Hey there, everyone! I have a question for those of you who have read Chapter 13 that has less to do with critique and more to do with how long that sucker was. I'd love to get some brief feedback from a few of you so I can decide how to proceed. If any of you have a second to answer a couple questions, I would really appreciate it!

1. Was Chapter 13 too long? Not long enough? Just the right?
2. Would you prefer to see longer chapters (20,000+ words) in the future? If not, why?

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Bit of a minor update, and an acknowledgment that Chapter 14 is in progress - now in GDocs! After losing a fair chunk of Chapter 13 to a freeware glitch, I figured its a good a time as any to switch.

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Apologies for the sudden lack of updates! A few weeks ago I came down with a bad case of one-of-my-horses-broke-my-ribs and got compounded by the fact that sitting in this chair felt like someone was sticking a hot poker into my chest. I lost a lot of momentum and it took some time for me to get back into the right head space. Last week I took some time to make a few things for Imgur, one of which was a GIF that I'm exceedingly proud of and which did *way* better than I thought it would. If

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Hey there, folks! Sorry about how long it took this chapter to come out! I'm finally leaving the intricately-planned-and-mulled territory of the story and delving into the things-I-need-to-flesh-out-in-more-detail realm, which is forcing me to slow down a little and line up all the little arcs I have written down. Thank you all for the positive and critical feedback for the last few chapters! It lets me know y'all are still on board with this adventure. :)

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Hey hey, folks! Just a quick update: new chapters are progressing, however I'm trying to build up a small backlog so that uploads aren't as sporadic. Chapter 9 is currently finished and Chapter 10 should be done today. I don't know what the normal expectation is on FIMFiction for upload schedules, and I can't promise each chapter will be published on "X" day every week like clockwork, but I'd like to at least stay one chapter ahead for comfort's sake.

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The more I look at that prologue, the less I like it. For those of you who have read it and gotten into the meat of the story, keep an eye out for an update. I don't know if FIMFiction puts out a notice to let folks know so I'll make a blog entry to point it out when it goes live.

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To prevent some confusion, I swapped my username from BroodmareOfImgur to my original ElbowDeepInAHorse. Most the folks who are following this story are from Imgur where I'm a little better known.

Hey there, folks!

I'm a bit behind on Chapter Six but it's coming along a bit more smoothly now after a necessary rewrite. I'm hoping to have it up in the next few days. I'm going to begin giving myself a little more flex time to write these up so I'm not staring down the barrel of such a tight personal deadline. Ultimately I still need to cook dinners, keep the house from turning into a sty and I think my neighbors appreciate it when I mow the lawn. Just a heads up!

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Hey there, folks!

I've made some adjustments with my free time to better accommodate what can be loosely defined as a writing schedule. This isn't a hard date but I feel moderately confident that I can keep to a 1-chapter-per-week pace at this point. We'll see how that holds up as time goes on, but I think it's a reasonable time-frame for right now. I'll try to make a note if it seems like that needs to change!

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Hello there! I'm not all that sure how these blog posts are traditionally supposed to work, but I'd hazard a guess that the first one should be some sort of introduction.

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