It's October, the spooky month, and that makes this an excellent month to release the starting chapters of a new mystery story! The Princess in the Coffee Shop has a new cover image by Helmie waiting for a coordinated release along with the launch of the story. It was really cool getting to commission him, and I'm really excited for you all to see what we've made here! I also commissioned additional supporting images from other artists

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Right, so let's talk about what I'm writing next!

I've got three projects in the works. Two of them are stepping-stone projects designed to bring me back up to speed with a regular pace of writing. These are similar in principle to Premonitions but with a greatly expanded scope. Right now I'm calling them:

• The Princess in the Coffee Shop
• Victory: Rising

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You know, when I started this little prequel to my upcoming Victory Universe, I wasn't actually all that sure of what would happen to it within the context of the contest I was writing it for. Would it win big? Would it be forgotten in the entry pile? I honestly feared both options. Premonitions was the very first act of a writer, like the Tin Man of Oz, shaking off more than a decade of absolute rust. I took on the project knowing I wasn't yet at a level where I could do proper

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I've already started on my next story, but I've hit an interesting snag. One of the characters in this new story is a character originally from The IDW Comics called Cosmos, and there's no tags for that character on this site! From what i can tell, FiM Fiction's tags are manually entered by the site admins. I'd appreciate it if somepony added Cosmos! She's a really cool canon character that deserves more awesome stories!

I was able to get a final edit of Chapter 6 uploaded last night. It took a few small adjustments to get the overall word count under 20K. Thankfully, nothing significant was lost in that transition. The original version of the final edit was 20,126 words compared to the final count of 19,997 words. That cut it very close to the contest's cap! In all of the site views that display the truncated amount of words, that gets commonly rounded up to a perfect 20K words. It wasn't a significant

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I completed the promised re-edits of Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 of Victory: Premonitions before posting Chapter 4. This messed with the every-other-day release cadence I had admitted to liking so much, but it was definitely necessary. The prize pool for the contest has gone up, so competition will be steep! With that in mind, I went ahead and posted the work-in-progress cover art I was working on. It's just a simple interpretation of Saturn for now. The plan was originally to draw The

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Chapter 3 of Victory: Premonitions is out! So far I've stuck to an every-other-day cadence with these releases that I really like. This chapter saw a lot of special attention in the editing process to correct for run-ons. This was the result of some specific feedback I got from the first two chapters. I may still go back and make edits to Chapters 1 & 2 to correct for this before posting Chapter 4. Behind the scenes, I completed work on Chapter 6 and have everything through to the

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I'm excited to be making progress on actually posting this thing. This whole project has been very exciting. I'm not sure if the Mature rating will stick. I've always had a bad relationship with these online self-rating systems. I'd much prefer an "in progress" rating that was the functional equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and seeing where things go. As it stands, part of me wants to tone down the later chapters and re-concept the scope into something with less adult themes. I'm not

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My unceremonious return is heralded by the call of a Science Fiction contest! I thought it'd be fun to participate, so I'm here polishing up the last few chapters of my new 6 Chapter fic Victory: Premonitions, in the hope of bringing my rusty skills up to snuff for some much bigger projects yet to be released! It's been a bit harder than I anticipated, as the super-condensed nature of a 20 thousand word fic has proven to be quite the creative restriction, but I've really been liking the

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