[Special thanks to Fresh Blood, AwesomeSauce57, and the reviewers down at Ponychan. Check those guys out. They've done much for me, and deserve some more attention.]
Well, my own 'Morning Dusk' finally convinced me to write this. It may have helped that I am drinking, but either way, it made it's way to a word processor. Now before I get rambling, I'll just say that I wrote this for myself more than anything I've done before I think. And damn I feel better. All right, onward then.
Schizophrenia. That's what that was, but more to an...extreme, we'll say. That was very much extreme, and I'm well aware of it. I think the only way for me to amp it up any more would be to make her violent. For those of you who don't know, violent schizophrenia is an extreme.
Now I assume you people want an explanation for Twilight's crackdown? Well, the awful excuse that used to be here was deleted because I've gone back and actually done something about it. In fairness though, what you read was correct. It's causes and symptoms. Also, for those who don't know, voices affected people hear don't always tell them to go murder their lover/friend/second cousin twice removed. Sometimes it's actually a rather productive thing, like it was at the beginning of Twilight's diary.
Onto the ending. I had planned for there to be a huge argument. Words were going to fly, then at the end, Pinkie would pull her little caress. But then I got drunk. Oops.
And besides, ending's (especially this one for some reason) aren't my forte. I try, don't get me wrong. But they're pretty tricky to pull off.
Speaking of being tricky, Pinkie's personality is a pain to try to pull off correctly for me. Now so more than ever, because of how she was in the fic. It makes me a bit worried, actually, because she's one of the best ponies, and I felt like I haven't done her justice.
Also with this fic, I jumped the psychological-journal bandwagon. Why? Eh, I felt like it. It seemed like a good idea, so I hope it all worked.
All right, because I'm still drunk, I think it's a fine time to say that I appreciate the time you took to read this, and thank you. I hope this was at least fair quality-wise.
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[Sober Edit] I'm sober now. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing or not, but it is what it is.
After a reread, I found that I didn't quite like how I portrayed any of the characters with the exception of Rarity, Pinkie, and Twilight. Also I see that a few of the sentences are a tad bit jumbled. Maybe I'll fix them later. And, because now I'm feeling good about this story for some reason, I think a rewrite may be in order to fix these problems. If not, then certainly some screwing around with the internals of the story.
If you think this wasn't that great of a story (I'm not drunk and brooding now, so I'll not be ragging on my story, because I rather liked it) then I urge you to tell me why. Input can only help, you know.
[Edited Edit] I've gone back and done a tiny bit of tinkering with it. Like I said, I really like what I've written here, so I'm doing my best to fix it up.