State of the Scribe: November 2022

Hey pones! Got a busy month coming, so let’s get everything out there.

Sisters of Willowbrook is still going, heading into the end of the third act. I think we’ve got about a month more of the story before we reach its conclusion. Then of course we have Diplomatic Solution continuing here, not quite to the middle of that story yet. Hard to say how much longer Don’t Bug Me has–probably a while, if the story has any hope of exploring all the awesome things I want it to.

Currently there’s two slower stories in the mix. Dreamlands continues, exploring one bat’s journey to try and free Nightmare Moon from her captivity and save Equestria’s oppressed bats.

Then we’ve got another story waiting for a cover, currently publishing under the name Words of Power while it’s on my Patreon. These stories usually get new titles when they transition to full publication, so that may happen.

Words of Power is the story of the unlucky fool who ends up transformed into a Kirin on earth, and has the unlucky task of trying to find a cure before it’s too late. This story also has some art coming at some highlight moments, just like Fine Print did. I’m excited for everyone to get to check those out!

Finally got the little minifics I wrote for the Friendship is Optimal anthology into a little story, https://www.fimfiction.net/story/522911/optimal-iterations-base-case . If anyone missed it and want some optimalverse short stories, I’ll probably be adding to it in the weeks and months ahead.

Frames of War didn’t get its cover finished in time to get launched onto Fimfic last month. Zutcha says it should get done about a week from now though, so I’m crossing my fingers. Hopefully we get to read that story soon. I’ll post a blog explaining it if and when it goes live.

Also, the minific for this month is another chapter of Digital Effigy. None of my patrons submitted anything this time, other than a request for more of that. So I wrote a little more of that.

Then of course there’s Spirits of Change, the awesome new pokemon story I’ve been writing. A story inspired by the His Dark Materials series, where every person on earth has a physically embodied soul in animal form–though in this story, they’re pokemon. The plot has nothing to do with his dark materials beyond that, which is why I wouldn’t call it a crossover. It’s purely pokemon from then on. Got more TF stuff than the series that inspired it, following a kid who settles as a Mew instead of an eevee. I’m so excited about it I’ve written half of it already, and I’m anticipating novel length.

Anyone can read it here: https://www.patreon.com/RealStarscribe/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=Spirits%20of%20Change , or wait until it’s finished and I post an ebook version. Would be awesome if genfic ever comes around, lol.

Got a busy month ahead–writing a novel for NANO that’s totally original and not even my fans will have seen before. Some urban fantasy with some science fiction and TF elements, but I’ll not say more about it while it’s still at such an early stage.

Thanks so much to everyone who sticks by my Patreon through these dark times. Without you, I’d have to stop writing pone altogether. Your support makes this possible.

That’s enough for the time being. Maybe I’ll post more about the production side of this book and all the prep for nano if I can complete it. If I fail I’ll retreat into a crack in the earth in shame and not emerge until camp.

Until then!

-Starscribe