March Madness is here, every-pony! And with it comes an update to my progress with "The Sixth Alicorn." I have finished writing Chapter 10 long hand, and it stretches out to 5744 words over 21 and a half pages. It's certainly much shorter than my previous chapters, but don't worry; chapter 11 looks like it will be much more substantial, from what I have planned. I'm in the process of typing up Chapter 10; I have a little over 2000 words typed up. I hope I might have it ready soon.

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Hi every-pony, I thought I should check in with all of you, since it's been a while since I provided any updates. As some of you may know, I lost my job in October of last year, and have been job hunting ever since. No luck yet, but it's not for lack of trying! I've been focused mostly on resolving that hiccough in my life, so you may well understand why I haven't been able to update. I've also been dealing with some writer's block, which I am only now getting over.

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Happy Nightmare Night, every-pony! Good news, I have finally posted chapter nine of The Sixth Alicorn! Final word count comes to 12,287, clipped from the initial 13,809. It took a long while to get this chapter written. Not only was this due to the usual travails of writing, but I had a number of personal setbacks to go through (such as getting terminated from my job!), as well as experiencing a bout of extreme stress that kept me down. On a more optimistic note, I was also in a Neil Simon

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Happy Nightmare Night weekend, every-pony! I have a treat coming up for you all. Chapter Nine of "The Sixth Alicorn" is entering it's final stage. I'm going through my final read-through of it at present. That should take a few more days. Look for the chapter update either on Mischief Night or Halloween itself, which I think you will find perfectly apt, given the sort of story I am writing, as well as the contents of the update itself. The new chapter hovers around 12,400 words, so it's a

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Hello every-pony. I'm still working on getting my chapter typed up. I wasn't able to get much work on it done in June, due to a combination of illness, job problems, and needing to get things squared away at my apartment. I'm hoping to get it typed up over the next couple of weeks or so.

Happy Independence Day for my USA followers!

Sincerely,

Shade Nightingale

Good news! I managed to finish writing out Chapter 9! ...Longform. Now I have to start on typing it up, as well as get a head start on Chapter 10. I have 58 pages of composition book filled out for it. I'm not sure of the word count, but I suspect it's something like 12,000. Anyhow, I shall keep you all posted! Thanks for your patience!

Yours,

Shade Nightingale

Hello Every-pony! It’s been a while. I thought it would be good to comment on where I am in “The Sixth Alicorn.” I had good progress with it at first, but then I ran into some serious writer’s block. I also became preoccupied with a bad case of bronchitis, as well as playing in a play called “Rumors” by Neil Simon. It’s only been in the last couple weeks I’ve been able to write a page a day again.

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Good evening, every-pony! It took a lot of work, but I finally got Chapter 8 posted! I meant to have this posted on Christmas, but due to computer problems, I ended up losing my final draft, and had to go back and edit it all over again. I think the old draft I had was better, but this one had a few small changes added that I think help it. The new chapter runs 12, 102 words, making it a little shorter than some of the other chapters I posted. Surprisingly, this fanfic did not break the

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Happy Hearth Warming, every-pony, I hope you're doing well. I, however, am not doing so great. Last night, I had a read-through of Chapter 8 for "The Sixth Alicorn." It had been completed and revised to an extent I considered complete. I was actually proud of some of the revisions, it almost seemed like semi-professional prose! I intended to spend Christmas Eve reading through it one last time. I saved it, closed it, and went to bed. Today I went to open it up for this final review, only

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Me: “Alright, Chapter 8 shouldn’t be too hard to write, it only has a few scenes. It’ll be less than 10,000 words this time, easy!”

Also me: *writes 13,183 words over 54 pages of a composition book*

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