My Christmas Gift to You! (Blog Contains IYGALL Spoilers)

After a month or so of working on papers and such, my short hiatus officially ends tomorrow. To make up for lost time, and as a special Christmas gift to the fans who've been following me for so long, I have an extra special If You Give a Little Love part planned. This part will set the final actions of Act III into motion and will have an even more important event happening...

ScenexCoco will begin sailing on Christmas Day!

I've been teasing these two for two and a half years, and it's been almost a year since I wrote Scene's love confession part. They've moved pretty slow by writer standards, but no more! I know it's something that the fans have been waiting for, so I figured it would be the best gift I could give: for Scene and Coco to make a big step towards being happy, productive ponies again. But that doesn't mean there won't be trials: both the literal Mosely trial coming in Act IV and the current Orange problem. Coco's involvement with the Oranges and the second Pink Lady incident will come together, and that'll form a large basis of Act III going forward.

Personally, I predict that Act III will be done by March or so and Act IV will be underway after that. Also, a warning: the plan to make IYGALL a five-arc series has been changed, and Act IV will be the last. I will, however, write follow-up stories about what happens after that.

Also, a nice bit of fleshing out I came up with during the season: Scene got his cutie mark directing a Hearth's Warming pageant at school. It went about as well as A Charlie Brown Christmas when he first got the gig!

UPDATE: The part will come out tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.