That is the question.

I've written many pony stories—I've probably written more pony stories than non-pony stories—but I've felt little compulsion to complete any of them, except for one.

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Right now, school, work, and and other hobbies are more important than pony stories. Honestly, writing the stories I make here is on the bottom of my list of priorities, and now my work in other stuff is piling up.

It will probably be a long time until I make another update to any of my stories, but if anyone wants to take over any of those stories, feel free to message me.

From now on, I'll be working mostly as an editor and I'll write the occasional one-shot.

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I planned on having regular updates on Wednesdays, but with school, work, and invention, that's not gonna happen. Instead, I'll be updating on Mondays and finishing things during the weekend.

This coming Monday, I'll be doing a rewrite of the first chapter using the feedback I received. Also, hopefully there should be a huge improvement in my writing when it's not done at 3 AM.

I was expecting this to take around ten minutes, but it took a full hour!

I could have added a shadow and used the colorize tool on all the right parts in gimp and had something even more popcorn like, but at that point I already ate the popcorn.

At work I did some research on swarms, and a theoretical technology not yet used for them is called Backpressure Routing.

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Just a quickie,

I changed 'Writing Lessons' to 'the Writing Games' because it will probably get more readers that way, and it makes it less awkward to thank readers for favoriting. (By the way, I'm only going to do that if I see responses to people thanking you for favoriting their fics in your comment section.)

--Arty out.

Honestly, I don't know if I would be really good with kids, or really, really bad. I guess it depends on your point of view.

"Hey Arty."

"Hey Jimmy. Back for more calculus?"

"No, I already know enough calculus. Don't you know anything else?"

*laughs* "Physics?"

*grimaces* "Eugh--"

"Eugh? Physics is great!"

"No it's not, it's all easy, but you... you Rube Goldberg it. And then I have to remember everything."

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Hello all,

Yesterday I saw a wonderful talk by Sting. In it, he talks about a previous inability to make music similar to writer's block, until he looked at his roots and found what sang to him. For him it was surprisingly the people in the shipyards that he left to live his dream.

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Humans:

Humans recently changed from being climbing creatures, to being bipedal creatures. Despite that, we've managed to become one of the top endurance runners in the animal kingdom.

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Hello all,

I have another story idea, and hopefully this time the premise is designed well enough that I don't get stuck.

So here's the description:

"There used to be a time when you could look up in the sky, and you would be incredibly lucky if you saw a single meteor. And nopony would ever believe you if you said you saw a part of a spacecraft fall from the sky. Now they're everywhere, and the night sky is lit with trails of fire.

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