...and then every Friday until it is all gone. The final chapter should drop in the first week of January.

Merry Christmas!

Still needs an editing pass, then it has to be sent out for prereading. Assuming no catastrophic issues, I expect to start an accelerated posting schedule a week or two before Christmas.

The first chapter of Wasp was posted in January 2012. The end of a era (or was it error... hmm).

Seven years. I feel numb.

Had planned to post on friday, but an annoyingly hard to fix error was highlighted by a prereader and a chunk of rewriting is required.

My bad (was trying to get back into a regular posting schedule, but I guess I burned that bridge a long time ago!). On the plus side, the writing is keeping pace with the two(ish)-monthly posting cycle and still have about the same buffer level as before the restart.
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...and can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ESmFSrfi9D9IzM1OhAdqZ4GxBH29TtGAwj1EKUgv5d4/edit?usp=sharing

At some point I'll go in and edit the links in each chapter, but not today.

Nearly got lost in my own fic, re-reading all the bits I enjoy.

I've updated my reference 'document' with a master summary of Wasp. This contains all of the spoilers, and is designed as a reference for me and for readers who want a reminder of the plot without having to plough through the best part of a quarter million words...

Everything is kept in this unsubmitted 'story':
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247049/the-people-the-ponies-and-the-birdy-cats

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This time it's Real Horse who almost didn't make it.

First, an update on Final Solution. I wasn't going to post until I had something concrete (you know, like an actual chapter...), but an enterprising reader stumbled across one of my other accounts and mentioned that I really should do something. I've not been back to FimFic for months, so I apologise for ignoring you all; real life was very disruptive and writing became impossible for a couple of months.

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No, really. Christmas came close, though. The equine hit squad still have it in for me (I think it must be a family thing; I offended one of their own and now they all want me dead). More on those murderous tendencies later.

I've been absent a while, due to horse-based distractions (but you figured that, I guess); should have come back to check stuff, but feared the distraction (and a vague feeling of guilt at not doing more). That said, you all deserve an update on my progress:

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Uh-oh, a blog post on the 16th, this can't be good.

Yes, well, about that.

Short version: I need to draft the final chapters of FS, and won't be able to post much (if anything) during this process. This will take several months.

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1--turns out there is such a thing as a 'length', and worse, it's a horse related measurement
2--no chapter this month, due to Real Horse problems (this is also why I've been tardy with replying to comments and such)

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Half a million published words in A Soot Covered World.
Four and a half years of work (so far: a bit over 10% of my life).
An average of ~300 words a day.

That's really rather silly.

To all those who've read/commented/followed: you've kept me going. In a very real sense, this is all your fault.

Thank you!