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Sharing the Nation Chapter s 33 & 34 up on FimFiction.net

Merry Christmas everyone!

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

I'm... relatively happy with these chapters, though there's a lot of Star Glister rushing through things,...

SSCHS Chapter 9 is up on FimFiction

You can now go read Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack Chapter 9 on FimFiction.net. I decided to kick this one out ASAP since part of it has been sitting arou...

Sunset Shimmer, Crumple Horned Snorkack: Chapter 9 (Part 2)

And now there's more of it. You might notice that I never posted last month's Chapter to FimFiction; well, that's because I spent most of the month trying to figure out the pacing issues I was having with it.

So, did I manage to fix it?

Not at all!

So, Harry and Ginny's Summer Adventure is now a single, massive 25k-word chapter, with a scene or two shifted around for reasons....

Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack Chapter 9

Happy Halloween, everyone! I swear the direction this chapter went wasn't planned to fit the holiday—not intentionally, at least. Actually, it wasn't planned at all. I've been using the last few chapters to really get more into planning things out, which at the very least helps me be more productive (15,000 words!) but it utterly, completely failed, here. The summaries I wrote for everyth...

SSCHS Chapter 8 is up on FimFiction.net

SSCHS Chapter 8 has been posted on FimFiction.net. I didn't end up cutting any of it, but there were a larger than usual number of errors to fix.

Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack, Chapter 8

Whuff. 13,000 words. I feel like I should maybe cut that down since there is a lot of talking going on, but I dunno; that's kinda what my fics are, mostly. As it is, I addressed everything I think needed addressing, skipped almost anything that could be considered a recap, and got some fun scenes and some weird scenes in along the way. i might even be able to go straight to September 1ˢᵗ for...

Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack Chapter 7 is on FimFiction now

If you haven't read it yet, you can read SSCHS Chapter 7 over on FimFiction.net now

Sunset Shimmer, Crumple-Horned Snorkack Chapter 7

Whelp; I eventually had to pick a fate for Ginny, and now it's done! 11.5k words, too. I think, given how things have been going, that the next one will be SSCHS again. Not only is this one a bit of a cliffhanger, but I'm really feeling the need to go back over Sharing the Nation, fix a few things and re-re-re-plan what I'm doing with it. SSCHS, on the other hand, is coming out much more sm...

Sharing the Nation chapters 31 & 32

Now, this one was a headache—literally. It was fighting me all the way, and I haven't been feeling well for the past few days. As a result, it's only 9,630 words this time, and I'm not entirely happy with the scene of Corona and Ember talking, so that might change a little bit before I post it to fimfiction; we'll see. Wish I had something more upbeat to finish this off with, but I've got not...

Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack — Chapter 6 is now on FimFiction.net

I meant to post this last Friday. Oops?

Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack Chapter 6 & Deleted Scene

Ginny kind of saved this one, breaking up the usual Diagon Alley shopping trip with her exposition and shenaniganry. I'm not gonna lie; my original plan was not great for her, but I did say I wouldn't be engaging in bashing and the usual treatment she gets is perilously close, so I guess I can only do something different.

Anyway! In addition to the chapter, I've also included a 1,000 wo...

Sharing the Nation Chapters 29&30 are up on FimFiction.net

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 29 & 30

There we go! This one really fought me at first, but the two external POVs just fell out of my head fully formed, which will explain why Lightning Dust's section is maybe a bit longer than it really needed to be, not actually being all that important. As for the other one... well, the need for it will be obvious, I think, even if it has shades of being a recap. I'll be interested to see what...

Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack Chapter 5 is now on FimFiction

That's it. That's the post. Back to planning out Sharing the Nation, now...

Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorkack Chapter 5

And here we go, another SSCHS chapter. A couple of hundred words short, again, but since the last one didn't get charged for I guess I'm banked up on enough words now that I don't have to worry about that too much for the time being.

Anyway, we've now introduced the Grangers, who could probably sound a bit more British, but oh well. Rather than use the fanon names of Harry and Hermione'...

