Also, Commissions For Charity · 5:10am Jun 2nd, 2020
So right now I’m offering vignettes (roughly 1000-2000 words) as commissions, but instead of paying me you make a donation to charity. Any charity. If you need suggestions, then:
So right now I’m offering vignettes (roughly 1000-2000 words) as commissions, but instead of paying me you make a donation to charity. Any charity. If you need suggestions, then:
So okay. Originally I was going to raise money for something closer to home but the barn has secured a grant that makes me less worried about it, and I think my efforts would be better focused here.
So I'm thinking that next month I'd like to run a charity event, but this will be a little different from previous events and I'm trying to figure out how to make it work.
In other news, I'm going to be getting a charity thing up and running maybe next month, so that should be exciting. We'll see how it goes, though. The format will be a little different but hopefully it'll be a lot of fun for everyone.
So it hasn't been exactly the best year, really. While I've had a record amount of commissions, it's cut into personal writing time. There's also the whole "working with actual horses" thing, and the fact that, you know, that seems to be even more of a passion for me than writing is. Not that I'm planning to stop writing or anything.
Of course new adventures bring new pains, too. Early in the year, the first horse I'd ever trained died suddenly and unexpectedly. That sucked.
We have winter here in Wisconsin. Like it's snowing right now as I look out the window and there's already several inches on the ground. So I'm glad I did my costume riding a few days ago.
Antares and Innocence get to have their own whirlwind adventure through the Realm of the Giants.
Another story will follow this one. I have no idea how long it will be, or when I'll even be able to get started: I have some commissions and other projects that need to be done first.
I mean my two things are writing and horses, and I'm either doing stupid stuff with one or stupid stuff with the other. At least the writing is less likely to kill me. Probably. Hopefully.
It ended up being a very busy year for me. But productive on a lot of fronts, ultimately. I mean, it never feels like enough, but I really got more done and learned more than I ever expected I would. I suppose a big part of it is that there's always more to do, always more ideas, always more things that I wish I could fit in the day.
Make friends, take risks, eat candy, get scared.
I haven't really been doing much pony-related writing lately - as in, none - but I did write this magical-horse-related horror story. It takes place in my Faballar setting, which I'm working the kinks out of still and setting up to be something... well, MLP-like, but ultimately completely my own thing. I've got a lot of ideas for it, so it's just a matter of finding time to get moving on it. This bit was mostly an experiment in