Sorry but the next chapter's still in production; I decided to tinker and then had a Great Idea™ and that spun out of control and... yeah.... I should (feelers crossed) be ready to post it on Sunday.

"Blepharitis & Strabismus" sound like a pair of Italian authors. Great friends and colleagues (perhaps lovers?) who pen the most tear-jerking, foot-stomping, send-the-ladies-swooning operas ever to grace the grand stage.

But, no, they're grotty medical conditions affecting my eyes, mostly the right one. >.o

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It's not ready.

I'm doing a rewrite it and, yeah, it's just not quite working yet and I have to head in to work soon. I'll hopefully have it ready to publish tomorrow.

Sorry for the delay.

My current mood these days is: so much to do, so little time!

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Squeezing together the fuzzy brown caterpillars above her tiny green glaring eyes.

This simple sentence gave me so much trouble in The Woman! It felt right, but also wrong somehow; should there be commas wedged into those lists of adjectives? Or not? I wasn't sure. So I turned to The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need and the internet for help.

It's a question of if they are "compound" or "coordinate" adjectives.

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Hi.

Just a quick blog post to say I'm still around and hard at work on ponefics. Just... not any I'm currently publishing.

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Announcer's deep and slightly smarmy voice: When every pony in Equestria faces their most terrible disaster yet, Starlight and Trixie are called on to help as only they can.

Interior shot of Twilight's School of Friendship. Twilight hugs Starlight Glimmer.

Twi: ...and keep everypony safe while we're gone!

Glim: But, Twilight! I want to help you with-

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I'm not Christian and I know many other people aren't, but I hope everyone who has some time off at this time of year is having a good holiday.

I have a few days off and I'm trying to catch up on my ponefics.

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Over the past couple of weeks writing has... had become rather slow and difficult. I'd get up at 4 am, plunk myself down at the desk, and struggle to get a few paragraphs out. It was work, before going to work, and wasn't much fun.

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Since it's the first thing I've written that ever won a contest (also the first I've ever entered into a contest), I though it might be nice to write a little about how it happened. Even if no one else is interested I'll come back and read this months from now and enjoy the nostalgia.

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