One last thing before I'm off for bed tonight!

First, I really am VERY thankful to everyone who sent in a poem. Seriously. Writing poetry is really hard and you guys rock. Thanks so much! Also, it was pretty fricking hard to pick a winner. But I can only use one poem in the story, so it had to be done.

Firstly, the "I liked this but I'm not sure it suits the story" category (the honorable mentions):

By CheesewedgeFTW

Rest well, my little ones

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In case you fine folks hadn't noticed, today is a Honey Pie-full day. I've updated the original Honey Pie with a changeling Q and A, and some artwork, plus I've also posted the first chapter of Honey Pie II!

You should definitely check both of these things out, they are awesome.

If you'd like to talk about Honey Pie, writing, changelings, or whatever, you can join me in my chat room!

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Now before I say anything else, I want to make clear that I myself am an amateur writer. This is a hobby, not a job. I write for fun. But I do try to write quality stuff, and I feel that many of my stories at least approach professional levels of writing, even if they haven't actually arrived.

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I'm considering updating Honey Pie with some worldbuilding stuff about my version of changelings. (And maybe a few sketches. What scenes do you think ought to be illustrated?)

To help flesh this out a bit, I thought I'd ask for questions people would like to know about them.

So ask me stuff! What do you want to know?

The hive is quiet. The day's work is done, and all the drones are well-fed on stolen love. Near the heart of the hive, the youngest nymphs have been fed and are ready to sleep. The drone who tends them tucks them gently into their cradles of green resin. Some of them fuss and cry, and so she strokes their chitin softly and, as the hive slumbers peacefully around her, she lifts her voice and begins to sing them a lullaby...

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The last chapter, Won't you Please Come Home is up now!

I also still have my chat room open, and if you come join me you can get a sneak peek at the first chapter of Honey Pie II: The Wrath of Chrysalis. To join, simply get on the irchighway network (ie the one that can be accessed through FimFiction's handy "chat" button, which should be somewhere above this blog) and type /join #fimfiction-spark

Other things of note:

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...bit it seems I might be doing so anyway. I try to keep the "vast epics in progress" count down to just one or two. But Honey Pie, despite being something that I began because I was depressed and insomniac at 3am, and which I meant to be a short one-shot, appears to be turning into a huge monstrosity of an epic. I might even have to start dropping the first person POV eventually because there's stuff that happens that doesn't directly happen to Sweetcake.

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I am giving the next chapter of Honey Pie some further editing, but it'll be out fairly soon. (And by "soon" I mean probably tomorrow.)

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The fellow who was giving Honey Pie ch.2 a final edit has apparently been having computer troubles and hasn't been in touch all day today. It's no big deal, but I know I did tell a few of you specifically that it would go up either today or tomorrow, and this might no longer be the case. My apologies for that. Whatever happens I'll have it up by the end of the week though! One way or another.

The rough draft of Honey Pie part 2 is finished. And it's actually parts 2, 3, and 4. It's kind of long. :) It's in the editing stage right now, and I expect to be ready to post the first new chapter in a couple of days!

Or Pinkie Pie. Or Pinkie Pie with changelings. Which is to say that my brand new story, Honey Pie already has 10 favs. I realize that sounds ridiculous to some of you, but it's the most I've ever gotten in such a short period of time. It's a really nice change from the resounding silence I'm more used to here.

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