Don't read this blog if you want to finish the story without spoilers.

FINALLY! DONE!

At about 135k words, Cadence In A Minor is finally done. It's been a humongous undertaking and the feeling I got from updating it as "complete" was, well, undescribable. This thing would, in print, be a 450 page novel. I wrote a book. I did it. Whee!

(From the author's note in the Epilogue)

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Honestly, I don't usually do this, but I decided to make an exception. My longest and most well received fic, Cadance In A Minor, is rapidly closing on the finish. In the last two weeks I've managed to write 17 000 words of the last two chapters. It's been such a long time since I started writing this fic. It's now longer than your average paperback novel at close to 130 000 words. In print, that would be over 400 pages. For example, it's now longer than any novel written by Terry Pratchett.

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This has been the most difficult chapter I have ever had to write. Took me AGES!

I'M SORRY!

This chapter has been nagging at me, teasing me, stressing me out all that time. Why? Because I had to write Cadance. It taught me a precious lesson: Do NOT think you understand a character and their motivations before you actually write them out. Also: Do NOT notice this 100k words into a story.

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Yes, you read it first here, people! I'm not about to whine! *recorded audience gasp*

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Yeah, the title does not lie. I finally finished Cadence In A Minor chapter 13. I know I'm probably one of the worst people on this site on keeping a writing schedule or releasing chapters even remotely on time. My apologies for that. I never understood how difficult stories become as the get longer and longer. So many loose ends to tie, so many previous events to check for continuity, so much, well, STUFF.

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