TLove, Sugar, and Sails
MLP: FiM
Romance
Adventure
An ambassador and a naval officer become romantically involved while fighting sugar pirates.
Violence
Sex
OC
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81 weeks
I am a slooooow writer

This final draft is diverging a little from the previous one, so I need to rework some chapters (especially in this middle chunk). Going to break with the weekly posting structure and start putting the chapters up when they're done. The next one still needs a bit more work, so look for it sometime this week or next--sorry for the delays, but the weekly/biweekly schedule is starting to get a bit
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84 weeks
One more week

Had an extremely busy week and haven't had time to give a final polishing pass to the next chapter, so I'm going to delay it till next sunday. Apologies! We'll resume the biweekly pace next week.
I'm considering a longer break near the end of act 2 to get all of act 3 polished so I can return to the weekly posting schedule for the final set of chapters.
As always, thanks for reading!
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88 weeks
New posting schedule

I liked having the extra time to do final proofreading and minor rewrites so much that I'm going to make it a regular thing. I'll post chapters biweekly from here on out. There are still a couple later chapters that I'm not super pleased with, so I might take a little extra time once we get closer to them to tweak them more.
Thanks for reading!
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90 weeks
Brief Posting Break

Going to be busy with social events for the next two weekends, so I'll be taking a short break on the chapter postings. Chapters will resume going up on the 27th of August.
Thanks for reading!
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98 weeks
Thicker Than Water is a go!

After a lot longer than it really should have taken, I'm finally at a point where I can start publishing Thicker Than Water. I plan to put up about one chapter a week, although we're starting off with two because they're so closely intertwined. There are 27 chapters and an epilogue in total, at a little less than 200k words. I'm still tweaking things here and there so the final wordcount might go
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Dec

15th

2013

New Cover Finished · 8:51pm Dec 15th, 2013

Voila

Took longer than I expected because Illustrator ~~is a bag of dicks~~ crashed and lost about 5 hours of progress, and then finals week hit. The semester is over for me on Wednesday, so keep an eye out for new chapters this coming weekend.

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Cerulean Voice

Cerulean Voice #1 · Dec 15th, 2013 · · ·

YaaaaY!
Looking good, Smithy!

Cedric Bale

Cedric Bale #2 · Dec 15th, 2013 · · ·

... Illustrator doesn't regularly autosave?

DSNesmith

DSNesmith #3 · Dec 15th, 2013 · · ·

1611070
It is a terrible, terrible program. Sadly, Photoshop doesn't do vectors nearly as well.

Edit: Another fun Illustrator horror story is the time I changed my printer and it suddenly refused to save any documents. How are these two things related, you ask? They aren't! I had to set the default printer to that Microsoft PDF thing to get Illustrator to save anything.

Snowy89