I've taken advantage of a site where folks can leave me feedback 100% anonymously. Pointing my meatspace friends towards it got me some useful information, so now I'm officially leaving it here, as well. Thanks!

If you saw this pop up in your feed: this post isn't a response to anything in particular. I'm putting this here so that I can link folks to it later, as it does crop up occasionally. Think of it as my FAQ, except there's only one question that people frequently ask. That question is "will you write a sequel to this story?"

If you're here because I linked you to this post later: howdy. Make yourself comfortable.

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Oops. I would like to apologize for my part in this.

I am feeling a curious mixture of shame and pride, right now.

It seems all the cool kids [1] are auctioning off fanfic to raise money to offset the Unicon debacle. I have some opinions about how that's being run, but you've already read a bunch of opinions on the subject and you don't need to see mine. Let's just say that, while I'm in favor of fanfiction and I'm in favor of charity, there are charitable causes better than this one, and—

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The folks at The Living Library Player Society read Everfree and the Poisoned Flower. Go check it out! Those folks know how to do a reading. Oleander's voice actress[1] in particular does a great job. My only complaint is that the narrator isn't actually Andrea Libman, but I guess you can't have everything.

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In my current project, I've had to remove a number of finished, edited scenes. Some of them had gone through three or four major drafts. If I combined and published the deleted scenes, they would be my second-longest story.

(It's totally worth it, though. I don't think I've ever been this confident in a story, before.)

Celestia got a new crown!

She is the prettiest princess Gaze upon her perfection and weep, mortals.

In which I gaze at my metaphorical navel. Stolen from bookplayer, via Bad Horse. Remember, kids: real authors steal.

Fic total:

6 published stories, 32,000 words.
~25,000 words of abandoned fic.
~30,000 words of in-progress fic.
~5,000 words in shards of fics I would like to expand upon, once I work through other projects.

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...will probably never be published. I normally don't like to post pieces of unfinished stories, but I'm making an exception because otherwise I'm unlikely to use these two, and I'm unreasonably proud of them.

From One Giant Leap, which will never be published because, despite my best efforts, I have no idea what to do for a second act:

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The things I am writing now are actually making me question whether I'm as empathetic as I like to think. A genuinely good person would probably not be this entertained by doing such terrible things to such good-hearted ponies. Yes, it's entirely fictional, but still. I ask myself, "what would make this a story I would read?" and the answer is "you should write about Twilight's psyche collapsing under the weight of her entirely justified guilt." This does not seem like the sort of thing that

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