Showed Tastes Likes Heresy to a friend who's a good writer, and he liked it pretty well. He pointed out that my intro was problematic, though, and gave me some general tips.

Accordingly, the first chapter has been improved and updated. It's better at grabbing attention, showing emotion, and giving a bigger hint at Spicy's personality. I like it.

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Ok. Anyone remember my last blogpost when I said Desert Spice should update soon? Well, soon is finally here. I've got the chapter completed, I just need to run it through my editors to make sure I didn't miss anything (and that I didn't do anything too stupid).

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Ok, I'm back. I've been kinda bogged down the 2nd half of this semester by another college course starting up and coursework picking up in general, but stuff has calmed down a bit so I can get back in the saddle and write some horse words. For whomever was worried I'd died, Amber Spice still has plenty of adventures left in her before I let her live in peace.

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It's feature-complete, at least. I've written everything out in the final chapter, the epilogue, and the first chapter of Desert Spice. Now I'm just waiting on my editors/prereaders to read through it so I can fix whatever needs fixing before I post it all here. Expect to see it in your fave boxes in the next couple of days.

Words in the last chapter: about 11,000.

It's kind of a big deal for me. And I'll get to add the "complete" tag to one of my fics for the first time ever!

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A mildly belated Happy New Year to all who read this blog post!

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Well, it seems that Knighty has fulfilled a dream of mine I've had since I started writing ponies on this website:
An update that didn't break the website for mobile users The ability to actually tag stories in blog posts! He's also added the ability to tag one of your fics as the sequel to another one of your fics, and that becomes relevant later. Right now, I'm giving thanks to our glorious host for bringing these changes to pass.

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For the record, I kept my promise to finish the new chapter of Tastes Like Heresy before the end of this week, so it is possible for me to keep deadlines I set for myself. I really should do that more often.

Now that I'm sitting on an unpublished chapter, I'm going to hunt through my previous ones just a bit to see if I can root out some unnecessary onomatopoeia while leaving in the good ones. Float, I'm looking at you!

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It turns out the next chapter I post of Tastes Like Heresy won't actually be the final chapter as I'd promised. Instead, I'm cutting what was heretofore one final chapter into two parts. This means that the upcoming chapter will be a bit on the shorter side, but I feel that it flows better this way. Also, this means getting the next chapter out a heck of a lot earlier than it would otherwise, and I've left you guys hanging on that front long enough.

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Hello, readers! I realize that I've been silent for quite a while on the writing front, and I'm sorry to leave you all in the dark. I'd like to say that my story is still not dead. I'm still writing Tastes Like Heresy, as well as laying groundwork for the upcoming sequel, Desert Spice. I like to make sure I've done my homework, after all, so I'm going to be giving you all a nice, well-developed Pegasus/Camel desert nomad society that's based firmly on Arab, Egyptian, and Greek

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I'd like to say that "Tastes Like Heresy" is not dead, and is not even on hiatus. It is, in fact, being actively worked on between reading updates of other people's amazing stories and rushing to meet homework deadlines for college. I won't promise the next chapter being finished by next week, but it is moving along and I like what I've written so far. After I write this chapter, I'll be getting to Amber Spice telling us all how she actually got herself banished from Unicornia. It involves

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