Chapter 14 is done, or at least the first draft of it is. Truthfully, the draft has been sitting in my Dropbox for a fair spell while I've been submitting myself to the harrowing horror that is working on a grant proposal. Anyways, the chapter should be out soon, hopefully. I just need to get a couple sets of eyes on it to tell me how wretched it is and that I should rewrite the whole thing.

I've been doing a fair amount of reading and research as I work on Chapter 13, and I've been doing some drawing as well.

For the interested, here is my interpretation of 'Síofra' the fey, mix and matching her 'outfit':

If, by some oblation to the Dark Gods of Shipping, Rainbow Dash and Soarin' were to have a kid, I'd like to imagine that they'd name them Rainbow'.

Did you think this blog post would be about writing? Well, then, psyche! It isn't.

What it is is a chance to win a piece of pony art, to be completed sometime between the end of this month and the heat death of the universe (probably sooner than later), unfortunately by me.

Read More

Twilight finally became part earth pony.

Well, the guardsponies are beginning the next leg of their journey, as soon as I get the motivation to write it.

In the interim:

I've wondered: how many times is it now that Twilight has become an alicorn, and why hasn't it stuck?

I noticed a recent story made use of a piece of art of mine for its cover. This surprised me. I'm happy enough to allow others to use my art in their projects, though I like to be asked first or at the very least credited. However, I can't really call out the author in this case, because they attempted to do just that. The only problem is that they sourced someone else. It turns out they pulled the image, an

Read More

That other thing I sometimes do.

I imagine that this little snippet will not be news to most of you that will see it, but I've noticed a couple of comments on 'In Her Majesty's Royal Service' that have asked if there would be other works following its players (which, to be quite frank, tickles me to no end). In fact, I do have a story in progress that is doing just that!

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/11748/From-Canterlot-with-Love

Perhaps I should have said so a few months ago.