And so another pony con has come and gone for me. The post con depression is hitting me as I type this. It was only a couple hours after closing ceremonies when I started writing down these recollections, though by the time I am finished I’m sure much more time will have passed since the end of the con. I enjoyed myself overall, but I can’t help but feel like there are things that I wish I would have done differently. I wanted to go so badly after WCPC 22’s closing ceremonies, but in the

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Ponyville Ciderfest 2018 Reflections

Meant to post this months ago, but never got around to it until today.

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After my daily coffee run, I went to the “Make Your Mark Chapter 2 Screening.” I already saw all of Make Your Mark Chapter 2, but it was still fun to see it with an audience. They only played the first two episodes and then filled up the rest of the time with Tell Your Tale. I personally think the later episodes of Make Your Mark Chapter 2 are better than the early ones, so if you only saw the first two episodes and were disappointed by what you saw, I recommend sticking with the show

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Another day, another Starbuck’s run, but also the final day of the con. My first panel of the final day was “Pony Life is Magic.” I had been avoiding Pony Life up to this point because I hated the art style and thought it was going to be another Teen Titans Go situation. It was fun watching Pony Life with an audience and hearing the panelists and fellow audience members laughing at and making fun of the show. Not sure if I would enjoy Pony Life if watching it by myself, but maybe I will give

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Okay now that 32 is actually out, I think from now on I'm going to cut down on the blog spam and instead of updating periodically with an entirely new post I will make one blog post about what I am working on that will be periodically updated with the progress of said thing. So when I start in on Part 33 of Reunion this weekend I'll be making a post for it, and then it will be periodically updated with the latest word count and any relevant non-spoiler notes on overall progress or lack thereof.

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Shh it's not Wednesday shut up what are you even talking about.

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It's time to pour one out for Ponyville Ciderfest 2017, which has now sadly ridden off into the sunset. But what a time we had! I'll recap some of the high points, which I do more for posterity (and my own poor memory) than for bragging. Though this now makes two consecutive Ciderfests that I've attended and enjoyed, so consider taking this as a sign that there are good times to be had if you can make it out there!

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So, my dad is dealing with something...we thought it was cancer but now it might not be, but whatever it is it's so bad that he goes for two weeks without being able to eat 200 calories a day, and now he's in the hospital for the second time in as many months. Now he's coming home tomorrow, and apparently a nurse is coming in to check on him. Suddenly all the cleaning up my mom has specifically said she would do and that I didn't need to worry about has to be done inside of 24 hours so I may

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Have you ever wanted to own Silent Ponyville as a physical book? I know I have!

Well, now it's possible! Someone was kind enough to format the project together into an easy, print-on-demand service!

http://www.lulu.com/shop/samrose/the-silent-ponyville-collection/hardcover/product-23378385.html

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Evening, folks! I'll be heading off to Milwaukee for Ponyville Ciderfest here in the wee hours.

Meanwhile, I've been starting to re-post Looking For Trouble, which has been split into chapters and put through a solid tune-up. Give it a look if you're game for something a little bit different in your pony fanfiction!

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I've gotten some work done on Reunion this weekend, finally. It's only up to 4,038 words but still a good bit left to write. Overall though I would expect chapters to be a bit shorter going forward. There have been times where I've basically forced myself to make a chapter longer after taking so long with it previously because it felt like my readers should get more reading time for the wait, but from now on I'm going to get a chapter to where I want to be in the story at the end of it, finish

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Didn't get as much done this weekend as I would have preferred. I'm kind of at that point where things are taking a little while longer to write because I'm having to improvise specifics while having a very general idea of what's going to happen, and those improvised specifics often fail to meet muster in my head so I get stuck trying to imagine something better, and until I do the writing kinda stops. Still on course to have it done by this month though, so no worries there.

So as it turns out, yesterday was just the warmup. Today was the legit good time.

I also got to bite Shining Armor's head off today. Like maybe 4 or 5 times. Ripped it clean off.

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Technically, my plans to attend the Ponyville Ciderfest con in October have been locked-in for a couple months now. But yesterday I got confirmation that my application to do my Getting Started Writing Pony Fanfic panel again has been approved--so now it's really a go!

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Apologies for the short format, but the hotel wifi is bad and all I've got is my phone and its limited data plan. Special thanks goes out to the guy (whose name I hope to get tomorrow) who let me use his hotspot so I could finish tweaking my panel slides for tomorrow/later today.

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What even IS afternoon? I don't think it exists. Nope.

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National Novel Writing Month is over! My final total, my fimfic's count, is 32,227 words. Since my original goal was only 30k, I'm pretty pleased with myself for having such a productive month! I finished two chapters of Synchrony and three Sunset in Ponyville, just like planned, and got in about a page worth on another chapter of Synchrony.

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