I’ll be honest, folks. I’ve been having a very hard time getting back in the groove for Midnight Rising, as I find I can only do a few hundred words of it per day. I’ve got 4000 words down and there a couple parts I like, but the meat of the scene is just not coming quickly. Reading back over the previous chapter, I was actually impressed at how well it came out, and trying to both continue and surpass it... well, it’s a tall order, doubly so since I have to set the scene for what

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I'm close to finished. I intend to have it draft complete tonight, meaning release should follow in the next couple days, once prereaders have their say and I do my customary couple editing passes, which I do by listening to it recited back to me with the site's voice narration feature. You'd be surprised how many issues you catch and fix by doing that, from missing and misspelled words to just questions of word choice and sentence flow.

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Of Firefly and Midnight Rising. We’re going to see if I can crash the feature board with not one but two featureable stories. Prereads are in and I have one more editing pass to do on both, then they’re good to go. Can’t offer up much in a way of teasers right now, except maybe the campaign map I made for the new Firefly chapter:

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Titled “Upper Crusted” and sitting at 7.5k words long, it’s with prereaders now. The chapter will go live when they’re done with it and I’ve completed my usual pair of editing passes, most likely tomorrow. As promised, the chapter centers around Midnight’s punishment of Upper Crust but starts with the well-earned ending of the Pinkie/Ember scene.

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Pun sadly intended. I started writing a new Midnight Rising chapter on Saturday, and so far it’s not been a struggle at all, with over 5600 words already down on it. But then again, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, given it involves a race near and dear to my writer heart—the griffons. You’ll get to see Midnight as she educates herself on the Kingdom and griffon anatomy along with their rather unique concepts of sensuality, with perhaps a minor assist from Juniper Neptune.

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It’s with prereaders and currently weighing in at almost exactly 10k words—and that’s only after I decided to remove the trailing 4500 words to save for the next chapter. Yeah, it was getting too big too quickly, but at least writing the chapter following won’t take as long.

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A warm welcome to any and all new Feathered Hearts readers, folks, whether you read Eros or just Continuation and Chronicles. I hate calling those two latest Eros chapters an ordeal, but they were at times simply for much I was trying to do and how much I wanted to include, both in terms of sex and worldbuilding. It took over a month to write what ended up being all 25,000 words, though it seems to have turned out well in the end.

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I promised that once the Griffon Kingdom arc of Midnight Rising was finished, I would try to do a single chapter of Continuation and Chronicles before working on Nightmare Night. So here we go. Thankfully, I already have about 7000 words to work with that I removed from the ending of the previous chapter. So hopefully, it won’t take too long. I guess it depends on how easily I’m able to ease back into it after five months since the last chapter.

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After writing six chapters over the past two and half months for Into the Storm: The Flight of Firefly, I'm heading back over to Nightmare Night to resume work there in a few days. But first, I need some down time after the heavy push I put on the last two Firefly chapters, which contained some very difficult action and exposition scenes. I also need to reset my focus and mindset from warfic to clopfic.

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Even a lightsaber-wielding Ron Paul is excited to know that not one but two Firefly chapters are on the way, and both are draft complete. One by me, and a guest chapter by our good friend and Changeling guru Denim Blue.

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First and foremost, 🎇Happy New Year, folks! 🎇And second, the first preread of C&C Chapter 38 is in and favorable, courtesy of Silentwoodfire—thanks, SWF. Hopefully the rest will be as well. But while we’re waiting for that, I’d like to go back to Eros for a bit, both to work on and wonder if I made a mistake by releasing the first part of the new Changeling arc as one big chapter.

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I’ve given them a week to hit it, and I’ve already started into into a brand new chapter, with the first 500 words down. At long last—and sorry again for the long sideshow there; I will address that directly in the first part of the text as Sunset gets dinged by creative writing instructor Ms. Cherilee for letting her narration lose focus—it’s time for Midnight to deal with Lemon Zest. Probably going to be a two-parter this go-around, but we’ll see.

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Let's start off with the progress report:

Unleash the Magic:
Chapter 3 ~ Currently proofread and editing.
Chapter 4 ~ 5% draft completed.

The Model's Secretary:
Current BC ~ 45% completed.
Chapter 41 ~ 5% completed.

Dear Miss Cheerilee:
None.

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Draft ready and will be posted as soon as it has a prereader seal of approval--including a surprising one from my good friend AJ_Aficionado! Look for it this weekend. This will be the longest chapter yet, and definitely have some surprises! You already know who's getting it in this time, but just how it happens may surprise you... Zesty is indeed the worst of the shadowbolt bunch, as will shortly become plain. What else to expect? More WTF Pinkie moments, a couple surprise cameos... and

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Let's get some worries out of the way:

1) I'm not dead. I still come on here to read the fics while I'm at work during break and lunch.
2) I'm not quitting TMS. I vowed I'd get the series done before the end of this year (which is especially special since this is my chinese new year, the rooster, though I'm not sure if that's a good motivator).

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Awaiting final preread before posting. Titled "Midnight Daydream", this is the climactic chapter in more ways than one, folks... you all wanted SunLight, you're going to get it. In spades. It's going to be the longest chapter of the story, and quite deservedly.

A teaser? Well... okay. But nothing suggestive. That's best saved for the full chapter so it can hit full force.

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How's it been going, guys? I don't have much of an excuse for why I'm getting slow on updates in my fics, mostly because my new job has been making me stress out and exhausted by the time I get home. Sure I still had more time the rest of the afternoon/evening before I start again in the next one, but don't you ever just not want to do anything after having such a shitty day? Even when I do want to write, ideas either come and go, or I feel like focusing more on one story than the other, and

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Hey folks--

Two new chapters of Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising are nearly ready, along with a fresh chapter of Before the Storm: The Rise of Firefly. You'll be seeing them all in the next few days as follows:

December 23: Unleash the Magic chapter 6
December 24: Rise of Firefly part 9
December 25: Unleash the Magic chapter 7

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Halloween approaches, and that means that after a several-month hiatus, it's time to resume work on Unleash the Magic - Nightmare Night! To that end, and helped along by a one-week vacation, I intend to complete two and hopefully three new Nightmare Night chapters with the last one released on Halloween. If memory serves, there are no less than four major pending scenes--we have to finish off things at Sugar Cube Corner, show Shadowdash's subjugation of the Ponyville weather teams,

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If you're not already reading Unleash the Magic - Nightmare Night, I invite you to at least read its latest chapter, which is an interlude that shows the counterpart Halloween party happening at Canterlot High and is (as yet) untouched by the insanity breaking loose on the other side of the portal. No sex, sorry (as it's intended to provide a brief break from it), but it also includes some tantalizing clues as to the outcome of the (as-yet) unwritten sequel involving the

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