“But, the royal coffers-!”

“-are still well in the black when it comes to the ledgers. We can simply tone down some of the pomp of this year’s Grand Galloping Gala in lieu of letting hundreds go hungry. Is this not an agreeable exchange?”

“I- ...yes, Princess. I’m sorry to have bothered you at such an early hour.”

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...yeah, that lasted for about one day. Then today I started chapter 6. For this chapter, I had a very clear setup to execute: introduce Nix to the Guard-Captain, share a few clarifying words with Celestia, and as the grand finale, Nix [DATA REDACTED].

Yeah, then I got bored and started typing. 1200 words in, the Guard-Captain is nowhere in sight, and a Nix has decided he needs new threads and-

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That's code for, "Oh, shit, look at all these story updates I missed when I started writing my own." Gonna play a bit of catch-up, then get back to writing. That's the plan, anyway. I'll probably slip in a few writing sessions between now and the next week, anyway.

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I can honestly say, that moment when Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash thought they had turned Twilight Sparkle into a crater on the floor of her library? Funniest fucking shit I have seen on the show, ever. Just...ever. MLP never gave me the same laughs as Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Fairly Oddparents. But that moment right there? My neighbors probably filed a sound complaint with my landlord because I was laughing my

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Oh, God, they've taken over. The goddamn characters. Here I am, politely needling them to go about their assigned tasks and progress my brilliant, brilliant (Hindenburg explosion of a) narrative, and yet there they all sit, conversing with one another snidely, more content to make passing barbs at each other than actually do something. Next thing I know, the chapter I'm hacking out is 3k words and not even at, what I would consider, the halfway point.

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-and I haven't gotten drunk for two days. This makes me a sad alcoholic. But it also gives me a chance to review what I've written with a more sober eye (harhar).

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“Dread Pirate Cakebeard! How many seas of pastries succumbed to your gluttonous genocide on your rapacious buffet to my cell?” Nix impugned as his accusatory finger flung out at the now mildly nonplussed Princess Celestia.

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Kind of a crash course in how my story has been written:

This is not an uncommon occurrence when I open a chapter I've been writing after I get off work the next day:

'The lavender unicorn across from him hastily scribbled notes onto her scrolls. She had already accrued a sizable amount of them that were piled into a mountain oh fuck I”m drunk try writing tomorrow"'

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Right, I did say it was gonna be a short chapter, right? Uhh, it's already at 2k words and I'm not sure it's even halfway completed, and while I'm predicting it might end up at 4-5k words, I predicted the last chapter would be ~10k words max; that was before I had made the executive decision to split it up and end it at 7k words, as it probably would've ended up closer to 15k words. Disregard my last blog on the length of chapter 4.

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I am not good at writing characters. I am not good at writing characters unless I craft a back story for them, first, which allows me to intuitively deduct how they might act in a particular situation, while drunk off my ass, which is pretty much the only time I write. Hard to tell, for the average reader, since my first story on here is only 3 chapters in, but I have a much easier time writing the three OC than I do well-established characters. Attempting to introduce the Mane

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