I'll hop on this Christmas avatar bandwagon sleigh (with a bit of help from the drawing tablet and SAI, heh).

Got chapter 5 decently outlined now. But I've been taking a break to polish Open Door for the EQD stuffs. The pre-reader there gave some very insightful feedback. So the story's seen yet more improvements. <3

Tree. Up.
Decorations. Up.
Gifts for wife & three kids? ... Uh... Hrm. WIP?

And then being awoken 6 a.m. the morning of?

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This one took a while. As blocked as I was with getting ideas rolling, I'm actually very pleased with how it turned out. Hope y'all are as well. Expected it to be a very short chapter, but at ~5,500 it's the longest to date.

Just a bit more review and smoothing, then I hope to drop it in the morning.

On the horizon -

Chapter 5 is still very drawing-board.

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A year and five days now since my start here, with Open Door. Quite a lot has changed through growth and experience in writing, and now circling back to apply that experience to my first written work.

I wanted to post this because you'll probably see a new chapter update hit the feed, if you have An Open Door tracked or fav'd. And this is to note that it's not an actual new chapter, but rather splitting the previously-long chapter 4 into two parts.

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Comes as no surprise, right? Everyone saw the parallels.
(sauce)

Pretty happy with how this spur-of-a-moment idea turned out.

Final pic came together quicker than I'd expected. Might not have posted the WIP yesterday had I anticipated this. Anyway - still spoiler-ish if you haven't read chapter 3. But there's probably not much of a surprise anyway, regarding where the story was going.

http://skycatcherequestria.deviantart.com/art/Love-Transcends-568979109

Still haven't done much with chapter 4 yet. I have a number of ideas for things to come in later chapters, but having a bit of block getting this "day about town" started.

Did get some inspiration last night to start on a drawing of a scene from chapter 3. Just a few hours of sketching, but there's a certain warmth to the "sketchy" phase of pictures like this, I feel, so wanted to share the early WIP. Spoiler-ish, so link instead of direct pic.

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Using links instead of images for spoiler stuffs.

Then:
http://skycatcherequestria.deviantart.com/art/Inner-Beauty-489023275

And now:
http://skycatcherequestria.deviantart.com/art/Wisdom-and-Forgiveness-The-Lesson-Learned-562771968

And at that moment when her transformation finished... The look of supreme inner peace and confidence.

This just came across my derpi watch. I might even have ask this artist if I can vector in Adagio on the right.

It'd then be a perfect scene for chapter 4. =)
Very close on completing 3 now. Couple more days.

https://derpibooru.org/987869
(would have to ignore the text in the description though - doesn't really fit the story here, heh)

I am back to writing now, though. Chapter 3 is well under way.

Had a bit of a gaming diversion the last few weeks (muh Monk on Diablo 3 -- working on clearing GR62 solo now, for anyone else who plays, heh). But that drive is slowing down now and the creative side is back to needing a release. So... soon. ;)