Hello everyone! Hope you all are having a nice day today. I wanted to start by saying just how sorry I am for missing my previous deadline. The last few weeks have been pretty busy for me, and I was aiming to upload chapter 8 right before I left on vacation. As you can see, that didn't happen, but I was able to finish up and get it out, albeit a week later then I intended. I want to promise updates in the future will be more regular, but that would depend on life not throwing any more

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Hey y'all. Just writing this to reassure everyone that Rules for Bodyguards isn't dead and apologize for how long this chapter had taken. Inspiration has been scarce these last months, and I've been pretty unhappy with what I've written till recently. As it stands right now I've got a little over 3000 words in the newest chapter, mostly written in the past week. Seeing how I try very hard not to go over 5000 words per chapter I'm fairly confident it will be in my editor's hands this week and

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So I was hanging out in a discord today with a couple of friends (namely Eltirions, The Great Scribbly One, and Big Saij) talking about our stories and just chilling. Eltirions had a story hit the

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... and created a group for Rules for Bodyguards. I plan on making Rules the first of an ongoing series, and this seemed like a good way to gather everything in one place.

So do Y'all prefer ongoing stories to release chapters at a regular intervals, or whole acts released over a short period of time?

... and because I am a latecomer to the fandom, I have absolutely no idea how EQD works. I got an email saying they received my submission, so I'm assuming their acceptance/rejection message will come through the same medium, but I really have no idea. Does anybody have any experience with submitting content to EQD? If so, how long can I expect to wait to hear back from them?

So MioBlu has created a few pieces inspired by Rules for Bodyguards, and I adore them. They've posted them to their blog here. Check them out and give MioBlu some love! I'll let you all guess which one is my favorite.

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No, I'm not dead. Still struggling to write, but I've made a fair bit of progress these last few days. Here's a glimpse at what I hope to release in the next week or so. As usual, this is not the final product.

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Contrary to the lack of updates, I have been actively wrestling with getting out the next chapter of "Rules for Bodyguards" almost every day, and I keep trashing what I have and starting over, or revising it down to a few pages and starting over. More recently, I've been trying to understand why I'm struggling, and I realized that the reason is because I am trying to write a transitional chapter. This is the first time we will actually see Roam and Roaman culture, and at the same time I

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...changed a small detail from the canon and then hoped someone would leave a comment saying "Hey, this isn't right" just so you could say "It's not a mistake" ?

So I have a couple of things going right now. First and foremost, I'm very close to releasing the "second half" of the chapter "when Traveling in Roam...", which is aptly titled "...Do as the Roamans Do". In typical fashion, what was once only around 2500 words longs has been rewritten to almost twice that length. The main reason for this is that I am incorporating some of the story from planned chapters into this one, because I felt it was a better fit thematically. So really, this chapter 7

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TRules for Bodyguards

• MLP: FiM
• Romance
• Drama

When he was promoted to head of Cadance’s Royal Bodyguard, Shining Armor was prepared to deal with assassination plots, not fancy parties. Unfortunately for him, he discovers an abundance of both.

• Sex
• Violence
• Death
• Profanity
• OC
• Cadance
• Shining Armor
• Royal Guard

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As I said in a pervious blog post, I think of When Traveling in Roam... as the first part of a two-part chapter. However, looking back on it, I am wondering if my decision to publish such a dialogue-heavy chapter without seeking some kind of feedback prior to publishing it was a good decision. If you are following the story and/or enjoy what you have read, could you leave a comment here telling me what about the

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Part one of what I consider a two-part chapter has been posted. This chapter is pretty laid back as we finally reach our destination of Roam and start to explore the peoples and the culture of the Roaman Empire. Stay tuned for more in the next couple of days.

Chapter 7 has been slow going, but recently I've made some good progress on it. While it's nowhere near ready for release, I was feeling excited for what I have written down and wanted to share a teaser for some of the content you can expect to see in the near future.

*Author's note: the following passage is still a work in progress and subject to change.

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So, you know how in a previous blog post I said I would be updating Rules for Bodyguards every week? What I actually meant was that I would not be updating every week! Gotcha!

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So, I didn't quite get the chapter out this weekend like I had planned, and I am sorry for that. I ended up re-writing the entire thing from scratch again, something that happens to me more often then I care to admit, but here's a sneak peak at a some-what polished draft for my next chapter: Beware Griffins bearing Gifts.

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So, I had more more chapter for you all that I had intended to release yesterday, but during editing I felt that it wasn't up to standard, and I kept making changes and editing it until I decided to scrap it and start over. I like what I have written now better much so I going to start my planned weekend update schedule now instead of after Chapter 5 like I had planned. Moving forward I should be releasing one or two chapters every weekend until Rules for Bodyguards is complete. I do have a

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...Because in the last 5 days I've written almost 20,000 words. It's like when I'm writing I'm in the moment, and when I'm not writing I'm thinking about writing. It's very distracting, really.

Anyways, I have a few more chapters in the pipeline before I move to a more leisurely update schedule, but in the meantime I hope you enjoy the ride!

Well, its up. Rules for Bodyguards is now live!