A few things (Last month's chapter, Ko-Fi, etc)

So, I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but last month's chapter wasn't charged for, which I'm told was my fault and something they were unable to fix. I've hemmed and hawed over what to do about this, and it's been a stressful month in general, so I've put off addressing it, partially because it seems kind of gauche. Ideally, I post fanfiction and take donations, and the two are as disconnected ...

Sunset Shimmer, Crumple-Horned Snorkack: Chapter 4

I feel like, if this story were ever properly edited after completion, that this chapter would probably be compressed quite a bit. Then again, for all the writing I've done, I've never been all that good at judging the proper amount of downtime between serious things, and I can't point at any one point and say it's superfluous. Maybe with the power of hindsight I'd be able to get each scene t...

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 27 & 28 are up on FimFiction.net

See? I didn't wait an entire month, this time!

...That should not be an achievement...

Sharing the Nation Chapters 27 & 28

Oh, hey, look: Things are actually happening.

This one started out as a slog I was kind of forcing out until things picked up, so let me know if anything looks too out of place.  As it is, it's a little short, but it is February, and it all balances out in the end.  In reality, though, that just seemed like the right place to stop it.

On a complet...

Sharing the Nation: Chapter 26 posted on FimFiction

As I said in my SSCHS post—I kind of... forgot to post this last month?  Oops?  Well, it's there now!

Sunset-Shimmer, Crumple-Horned Snorkack: Chapter 3 Prerelease

You know, one of the reasons I wanted to write a Harry Potter crossover was to practice writing things happening over a large period of time rather than account for every single moment of every day. 

That is not what happened.

Still, I did manage to get to a better place by the end of the chapter and things should be going back to a more easy-going status ...

Sharing the Nation: Chapters 25 & 26

Chapter 25, of course, posted on FimFiction on Christmas, and here's Chapter 26.  For some reason, it's not previewing on my end here on Patre...

Sharing the Nation: Chapter 25 and Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-Horned Snorcack now on FimFiction

The title says it all.  Only 5k of new material for now, but I'm still hoping to get another 5k out before the new year.

Also, SS:CHS is on FimFiction now, for all of those who hate reading things on Google Docs (Everyone does know that Google Docs has a bunch of exp...

More Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-horned Snorkack

What even is this?  Not much of a NaNoWriMo, is it?  I wasn't honestly planning on writing more of this, but it's what came out, and I have no idea what I'm even doing with it.  Things always seem less traumatizing when I write them in an outline, but hey, sure enough, this is what my brain came up with for "How do we build a Luna Lovegood out of spare parts?"  Her personali...

Chapters Posted & Tier Changes

Sharing the Nation Chapters 23 & 24 have finally been posted to Fimficti...

Sharing the Nation 23 & 24

Hey, look, suddenly an update for one of my actual stories!

Somehow that happened without me posting any previews...

I think what I'm going to do is just open up previews for everyone when they happen with the caveat that that won't be all the time.  I know most of my high-dollar patrons don't really care about the previews, but I'd still feel better about it.  Maybe I'll ...

Interest Poll (Sunset Shimmer: Crumple-horned Snorkack)

Should this be a thing, or should I just move on?

I wrote something, at least (.epub inside)

Short Description: No longer Princess Celestia's student, Sunset Shimmer finds herself as a pony in the Harry Potter world seeking her ascension.  She gets Luna Lovegood instead.

Author's Notes

Two and a half years of burnout.  Yeesh.  I've been trying to write absolutely anything to get back in the habit, hence this. &nb...

Equal Opportunity Ascension 21-23

Ugh.  This month.  I almost don't even feel guilty for the bare minimum wordcount.  Between helping renovate a house for my parents and getting sick, it's been completely miserable.  Every time I get into the daily writing habit, something comes along to break it.  Here's hoping the tail end of 2020 lightens up a bit…

Oh, as for the actual story—I may add anot...

Equal Opportunity Ascension: Chapters 17–20

Chapters 1–4 (GDocs) (HTML) ...