So, the past four months have been interesting for me... in the ancient Draconic sense of the word, which translates roughly as, "Hm. This fellow is so fried, he looks like he'd go well with some habanero barbecue sauce." To put it succinctly, I've been working six days a week, on average, for the last six months. This is not terribly conducive to writing, as when I am not at work, I am either doing things around the house, spending time with the missus, or sharply reducing the population of

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Because really, I've got the ideas, I've got the inspiration, I've even got scenes mapped out in my head... but I also have had, on average, a fifty-plus-hour work week to deal with. "Once in a Blue Moon" is not being shelved, I want to state that emphatically, I just have not had the time to properly sit down and write anything that I would consider publishable. After several abortive attempts, that means I need to sit back and think a little about where I'm going with it.

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When I first started this story on Fanfiction.net some months ago, I fully intended that the update schedule should not live up to the story's name. Sadly, with life being what it is, that's precisely what happened.

I'm taking the opportunity while uploading this to FIMFic to do some much-needed edits. Chapters 9 and 10, in particular, got melded into some kind of word salad mash that need to be separated out and refined before they'll be fit for public reconsumption.

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