After a break to work on job applications and Smolder, I figured I needed to dust of Equestrian Horizon again.

The next chapter has been outlined and needs to be fleshed out. I was originally intending this to be a shorter interlude-style piece with more action, but as I continued outlining, I found there were additional things that needed to be set in motion. The plot thickens further.

Once again, ETA is "when it's done."

If you've been following me for any extended period of time, you know that I'm a weird kind of dude. I noticed yesterday, whilst finishing the latest chapter of So You Wanna Kill An Alicorn?, that I have some weird tendencies when writing. I thought I'd share some of them.

1) I needlessly rewrite certain lines.

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My story, "Danger Close", was originally started in the middle of 2019, right in the middle of the last season of MLP:FIM. I admit that it's been a long haul trying to figure out just how I wanted to structure it, and exactly how the story should develop. I'm not much of a writer, and even as a reader I tend to stick a little too much to history as opposed to fiction, which can limit one's imagination somewhat. But in the last several months I've gotten more momentum worked up and have gotten

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Despite all odds I have written another story. I ran an April Story Giveaway on the Quill & Blade forum and aside from Sixkiller5 getting some words out of me I was able to prove an old movie wrong. From the movie War Games there is a quote, "The only way to win is not to play." This is wrong, demonstrably wrong. As Sixkiller5 can attest, you can also win by being the only one to play.

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Today marks two years that I've been on FIMfiction and a very fun two years they've been. I don't know what much else to say other than the fact that I'm glad to be where I am right now and happy that you enjoy reading the result of me mindlessly pounding my keyboard. It fills me with happy.

I just realized this is also the first blog post I've had of the new year also, so that's a thing.

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First things first. I found it and still find it absolutely hilarious that I was able to get my latest story title to work both as a story title and an accurate description of what it is in a meta sense. Since it is literally a gift of words for a holiday giveaway drawing I ran to give back after all the incredible luck I've had recently when entering other peoples giveaways.

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Since it's the first thing I've written that ever won a contest (also the first I've ever entered into a contest), I though it might be nice to write a little about how it happened. Even if no one else is interested I'll come back and read this months from now and enjoy the nostalgia.

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Truly I cannot fathom all the writing I have been doing recently. Just to reiterate I have literally not written a single word that wasn't required before the last week in almost 20 years since I was a wee laddy and cute as button. For whatever reason when Crystal Wishes told me that I could add 400 words (are you kidding 400 words) to and actually publish my joke on the site I didn't know what to think. I had made it, this account included originally as part of the joke with no intention to

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Chapter 4 of the story makes it so yes its not just demons, humans, and vampires here in the story. And no I had planned this since literally chapter 2- with Rainbow Dash being mad that Mr Doodle assigned Edward Spenser's Fairie Queen poem.

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So I got sucked into Final Fantasy XIV and left Equestrian Horizon to languish unfinished. Then my computer died.

All data is safely backed up on separate drives or in the cloud but I am sans gaming rig for the time being. I am still going to attempt to finish EH by the end of the year. The next chapter, Ouroboros, is done and currently in the proofing and revision phase.

Onward.

Happy New Year!

The next two chapters are outlined and just need to be written: a character-focused interlude called Rehab and a plot-focused chapter named Black Rain.

Rehab will revolve around Firefly's attempts to reconnect with her squad following the fallout on board the Sova while simultaneously attempting to wrap her brain around the extra burden of leadership placed upon her.

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I could throw one together, and it make for a good way to show just how I write, depending on current circumstances.

New chapter is entering revision phase. As per my last blog post, please use spoiler tags where appropriate.

Also buckle up. It's going to be a wild ride.

So I've been having some ups and downs...

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Boom, I'm back.

Just got an idea: I got this big ol' map of Equestria, complete with a shit load of races, some new and some canon, and where they go. I need to do something with that. I have no idea what, but something.

Maybe like a Wanderings of a Non-Brony, or Ballad of Echo the Diamond Dog style 'imma just go and see what happens' style story.

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Idea

Velvet Step sneaks out of the theatre? Solid Snake style. Her only mission avoid detection and get to that bath.

Outline

Shocked look around the room post feeding
Hears some of the other girls still in the building
Puts on the war paint aka frosting
Sneaky sneaky hall
Da ceiling splits
Blob o frosting falls
Quick duct escape
AAAAHHHHH spi this is so cool
Roof top to roof top
Maybe sees something random for padding

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It's time for a blog again, that must mean another story is in the queue. The upcoming story is:

The Velvet Connection

Sunbeam and Pepper Ridge were ecstatic when they successfully opened Sunridge Sweets and filled it with satisfied ponies. Unfortunately in this town you don't get to move baked goods without the permission of a shadowy cabal of bakers.

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So, I’ve learned a few things from doing this the way I did. First and foremost, don’t change POV and tense mid-write. When I began this project, I was working in third person point of view, and present tense. About 40% of the way through it I came upon the idea of the framing device of starting the story right as Twilight resolved the crisis. (hence: “We Begin at the End” and “We End at the Beginning”) However, this necessitated a shift in writing style into first person past tense.

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So many things happened. The doc got corrupted and I had to manually unfuck it, then a decent but was missing, then I lost another few hundred words very recently but it's uh, still going and at 1500 words now. Still have to do about half of the date and wrap it up. Then the final event, which I planned to have after John/Silver dated several people, one of them being a long term relationship, will happen almost exactly as planned. I designed it so I could end the fic almost anytime I wanted

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So it appears I can comfortably manage to write about 10k words a week, plus a few thousand more if I’m on a roll. Which is roughly 1400 words a day. That’s unacceptable. “Wait, what the hell?” I hear you cry out. “That’s like an entire story, every day! How is that unacceptable!?” Well, you person who probably didn’t say that. There’s a bit of backstory to that number, or more importantly, to the number 1,667. Waaaaay back in 2006, my sister introduced me to a little thing called

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