I had plans for this summer. And as expected, I haven't managed to do all the planned things.

So, what's the field report? Here go the planned things:

— a comedy one-shot about Twilight panicking for no reason, titled “Pinkie Pie Dyes” — almost done, but needs a lot of editing so it won't suck. Comedy one-shots are hit-or-miss.

— a serious Derpy×Vinyl shipfic from Octavia's point of view, titled “Between The Three Of Us” — less than 25% done. It's going to be pretty long, but at least I have an editor for this one. I won't publish it here before hitting 40% mark.

— a comedy about Pinkie's unrequited crush on Rarity — not even started.

— a short slice-of-life fic about Winona and CMC — not even started.

Oh boy, it looks like I've accomplished next to nothing.

Oh wait, there's other stuff:

— It probably shouldn't count, but during summer, I wrote two chapters of “Of Robots And Ponies”. More Whooves running around, but I think about wrapping up Whooves arc and starting Roseluck arc. I also managed to get the story so complicated that I needed to write down a timeline... and timelines barely work with stories with time travel. Apart from that, I need to write down who knows what, who accused whom of what and all that stuff, because I'm getting lost. I also know how I'll end the story (not sure in how many chapters though): Apple Bloom'll say: “Consarn it, still no cutie mark!” The next chapter is a work in progress and it's sponsored by this picture.

— A sudden spark of inspiration allowed me to write “Being His Imaginary Fluttershy”. For some reason, it's my highest rated story, despite being less popular than “Robots”. I'm considering a sequel titled “Being His Imaginary Applejack”, but I need to think more about it.

— There's that half-written yet untitled story, which I started writing as a birthday present for a friend and I still haven't finished. Mainly because I can't write Pinkie, dammit!

— There's that silly one-shot I sent to a friend: “Twilight Sparkle And A Cucumber”. I'll publish it here as soon as I hear from him back. It needs only little editing.

— There's that new story I'm writing now, a classical comedy crackshipfic featuring Rainbow Dash, who as always falls in love with... well, the working title of the story is “Rainbow Dash Falls In Love With Celestia's Horn”, guess who's Dashie's sweetheart in that. And guess how it involves Bon-Bon.

— And finally, I have at least three more ideas:

× cute&nice&fluffy Twilight×Fluttershy shipfic with a bit of comedy;

× a murder mystery (in which Rarity dies, for no reason, and a lot of weird stuff happens afterwards);

× and a philosophical mystery (woohoo! a new made-up genre!) about... well, if you've read Anathem, that would be similar. I plan some government conspiracies, serious (Celestia level of serious) Pinkie, Luna banished from Canterlot, Twilight being under intelligence agency's surveillance, and more.

But guessing from my record, I won't write them all. The murder mystery looks like it has no chances to ever show up, the other two – I don't know.

So, that's all, folks. I hope I'll be able to provide you with more mediocre fanfiction in the future.

TL;DR:

Brace yourself, three comedy one-shots are coming.

FIMFiction has this nifty little feature called Stats, that allows you to see what pages brought other people to your stories. I decided to take a peek.

What did people type in into Google/Bing/Yahoo to get to Of Robots And Ponies?

of robots and ponies

Well, nice, that's the title.

sweetie bot acquisition program

Looks like my clever way of naming the chapters works.

sweetie bot's story

sweetie bot fanfiction

sweetie bot fimfiction

robot ponies

robot pony fimfiction

robot imposter fimfiction

Also nice, that's what the fanfic is about.

killed sweetie belle rarity fimfiction

Almost a direct quote.

concerned rarity sweetie belle fimfiction

Okay.

sweetie belle discord fimfiction

Wait, there's no Discord in my story!

mature chastity story

pony chastity collection

I'm not sure what to think about those. I doubt those people wanted to see anything MLP:FIM related.

what can you do with the lyra sex toy

Wait, what?

Well, at least I understand this one: Bon-Bon called Sweetie Bot a sex toy few times.

sweetie belle porn

What the hell is wrong with you people?

i want to have sex with sweetie belle

NO

I'm still pretty busy, but it's not like I'm not doing anything. The reasons for the delay are: number one, finals (I'm not done yet); and number two...

the seventh episode of “Friendship is Witchcraft” is coming out in a week!

Besides being awesome, for me it's also a new piece of canon I need to know before writing fanfiction. My plan is as follows: write a whole chapter, wait for new Witchcraft, watch it, check if I need to fix something to match the canon, and then publish as soon as I'm done. Therefore the ETA for the ninth chapter of Sweetie Bot's hijinks is July 1st or 2nd.

Meanwhile, I wrote a short experimental piece, about Fluttershy... but not about her. I think the title: “Being His Imaginary Fluttershy” says enough. I never planned to write it, it just struck me one day. Now the story sits in the queue, I have no Idea when it shows up.

And finally, a message to all fans of “Of Robots And Ponies” and my other works: clicky-clicky.

This is my first post on this blog, but don't worry, it's not like something tragic happened that made unable to write anymore. I just wanted to write something here, so it's not empty.

Sweetie Bot fic is steadily growing (already 8 chapters!), I fixed some errors in earlier chapters (typos, punctuation, nothing major), and now I'm stuck – for three reasons:

One, finals. I shouldn't pony, I should study.

Two, I don't have much ideas for the next chapter. I'll explain what happened with Twilight and Engineer Whooves, and there will finally be some Rainbow Dash, but what else? Scootaloo? Cheerilee? Luna? I don't know! But don't worry, the story grows more by sudden strokes of inspiration that by careful planning, so who knows.

Third reason I'm stuck: I've got ideas (both already partially written) for two new fics:

— a comedy one-shot about Twilight panicking for no reason (well, she thinks there is a reason, but she just misunderstood something – like always). Working title: “Pinkie Pie Dyes”.

— a serious Derpy×Vinyl shipfic from Octavia's point of view, with a little twist (no, not Twist; Twist would kill romantic mood the very second she showed up). Working title: “Between The Three Of Us”.

and two more ideas, but I haven't written a single word of them: a comedy about Pinkie's unrequited crush on Rarity, and a short slice-of-life fic about Winona and CMC.

(No ponies were or will be harmed during writing of these fics, especially not Fluttershy.)

So, that's all, folks, or at least all my fanfiction plans for this summer.