TThe 8th Rank
MLP: FiM
Romance
Adventure
Drama
To save what remains of the Griffon Kingdom, Celestia is going to have to give them a new leader. Unfortunately for Gilda, she's the only one available for the job.
Twilight
Celestia
Gilda
Changelings
Griffons
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Nov

22nd

2020

Next chapter finally done · 3:00am Nov 22nd, 2020

Good news everybody! I finally have the next chapter done, and will be going into editing in a few days.

This one was a lot harder to write then most of what had come before. In fact I spent a lot of time trying to work out exactly what was wrong with the chapter as what I was wanting to do wasn't really working at all! What really turned it around was realizing just how redundant most of the scenes were. While yes, they would move the story forward a fraction, they would also be repeating a lot of what had already been said.

So a couple days ago I decided the simplest thing to do was cut those scenes completely and merge my plans for the next two chapters into a single one. Once I did that, everything just sort of came together on it's own. It still might write up a bonus scene for a now excised subplot if I think it's interesting enough, but on the whole I'm satisfied with how this has turned out.

The new chapter is on my patreon, if you want a sneak peek.

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