...'cause why not?

So, for my new readers who came in during my (shall we say) "blue period," I didn't always work on one fanfic at a time. My initiation of the project that turned into My Empire of Dirt and Music Box Blues and the resulting sabbatical from the rest of my work was detailed in the Author's Notes blog post here, so I won't rehash them.

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Back in 2019 when I started My Empire of Dirt, I began writing it because I needed to process the events leading up to, during, and right after my homeless period. It seems to have been successful, because I'm practically itching to write more about other things. I've gotten a new idea for Book 3 in the trilogy started by Lost Little Wolf (already hinted at in the most recently published chapter) and new ideas just keep hammering at my brain, pretty much faster than I can write them down.

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So here we are, it's been a hair over 2 years and 3 months since I first published Chapter 1.

The Broken Eggs

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What it says on the tin. Epilogue 3 wound up being a touch longer than I expected it to be, but that was mostly because I realized I had left out a few descriptions of characters in my initial draft. It was just a matter of fleshing out the text.

The weekend REALLY wiped me out, so I'm gonna stumble off back to bed for a bit. Hopefully I get word back from my pre-reader in time to publish it out to FiMFiction by tomorrow AM, if not sooner.

So we're nearly done. I had been hoping to wrap everything up in time for a Thursday release and do the first-time-in-over-two-years Fanfiction Friday, but my day job had people calling out sick (at least a few diagnosed with COVID-19 in one variant or another) in increasing numbers all week with no appreciable decrease in the workload, so by the time Friday rolled around, I hadn't had any of the extra time I usually would have at work to do the non-writing tasks associated with being an author

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Epilogue 2 is off to my pre-reader, probably will get posted out later today.

I'm gonna say right off the bat that I'm not terrifically happy with the way this turned out. Everything happened that was supposed to happen, but the narrative delivery just isn't up to my usual standard, IMHO. I dunno, maybe my pre-reader will have something to say to either assuage my fears or inspire me to improve it.

So at some point in the last couple years, my little catharsis project merited enough attention that it hit the Feature Box:

This joins:

Double Trixie Trouble (which I seem to have lost the screenshot I took when it happened)

Consequences of Good Intentions

Whom Gods Deflower

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Epilogue 1 is finished and queued up for pre-reading along with Chapter 11 and I'll be posting them at approx. the same time.

It's off to my pre-reader, who did have to straight-up tell me they wouldn't be reading it until tomorrow but depending on when that happens, you could wind up being able to read it before dinner. Otherwise, expect it to be published by Saturday.

I'm tired, I'm aiming for my bed.

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YES, this means I'll finally be getting around to putting out part one of the Epilogia soon! Let me sleep first.

...just one more, and Chapter 11 will be finished. My pre-reader is even reading sections as I finish them just to get the final product out the door that much faster.

One more scene, true, but I'm knackered. It's at least 3 hours past my bedtime, so I'm hitting the sack. If all goes well, new chapter will be up tomorrow.

(No, the epilogia will not be posted with the final chapter...unless... 😳)