The Month-Long Fic

So many of you may have seen the "National Pony Writing Month" started up on Equestria Daily. Yours truly will be partaking in the event. When I've sat down and focused on a single piece, I can get through an easy 3,000 to 4,000 words a day, but I've never sustained this pace for more than about a week. It'll be interesting to see if I can manage it for longer than that. I have an idea for a storyline that should last me the month, but I don't have a lot of details down. I'm hoping that once I put aside all other distractions, and with the break I've taken, it'll all come together just like "Spark" and "Kindness's Reward" did. It should have adventure, daring-do, world-building, and of course, shipping. Lots and lots of shipping. Also Scootaloo! P.S. Only one person knows anything about this story, and he doesn't know he knows - it's not one of my editors either.

Unfortunately, this means that pieces I was working on are on hold. I'm not going to apologize or anything, you guys all understand :P . Besides, I've already given you all both stories and about a dozen summaries, so no whining xD . And at the end of it, I should hopefully have a novel sized piece to show. That's the other thing - I'll need to write 50,000 words, which is a good deal larger than Spark's 30,000-odd word count. I may burn out around that mark, who knows. I think it's more likely I'll overshoot it, but we all know what an ego I have xP.

Because the point of this fic is to see what *you* can come up with in a month, I won't be seeking the help of any editors, even though a nice couple of bronies have just offered :) . However once the competition is over I'll likely take my piece down for a little bit for editing and then re-post the final draft. Of course this just had to happen in September, didn't it? I'm heading back to school in under a week now. Guess school will just have to suffer.... for the sake of ponies!