State of the Scribe: September 2020

Hey everyone, these months are getting really fully again. Every month I think maybe I’ll have tapered things off enough to relax, but that hasn’t happened yet. Granted, we’ve got a pokemon story in there tilting things a bit, but that should hopefully get finished up quick with as fast as I write it.

Before I go into the usual updates, I have a question for everyone who bothers to read these blogs:

As we reach the gradual sunset of MLP: FIM, I’d like to transition to writing some other things in addition to ponies. Would you care about reading those things, or would you prefer I not include them in my blog here? If you care enough to make your voice heard, take a second and vote in the strawpoll:

https://www.strawpoll.me/20866547

Just because these other stories aren’t about ponies doesn’t mean they wouldn’t share much in common with the writing many know me for around here. I tend to focus on science fiction and urban fantasy, with elements of TF/TG popping up far more often than they probably should.

For example, I’m finishing up a short story about a guy who gets accidentally changed into a dozen fairies (at the same time). And of course there’s the story Mew Like Me, which is just more fanfiction, but also has some of the same stuff involved. And I’m nearly done with a Message in a Bottle universe original novel about a Forerunner colony on a subzero orphan planet and the adaptations humans have to make to survive there.

Basically I’d like to take a read on if I should share information about these projects here, or if you guys would think it was spammy and that I should keep it down. Some of you (particularly those on my Discord), know that I also write as my dayjob, and that tends to not be close enough to my “core audience” for me to consider it worth sharing. But do you want to learn about my projects that are similar to what you’ve read? Vote or comment with what you think.

Alright, returning to our usual scheduled programming. Nothing too crazy happening with this month’s chapters. The usual suspects are still trucking, with Hour and Child of Mine approaching some sort of conclusion. My plan would be for both of these stories to complete by the end of the year, though I’d favor taking longer if telling the best possible story takes longer.

Mew Like Me is harder to predict, since it’s being written so incredibly fast for how simple an idea it is. I think I’m about halfway through, so maybe it will finish around the end of the year too. I can dream. For those who don’t know, it’s a pokemon TF story that I’m posting to my Patreon–but you don’t need to support me to read it. Just visit and look for the tag and you can see all the chapters: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3226653&filters[tag]=Mew%20Like%20Me . It also has a cover now, which is awesome:

Big news this month is a new oneshot: Armor Gleaming Bright. Yes it’s about who you think it is. I really don’t know how I haven’t written a story about her yet, given how many other stories in that vein I’ve done. But when I got the commission I couldn’t resist, so here we are. Probably could’ve been a whole novel, but I think there are other stories on the same subject, so… I’ll not tread on too many toes.

You’ll also notice a minific on that list. I don’t actually have enough to write it yet, but I promised I’d do it this month if I get the rest of the details, so I put it on here in case the pone of the hour gets back to me. You know who you are. If not, we still have almost a full month of updates there, so I won’t feel too bad.