Do I do my taxes? Or do I write ponies?
Screw the 1040. Let's finish this latest chapter instead.
Somewhere in the USA. Probably older than you. And something about MLP:FIM makes me want to write stories. Unfortunately, being gainfully employed cuts into my writing time.
So the latest episode ends with Rarity receiving a spool of fabulous thread, shimmering rainbow-colored thread.
It could be coincidence. Or it could be a call back to the end of Season 3, when Rarity possessed Rainbow Dash's cutie mark.
Finally, there could be another explanation for this thread. I was inspired to create a short one-shot: Rainbow Thread.
And another story with clop. A Royal Pain is now published, starring everypony's favorite royal pain, Prince Blueblood. It's planned to be a longer story, of indeterminate length, with not every chapter including clop scenes.
I'm trying something different and requesting audience participation. If there's something you want to see happen to Prince Blueblood over the course of the story, post a comment in the story!
I wrote most of my latest story in July, between chapters of Clean Slate. As I neared the end of the story, I saw that it simply escalated too quickly, so I set it aside. Coming back to it, I added another lesson that made Twilight Sparkle's ultimate solution make a little more sense. (As much sense as can be allowed in a comedic story, of course.)
Rarity is always prepared, with a couch available if she feels the need to faint. And Pinkie Pie has immediate access to a party cannon and a whole lot more. This calls back to a grand cartoon tradition of being able to pull items out of nowhere.
But what happens when that no longer works?
That's the premise of my next one-shot story, Hammerspace.
And it's another one-shot clopfic, involving an older Pumpkin Cake and the son of Rainbow Dash and Soarin'. Click here for the sticky story.
In my list of unpublished story ideas, there's another clopfic in the works. Right now, though, I'm not sure what story idea I'm going to write next.
Picture a cartoon series. It's primarily designed to sell dolls to girls, but the series developer, a woman who previously worked on cartoon series more aimed at boys, decides to increase the appeal of the series, adding more action than was typically seen in girls' cartoons. And the cartoon features a lot of original music.