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  • 507 weeks
    Sometimes a Year Just Vanishes

    I'm sure there are people who will see this that don't even remember following me or favoriting my story anymore. I guess that's what happens when you disappear for upwards of a year. I can't attribute this to writer's block. Not really. What I can attribute it to is depression. I'm not going to make any excuses. I'm just going to say that I've actually managed to write and publish a chapter for

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  • 572 weeks
    An Apology

    I used to be able to update whatever story I was working on once every two weeks or so, but that hasn't been the case for a while now. I just want to apologize to those following The Griffin's Apprentice for how slow things have been going. Things are a bit rough in my life at the moment, and it's hard to get the motivation to push on in a story. I am by no means abandoning it, and I try to work

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  • 589 weeks
    Finally Broke the Writer's Block

    Have you ever had an idea for a story, but for some reason you just can't get the opening paragraphs to feel right? That's what happened to me recently. I've spent the past month and a half re-writing the same bit over and over again. Nothing feels better than finally getting over that little hump and having the story just pour out, though. With that, I'm proud to present the first chapter of

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  • 595 weeks
    Contests, discouragement, and the dangers of writing late at night.

    So, I recently learned a rather important lesson on writing: Contests are not for me. I attempted to write a story for the EQD Nightmare Night contest recently, and I did not like how it turned out at all. Of course, I ended up finishing it at about 2:00 AM the night before the deadline, and I was really sleepy, so I published it regardless. Immediately, regretting that, I kinda shut down for a

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  • 598 weeks
    So ends the first story...

    Well, here we are. Six months ago to the day, I published the first chapter of Make a Wish. It was my first real fanfiction undertaking, aside from a failure from before I had familiarized myself with what was horribly cliche in the fandom (it's still sitting around here somewhere if you want to look at it and laugh. Just don't expect me to ever touch it again). The response I received

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May
6th
2012

Blogging? About Fanfiction? This rabbit hole goes deeper than I thought... · 6:17am May 6th, 2012

Well, I just thought I'd throw out a blog post here for two reasons. First, setting up dialog with my readers is something really important to me. Second, I just noticed that I have 27 people following me, so there will actually be people to read this.

I just released the third part of Make a Wish, but I'm going to wait until I finish part four before submitting it to EQD for an update. It falls a bit short of their recommended 3k word minimum for updates, and I'm already part way done with Part Four anyway. I actually had to cut a lot off of the end of Part Three for pacing reasons. I've been trying to increase the length of my chapters, but all that resulted in was the chapter continuing on long after the obvious break point. Better to keep things short and coherent than longer and rambling. I'm still learning, here. This is only my second fic ever after all, and I'm a bit blindsided by its success. You can read what I had of the first one, if you really want. It's still here on the site. I just didn't realize when I wrote it that I was writing myself into one of the most overused fanfic cliches ever, and once I realized that, I stopped writing it and came up with Make a Wish. It mostly stand as a testament as to the jump in my competence as a writer (I won't say skill, as I still can't shake the feeling that I might still be bad at this, but just really lucky).

In any case, feel free to drop me a line either in the comments here or in a PM if you have any questions about me or my stories. I'll almost always respond to those, but don't expect any sort of consistent blog posts. I'm not entirely sure how ofter I'll be making these.


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