Another 1,128 words written today! I'm making good pace on things.

Current total for the month is 8,080!

The tenth chapter of Sunset in Ponyville is finally complete! Or, the first draft of it anyway. 872 words tonight puts it at 8,667 words total, and even though the chapter didn't really go in the direction I had intended for it so long ago, I think it still works.

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1,096 words today. Sorry for not saying much lately, things have just kinda been proceeding smoothly. Well, more smoothly than expected considering how little I plan ahead.

The chapter I'm working on should be done in the next couple days, though, so there's that?

Monthly total is 7,886.

But it's just what happens when they use anesthesia to put you under. I paid a visit to the local hospital earlier this afternoon (officially it's a "medical center"). I won't go into details of what the visit was all about, but that's basically why I'm having trouble keeping my thoughts in order. (Not like that's anything unusual for me. )

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So! I've decided to just continue doing the daily updates for the time being. I figure if nobody cares enough to ask me to stop, while two people were supportive of me continuing (thank you RisingBluePhoenix, and for all the support in April Rixec!) then I'd just keep going.

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Well... despite having some extremely unexpected stress related to my student loans, I somehow managed to write a whopping 1,313 words today. Honestly, though, this chapter has just been so much... fun, I wanna say, to write. But more to it... let's just say this chapter of Synchrony has been very 'good' to me in a way.

Anyway, that means my writing for the month is off to a strong start, even though as I said yesterday I'm not setting any word total for myself.

Surprisingly, even after writing 1,186 words today, the dang Mirror hasn't gotten to Sunset's lab just yet. But I actually know what's going to happen now, meaning that portion should get written tomorrow! Meaning only like two more days before this chapter is done.

Seriously, it's gonna end up breaking 10k words easily. Haven't written a chapter that long since... Oathmaker, I think.

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Another slog of a day, to be honest. Writing the Pie sisters still isn't coming as easily as I'd like, though I suppose that still is no surprise. A part of it is also just general uncertainty about how I want the chapter to proceed prior to the one event I know needs to happen.

Well, one way or another I'm confident I'll pull through in the end. Still managed to write 1,015 words at least.

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I finished chapter 15 of Synchrony today, like I thought I would! Though to my surprise, it took 1,051 words to do it - it certainly didn't feel like that many as I was writing it.

Still, I'm happy. Another solid day of writing, I've finished up the first run of my current batch of Synchrony, and tomorrow I get to figure out how to start the next chapter of Sunset! Not bad, not bad.

Current total for the month is 5,864!

Welp, guess who has egg on her face: me! Mostly because I have not, in fact, gotten to the point where the Mirror-Basement issue has been fully resolved. The path there is simply too meandering, though in a way that I think is interesting at least since it develops some other stuff in the process. The actual conclusion to the problem is likely going to mark the end of the chapter, Sunset's typical post script journal entry notwithstanding.

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I only managed to get 1,015 words done on Synchrony today, but that's fine - 1,000 is my usual goal, as most of you know. Finished one section, got halfway through the next; once that's done, it'll just be two more sections and then maybe some quick ending bit and the chapter will be done. It currently sits at 3,520 words; I'm predicting it'll be a little over 6,000 when it's finished. But I'm not really good at predicting these sorts of things I don't think, so who knows.

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Finally Bill's got a gun! Finally, after all these months Bill Cipher has a gun my first story is ready to see the world's light!

I mean, FINALLY! It has been about five months, since the idea came! It might have been just four months, but, meh.

As of writing this, the story is submitted and waiting for approval. I hope it passes...

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Just came back from four hours of laundry, so excuse if this is a bit brief and blunt[/s rambling]. My mind is just a bit overloaded.

Chapter #8 is now at 5896 words, about 60-65% done.

Don't let the word-count slash percent rating fool you. This is going to be a shorter chapter at about 7-8 K words, but still need quite a lot of polish to work exactly right.

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I'm going to start the trial-period for a part-time job on Monday.

If it works out, I'll be serving as a (directly translated, might be a real English word for it) 'golden lining' on one of the local nursing homes. IE, one of those people that help old people actually feel like, well, people instead of chore checklists. Reading newspapers, baking, going on walks...

A 'quality of life handyman,' if you so will.

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I've mentioned this already, but in light of the resent crashing & burning of V1 of chapter #8 I've decided to hammer out the outline for the rest of the plot a bit more before pressing on.

So long-term it should let me do more fore-shadowing and make sure everything clicks a bit tighter, but right now its going to slow things a bit.

Still, these once a week updates have been mostly well-received, so I thought you guys deserved a head's up anyway.

Been a really long while since I did one of these, but good news!

Behind a cut, due to wall of text.

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I don't want to offer false hope (again, *cough*) but I think I'm a day or so from wrapping up #8.

12659 words, and shouldn't be much more than a layer of polish and spell-checking aside from a paragraph or two.

Oh, and since obvious joke is obvious...

Still, two other things.

First, I found this nifty little thing over at Derpibooru:

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On phone. Will be brief.

Bad: Halloween update's a bust. Sorry, I tried, but work is simply not cooperating right now.

Good: Chapter is almost done, and I have a light schedule Thursday-Friday. With some luck, the chapter might hit the pre-readers slash editors next week.

So-so: A scene grew in the telling, so I'm going to have to cut things slightly differently then planned. The new name for chapter 9 will be: My Power Is Not Complete.

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Hi all! I hope you've been doing well. I know it's been a few days, but well... I haven't been as productive as I'd like to be. But, I did finally snag a screencap I'd like to use as the cover art for Synchrony! It's from the 'Text Support' CYOA short, right near the beginning like 8 seconds in.

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I keep forgetting to do these...

Well, good news folks! As of right now, chapter 5 of Synchrony is on track to be released this Saturday. If you like the Crusaders, then you're in for a treat!

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