Hey there guys, if you ever want help with your story questions, have questions for me about anything I've posted or written, or if you just want to talk to another ponyfic-writing brony, you can reach me through email and Google Talk at this address:

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Hope to hear from you guys soon!

~Junebud

To those of you silent readers who might be wondering what the devil is taking so long between the publishing of Chapter 6 and Chapter 7, I want you to know that I've just been taking a little break from writing for a few days. I don't want to burn out on this story, especially because I've been enjoying writing it so much! Plus, I'm heading into the real meat of the story and it needs to be treated with proper delicacy. So what have I been doing in the meantime?

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So, after a few days, chapter 6 of "The Apple Tree" is ready for y'all now. I hope you enjoy it as much as you have the other chapters! I felt like I had to step delicately with this chapter as this chapter has much more emotional content than a lot of the others, even chapter 2 (which I thought was pretty laden with emotion). I took a little more time writing this because I wanted it to be juuuuuust right. Things are shaping up for AJ and Twilight and this is a culmination chapter. Now I

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Chapter four of The Apple Tree is now up! I'm sorry it took so long, but after a crazy storm yesterday, we lost power and didn't get it back until this afternoon. I was working on it from my phone in the parking lot of a McDonald's last night and then working on it all day today. It ended up being too long, so I've split the chapter into two chapters. Chapter 5 will be up later on tonight as well.

I'd usually have a new chapter up by now, but I've been plagued by a series of delays that have prevented me from writing. I'm about halfway done with it, so it should be up later today. Unfortunately, these delays are just going to keep pushing back future updates. Urgh, I hate it when real life interferes with writing!

Some of you might be wondering what may have possessed me to ship Applejack and Twilight Sparkle. It's a two-part answer. The first and general impetus was a discussion post on the Shipping Group (I think) where someone said that an Applejack x Twilight Sparkle pairing was unrealistic/doomed to failure. I resolved to see how I'd write it so the pairing would be both believable and fun. The second part of the answer is more of how I'm characterizing the relationship and why it even can come

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I just thought I'd post one of my favorite writing songs for those interested in my process. Enjoy!

I've just posted chapter two of The Apple Tree and I gotta say, this one gave me a bit of trouble. I've had some great output over the past couple of days, almost 10k words in two days ain't bad! And I'll start working on chapter 3 today as well. I'm hoping to continue this excellent output, but I can't promise anything. Several users have helped improve the story through their helpful and insightful comments on the story, for which I'm deeply grateful. These are definitely fairly

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So this first blog post is to commemorate the first story I've written and posted on FimFiction.net. It's titled "The Apple Tree" and currently has one chapter. The story is an exploration of the Applejack/Twilight pairing, which I've been intrigued about since I read a post about why that pairing might not be a good one. Why not? I thought I'd give it a little thought experiment to see if I could justify the pairing and this story is the result. It's an obvious first story, so there may

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