Hiatus is Over! · 11:40pm May 26th, 2014
I have found a solution to all my problems. Now on to the news!
I've hit a rut with L:SoF, and its prequel L:RaD is even worse. As such, I shall make a return to ponyfiction, and Father Mare is up first, considering I now know what I'm doing with the timeline. I figured out what to do with the gap, but then realized that I didn't put Rainbow Dash in it. Why, you may ask? I can't write her character for crap.
But there's a reason she's not there. Each of the recruits in this story has been through four months of training, whereas Rainbow Dash has only been through one. She still needs three more camps, each of them becoming harder than the last. Then she'll enter the story. This also explains why they haven't drafted her yet.
So three years down the line is where Rainbow Dash will enter the Wonderbolts timeline, assuming that they hold one month-long session every summer.
And now that this is resolved, it's back to writing it! That's good news for you, bad news for my summer classes.
~SoI