So sorry guys. I've been having a rough time recently. I feel like everything is just getting on top of me and I don't have the time to do anything I really want to do. Christmas was busy at work and everything was so hectic then January presents all manner of different challenges. At least at Christmas everything is really full on. You can turn up, see that everything is going crazy and just get stuck in about it. But when it's not and your wage budgets get stripped back beyond the

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I know it has been an absolute age since I posted anything at all. I'm just letting you know that I am still alive and I am still writing. In fact, I even managed to get a first draft finished for a chapter ten of To Be A Princess. Don't get too excited though: it's still a long way from being ready. In any case, I do feel like I have been being lazy with updates and lazy with writing, so I'm setting myself some deadlines and hopefully those will spur me on to get some

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Yeah! That's right, I finally got To Be A Princess updated. Chapter Eight is the biggest and best yet. Well maybe not the best, but certainly the most difficult - and inarguably the biggest. For the longest time, it felt like I was going to have to write a chapter which amounted nothing more than moving the plot along, but thankfully I managed to squeeze a little more out of it than that. Sometimes ideas just come to you, and that was certainly the case this time, so I hope you all

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I know I post these blogs quite often. It's just that I feel like I should have written something more since the I last made an update. So this is just to let you all know that the story is progressing, however slowly, and I hope to have an update for you soon. At the very latest, it will be within the next two weeks because I have a week off work coming up.

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Oh Celestia, I'm frustrated! I've written, scrapped, rewritten and scrapped a whole chapter of To Be A Princess. Now how in the hay am I supposed to finish this story when my brain keeps telling me that what I've written isn't good enough? I've already decided the direction the story is going in. I already know what is going to happen. I already know what events are going to take place and when they're going to take place. Every last detail of this story has been meticulously planned

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Hello everypony! I'm going to apologise in advance for a late update on my story 'To Be A Princess'. I accepted a new position at work and my rota has changed beyond all recognition. The change is such that I'm now working two early mornings and two late nights as opposed to the four mid-evening shifts I was doing before. Unfortunately, this means my body needs time to adjust to the new schedule and the time I've been able to spend writing is negligible.

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I was looking through some of the fics in the shipping folders today and, as was my wont, I decided to sort them all by 'rating'. When I did so, I got to wondering, what exactly is the criteria used when sorting the fics in this way? I had originally thought it would be done by counting purely the number of upvotes. However, it soon became apparent that this is not the case. There were countless stories which had been upvoted only a few hundred times appearing above stories that had

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So today I got the sixth chapter of A Certain Type of Chic typed up. In the main anyway. Then it occurred to me that it's almost time to bring this story to a close. This has been my first published ponyfic (and fanfic for that matter) and, although there are parts of it I'm not absolutely satisfied with, I've become somewhat attached to it. It's a strange feeling: there's a part of me that wants to keep drawing

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