The Bubbly Mare Updated! · 10:44pm Nov 13th, 2018
Added Chapter "Moonlight" to story.
Last chapter took place long ago, this one in the present.
What to do, what to do... with all that Derpy has just told Applejack, she knows something's going to have to happen. She's a practical pony, there for all her friends... it makes sense Applejack can figure something out, right? If not by herself then maybe a friend might help. We can only hope
Considering how much trouble this story's been giving me, this one came super easy. I sat down last week hoping to write out a skeleton and I wrote out the entire thing in basically one sitting... two if you count a break for dinner and a movie, lol.
I'm really enjoying writing this story, though it's been challenging writing a story where one chapter is predicated on another taking place in a different timeline that alternates back and forth in a pattern. That's part of the fun, though.
Not to get too personal but as I've been writing the Bubbly Mare through a lot of different events -- weddings of sibling we thought would never marry, job loss, medication detox (got off stuff that was wreaking havoc on me), reemployment, several conventions and relationships, promotions and entire outlook change. It's unusual for so much to have gone on during the writing of a story on which I've been so unilaterally focused... wonder how it's going to look a few years down the road to me, whether I'll be able to sense those events that were going on in the text.
Hope everyone's enjoying the story as much as I've enjoyed bringing it to you.
Peace 
That's truly the joy of writing. The knowledge that your stories have their own way of illustrating our feelings and experiences at the time.
I recall my first efforts on FA were to show others I appreciate them and their kindness to me. Lots of tales were to really figure out if I 'fit in' as a baby fur / little.
Then I had a spell of stories that had to do with my anguish over surgery and job related stress. I used a lot of "Assertive Fluttershy" elements during this time. I also had Spike be very rebellious against Twilight as, personally, I loathed how I felt those were treating me IRL and Spike was the perfect character to vent those feelings even if indirectly.
My more recent works have been about 'coping' with life. Lots of therapy-based stuff coupled with self-acceptance.
Now I'm doing very emotional work as, well, getting divorced bites and dealing with the fall out of such a thing is even worse. So, to be honest, "Gillmer & Glow" is just a tale that allows me to throw in tons of emotions at once and hope people like it.
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This all said, I know you'll look back at Bubbly Mare and see it as a step in your life. Perhaps multiple steps. You may even, if you reread the whole thing, be able to relate to what created the difference in one section of the story to another.
The nice thing is you'll always have your artistic 'water mark'. The part of each of your stories that will allow everyone to know a Wayward story from any other tale. This will carry from your first until your very last tale. :)