State of the Scribe: April 2022 · 10:41pm Apr 1st, 2022
Another month everyone! Promise this one has no jokes either, just the monthly lowdown on what the scribe is starring. Or... whatever. There's a scribe somewhere.
Not a lot of change this month. Schedule's pretty packed as you can probably tell, only one day of the week doesn't have some new story going up. The biggest change is that Myths Like Us got an amazing cover. That means it's up on fanfiction.net for the world to read.
It's also still on my Patreon, which will probably update a little more regularly just because it's easy to schedule. Chapters are free for everyone (no need to support me), I just have to put them there because the story isn't about ponies. If you enjoyed Mew Like Me, I know you'll like this one too. You can read it on patreon here: [url=https://www.patreon.com/RealStarscribe?filters[tag]=Myths%20Like%20Us&sort=published_at]https://www.patreon.com/RealStarscribe?filters[tag]=Myths%20Like%20Us&sort=published_atif you want to get it right when it comes out, or on fanfiction.net if the schedule is more "whenever I Feel like posting the chapters" https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14059666/1/Myths-Like-Us
Other than that, there was the launch of Don't Bug Me onto Fimfiction, which also got its own amazing cover. That story will be going for some time probably, so I hope people like it. It's been a blast to write so far.
Sisters is continuing along--not sure how much longer that story will take to reach its conclusion. Still have some significant dramatic ground to cover before we do.
In the next two months, two of the monthly stories we've been sharing for the last long time will reach their conclusions--Return to Sender, and Frames of War. Return is already weekly, but Frames will go into the cover queue, and hopefully make it onto fimfiction in may. After that, Sweet Sauce will probably be next to finish, and a cover is already in the works.
I'm not quite sure when it will be ready, but the cover for my next hardcover print is nearly done. I've already shown a preview of it once, so I won't post another--but for those who didn't see, it's going to be an Optimalverse anthology, including one story I've never posted before. If it goes well, I'd like to do a print of the one optimal story too big to fit--Homebrew. But we'll have to see about the demand for this one first.
Also, there's a new minific coming this month. It's the last of the "nanowrimo winner" selections, that I wrote for people who won nanowrimo with me when we had a group-write in my discord server. So that's on the schedule.
Thanks again to everyone who supports me. Every month I'm still doing this I'm blown away by the support. It feels as though we're at the end of life for ponies, yet here we are still telling awesome stories. You're all my heroes letting me keep doing what I love.
I have an active Discord community with tons of other writers. If you want a place to be motivated, or ask questions and chat about stories, or just watch bad movies with us at random times, this is the place: https://discord.gg/DMDrCrG
Lastly, I've included the descriptions and links to the current crop of ongoing monthly stories. They will make their way to fimfiction for all readers once complete, but in the meantime you could read the first chapter on my Patreon:
Dreamlands: The story of a batpony who ventures into the dreamlands to try and rescue Nightmare Moon from banishment and save her outcast tribe. Read at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-story-45878879
Frames of War: A Warframe crossover in which an old-war relic is opened on Equestria, unleashing the Infestation. Their only hope may lie in the hooves of a single Tenno. Read at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-story-frames-35421681
Tall Tale of Sweet Sauce: A comedy about an ancient Equestrian "villain" returning from his banishment to earth as a little colt. Adoption may get in the way of his mysterious scheme. Read at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-story-tall-46197856
Diplomatic Solution: Equestria is uplifted into a spacefaring society, not to be received into a perfect utopia, but as the last best hope against a conquering force of magical aliens, who are sweeping across the galaxy. Ponykind doesn't know much about war, but it does know how to make friends. Maybe there's a way to solve things that doesn't need weapons. https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-story-30394496
A Warframe crossover fic? You have my attention.