I honestly didn't expect to write this blogpost.

No, seriously. I tried to get on a day ago only to be rebuffed by my lack of accurate password knowledge. Given that I'd also changed the email to gibberish, I thought it was pretty damn certain I wouldn't be able to get back on here. Many tears were cried as I shrugged and went back to bickering at people about their sloppily metered poetry.

And then I tried capitalising a letter and everything went fine.

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I’ve been reading through a lot of articles/advice on writing recently, and one recurring piece has stood out to me: that writers have a duty to finish their stories once started.

It’s not quite phrased like that, but the message remains in refrained passages: There are times when you will not enjoy writing, but you should do it anyway; it is a good thing to develop a regular schedule whereby X amount of words are completed per day; quality is important, but wordcount is more so.

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Yes, I recommend stories occasionally, shut up.

I plucked THIS IS A STORY from the front page a week ago because it looked interesting. No, seriously. I'd exhausted /mlp/'s pastebin archives and had returned to occasionally lurking the fimfiction front page in the hopes of something interesting to read; this was one of the few that got me to both click on it and then keep reading after the first paragraph.

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Fallout Equestria was released a few minutes later -- and is, in fact, the feed update. And then after that, Harpflank & Sweets updated. It has been a good day.

I shall endeavour to get infinite notifications more often.

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All is forgiven, Hasbro.

Well played.

Man, I am never going to get used to how perfectly silly that pun is. It’s probably going to end up overwriting the original in my head in the exact same way Canterlot has.

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Hi. I... I need some advice. And to just talk it out of me too, I guess.

[url=http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/173925/write-review-of-gen
tleman-for-mares]I’ve just killed a story. A story with over a thousand likes. A story that a lot of people derived pleasure from reading. And I’m not entirely sure if I can justify myself doing it.

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I honestly think that one came out rather well. As in, I personally think this is close to my best one yet.

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