Since I very rarely actually take any time to read things outside of TGB stuff, I always like doing brief reviews and/or recommendations of other stories that appear in contests, particularly the EFNW contests, since they often have nice convenient word limits I can easily digest. So, that's what I'll be doing now: taking a look at some of the contest entries and giving a few thoughts on them, as well try and recommend them to anyone who might be interested. So, let's dive right in! See below

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Hello, my friends! Well, it being a rainy morning out here in Houston, and since I've been getting excited about the Everfree Northwest Scribblefest 2016 contest, I thought I'd do some reviews! For those of you who haven't read my entry, Marble's Horizon, I hope you'll give it a look and tell me what you think. It's getting a very slow build and hasn't gotten a feature or anything, but nearly everyone seems to like it

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S5EP24 (November 21, 2015) - The Mane Attraction
(Reviewers: Prane + Gulheru + HapHazred + SweetAI Belle)

Okay, remember that joint blog thing a while ago? It happened again, and this time, besides the usuals of Prane and Gulheru, and of course me, we had HapHazred with us!

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Hello everyone.

Today I have just submitted my latest story:

,which is also going to be a submission for the EFNW 2017 Scribblefest. It's pretty cool. I think you guys should read it. If you are unconvinced, check out this sweet coverart (drawn by the mighty Xadrow, who did my coverart for last year's Scribblefest entry).

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Howdy hoo. Today I'm going to wrap up the entries for the 'Peace' category with Fit for a King, and then move onto a story which struck me as a promising competitor story, The Seneschal. Both I thought were pretty good, and both for different reasons!

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This story was introduced to me after reading Hat Man's reviews on other Scribblefest stories, and it immediately piqued my interest for a large number of reasons. The first was some similarities between this and my own entry, as both featured an Earth pony taking to the skies, as well as being more interested in the technical aspects of it, which appealed to my engineering background. I have, in fact, studied aerospace and find it very interesting.

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We pray that you enjoy today's story as much as we did.

Part-time Goddess (and the Church of Post)
[Comedy] [Slice of Life] • 6,257 words

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Hello. As of yesterday, the judges from the contest 'right back at it again' have posted a list of finalists. Like I briefly touched on before, I don't really like the vibe of reviewing stories after the judges start making public decisions, which means that I don't want to review any of the others that are currently in the judging process, nor really review ones that haven't since that draws comparisons with ones that have made it in, and so on and so forth. That leaves one story

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Hello again. As I frequently try to do for stuff contest related (especially stuff I participate in), I like to read stories by other entrants, and since I read them, I may as well review them to shine a bit of a spotlight on the contest and hopefully convince some folks to give them a try if they sound like their cup of tea.

I like contests, and competitions in general, even when I don't win, so this is usually pretty good fun.

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Hello hello folks.

I'm a bit delayed, but I do have two more entries from Krazy's Warm and Fuzzy Feelings event here for you all. I went out of my way to look for some of the ones with less exposure. One of them didn't even get 100 views, so do be sure to check them out and support the writers if you decide they sound interesting.

I will also, on a more personal note, attempt to publish the Cozy Glow entry this evening. Hopefully I will see youse all there. Onto the stories.

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Howdy folks.

Originally when I had began the publishing schedule for Versus Jet, it was under the assumption that it would be marked complete just hours before the deadline. However, KrazyTheFox announced a two week extension, meaning the contest officially ends on the 14th.

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Like I mentioned in my last one of these, I've stopped reading through three at a time because I've been getting much busier, and will only be reading and giving my thoughts on stories that either get requested or recommended to me directly. So there's only going to be one story in this one, I'm afraid.

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Hello again folks. Because the story here is a bit longer than what my tragically stunted reading speed can allow for, I'm only going through the one story today, by Horizon. It's called Fang and Flame, and initially came to my attention when the author pointed out that it was the only other Ember related story. What amused me especially was that it was in the War category.

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Howdy. Quick update first; results are in for the Right Back At It Again contest, so I can get back to reviewing those now. Additionally, Krazy has been doing an AppleDash event; not a contest, but still worth looking at so I'll be taking a gander at a few of those as well. As for my own entry into RBAIA, looks like the judges put it in second place, which isn't too shabby considering I threw it together very last minute.

Onto the stories.

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Hello again. Trying to get back into the swing of regular reading and stuff, since I'm out of practice. Last time I had finished two short stories, both okay and worth a look if they were of the sort that tickles your fancy. Today we have two more, also hopefully good. First up is the highest rated story in the Peace category of the contest, so that's pretty exciting, and then a story about Luna, and everybody likes Luna.

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Hello. We're still waiting on results for the shipping contest, so I thought it'd be interesting to go back one and return to some from the Imposing Sovereigns II contest that I had previously missed, as well as one from another contest I participated in last-minute with this story. It tied for third place, by the way (pretty good going for three hours work). Both of today's stories are pretty good, so I'd recommend you

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Hey there. I've got a small backlog of stories I'm working through; already up is Disaster Rarity, which I think placed pretty high in a speedwrite contest it initially featured in before I expanded it further and edited it, and the contest entry for the 1000 words contest, an epistolary narrative between two of my favourite horses. Not

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Hello everyone. Like I mentioned in my previous blog post, I wanted to kind of go over the different iterations Sky Blue Bro went through. It actually went through an awful lot of changes from inception to publishing, and a lot of ideas were scrapped, changed, and tweaked for various reasons, ranging from trying to keep under the word count (on GDocs Sky Blue Bro got to 6000 words exactly, whereas on FimFiction it went about a hundred and fifty words over, as bloody usual), but also to convey

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And I'm back for round 2! I've gotten through another three stories that have all been submitted to the 2016 Scribblefest and I'm going to give my own thoughts regarding whether I liked them or not and who I'd recommend them to, depending on your tastes. Hopefully a few of you will find something cool to read from these blogs, and if you already found something you enjoyed, please post it in the comments below, so I can make reading it a priority.

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I've done my best to find some different tags this time around for round 3. This time, I have a rather wider variety of stories that I read. I've got a dark tag, a comedy tag, a romance tag, a random tag, a horror tag, even, and of course, another slice of life tag. With a bit of luck, this batch should be a lot more varied, and might interest a few more of you. Let's begin!

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