Previously On... Swordpony finally updated, about time

So I just sent off my first "Story Update" email to EQD for the first time in... almost four years, oh my look at the time.

My sincerest apologies go out to the poor soul who has to open that email and deal with its contents. Not only does Swordpony now have bigger, bolder, fancier cover art, but it also has a bigger... bolder... fancier description. I hope that particular EQD staffer comes equipped with coffee.

Obviously I can't force you to re-read the story after all these years, not if you've been waiting so long for an update. But I would kindly request that you do so if you still wish to read the new chapter. I've tried my hardest to make chapter 8 accessible, but the fact is that this is a serial fanfiction, and no amount of "Previously on Swordpony..." summary can make up for that. (trust me, I've spent the past four hours trying to create a synopsis of events for this blog post)

If you still would prefer a summary of events rather than re-reading this old fanfic, I will happily provide such a summary through Private Messages.

To make re-reads more palatable, I've gone through and

* replaced each Sworn Shield journal entry with a link to that journal entry on DeviantArt (this includes the illustration it's attached to)
* reformatted each illustration so that they fit neatly on the page and hopefully no longer stretch
* gone through and edited all the typos I could find ("darkness spread from the darkness" being an example)

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I won't promise regular updates, but chapter nine only needs an illustration and another editing pass. Every chapter afterward is written to varying degrees of quality, thanks to National Novel Writing Month last November. How fast I update Swordpony will be determined by how quickly myself and my editor can spit-and-polish all these NaNoWriMo chapters, and how fast I can draw each new illustration.

Please critique the hell out of my work, I feel rather rusty.

Comments

[Steadfast Hoof]

wahoo! I still remember the cliff hanger bitch of an ending of chapter eight! swordfight! swordfight!

[ponygrad]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT