Someone wrote, "Fiction teaches us that other people are real."

Earlier this year, I was visiting my mother, and while we were sitting and talking, I apologized for being late, and she said, "Oh, that's no trouble."

But I was looking her in the eyes when I said it, and her eyes said that it was, in fact, trouble.  I know my mother well enough that I can read a lot in her eyes.  What I can't read, I can mostly fill in from the context; I know what matters to her and how she thinks.

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Like I said in my Bronycon talk, the biggest single thing I've learned from fan-fiction is probably how subtle not to be. Before, when the only feedback I got from my stories was in writers' groups, I thought I was pretty good at being subtle, yet still getting my point across. The other writers understood what I'd written most of the time.

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A recent post:

Is it too late for me to apologize for that story?

I just published the new final chapter of "Fluttershy's Night Out." It owes something to a karate instructor I had many years ago named Mike Stahly.

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I wrote an unexpected new chapter for Fluttershy's Night Out yesterday & today, and will probably release it pretty soon. As a result, the story no longer has the Sad tag.

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