Status and fanwork! · 4:26am Jan 23rd, 2012

Heya guys, how are ya?

Just wanted to give you guys a sign of life, since I know I've been pretty silent for the past few months. The next chapter for the Ballad is almost done, and it's actually been so for a couple of weeks. I had started showing my pre-readers the chapter chunk by chunk at the beginning of the month, but then I got pretty sick and lost all my momentum. Anyways, do not listen to CoffeeGrunt's lies, I am not waiting for Half-Life 3 to release the next chapter!

As I've mentioned before, I've got a thousand things going on all at once taking up my time, be it work, biking, or just being out of the house with friends during my little free time, and that means that I've almost no time to sit down, be at peace, and write. I still manage to catch the episodes, and I gotta tell you guys, The Last Roundup totally and utterly Jossed the next Ballad chapter, which I find hilarious; you'll see why soon enough.

Another thing I wanted to show you guys is this: Phroexx's dramatic reading of the Ballad's first chapter! Go give it a listen, and show him some love!

While I'm at it, I don't recall posting this here on FiMFiction: a sketch of Rarity I drew some time ago. As you can see, she's all gussied up in her confiscated weapons.

I think that's all the news I have for now, so while you wait for the chapter, go fill out The Ballad's TVTropes page with all references I've put in the story (they must number in the tens of thousands by now), or go read up awesome stories by awesome writes. I recommend AVeryStrange, Cloudy Skies, Jetfire, Mazzyrazzy, Sev, and AbsolutelyAnonymous.

...Oh, and CoffeeGrunt, I guess. Only if you have to.