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Cold in Gardez


Stories about ponies are stories about people.

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  • 1 week
    A town for the fearful dead

    What is that Gardez up to? Still toiling away at his tabletop world. Presented, for those with interest, the town of Cnoc an Fhomhair.

    Cnoc an Fhomhair (Town)

    Population: Varies – between two and five thousand.
    Industry: Trade.
    Fae Presence: None.

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  • 12 weeks
    The Dragon Game

    You know the one.


    A sheaf of papers, prefaced with a short letter, all written in a sturdy, simple hand.

    Abbot Stillwater,

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    7 comments · 536 views
  • 31 weeks
    EFN Book Nook!

    Hey folks! I should've done this days ago, apparently, but the awesome Twilight's Book Nook at Everfree Northwest has copies of Completely Safe Stories!

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    9 comments · 565 views
  • 34 weeks
    A new project, and an explanation!

    Hey folks,

    Alternate title for this blog post: I'm Doing a Thing (and I'm looking for help)

    I don't think anyone is surprised that my pony writing has been on a bit of a hiatus for a while, and my presence on this site is mostly to lurk-and-read rather than finish my long-delayed stories. What you might not know, though, is what I've been doing instead of pony writing.

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  • 79 weeks
    Short Story: The Sculpture

    This is not a story about ponies. No ponies here! Go elsewhere for ponies.

    But this is a story for a D&D adventure I am writing. And I suppose it's also a story about what it means to have purpose, where we get that purpose form, and what happens when that purpose vanishes. People things, in other words.


    The flower turns its face to the sun.

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Jul
12th
2014

So, about that not-writing thing... · 3:09pm Jul 12th, 2014

It's much harder than it sounds!

I tried. For over a week I didn't write any stories, just worked on my masters thesis. That thesis, however, is going much more quickly and smoothly than I expected. So last night I was in my room, in the hour or so I have to myself before I rack out, and I got back to writing some pony.

You might notice there's a new chapter in my short stories collection. You might also notice that this blog post is tagged for Lost Cities. That's because there is a new ruin to explore, far to the north.

So why didn't I just add a chapter to Lost Cities? Because that story is marked complete, and there's something that just seems wrong about adding to a 'complete' story, like I'm cheating or something.

So Lost Cities will just have to stay the way it is. And if I think of any more ruins, they'll find a comfortable home in the collection of shorts.

This short-story aside, I'm still on a temporary break from writing! I mean it! Don't tempt me!

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Welp.

Time to get off my ass and read that sumbitch.

~Skeeter The Lurker

Glad to hear it's going so well.

Because that story is marked complete, and there's something that just seems wrong about adding to a 'complete' story, like I'm cheating or something.

Looks like someone doesn't want to pull off an Eakin.

Hah! Now that I've read it, once again I was expecting a different ruin than the one we got. With the description of "a new ruin to explore, far to the north" I went into it imagining a description of the Crystal Empire in whatever state it existed in during its thousand year hiatus.

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Unnecessary Epilogue Disorder is a serious medical condition, I'll have you know. I battle every day to keep it from erupting into full-blown Sequelitus.

Alternatively, if you get more ideas for ruins, you could always just put up a Lost Cities 2.

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Sequelitis is bad. You should talk to your editor before a plot develops in your anterior novellum, or you might end up needing a chapterectomy. But at least you don't suffer from hypostoremia like I do. A low typoglobulin count is no laughing matter.

2277178 In the event of a case of Unnecessary Epilogue Disorder lasting more than six months, consult a publisher. You may actually have the more (or less) serious Endless Wheel of Time Syndrome, and it is best treated with the ritual abuse of typical publishing houses (as documented by Prof. Scalzi and Prof. Hoyt) in order to drive the deamon of excessive creativity out of you. In the worst-case scenario where you are still unable to put down that pen, there is a quiet place of peace where you can be among your own kind in the Baen Books asylum and coffee house (open 24/7).

Have you considered adding a link to I'm Afraid of Changeling to the description of "Lost Cities"? That would allow new readers to get the whole picture without subverting the "complete" tag.

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That's... actually pretty smart.

Now we need a seapony city. Maybe some zebra ruins? Or abandoned dragon lairs and diamond dog tunnel cities...

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CiG thinks I'm smart?
[fangirlish squeal]
I spent six months reading the site voraciously without making an account, so I find it easier than most to think about how things look to non-members, non-followers, etc.

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