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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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576 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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593 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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599 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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602 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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Dec

12th

2012

Finally Broke the Writer's Block · 10:41pm Dec 12th, 2012

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 The Griffin's Apprentice.

Sometimes, the tiniest of details can spiral out to form their own story. In this case there are two details:

That's Lyra in Cloudsdale at the Best Young Flyer Competition. Obviously, she is not a pegasus, so the logical explanation is that she knows the same Cloud Walking spell that Twilight does. What reason would she have to know such a spell?

The second detail is that she plays the lyre. Taking magic out of the equation, ponies can't play the lyre with their hooves. That leads me to believe that the lyre isn't an invention of ponies in that universe, but rather something that could play it naturally, like griffins. Combined with the Cloud Walking detail, and I couldn't help but imagine that Lyra spent a lot of time with them when she was young, and so this story was born. Hopefully you all like where it all goes.

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