I think the negative reinforcement is working. Even though I’ve cheated a bit by giving myself Wednesdays off, and I’ve also given myself a pass on this weekend, I’ve been exceeding the 200-word minimum daily.

Shetlander is getting bogged down in a hoofball game, which is probably more detailed than anypony needs. However I’m assuming that future readers won’t know much about rugby league in general (which hoofball is based on) and Sevens matches in particular. This chapter in fact is getting longer than I like, so I might make it a chappy of two halves.

In fact, there isn’t enough local colour yet. Maybe what I need is to just step to the side and write some other scenes elsewhere just for fun.

Friendship is Escape Velocity is stalled. I really need to write the Mane Six’s reaction to saving Primm, and I’m unsure how to go about it.

Magic, As Opposed to Magic got a new chapter up. It didn’t go where I intended, but it should work. The thing is, I know Ra'jirra is becoming very leery of Earth wizards, but I need to maintain some of the Chekovs on the mantelpiece.

Speaking of Ra'jirra, I’ve posted part of a chapter on the chorrol.com forums. He’s going to save Big Town.

Goodnight creative writers anywhere.

I likes me some fanfics, so I think it’s time to spread the love. Well, either that or the genital warts. Depends on where you stand. (Link-heavy post ahoy!)

Anyway, I’m in the middle of a few more than I really should be, over at fanfiction.net, as The Rev. Cardboard Box. Recently I uploaded a set of unfinished and unpursued ideas as The Box of Drabbles, which I may return to depending on where I get to with, among other things, Magic, as Opposed to Magic.

MaOtM is an Oblivion/Harry Potter crossover, featuring a more bolshie Harry, an older and more irritable Archmage Ra’jirra, and is likely to end with canon Book 1 before we take off into several sequels. For one, I’ve found other forces moving into play, not only from the magicals’ past (this will be called Heirs of the Founders), but from without as well. Personally, I am of the impression that even with Rowling’s best efforts her magical world couldn’t stay concealed for much longer. In my split, it won’t.

Actually, I rather like stories where the backwards magicals get schooled by their muggle contemporaries. sprinter1988‘s Damn Wizards is technically a sequel to an earlier story, but Harry is thirty years older, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and not pleased that he still has to wipe the collective arse of British wizardry. The six chapters up so far feel like quite the foreshadowing.

Bobmin356 hooked me with his first HP/Pern crossover The Queen Who Fell to Earth – turns out the dragons are from a certain future Anne McCaffrey knew quite well – and is proceeding to explore in the sequel On the Wings of Dragons, where the issues of culture shock are already beginning to rear their heads.

The hilarious author’s notes and disclaimers that head every chapter have nothing to do with my liking his stories at all.

Darth Marrs‘ Star Wars/HP crossover Broken Chains is proving a ripping read: the premise is that Harry fell through the veil and was turned into Darth Shaddix from the game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed before being returned. God help us all.

Also from this author are The Boy Who Fell, in which the fate of the wizarding world lies in the hands of Luke Skywalker’s son, and to a lesser extent The Lord of Light, sequel to The Forever Mage, in which poor old Harry turns out to be immortal and… well you’ll have to read them yourselves, as they incorporate the Star Trek mythos as well.

Another fandom I’m finding interesting is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, probably because Lauren Faust rebooted the concept well out of the traditional Saturday morning cartoon framework. So I’m reading Harry Leferts‘ The Wizard and the Lonely Princess, in which Harry befriends Princess Luna as well as Nightmare Moon (I’m unsure about the latter). Harry however writes in a slightly awkward present tense, which may be off-putting to some.

C. Theron Vulpin has written an inspired crossover with Myst (the original game) called Aitran, in which Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash puzzle their way through the game to release Star Swirl the Bearded on their way out.

Finally, for this post anyway, consider some more Harry Potter… this time crossed over with The Addams Family. kyaru-chan‘s Harveste series is side-splitting in both meanings of the term. That is, if they decide to split that and not something (or several somethings) else.