50 Follower Celebration! · 4:04am Apr 18th, 2017

Since joining this site, I have achieved my first goal of getting 50 followers! Thanks guys!

So, some of you must be interested to see what's in store next. The results of the polls have come in, and according to you, this will be the breakdown in the new stories to come.

Tying in first are Barren and Effigy of a Dragon.

For those of you who need the description again, here you go:

Barren
Tags: Dark
Tampering with the past always creates peculiar changes to the future. in the aftermath of Starlight Glimmer's tampering with their own timeline, Twilight has endured through various futuristic scenarios. By changing one minute detail, the resulting future would change drastically.
Most of the futures had striking vision with the villains Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the Mane Six fought against. There was the world in which King Sombra and his crystal empire rules over half of Equestria; there was a society reduced to tribalism at the hoof of Queen Chrysalis herself. One future, however, remains shrouded in mystery.
With her magical powers exhausted, Twilight Sparkle and Spike have been sent to a future bearing nothing more than the harsh, barren wasteland of Equestria. Until her magical reserves have been replenished, she is unable to return to the past to rejoin her fight against Starlight Glimmer, and she must survive in the most unforgiving of environments. While there, her curiosity of how this future came to be gets the better of her.
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, Spike

Effigy of A Dragon
Tags: Romance, Adventure
Forged from the fiery depths of Mount Alumbus rests an artifact long since forgotten. Said to have been of great import, this idol was once worshipped by the dragons of Equestria. For generations, knowledge of its existence has been passed down from one Dragon Lord to the next. Yet, because of the very sinister nature of its origin, no Dragon Lord has dared seek out its presence to embolden their culture.
Now, at the precipice of a fractured kingdom, Ember must face her worst fears. To save her kind from the threat of extinction by their own claws, she must venture forth to reclaim the long lost effigy. But she cannot do it alone. In order to accomplish this task, she must enlist the aid of unexpected friends. Namely, the Princess of Friendship, whom she sees as not only a friend, but possibly the one chance she has at saving her kind.
With the looming danger of a dragon horde threatening to escalate to all out war over Equestria, Princess Twilight Sparkle struggles to come to a solution to circumvent the pressing conflict. Having taken up the mantle to resolve this situation peacefully, it is up to her to come to peace with a seemingly uncaring foe. The task seems like an impossibly unrealistic feat. That is until the Dragon Lord comes to her with a proposition that could save countless lives.
Characters: Twilight Sparkle, Ember

As the latter story is not going to be a one-shot, I will write Barren first. There are two reasons for this. The first reason is that Barren will be quicker to write to completion. The second is because the cover art for the second one is still under development, but it is making remarkable progress. Thank you to Randome284 for providing the art. Don't feel pressured to rush it, by the way, for I'll be writing at least the Prologue and the first chapter before releasing that story to the public.

Coming in third place is Still Ponnequin

Still Ponnequin
Tags: Random
Bound by the laws of physics, a lonely mannequin ponders his most unusual existential circumstance. Inhibited from all movement, he can only watch as his owner, Rarity, goes through the tasks of her everyday life. Will he ever know what it feels like to walk and talk, or is he destined to remain forever still?
Characters: Rarity, Other

I did make a slight name change to the title, as Ponnequin was a much better fit for the title than Mannequin. This one will be written after Barren and sometime after Effigy of a Dragon has been a number of published chapters. The count is up to my discretion; I'll write it whenever I need a break from the new story.

Now comes an important question I have to ask you. As I do have a limited window of time in my schedule to work with, should I shelve some of my projects until at least the one-shots are completed? I cannot imagine them taking too long to make, but as I already have four? incomplete stories now, this would bring my count of incomplete stories up to seven temporarily.

I was hoping to finish A Series of Chaotic Events before I hit 50 followers, but when I saw my follower count rise from 40 to 48 this past week and weekend, I realized that wasn't going to happen. Oh well, I'll just have to work at my pace, and things will eventually calm down. As I do take my time in writing, my updates may be slow (I see some authors belting out chapters left and right, and in a way I'm kind of envious of this), but I try to make them the best quality I can make them at.

When I have completed the stories from the follower special, and my work load on here has diminished, I shall open up another follower special. We'll just have to see what kind of goal we'll have to set up when the time comes to it. We might shoot for 75, but at this rate, it might be 100.