Heya readers!

I wanted to get this out this past weekend but hit a snag when I hit a buncha stairs… by falling down them… This made writing difficult on account of me mostly breaking the many falls with my face apparently. Feeling better now and I got this slick “get well soon” pic from Firimil!

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So, today, I am announcing the first of many projects I hope to bring to FIMFiction, which, like many others, is a crossover work. This crossover brings the decomposing living dead to a bright and cheery Equestria, with all the hell of series that inspired this, and all the magic of the other inspiration.

The Trotting Dead.

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Hey, so the story's not dead. Between writer's block, college, employment, and the relative unavailability of my co-author a lot of the time, it's been written on-and-off (but mostly stagnating) for the whole year and a half since the Fluttershy/Terriermon chapter. I put a lot of planning into the story, and I'll be damned if it goes to waste.

Anyway, here's the visual companion for this chapter. Nothing extensive.

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Anyone connected with the world of High Energy Particle Physics, or anyone who reads lots of popular science articles, may have picked up the news that something interesting has been seen at CERN. Maybe.

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I finally finished it! Thank you everyone for being so patient! The past few weeks have sucked ASS! Do me a solid and leave me some feedback on this next chapter, please and thank you?

I know I said I'd be posting one more chapter then doing massive rewrites but...

I really wanna just continue the story for a bit since you all were so patient with me. I'm already a 1000 words in on my next chapter. What is everypony's opinion so far? Are you finding the trial interesting? I wanted to take a small break from all the combat since it takes so much time to write and describe everything. Feel free to message me your predictions, but please don't post spoilers publicly.

No matter how hard I tried, this chapter just keeps coming up short. Everything I try to add, breaks the flow of the chapter. I wanted to lengthen it, but there honestly isn't a good place to do it. I'll come back to it later I guess.

Next chapter is going up as long as I don't accidentally sleep through prime time!

Didn't see much in the way of editing. This chapter still feels a tad messy for me, so maybe I'll come back to it.
(EDIT)
Alright, there. Spruced up some descriptions and explained some more stuff. I'm in this middle ground of wanting to explain Taraskan protocol, and not wanting to bore most of you with ideas that you won't care about.

Okay, I've needed to get this blog post out for a while, for a whole big bunch of reasons.

First of all: thank you everybody for the kind words! I've gotten a lot more comments and messages lately on Maternal, most of it good and prompting me to continue. I'll get to that!

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I'm on chapter 5 currently for editing. Ugh some of these chapters are just so...sloppy. Like some sentences are bland and disorganized, others make me wonder how they got past my editing. In my defense, I was still rather new at writing.

Got a bit of work done on the next chapter and I finished editing chapters two and three!

This dialogue was irritating because there's a ton of dialogue that has to happen at this time. I tried to break it up with a few brief moments of interactions between characters and backstory, but it still feels dull to me. This is also one of those ties where I wanted to hint at something, while secretly planning something else. There's still that worry of it coming across as bad writing, but owell.

AAAGGGHHH! I've never tried to describe people doing choreographed dances before. Describing the beat of a drum and fire twirling, I just...uuuggghhh. I already wrote everything in the chapter that isn't dance/music related and it feels like I just have this massive hurdle.

So in this one, some of my chapters are formatted weird cause around this time, fimfic was having issues with uploading a doc from google docs and copypaste got weird too. Didn't see much that needed changing, but I spruced up the formatting.

Agh chapter 46 is kicking my ass! There are so many friggin long convos! Don't get me wrong, they're all important, but uuuggghhh! I think that's been one of the main challenges with writing KOTD, is all the different emotions this novel has. A lot of it I REALLY have to be in the mood. Some chapters are me "venting" after having a nasty panic attack or just old memories from my PTSD.

Okay... My original plan was to release two chapters at first and then one every week or so. I thought a week might be a bit too long time and suddenly I overshot it. I have three (3) more chapters ready and I'm planning to release them at a bit faster pace - maybe. I still have to write the rest of the story at some point too. The thing is, that... Oh. Hehe, I almost made an excuse for not having time to do so... Like they say, time is something you make, not something you find. I'll just have

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Chapter 37
There was like...several words missing in chapter 37. I was actually shocked how it happened without me every noticing.

Chapter 38
Made like...there was a brick of dialogue, split it in half. That was it haha!

I think I may have edited this chapter before. There wasn't much to fix except the usual and a few odd descriptions.

Honestly, if you're waiting for my edits to finish, don't bother. I'm just kind of nit-picking and looking for things to spruce up. I haven't found much, if anything, in the way of errors.