Countdown to publication: The Runaway Bodyguard · 7:03am Mar 14th, 2021
This is a new Starlight Glimmer novel-length work. Tags: Adventure, Drama, Thriller. Publication will start March 20th, weekly thenceforth. From the tentative long description:
This is a new Starlight Glimmer novel-length work. Tags: Adventure, Drama, Thriller. Publication will start March 20th, weekly thenceforth. From the tentative long description:
In the Enforcer and Her Blackmailers, I hinted at Starlight Glimmer's sketchy past, which allows her to be blackmailed. She starts the story with PTSD thanks to epic life and death battles, and hints at how she was a gangland bodyguard, the best of the best, until her patron became too stupid to live. The TV series depicts her as an unusually competent fighter, and magically stronger than Twilight Sparkle.
As my article on knowing the ending demonstrated, there are many tools you can use to help you complete a story of any length. At issue in using all such tools is building confidence while moderating procrastination. Almost all authors, especially unpublished and poorly published ones, have a crippling fear of failure1. Going from idea, to character generation, to plot generation, to writing, to
This is a name coined by fan DoContra for a interrelated series of stories written by ScifiPony. It comes from the title of the first story written in the Enforcerverse, The Enforcer and her Blackmailers. The story sets the tone for the series by depicting a gritty Starlight Glimmer né Aurora
BABSCon: I liked it. I would recommend the con because it is about pony and, by design, more about community and fun together. Very well run.
It has been over two weeks since I cracked a 100 followers. Woohoo! I have to say it: "Thank you. Thank you, everypony!"
If you've been waiting to read The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers, now's the time. Read from beginning to end and please leave comments!
Find out today how Starlight Glimmer became the pony she wanted to be as she faces off the greatest danger in her life. And it is all about cutie mark magic. At about 6:30PM PST I will publish the climactic chapter of The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers. Will Starlight save Sunset Shimmer? Will she save anypony?
I derped publishing the Sunday chapter. Sorry! It was a bit of an emotional day. To make it easier for those of you who are following, this is the final schedule of publication:
April
Mon 25 - Chapter 23: Likely, Meet Inevitable (PUBLISHED)
Wed 27 - Chapter 24: Breakthrough Consequences (PUBLISHED)
Th 28 - No chapter to align the final chapters so they are published on the following weekend.
Fri 29 - Chapter 25: Backed Into a Corner (PUBLISHED)
May
Sometime early morning April 23rd 2016 the number of page view on my user site ticked over 25,000. While this was accelerated by the fact that I've recently published a 30 chapter novel, it still feels special. You see, when you write traditional paper books, there are few numbers that you can know. One of them was that the print run of my first book, The Girl from the Emeraline Island, was 25,600 copies. Of that, the booksellers return 600 copies destroyed (practice in the
Sometime March 17th or 18th, 2016, I passed 20,000 views. Thank you everypony!
My major new Starlight Glimmer story is complete. It crossed the 50,000-word mark and thus is officially a novel. While the title is subject to change, it is tentatively titled The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers.