Imagine a day where you open Youtube videos for hours on end. You wait for the ad to load, then--bear with me now--you watch the ad. The Skip Ad button shows up, or it doesn't. It doesn't matter; you aren't going to click it. You watch the ad to completion.

With the ad concluded, the video begins to load. You slam Ctrl-W rapidly and close the tab before it can play. Who cares what happens in it? You were there for the ad.

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I've been a contributor with Twilight's Library for a couple days now. In case you didn't know, they're basically a miniature Equestria Daily: you submit your fics (when the queue is open!) and the staff reviews them.

So yeah. Just putting that out here in my blog until I find something else to post.

Nothing else to say, really, other than that it's way too late.

Well, let's see how miserably I've failed:

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I have done nothing productive all month.

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It's happening.

Why didn't you stop it? You could have stopped it.

I'm not talking about government shutdown. No, I'm talking about this challenge. I could have backed out. But I didn't.

So--it's happening.

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I said I wouldn't publish until next month.

I lied.

Damn, the mods are fast these days. They approved while I was writing this blog.

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So basically I've joined up with this group, whose goal is to produce one story a day for the entire month of October. (Though we can start writing and publishing right now, I'll only start publishing when October actually comes.)

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Buffer has 217 lines, 3119 words, and 17768 characters.

I've also uploaded the metadata, but not the actual chapter (it isn't finished yet.)

I'll be done...soon-ish. I don't want to give hard figures because that sort of thing doesn't work, and I want to give this story the royal treatment, with multiple drafts and prereaders and everything.

But here, have the short description:

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I posted a long comment on this site blog post. I've reposted it here for more convenient access, if I ever need it again.

I support modifying Fimfiction to not display cover art on general browse pages. Here's why:

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May as well put up another blog post. I'm getting tired of the old one.

Once I figure out how this "writing coherent stories" thing works, I might put out a one-shot or two. Not tonight; my allergies are being skljtghearilrhSufilasdh tonight.

Have some stoner doom instead:

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...ugh, I'm going to take generic Benadryl now.