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My Nurse Redheart Series Hello everyone. Sorry I've been silent for so long. I'm still around, I've just been busy with work and deeply involved with my new project "Then There Was You." So far the new story is going great! I've already finished the rough draft of chapter 1 (currently a little over 7,200 words), but I'm going to keep writing till I have at least a couple chapters drafted. I've also been continuing to give Jeanne's story a lot of developmental attention as well. Unlike some stories, I've done some research into a few things, done character molding, and have been bouncing countless ideas for the romance and various other aspects of the story with Jeannedarc's creator. That's why the lack of blogs and updates. I'm serious about this story. In fact this has me feeling new found drive for my novel "The Realm of Forgotten Magic", which has not received the attention it deserves.
Now, never forget, I love writing these pony stories, but my time is just so limited anymore. That's why I have to pick and choose what I work on, and if I am ever to make it as a writer and continue to make these wonderful tales for all of you, I need to start writing some actual novels and earning some money. This way I can leave that annoying factory job and have time to focus on my true passion.
Now it's come to my attention that some of you are disheartened by what happened with Rainbow Dash and her story. I too am sad that I lost my focus on it. But rest assure, it's not because of Rainbow Dash. In fact as I worked on her story, I actually fell in love with her for a time (take that for whatever you will, I have nothing to hide), and really enjoyed writing about her, but what started killing it for me was the 2nd-person narrative. It's just so limited, like 1st-person. I just need a good long break from that style. From February through most of April, all I did was 2nd person. I burned myself out on it and I need to go to 3rd person for the foreseeable future. Besides, very few novels are done in 2nd-person, and I just love the depth I can enjoy form 3rd person.
This is why I'm going be focusing on the following stories for the time being:
1. "Then Their Was You" - My main focus with the other two as back up, when I need to gather my thoughts on this one.
2. "A Total Eclipse of Their Hearts"
3. "You Brighten My Day"
I'm sorry to say that most of my 2nd person fics have been delayed indefinitely, and I can't say when Rainbow's will be finished. I'd honestly have rather done a 3rd person story about her, but one-shots like that usually don't do well without proper development and I just don't have the time. Besides, I never expected to find a pony like Jeannedarc that would take me so by storm. So, I know this comes as a blow to many of you, but I don't see any way out of this, unless things vastly improve at my job, and I don't see it happening. Now, fans of "For Whom She Sparkles" need not worry. I can't say when but I will certainly be continuing with that story, I just need a break from 2nd person stories for a bit. You know I need to do what's best for me as well. If things can turn around with my writing a new novel, then things will greatly improve overall. I hope you all will understand. I know many of you are supper psyched for Jeanne's story already, and most of you have stuck with me despite the wait for things, so I really appreciate that! More than you may think.
For now, my immediate focus is on Jeanne's story. I'll be sure to keep you all up to date with my progress and when I am ready to post chapter 1, I'll let you know. I want to stay several chapters ahead of my posting, so I have some breathing room if I run into any snags. That, and I need to buy time while I wait for cover art. If need be I was given the ok by Jeanne's creator to adapt some of her existing art into a cover image. Again, I'll keep you all posted. I'm really loving this new story, and have had no real issues writing it and the inspiration is just as strong as ever, so I plan to ride this train all the way into the station. Thank you as always for your ongoing support! Take care!
- Jaydex
Enjoy this pic of Luna called - "The Moonlight"
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>>479997
I just checked out your user page, I'm flattered that you liked my profile layout enough to adapt it to your page. It looks nice! And wow, you've given me an entire section just for your favorite stories of mine, alone.
I hardly know what to say. 
Other than, thank you! 
Hey Jaydex, I thought I should let you know that I styled my Biography section a bit after yours. Just wanted to thank you for having a good design so I could finally write a little about myself on my page.
>>474819
It sounds like you've put plenty of thought into this. So I say, if you're this confident, then go for it!
And don't worry about the long comment. It helped me understand where you're going with things. It all sounds good to me. 
I hope it works out nicely for you!
>>473950 Yes, I took the limiting factors of making everyone human into account before even writing the first paragraph. Which leads me to a sort of "in-between" scenario regarding ponies and their abilities. As humans, unicorns would be the more magic-enabled part of humanity, being able to cast spells like wizards, for example. Since I was thinking of including airship technology (inspired by steampunk and the Final Fantasy series), pegasi would be the equivalent of an air force, and would most likely be involved in ranged combat. And after watching the Hearth's Warming Eve episode for reference, earth ponies would be a bit stronger than their other humanized counterparts, which would mean they are more in tune with tasks that deal with the earth, such as farming and smithing. This would also make them melee fighters by default. As for the rest of the species, Dragons would be more resistant to extreme heat, griffons would rival pegasi, changelings (can't believe I left them out) would be shape-shifters obviously, and as for someone like Discord, he could be a chaotic demi-god. As for the setting, Equestria would be one kingdom on a planet with multiple neighboring kingdoms and other forms of government. I might have trouble with naming a few places in Equestria, but I think the rest of my bases are covered. What do you think? And sorry for the long comment, I'm just trying to get enough input.
>>473537
That's a good question. I know plenty of writers like to make the characters in the pony world human. It's a perfectly fine idea, but it can limit things by having every character a human. Then you have no dragons, griffins, or ponies - earth, pegasi, unicorn, or alicorn. But it's up to you, persoanally I'd leave the natives of Equestria alone, and leave your human character as the only human. It just seems to work better, for me anyway, when I write the story about the ponies as ponies. You might ask yourself this: has it been easy so far writing the story with all human characters? If it has been, then you should be fine. But perhaps if it has been tricky or even hard, you might want to switch things back to normal. That's my suggestions. Hope it helps. Also, glad to hear you really like "You Brighten My Day"!
Hello, Jaydex. First off, let me say that "You Brighten My Day" is yet another one of my favorite romance fics written by you. I wanted to ask for your expert writing advice on something. I'm currently working on my first story, an adventure fic featuring the Mane Six and possibly some villains from the series proper. One of the Mane Six will accompany a human OC of mine (in fact, his name is my current username). The thing is, everyone in this fic will be a human. Good guys, bad guys, and even minor characters. I just wanted your opinion on this: should I continue writing the story as it is, or would it be better to "play it safe", as it were, and write in all characters as ponies (and gryphons, draconequus etc.)?
>>462137
Thank you for that, I didn't even realize that the link to that pic was broken. I just thought I had removed that one, from a while back.
That's entirely my bad. It's all fixed now, thanks again! 
Erm, real quick, the fourth image on the Luna and Redheart corner doesn't show.
Now, it's labeled as "Luna by Mikuhoshi" in its web link (which also leads to nothing), so... did you mean this?:
Derpibooru image:
>>454769
That's the general idea, that they are all the same with Total Eclipse and You Brighten leading the way for humanity's return.
Say, do all your human/pony stories share a universe? Because "total eclipse" and "brighten my day" have pretty much the same premise and "more than their customer was mentioned in "for whom she sparkles" unless I'm mistaken. So is this all in the same continuity?