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Firesight


I'm an IT Brony who writes stories based on a show for 8-year old girls whose content is meant for anything but 8-year old girls.

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  • Monday
    Feathered Hearts C&C chapter 40 will launch tonight

    I apologize for the long delay. The chapter draft was submitted to prereaders a month ago and well-received, but the graphics have taken me a while and several false starts. The main reason is I tried multiple methods to include unit icons in the maps of Aresia, but the end result always seems more cluttered than anything else. Here's an example:

    Without unit icons:

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  • 2 weeks
    New Midnight Rising chapter off to prereaders...

    At long last. This is the redo of the chapter I was forced to scrap in April and then about 80% rewrite. I saved a few select bits and pieces from the original version, but the rest went by the wayside.

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  • 3 weeks
    Still pecking away on Midnight Rising and Feathered Hearts...

    The two Lemon Zest chapters of Midnight Rising have now reached 26,600 words and they’re still nowhere near done, with probably another 5-6k words to go. Gotta treat the girl right, after all, and also make sure there’s plenty of sexy side dishes around her. And as for Feathered Hearts?

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  • 4 weeks
    Still working on Midnight Rising...

    At the rate of about 800-1000 words a day. That’s my key to getting stuff done that’s causing you issues; just be sure you put at least a little time in on it this day to have some forward momentum. The two chapters are now up to 24,100 words. I’ll work on it more this weekend, at least around continuing work around the maps and battle graphics I’m making for Feathered Hearts.

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  • 4 weeks
    Did two things this past weekend...

    First, I ran 10k for the first time in two months after laying off that long to let my ankle bursitis subside, trying to allow the area to generally heal up. It appears that it worked. To my delight, there was no ankle pain after and I hadn’t even lost much stamina thanks to hitting an elliptical machine twice a week for an hour instead of jogging. My upper legs are another matter, though.

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Jan
10th
2022

By popular request, the next Feathered Hearts C&C and Eros chapters are underway... · 1:30am Jan 10th, 2022

Welcome to milestone blog #500! I’ve now been on Fimfiction for nine years... :pinkiegasp:

Consensus in my last blog was to continue working on Feathered Hearts - Continuation and Chronicles, so I will, pairing it with work on a new Eros chapter. With regards to C&C, for the first time since the prologue, the new entry is going to cover a whole original story chapter. C&C chapter 21 will run through the (altered) events of Feathered Heart - Chapter 7 in their entirety.

You may recall that particular chapter took a step back after the first combat action to allow everyone to collect themselves and determine their next steps. So it will be here, but I’m going to put a lot more emphasis on the post-battle reactions of the Marines, griffons and civilians, as well as how the humans react to the reveal of what the Cloven actually are. You’ll also get a great deal more background on how and why Chris, Tara and Marco smuggled their weapons in. The how and why have already been hinted at, but you’ll get it much more thoroughly explained here. Marco’s lesson to Gilda regarding guns is also much more extensive now.

For those of you who want to get to more combat, you’ll have to wait another chapter, and not just because trying to retain the rough story outline of the original version means there’s a break from it. I’ve said this before, but I’m of the opinion that it’s generally best to step back after an intense battle (or clop!) scene and let the reader catch their mental breath before continuing. I call it the ‘reading refractory period.’ Obviously, in certain stories or story sequences, that’s not possible (like Harmonic Resonance or even Eros, which are wall-to-wall clop at this point!) But for more plot-based stuff, I think it’s a requirement.

As for Eros, those of you who follow the story know what’s coming next. After four chapters from Marco’s perspective, it will shift for the first time since the standalone chapter that started the story to Fortrakt’s point of view as he gets double-teamed and simultaneously topped by both Tara and Gilda!

As for release schedule, I’m likely to have the new C&C chapter into prereads in the next two days, meaning you’ll likely see it published in the latter half of the week. Eros will take a bit more time--likely a week or two since I’m writing that one from scratch and not from a preexisting chapter. As always updates and possible teasers will follow as work proceeds.

Comments ( 3 )

Congrats on the milestone! May 16th, 2022 will mark my tenth year. Seems like it wasn't that long ago...

Yeah all around good news! Looking forward to the weekend now. Hehe

Now that is something to look forwards to.

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