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Raleigh


I have no idea what I'm doing.

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  • 14 weeks
    The Blueblood Papers: Old Blood

    With Christmas and New Year over with, we have but a long and bleak January to endure before the dawn of Spring. To make the wait a little bearable, I hope you'll enjoy the first chapter of the new Blueblood story available here:

    TThe Blueblood Papers: Old Blood
    While on leave, Blueblood meets his hero, A. K. Yearling, and is dragged into a Daring Do story he would much rather have read.
    Raleigh · 30k words  ·  146  1 · 1.1k views

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  • 21 weeks
    Bound by Blood Retrospective

    With another Blueblood Papers story completed comes another retrospective. I'd like to start by stating that I think Royal Blood, the one that came before it, is the best story that I've written in this series, and after finishing Bound By Blood and looking back on this latest story, I still think that. That's not to say that I'm unhappy with how Bound By Blood came out, of course, but

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  • 56 weeks
    A Map and Some Lore

    Maps are great. As a kid I used to spend hours pouring over my parents' atlas, even though it was a little out of date and still had the Soviet Union on it. It was, however, the 1990s, and the collapse of the USSR had only been a few years ago, so I suppose they could be forgiven for that.

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  • 80 weeks
    Ten Years of The Blueblood Papers and AMA

    Well, not quite. As it happened, I've missed the exact date by a few days, as Blueblood: Hero of Equestria was published on the 8th of October 2012, but we'll quietly ignore that from now on.

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  • 115 weeks
    The Blueblood Papers: Bound By Blood

    After a nice Christmas and a New Year, I am back with with sequel to Royal Blood.

    TThe Blueblood Papers: Bound By Blood
    Blueblood's captors said, "For you, the war is over." How wrong they were.
    Raleigh · 180k words  ·  299  4 · 2.9k views

    And yes, I know I said I'd call it 'Captive Blood' earlier, but 'Bound By Blood' has extra alliterative appeal. I do hope you enjoy it. The usual monthly updates will proceed as normal from here on (hopefully).

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Oct
5th
2019

Blueblood: Hero of Equestria - the Future? · 6:42am Oct 5th, 2019

The last chapter of Honour and Blood has been uploaded, and I have marked this story as 'complete'. That, however, does not mean that this is the end. There are still plenty more Blueblood stories for me to write, but I have decided that instead of piling them all into one submission, each will be its own separate one. In hindsight, this is what I should have done from the outset, but it's a tad late for that now.

Anyway, I've been writing this since 2012, and it's been something of a journey from me. Looking back and reading through it all again, it's interesting to see how my writing style had developed over the years. Bloodstained still remains my favourite, and probably the best thing I've ever written. Honour and Blood, while I'm still proud of it, suffered out of a lack of planning. My tendency to just make up most of the story as I go along worked well at the beginning, but as the AU around it grew and grew, this level of 'pantsing', I believe the correct term is, has become unviable, and the writing suffered for it. Writing is a learning process, and with the feedback I've received I feel that I have learned a lot.

So what now? I have a couple of other projects in the works, but for now, Commissar-Prince Blueblood will return in Royal Blood.

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Comments ( 7 )

Awesome story. Thank you for writing it.

I have enjoyed reading the story, in a few areas it reminded me of Sharpe.

Looking forward to it!

Thank you for writing this story :D Im very much looking forward to the continuation.

Yes! I've loved this version of Blueblood, mind you I damn well loved both Sharpe and Ciaphas and you've somehow made Blueblood into a mix of both. I'm looking forward to what comes next.

Wonderful story, simply wonderful. I can’t wait for the sequel

Thank you for your work. Your writing style has a wonderfully unique flair to it that I deeply enjoy.

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