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Scramblers and Shadows


Politicians prey on the vulnerable, the disadvantaged and those with an infantile sense of pride in a romanticised national identity which was fabricated by a small to mid-sized advertising agency.

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    Cold Light is complete

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    Still, I want to make a note of this. I started Cold Light to see if I could actually write a genuine fantasy novel. Three bloody years, it took, but I did it. I finished it, and it's one of the three stories on here that I'm actually halfway proud of.

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  • 458 weeks
    What is the value of fiction?

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  • 459 weeks
    An important anniversary

    (With any luck, this is about political as you'll ever see me get on here.)

    And coming up next: Talking about the value of stories. Or another go at criticising critics. We'll see.

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Cold Light is complete · 9:42pm Sep 29th, 2017

.... and I'm two days late in announcing it, because my life is hectic and not very fimficcy nowadays.

Still, I want to make a note of this. I started Cold Light to see if I could actually write a genuine fantasy novel. Three bloody years, it took, but I did it. I finished it, and it's one of the three stories on here that I'm actually halfway proud of.

It's also, quite possibly, the last story I'll ever put on Fimfiction. For the foreseeable, anyway, I've got other writing occupying my time.

So, if you haven't already, you should go read it.

Also, Matthewl419 did this really ace review. You should go read that too. And follow him.

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Comments ( 4 )

Congrats on finishing it! That's huge. :pinkiehappy:

Congrats! Sorry I wasn't able to be there for the all of it.:fluttershyouch:

But it's great to hear you have succeeded in completing it! :pinkiehappy:

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Thank you!

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Well, you were around for most it. And you helped the project get off the ground in the first place. So thanks!

Congratulations! It was a huge pleasure reading this whole thing from start to finish. It still blows me away how much imagination went into the whole thing -- you should be proud. Part of me is sad that I won't be seeing updates from you in my inbox anymore, but frankly it's a relief to actually have a long-running story I follow actually finish for once. Anyways, it's been great reading what you put out. I do hope that, if you ever publish outside of the site, you'll let us know on here -- I'd love to see what you do next!

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