The title says it all. Had you been waiting for all chapters to the Sunset Shimmer Goes to Hell before reading it and voting on it, all the chapters are now published. Time to read! Enjoy. And please vote and comment, too.

Announcing that the ScifiPony's Writer's Training Ground group is open for business! Visit weekly for writing prompts. My suggestions are based on current or past episodes. To jumpstart your creativity, I will tie each post to a deadline nudge you to quickly start and complete new short-stories or other fiction.

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Crinkle Paper returns! Does Sunset Shimmer Goes to Hell earn it's romance tag, again? You decide. Comment. Set your cellphone reminders for 5PM PDT, today April 5th for the new chapter.

This weekend features the first climatic chapters of Sunset Shimmer Goes to Hell. Tomorrow, White Stockings gets to put up or shut-up. The first chapter, a cliffhanger titled "Thank You, Fluttershy", posts tomorrow afternoon, April 1*. The second-half publishes on Sunday.

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One of the attractive things about writing in the first person is that the narrator's point of view is by definition both subjective and biased. Anything "I" says is always* tied to what "I" noticed. What "I" understood is then filtered through biases to make it to the printed page. Those biases can range from "that's not important" to "I can't confess to that" to "well that's so interesting, I have to tell everyone about this!" If the "I" in the story is consciously a narrator, "I" can

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A few unsavory plot holes got in the way of me publishing earlier, but I've cleared them all out.

The final draft is complete.

I will be publishing the the remaining nine chapters over the next two weeks. Following that, I will publish the short-story epilogue/sequel, Prance, in short order.

Keep an eye on your FimFiction feed for notifications!

And feel free to comment.

Besides the above being an obscure Abbott and Costello reference, the title of this short essay describes a difference between the narration of first person and third person stories. You know who is telling the story written in first person; it's the main character of the story. In a third person narrative, you usually don't know who's actually telling the story.

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As of Feb 3 before midnight, I've published 39,742 words to Sunset Shimmer Goes to Hell. The Pages document source is now at 67,000 words. I project I have about 5,000 more words to write to complete the novel, but who knows? Exciting characters demand to tell their stories, and I've a feeling a couple of the mane six may make cameo appearances.

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If you have been following my novel, Sunset Shimmer Goes to Hell, today I published a different chapter. It is also a new chapter. It's different in that it introduces an new character, in first person point-of-view, as hinted in the first chapter of the novel. Some of you who have read other long fiction by me will recognize the new character soon enough. To be clear, it is the same story. It's simply that the story requires different points to contrast the reality of intersecting

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Oddly enough, I do most of my writing while exercising, typing on a smartphone. I had previously reserved this time, either on an exercise bike for an hour a day, or walking as a carrot to allow me to actually make me perform exercise. In a busy life, there is precious free time. I previously spent this time reading novels.

So now I write.

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Sorry for the pun. The End is actually is nigh. I've finally completed the initial section of the Sunset Shimmer Goes to Hell through to the section I suddenly wrote towards the end back, I think, in October. This means I know I can complete the story and not have to make changes to published (or soon to be published) chapters.

As Rainbow Dash would say, "Woohoo!"

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Sunset Goes to Hell is taking a bit longer to connect the dots than I hoped. I've already written 45,000 words of which only 20,000 are posted. (That doesn't include the 6300 word sequel named Prance that's ready to publish, too.) I've released the next chapter for pre-reading, but I probably won't publish it until I've connected the beginning of the story with the end part to assure there's no

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A quick update on Sunset Shimmer Goes to Hell:

-The novella is not on hiatus!

-I've skipped ahead and written most of a critical chapter.

-I've completed the last chapter (though it might be an epilogue)!

-There are two more completed chapters before a gap of two chapters that need to be written, but are plotted, so as soon as I'm comfortable that there aren't any plot issues I wish to revise, I will release these chapters.

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