Hey, everypony! Haven't done one of these in a while. But figured I might as well post something because I've been feeling quite inspired lately and I might as well get some of this stuff down on paper while I'm still feeling the effects of that creative spark.

First and foremost...

Anypony remember that Lyra fanfic I started writing on Fimfiction a while back? I haven't forgotten about it. Life, college, and the like got in the way. And I ran into some writers block not because of a lack of ideas, but due to having so many ideas that it was hard to focus on just one and stick with it. I've tried to narrow things down a bit, and I'm happy to say that I've narrowed things down to two specific stories that I will focus on.

Yay!

One, of course, is the Lyra fic, In My Own Company. The other is a story called Friendship is Stellar that originally grew out of an attempt to plan a pony fic for NaNoWriMo (which I ended up not participating in due to exams and the like). Basically, the premise is that Starlight Glimmer suffered a horrible accident and was trapped in a block of ice for 30 years. Yes, it's implausible in real life. But this is a block of ice in an enchanted cave with the same kind of crystals as those that make up the Crystal Heart. So, the magic within the cave kept her alive and prevented her from visibly aging. Starlight wakes up to find an Equestria that has fallen into a (seemingly) endless winter, kind of like the White Witch's endless winter in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Mane Six are nowhere to be found. A new villain has gained enough power to banish the princesses away. Basically, Equestria is a desolate frozen wasteland ruled over by said villain.

Now, I'm especially ecstatic about FiS, because one of the two protagonists is my first truly fleshed-out OC.

So, drumroll please...

Put your hooves together for...

Silica Pumice!

The Pony Creator browser program is actually pretty neat. Decided to give it a try because I'm a terrible artist and I actually wanted the character to look like a typical Flash pony. Note: the cutie mark is kind of a placeholder. At some point, I'll give her a better-looking pickaxe rather than cheap free clipart, but this will do for now. And the rest of her physical appearance may change a bit, so this is kind of a rough draft.

So, in the context of the story, Silica Pumice is the daughter of Limestone Pie. Thus, she is Pinkie Pie's niece. She shares some Pie Family traits, like the typical grayscale look and Limestone's eyes. She has been a miner her entire life, who grew up in the north of Equestria near the Crystal Empire. She was brought up as a miner rather than a rock farmer because the old Pie rock farm was destroyed years ago.

One day, Silica is out mining in the icy caves near the Crystal Empire, when she comes across the frozen body of Starlight Glimmer and decides to try and revive the unicorn. This is the story of Starlight learning about the catastrophe that erupted in Equestria years ago, and attempting to fix the mess using what she learned from Twilight and the Mane Six all those years ago. Silica is the eager sidekick along for the ride, who is quite starstruck when she realizes that Starlight was once good friends with her aunt Pinkie.

So... yeah! That's it! Can't wait to get back to writing again. And just in case I ever do get into pony roleplaying, I'll be putting Silica into the MLP Forums character database with extra details I have written down about her personality and whatnot. Prologue to FiS will be up on Fimfiction soon, will post a link once it's up. Might post in the "Written Fan Works" section of the forums, too.

Have a great day/night/afternoon/evening/morning/unspecified time!