Slowing Down? · 12:31am May 7th, 2015
Well, I guess I'm not cut out to be a writer after all. 
But no, seriously I've been way more discouraged than this, and that hasn't stopped me. I'm definitely continuing to write. It's just odd how I've been slowing down like 3 times what I was doing last month. I say 3 times slower because it's getting on 3 weeks and I only just finished the roughest of bare drafts of the next chapter. I wonder if it's that program I've been trying to create; I've been trying to fix email, see. The ridiculous complexity of trying to get a computer to do simple tasks sure is good at killing brain cells. Other than that, I just don't feel all that different from a month ago. I do not feel more harried, nor less inspired. Something's slowing me down, and I don't know what it is, since it doesn't seem like anything is different. How was I able to write this much in 1 week? 
Anyway, just a head's up that I do have the next chapter "written" but only time to make a blog post about it, not spend another hours correcting it and getting rid of the stupid. Also I think two chapters (counting the next) until a good stopping point. Maybe it's just that the chapter before the last one is hardest, since you have to keep it going, but it would take way too long if you started getting into the conclusion, so you have to hold back a little.
Well, you're still in motion, even if it's slow. Good luck with that programming.
I would say it's the programming slowing you down. in fact i'm more surprised your getting anything done while programming. i'm rooting for you all the way!
What is your theory about Prevention?
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what's Prevention?
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Oh, that. In the negaverse or whatever you call it, we already know Broken Shield was driven insane by evil Celestia and evil Pinkie and evil whoever killed Cadance. So it makes sense his memory of the final events of evil Twilight would be full of holes, since I guess he'd have a reason to forget that I guess, though it makes less sense that he could actually defeat her. Yet there's another less shaky explanation for the holes.
See, evil Twilight actually is a benevolent and peaceful pony, and only through contrived circumstances is she forced to head an evil empire. She was sheltered from the death and the horror, and she actually did, through her purity and love, resurrect Spike, something Broken would never accept because of his prejudice. When Broken broke out, attacked her and killed Spike, she used a tiny fraction of her limitless power to end Broken's life. She was so crushed by what she had done in her grief, that she blocked off the memories, unable to deal with having killed, and started believing she had died instead. So she stripped the skin off of Broken's dead body and wore it like a suit, deluding herself into thinking she is Broken, then fled through the time portal while all her friends just sort of fidgeted around awkwardly at her new persona.
That explains how a starving, tortured and exhausted Broken "defeated" the powerful Twilight Sparkle in direct combat without the element of surprise. It also explains why he looks so sallow when he relaxes his enchantments. It's just everypony in the good universe is either too clueless to notice or in denial that Broken Shield has all this time been Twilight Sparkle wearing a rumpled and badly fitting Shining Armor suit, talking in a poor imitation of a stallion's voice.
Still waiting for this to be the big reveal.
Your writing slowed down for one week and you consider this a problem? Well, the lines between dedication and protracted sabotage can be a bit blurry sometimes. Especially if it's a hobby-project. If it's going slow, take a break, do other things, when you feel that you want to go back to writing, you know you're in the right frame of mind to do so.
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You bet I do! It's because I know myself enough that a week is enough warning. Of course it'd be fine if it was just a week, but that last chapter took a full month! I've been
workingon the next chapter for 2 weeks now, and I'm less than halfway through. I suppose you could call it taking a break and I have been doing other things, but... well, if every author waited to write until they felt like writing, all our bookstores would be empty shelves. So no, I am definitely going to continue forcing myself to write. I just wish it wasn't so painful and slow now, or at least that I could understand why it was that way, even if there was nothing I could do about it.3117817
I might know; even people who like their jobs go on vacation. And I'm guessing that writing fanfics isn't even your job, if you know what I'm sayin'