, I wound up changing the projected chapter title -- and the contents. I had initially thought this segment would conclude on a different story beat. But this w...
2019-09-01 02:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought this was a quick idea.
Something basic, in a month where so much has been complicated. Something light and fun. Just a little comedy about kissing booths and the mares w...
2019-08-31 00:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I have no idea how that cover art wound up there on the random grab. It's someone else's cover art, for a different story. Given the trouble I'm having in finding artists willing to tak...
2019-08-28 04:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post
As those who follow my site blog already know, this is the idea which arose from being in the audience at that one panel. It just turned out to be a much longer idea than I'd thought...
2019-08-24 20:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post