Hooray! There's nothing like that wonderful feeling of getting a new story out. Although the latest one isn't a story as such, but a bundle of poetry. Poetry as written by Fluttershy. This has been a fun little project. I had never done much with poetry either reading or writing, so it's been nice to stretch those muscles. And it does feel like mental stretching, trying to find words that not only convey the meaning I wants but also fit into a rhyme and line.

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Hello, I noticed it has been a few months since my last blog post so this is mostly just to say I’m still around. There was a time on this site when a gap of only a couple of months wouldn’t be anything to bat an eye at, when you could assume safely that a person was coming back. But in this era, you can’t quite take that for granted. Alas.

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I see pumpkin spice get made fun of plenty. About five seconds on google got me a whole bunch of memes like this

But you know what? Pumpkin spice is good actually. I like it.

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I'm very excited to be at Everfree Northwest this weekend. The internet is great and all but doing pony stuff in real life is special fun. Come say hi!

There's a park near me that I sometimes go to, with a canal running right through the middle of it. Recently I was wandering through a part of it I don't go to much, far off in a little corner. There the canal turns and that opens up a lovely vista where you can see straight down it and all the land around it.

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Haven't written anything the last few weeks because of wrist pain. Don't take your hands for granted, folks.

At least I've done plenty of reading.

Is it Friday again already? That week went fast; I feel like I hardly had time to read anything. Well, pony stories are something you find the time for nonetheless. Here are the stories I managed to fit into the gaps.

Sanctuary

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I finally got a new story out, hooray! The first draft of this was written last summer in the space of two hours as an entry for Everfree Northwest's Iron Author contest. It's hard to write a good story under severe time constraints like that, but of course you don't have to do things all in one go. The limited time is useful for breaking through writer's block and getting into the mindset of just putting something down. Ideas can be refined, worked with. The blank page is full of possibility,

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Is anyone actually reading these? I can see the views counter, but you just don't get the same kind of feedback with a blog post that you do with a story. There's no likes or notifications of people adding it to their bookshelves. Only comments.

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You know, that "State of the author" never did sit right with me. It sounds so grandiose. I think "Weeknotes" is a better fit in terms of formality. The nice thing about having your own blog is that you can ramble on about whatever shit you want. I can sit here hammering away at the keyboard and make it your problem too. I've been enjoying writing these posts, it's a nice way to while away an evening. This time around, I'm going to hop right into my reading list.

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