Trending on other platforms: List attributes of your work in progress. I'm doing that now, to reassure my followers I'm still alive writing. I challenge you authors to do the same and to link our posts together! Try not to give away spoilers. Please use the #5ThingsWIP tag.

1. Falling for somepony and their imposter leads to strange bedroom consequences.
2. It matters little if you are a criminal if somepony in power needs you.

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I realized that I've left my audience hanging about my writing tools. Sorry. Yes, I am still writing. I am 47,000 words into Ms. Glimmer and the Do-nothing Prince—written exclusively on Scrivener.

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I've been writing using Scrivener for over two weeks now. Like many products, it has its own unique issues like cursor selection on the iPad and iPhone failing in all sorts of unique and special ways. (I can work around it easily, so I will report it in due time.) There is a learning curve compared to using a WYSIWYG editor like Pages, Word, or Google Docs. You should commit yourself to the tutorial that comes with it. If you need an integrated development environment for writing novels,

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Reminder: The Runaway Bodyguard is complete. Hit up the story page. I published the 4th chapter in The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers REMASTERED, I Prefer

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Link: The Runaway Bodyguard Epilogue. Blog: Full Details. About the posting schedule for the remastered sequel: In

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The epilogue has been posted. Starlight Glimmer moves on, trying to establish a normal life. With Starlight Glimmer, you’ve got to figure that won’t be easy. I usually detail a next chapter here, but this time I am announcing the REMASTERED

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After much contemplation, I decided to release the epilogue to The Runaway Bodyguard on Saturday Jan 8th. I will release the first installment of the sequel, The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers REMASTERED, at the same time. It says REMASTERED for a reason and you should read it instead of the original. (You might call it a glow up.)

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Chapter 70 of 71 is ready to read after you recover from your New Years celebrations! In this intense chapter, Starlight takes the choice of fewer deaths, and must deal with the consequences of her lose-lose choice. She learns a

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Today's chapter, 69 of 71, is tellingly named The Runaway Bodyguard. Every success and every failure in Starlight's runaway career comes together with explosive results. She learns what evil is. She faces who she has become, so different than who she wanted to be, and must make choices nopony wants to have to make. No matter what she does, she will be responsible. The next

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I wish you all a happy holiday season, regardless of what you celebrate or with whom. This time of year can be difficult for many, exhausting for some, and yet happy if you let it be. Please be there for those who need it and let go of the petty things that get in the way. There is plenty of happiness out there for everyone if we just focus on what we have and cherish it. I know that life is what I make it, and it is my wish that you will join me and make

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Chapter 68 of 71 is out! A surprising interlude between Starlight and her crime boss, before the horse apples hit the fan. Next: In a chapter titled, The Runaway Bodyguard,Starlight’s carefully crafted

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Chapter 67 of 71 is out! What can Starlight do laying on her back? A lot, it seems. Next Monday: Carne Asada and a pony named Starlight Glimmer come to an understanding, but do they understand the same

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As a beginning author, keep in mind:

1. The only successful story is a finished story. ARE YOU WRITING YET?
2. Not every idea is a good idea for a story.
3. Ideas are useless if you don't write them.
4. Ideas are a dime a dozen! If you disagree, please don't argue with me: Make a list of 100 of them. (See next item.)

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You can prepare all you want, but lack of experience will betray you every time. Read chapter 66 here. Next Friday: In Bah Harbor, Mane, Starlight uses seduction to fight. Any port in a storm, right?

29K words remain to be published in The Runaway Bodyguard. Chapter 65 was published today (Starlight has lots of worries, and now that includes the FBI EBI). I want the last chapter out by New Years, barring Murphy.

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Some stains you cannot wash out. In this chapter Starlight fixes her botched murder attempt. Black humor ensues. Next: The EBI (Equestrian Bureau of Investigation) comes a calling.

This chapter is intense and required a beginning author note because I didn’t want to add a new warning tag. Remember, this is a story of gangs and the mob—and the story of somepony who thinks she is smarter than the rest. See how Starlight reacts (how anyone might react) when she lets herself

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Three chapters, 7,500 words, live and direct from Fabulous Las Pegasus! Start Here. The Mob has many bits invested in Las Pegasus. To protect them, Carne Asada convinces Starlight to do more than bodyguard duty,

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