Happy Spring, every-pony! Well, the eclipse happened over where I live, and I got to witness it! I must say, the corona of an eclipse is much brighter than pictures can convey. The darkness itself was fascinating, like evening coming early, and we heard crickets start their chorus. We can only speculate what their reaction to daylight five minutes later was. And Venus was clearly visible with the sun obscured by the moon.

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March Madness is here, every-pony! And with it comes an update to my progress with "The Sixth Alicorn." I have finished writing Chapter 10 long hand, and it stretches out to 5744 words over 21 and a half pages. It's certainly much shorter than my previous chapters, but don't worry; chapter 11 looks like it will be much more substantial, from what I have planned. I'm in the process of typing up Chapter 10; I have a little over 2000 words typed up. I hope I might have it ready soon.

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Hi every-pony, I thought I should check in with all of you, since it's been a while since I provided any updates. As some of you may know, I lost my job in October of last year, and have been job hunting ever since. No luck yet, but it's not for lack of trying! I've been focused mostly on resolving that hiccough in my life, so you may well understand why I haven't been able to update. I've also been dealing with some writer's block, which I am only now getting over.

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Happy Nightmare Night, every-pony! Good news, I have finally posted chapter nine of The Sixth Alicorn! Final word count comes to 12,287, clipped from the initial 13,809. It took a long while to get this chapter written. Not only was this due to the usual travails of writing, but I had a number of personal setbacks to go through (such as getting terminated from my job!), as well as experiencing a bout of extreme stress that kept me down. On a more optimistic note, I was also in a Neil Simon

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Happy Nightmare Night weekend, every-pony! I have a treat coming up for you all. Chapter Nine of "The Sixth Alicorn" is entering it's final stage. I'm going through my final read-through of it at present. That should take a few more days. Look for the chapter update either on Mischief Night or Halloween itself, which I think you will find perfectly apt, given the sort of story I am writing, as well as the contents of the update itself. The new chapter hovers around 12,400 words, so it's a

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Hello every-pony. I'm still working on getting my chapter typed up. I wasn't able to get much work on it done in June, due to a combination of illness, job problems, and needing to get things squared away at my apartment. I'm hoping to get it typed up over the next couple of weeks or so.

Happy Independence Day for my USA followers!

Sincerely,

Shade Nightingale

Good news! I managed to finish writing out Chapter 9! ...Longform. Now I have to start on typing it up, as well as get a head start on Chapter 10. I have 58 pages of composition book filled out for it. I'm not sure of the word count, but I suspect it's something like 12,000. Anyhow, I shall keep you all posted! Thanks for your patience!

Yours,

Shade Nightingale

Hello Every-pony! It’s been a while. I thought it would be good to comment on where I am in “The Sixth Alicorn.” I had good progress with it at first, but then I ran into some serious writer’s block. I also became preoccupied with a bad case of bronchitis, as well as playing in a play called “Rumors” by Neil Simon. It’s only been in the last couple weeks I’ve been able to write a page a day again.

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Good evening, every-pony! It took a lot of work, but I finally got Chapter 8 posted! I meant to have this posted on Christmas, but due to computer problems, I ended up losing my final draft, and had to go back and edit it all over again. I think the old draft I had was better, but this one had a few small changes added that I think help it. The new chapter runs 12, 102 words, making it a little shorter than some of the other chapters I posted. Surprisingly, this fanfic did not break the

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Happy Hearth Warming, every-pony, I hope you're doing well. I, however, am not doing so great. Last night, I had a read-through of Chapter 8 for "The Sixth Alicorn." It had been completed and revised to an extent I considered complete. I was actually proud of some of the revisions, it almost seemed like semi-professional prose! I intended to spend Christmas Eve reading through it one last time. I saved it, closed it, and went to bed. Today I went to open it up for this final review, only

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Me: “Alright, Chapter 8 shouldn’t be too hard to write, it only has a few scenes. It’ll be less than 10,000 words this time, easy!”

Also me: *writes 13,183 words over 54 pages of a composition book*

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Hello every-pony! It's been a while since I've said anything. For those interested, I am still working on Chapter 8 for The Sixth Alicorn. It's been slow going, but I've written 3,701 words so far. I'm not anticipating this chapter to be quite as long as many of the others I've published, but you can never tell where these things go.

I can't say for certain when I'll have it posted. I'm aiming for October / November, bu we'll have to see.

I finally finished Chapter Seven of The Sixth Alicorn! That took 11 months to do! Man, I never meant for the wait to be that long. But the wait is over now, I hope you enjoy it! It's final word count is 13,930, and it runs a span of 29 Word pages. It takes place entirely from Nyx / NMM's perspective, which was hard for me to nail down. Children are a lot harder to write than you would think. I have more details in my author notes, if that interests you. I've also posted the story

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Happy April Fools Day, every-pony. Good news! I have actually finished the first draft of Chapter 7! No, this isn't an April Fools Day prank, I actually have a draft done, and have been working to revise it. The current word count is 18,466 words and spans 36 pages. The initial draft actually exceeded 20,000 words and reached forty pages, but I've managed to pare some of that back a little.

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Hello every-pony. It's been a while since my last update, so let me fill you in on some of the details. I'm still stuck on Chapter 7. There is this long section I need to finish, but it feels like it's taking forever to write it. What frustrates me is that I have finished the rest of the chapter; it's just this one section I have left to write. Then I can get down to the business of editing the blasted thing. At the moment, the word count sits at 16,200 words over 33 Word pages. I expect

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Happy New Years every-pony! Yes, I’m still here. I’ll provide an update on my fic.

I’m still working on Chapter 7. It’s above 10,000 words, so there’s a large bit there. But I have a bit of writer’s block going on, so work has been glacial. I’ll update when I have my draft completed.

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Hello every-pony! October is upon us, so I thought it might be a good time to provide an update on Chapter 7. I'm still working on the rough draft. Right now, it's running 10,129 words, over thirty-eight pages of notebook paper! And I still have more to do. And it is handwritten, so that means I will need to go back and type it all back up later. I hope to at least have it typed before the end of October. I can tell already that a good deal of revision is in order for it. I was hoping

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Good evening, every-pony! Here's an update on my progress with Chapter 7. I have been writing it out long hand, and have churned out 5,368 words, spanning twenty pages of notebook paper. I have a ways to go still on it; I estimate I'm a third of the way through.

Thanks so much to everyone for their patience between updates. I always try to maintain the best quality I can, even though this is a fanfiction. We'll see where I'm at this September.

Have a great night!

Sincerely,

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Well, its finally here every-pony! I just posted Chapter Six of "The Sixth Alicorn!" The final length came out to 11,800 words, from an initial draft of 12,800 words. So I clipped off 10 percent from there to the final draft. I can't say when I shall have Chapter Seven up, but I do have about a third of it typed up, according to my estimate. That chapter will be presented entirely from Nyx's perspective, so we'll finally get to hear Nyx's thoughts about the last few chapters.

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Hi all, May is here, so I thought I’d provide an update on Chapter Six. The good news is that I’ve finally finished the primary draft. It’s over 12,800 words and covers 28 Word pages. But it still has to go through the edit / revise phase. I already know at least two scenes that need to be revised. I’m hoping to have this out by the end of May, June at the latest. Stay tuned!

I’ve also written about half of Chapter 7 as well. Hopefully, I’ll have that one out much quicker.