Well, it took "only" 1.5 year (it was my fourth story in general). No wonder I eventually released those last three chapters together...

Spoiler: no, not everyone died.

Some things shall be explained.

I'm switching back and forth between various Gdocs and today I decided to revisit chapter 23 24* of AKD. This is how I left it on 1st August, when I last edited it:

Now I had to spend about five minutes wondering what she was pointing at

* I wrote an additional chapter because Cadance.

First: A Kingdom Divided reached 100k words. Quite good for a fic which, basing on my average chapter length at the time I started to write it, I expected to be 60-80k words long. Also, after the newest chapter, its word count finally doesn't trigger my OCD (it's exactly 107,900 words).

Also, the total amount of horse words I published reached 400k. That's still less than Fallout: Equestria, but I don't give up. Some additonal stats:

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I finally finished chapter 19 of AKD (which I was writing for the last couple of months. Meanwhile I wrote a couple of further chapters, as well as some other stories). When I was writing its ending I realised that I need yet another chapter, between 19 and 20, to make the transition smoother. There goes planning every detail before writing...

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...aka "10k long mood rollercoaster"...

Enter it here...

My sister reads one of the upcoming AKD chapters, checking if my description of first aid isn't an artistic licence:

"It's nice, but how the hell they got a radio in that magical land?"

"I'd rather ask about autocannons, but I see you have other priorities..."

I also described her briefly some of the arcs. She figured out that to avoid getting killed in AKD, a character have to follow three basic rules:
- Don't fall in love,
- Don't carry the radio,

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I'm going to post it as soon as there'll be enough people on fimfiction, but the long wait is over...

I also have the first AKD sidestory in works (about 6k words so far). The Nest is a prequel that takes place 9 years before the events of AKD, featuring some characters that either appear in the main story, or somehow influenced the characters from it. A few short previews:

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Yes, we're done with remastering the already published chapters and we'll soon move on to the chapter 9. Also, some random thoughts from chapter 8:

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

And real friends don't stab at all. They shoot you in the head so that you don't suffer from bleeding out.
Tired Old Man

Celestia's propaganda poster:

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It seems that taking Mary Sue tests is a thing, so I also decided to jump the bandwagon and make some for the characters from A Kingdom Divided.

Note that I base the answers on almost 22 chapters instead of just 8 that are posted...

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7 chapters proofread. Now it's only chapter 8 to go, and soon we'll get to chapter 9...

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I guess I should make progress updates more often, as we already remastered first five chapters. That means, there are only three chapters to go before we're going to make chapter 9 readable and ready to post.

On a side note, I recently wrote a second (or maybe third? I sometimes get lost in that) draft of chapter 11. If you thought chapter 4 was dark... well, you'll like it.

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Warning: this blog is about 2.5k words long and it contains spoilers to few of my stories, most notably Tools, The Sharpest Tool, A Kingdom Divided, Creation and Crow Maud. Be warned.

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Chapter 2 of A Kingdom Divided got remastered with the help of Tired Old Man. There are no changes to the plot, just some technical stuff. And apparently, I managed to write "inflammable" when I meant "nonflammable"...

Chapter 9 will be posted as soon as we'll be done with the already published ones (six more to go).

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First, with the help of the new proofreaders, Vrilix and Tired Old Man, I rewrote the first chapter to fix the issues pointed by the review. Some scenes were extended to make the story flow better, there are also some minor plot changes.

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So, I'm looking for a proofreader, or possibly a couple of them, for "A Kingdom Divided". Some knowledge about grammar is welcomed, as well as ability to catch inconsistencies or point out the bad pacing. Ideas and pieces of advice also welcomed. I'm not telling you it'll be an easy way. There will be blood. There will be sweat. There will be my OCD. But together, we'll make it.

Okay, enough of this motivational speech. Have a filly Twilight:

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My fanfic A Kingdom Divided was reviewed by The Pleasant Commentator and Review Group. Check out the review here.

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I'm currently writing a scene in A Kingdom Divided, where two pegasi are trying to impress one another with series of aerobatic maneuvers, and I have a problem, which not only applies to this scene, but also to every dogfight scene in this story. For example, we have maneuvers like:

- Cuban eight,
- Immelman turn,
- English bunt,
- Pugachev's Cobra
and tactics such as Thach weave or Finger-four.

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One thing about me: I'm not good with names for ponies, not to mention such things as "what colours go well together" (hey, I'm a guy after all...)

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