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Cast-Iron Caryatid


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  • 22 weeks
    Merry Christmas, all!

    My track record with Christmas releases is no longer perfect, but I do try! Only one 5k chapter of Sharing the Nation this year, though I'm hoping to have 5k more out before the new year. To make up for it, though, I've also brought out the Harry Potter crossover that's been languishing in

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  • 127 weeks
    Nothing this year, sorry

    Man, this has been… a year. Shortly after my last blog post, I had some (non-covid) medical issues that somewhat took over my life for a while, and while that's all in the past now, I'm only back where I was beforehand—completely unproductive. I was determined to get back into things at NaNoWriMo, but work steamrolled those plans and I just haven't been able to find the words to write something

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  • 166 weeks
    More burned out than I thought

    Jeeze, it's been four months since I decided not to force myself to generate updates for the sake of Patreon and gave myself the freedom to write whatever I wanted… but I haven't really written anything. I've done a thousand words or so here and there to play around with other fandoms, but nothing of significance.

    Shocking, I know.

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  • 179 weeks
    Tis the season for status updates. Not as much the other kind of updates as I would like, though

    It wouldn't be Christmas if I hadn't been completely incommunicado for at least a month or two beforehand, right?

    Unfortunately, I don't have chapters of Sharing the Nation to post for Christmas this year. I do have some Equal Opportunity Ascension chapters that only Patreon has seen, and I'll post those, I guess, but it's clear this… isn't working.

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  • 231 weeks
    Christmas Updates!

    Merry Christmas!

    As I've done every year since I started writing, I have updates here for you on Christmas day.

    ( It might look like there's a missing one, but the chapter for Sharing the Night that year was taken down and reposted)

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Sep
19th
2013

Tags have been updated · 10:28am Sep 19th, 2013

I found it quite interesting how different opinions were regarding the tags for Sharing the Night. In the end, I decided to err on the conservative side of things since, when you get right down to it, someone who searches for "comedy" or "everyone" might have a bad time with Sharing the Night.

The story has always been more about Twilight and Luna than making people laugh, so I don't feel too attached to the comedy tag... yet at the same time, I do feel there's a part of Sharing the Night that the tags just don't cover. I'm sure that's normal, though. They are, after all, single-word genres that are expected to describe stories of thousands upon thousands of words, and an author will probably always see their creation as something unique and undefinable—and that's fine.

Edit: Yes, I'm probably putting too much thought into it.

Also, wrote another 1,000 words, which puts us at 8,000. Definitely looking to be a long chapter, though.

Finally, just to be mean, since this is a bit of a short post, here are the tags using this feedback for some non-StN things I've been working on :pinkiecrazy: :rainbowlaugh:

Title: "The Dragon is in the Details"
Progress: 4,600/7,500 words (one shot)
Tags: [Twilight] [Rainbow Dash] [Mystery] [Tragedy] [Teen/Mature]

Title: "Truth, Lies and Intertia" (Working Title)
Progress: 3,000/6,000 words (one shot)
Tags: [Twilight] [Mane Six] [Comedy] [Everyone]

Title: "Schrödinger's Dawn"
Progress: 0/Lots of words (long shot)
Tags: [Twilight] [Nightmare Moon] [Mane Six] [Adventure] [Alternate Universe] [Everyone/Teen]

Edit: Whatever you're thinking the last one is, that's not it.

I just now noticed that all the titles are references... oh well.

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Comments ( 6 )

Those are some pretty eye-catching titles. I wanna read 'em now.

It does confuse and amaze me that you can predict your story length down to a resolution of 500 words.

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The numbers aren't THAT exact... :twilightsheepish: I just say, "okay this one is about 60% done," which in this case comes close to 7.5k :scootangel:

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See, when I think a chapter is 60% done, I unexpectedly go back and double the amount of dialogue in a scene … :facehoof:

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That may very well happen :twilightblush:

Though for me, it's generally the opposite. Quite often I'll write quick back-and-forth dialogue without any description, then go back in and spice it up. :twilightoops:

on the right track with the tags i see; i still don't quite see how "slice of life" fits in though:rainbowlaugh:

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It's a slice of the life of a celestial pony-shaped entity! :twilightblush:

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