Just wanted to let everyone know that Into the Storm has been reorganized into a magnum opus containing several discrete stories as opposed to a single enormous one. The story page and chapter names have been updated to reflect this, with the former now given subheadings that describe the individual stories, while the latter reflects their place in the individual story they're a part of.

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It's going to prereaders, but even once they're finished, I'm not going to release it right away. I'm behind on making graphics, so I'm going to catch up on those first. That way, you'll have some battle maps to go with the new chapter and follow what's going to be a rapidly shifting battle visually. I'm even devising Equestrian and Gryphon unit symbols loosely based on NATO military standards, which you can get a sense of here:

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I've made no particular secret of the fact that a ponified version of my favorite band--a Swedish metal group who found their niche singing about historical war stories--is taking a direct role in the Firefly story, with avatars for them created in the form of Episilon's earth pony maintenance crew, who hails from the north Equestrian territory of Swheaten. Their songs have already inspired several scenes and I have others lined up for the future,

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Haven’t had the time or inclination in advance of my sinus and nasal surgery tomorrow, trying to get everything squared away at work and at home for convalescing. I’ll be taking off at least through Tuesday next week, so hopefully I’ll be able to find some time to work on stuff while I’m stuck at home.

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Just a quick note to let everyone know that over five months since the last entry was published, a new chapter of Into the Storm is underway. The first 1400 words are down, and it will detail the second engagement of Rock Biter’s Equestrian Army regiment at Harness Hill, including the story of how they got their nickname of the “Daisy Regiment”.

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As above, sorry to be quiet. But time's been, well, unkind, and leave it with that. Killing drive for the most part, and even wanting to be more than a shadow on the site generally.

"No. None will disturb her rest." The stone heart spoke impassively. Dessicated, dry corpses punctuated the gloom and its prowess in enforcing that statement. "Begone." The conversation fully at an end.

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I guess I missed writing it because it's coming quickly; I've already got 5600 words of the next chapter written and may well have a completed draft by Thursday. If so, I will aim for a weekend release. And since you've waited a few months for new content, have a teaser. The following is told from the viewpoint of then-Commander Tailwind:

EAS Loyalty
Just north of Lake Luna on Thestralslovakian border
September 4th, 1139 AC
0002 hours

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Hey, folks. Just wanted to let you know where things stand with the main and side story.

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Punched out a full chapter draft in three days. Awaiting prereads, then it will go live. But this time, I'm not going to give you a chapter preview.

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It’s with prereaders now, delayed by my workload, which has resulted in nearly 40 extra hours worked over the past two and a half weeks--and I damn well better get some comp time for that! Unfortunately, even when prereaders finish with the new chapter, it’s not ready yet--I still have to make some graphics and do song selections for it, which will take some time. So I ask your indulgence for a little longer. It may be a week, or it may be less, but the new chapter release is coming.

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Well, folks... work is finally easing, and if all goes well, you’re going to see two chapters from me in the next two days. Firefly is nearly ready except for the songs and graphics, which I’m still working on, but I’ll share the base map of Harness Hill here:

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I'm going to take a break from my usual story rotation schedule for at least a couple weeks. There are two reasons for this. First, I think my prolific pace this year has finally been catching up with me a bit. I've been sensing a measure of burnout, particularly around writing clop. The next chapter of The Lawyer and The Unicorn is a major adult chapter, and I don't want to write it until I feel I can do it justice. Similarly, as happy as I was with the bulk of the last Five Star

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Well, folks... I'm calling the latest and craziest TLaTU chapter a success. Three new likes, and TLaTU part 37 was certainly a popular chapter by read count. It's been very well-received thus far--doubly so for it being the wildest thing I've written yet! I have to admit I had some trepidation about how well it would go over, but it turned out I needn't have worried. I was also pleasantly surprised by how eager folks seemed for the ending, even after everything that had already come. I knew

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August comes, and as promised a couple months ago, I've been working on my anthro novel, though I've found the going much slower and harder than I would like. I'm stuck at one place in particular right now that's giving me fits. I'm finding it hard, unfortunately, to slip back into the mindset that writing this kind of anthro fiction requires and re-immerse myself in this world I created several years ago. I can only hope that will

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Hey folks...

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I'm starting work on the next Firefly chapter this weekend. Currently, I'm alternating chapters of it with Five Star Service and will continue to do so until the latter is complete in two more chapters. And after that? Will alternate between Firefly and The Lawyer and the Unicorn.

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Hello, Five Star Service fans. As promised, I'm going to redo the two chapters regarding the man who would become known as The Attorney near the end of the story (Parts 26 and 27) and release them as new chapters. I will not be deleting the old ones right away as that would mean I lose the comments (I haven't decided if I really want to do that) but for now I will clearly mark them as deprecated and move the author's notes up front to explain why.

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I’m about half done with the latter, with four images generated and several more remaining as I need them to show the progression of battle and ensure my narration makes sense. Current plan is to release the chapter, titled The Daisy Regiment, tomorrow night. Feedback so far from AJA and others has been quite good, so here’s the promised teaser, with one of the finished graphics at the end:

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For those of you wondering “when is there going to be another update to this story” or for those of you who are new to the story and are wondering when a new update will come out, or for those of you who just clicked on this link because you’re interested in updates to this story, this blog post is here to tell you:

Do not worry, the story is still being worked on!

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Thanks to all who read and a warm welcome to those who came aboard! Please comment, folks, as I’ve seen only one so far on the new Feathered Hearts chapter as of this blog post.

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... after putting 100,000 words in on my other works. The Lawyer and the Unicorn has turned into a decent hit given its subject matter, and I just launched a new story yesterday called Before the Storm: The Rise of Firefly.

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