I won't say that it's my last great work. But for the next season, the only thing I'll be working on is Sabbatical, a story born of mixed emotions and a yearning for a place I can never return to. More information below the break.

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The day before, I had set my laptop to shut down when I was at the girlfriend's place. Without really checking to see if it had been done properly, I packed it up to leave for an appointment I had.

Fast forward to six hours later, when I set up my laptop again - it wouldn't whiz on like it used to. Plug in power -> On button -> Power, on button lights up -> nothing.

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Like it asks on the tin: How much would you be willing to write fiction for, in terms of $/100 words? Would it be different if it were a much longer project of novella length, like 10k, 15k, 20k, or even full-sized novels like 50k+?

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Opinion piece inbound. Spoilers go unspoilered, but are hidden after the break. tl;dr Friendship Games was best EqG, and Sunset is new waifu.

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to see its children down below
the winter season's blessed kiss
sings dreams of joy, of peace, of bliss

The people sit in church and square
With scarves, young men and ladies fair
To count the numbers down again
as Christmas creeps

Few are the greater gifts tonight
than warmth of family though it sound trite
To be with those who care and love
as spirit weary sleeps

But for us whose blood is far away
at least emojis can portray
with quiet longing, season's greetings

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Actually, I'm not sure if it is NSFW, but I am as sure as Miami that none of you follow me to be weirded out or to have your sensibilities offended, so I am making it very clear that if you proceed it's all on you.

Maybe that only made you more curious, but that disclaimer is still in effect, dammit.

Read below the page break for my brief experience on shilling words for coin, penis enlargement, and bacon jam.

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I finally finished the ending of Scald about ten days behind schedule. What a surprise that a story written purely on writer's block could not, in fact, be written quickly. As far as the "finish before publish" experiment is concerned, this was a spectacular crash and burn, but at least I could get some personal closure out of it.

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I like checking out the forums of the groups I'm part of - well, some of them. Like Reddit, Facebook, and even my hotmail account, my feed consists of a certain proportion of items relevant to me and the remainder being fluff. I, as with pretty much every other member of this generation, have self-taught the skill of quick filtering - by recognizing key details, you mark a pattern of traits borne by things you find interesting, and anything that doesn't bear such is ignored. It can be texts. It

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Here's the link to SS&E's second latest story something he did about a year ago it seems. I just picked it up, and wrote a considerable review for it. It's amazing, and really is a piece of art, so you should give it a look.

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Put simply, this is a great, great read. I had my suspicions when I first saw this on the New Stories tab - this sort of story is usually packaged in only one way - and I'm glad to say it both met and exceeded my expectations going in. You had me hooked by the second chapter. The sense of beauty of the island really shines through in Celestia's actions; it's given foundation in the narrator's own experiences. The organic, evolving construction of both the narrator

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