Readers of The Pony Who Lived Upstairs have been waiting too long for the 24th and final chapter of their tale! Why haven't I put it out yet? Well, one reason is the beginning of the school year, which is when I'm busiest... but the real blame has to lie with the fickle nature of a writer. You see, just as I reached the final chapter of my pony story, I was seized with inspiration to develop a concept for a fanfic series in a different fandom. And instead of writing a chapter

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I've just finished a first draft of Chapter 23 of "The Pony Who Lived Upstairs". This chapter will be entitled "Friends" and is not terribly long--about 5,500 words. I should have it up within a couple weeks, ideally next Monday.

Chapter 24 will be the end of the story.

I just finished a draft of the 22nd chapter of The Pony Who Lived Upstairs. This chapter is called "Family" and is not the final chapter. It has poems and is set to be the third longest chapter so far. I'm hoping to post it next Monday.

EDIT: My most prolific pre-reader is busy, so the chapter will not be out Monday. Probably next week!

Trill-la-la, troll-la-la
Princess Celestia.
Solar custodian,
Quick as a shot!

Makes her appearances
Anticlimactically
Thereby avoiding di-
stortion of plot.

Hi there, readers of "The Pony Who Lived Upstairs!" I finished a draft of Chapter 21 last night and sent it to my pre-readers. It will be entitled "Crystals".

I've finished the draft of Chapter 20! My prereaders are now on it, and I hope to revise and post it within a week.

What should I call it? Let's see... maybe "Equestria". Or maybe "Quiet Game".

. o O (There are 399 comments on The Pony Who Lived Upstairs! I wonder what #400 will be. It's true that I haven't gotten very far with Chapter 20, but it may be that working to incorporate whatever phrase the 400th poster tells me to use in the upcoming chapter will be just the kick I need...)

Hey folks! I finished the draft of Chapter 19 last week and took it to a prereader's farm home for a live reading. I'm cleaning it up and planning to post it on MLK Day. This chapter's called "The Last Day".

It took me way too long. But the draft of Chapter 18 is in the hands of my prereaders! I hope to post it on Monday.

It's not too long--just 5500 words. And it's called "Grafted".

I originally wrote Chapter 3 of "The Pony Who Lived Upstairs" ("Sanitization") in the present tense, which is weird, given that the rest of the story is in past tense. It just felt like it was calling out to be written that way, so I did. I even toyed with writing every third chapter in some weird way, but that never came to pass. So I eventually realized I'd have to go back and fix it. Well, I finally did! It's in past tense now, and I made some other minor changes while revising. The

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