Pride and Stress · 9:59pm May 24th, 2014
Dear Princess Luna,
Today I learned that there are going to be times in my life when I have a conflict of interests. There will be so many things that I want to do - see friends, play games, get my work done, read a book (to name but a few). I'm not usually very good at dealing with conflict, certainly not internal conflict of this kind. But I think today, I made an important discovery.
No matter how stressed I am feeling, nothing will ever feel as good as writing something I'm proud of. I was terrified that today's chapter would be horrendous, because I had procrastinated and worried and tried to forget about it for the last two weeks. But after two days of on-and-off writing, I've managed to produce something that I didn't think was horrible. Sure, it's a little rough around the edges, and it definitely goes well beyond the plan I had for this chapter, but I'm convinced that this is where I wanted the story to go.
So, even though I have about six hours work due in in twelve hours, and I somehow need to fit sleep into all that, I am content. I wrote something I can not only be proud of, but that I genuinely enjoyed writing. And that, if nothing else, has made today a resounding success.
Your faithful student,
Quill Scratch
P.S. That doesn't mean I won't end up continually hitting F5 for the next half hour or so as I desperately hope for some kind of response. I can't help it. It's just how I react to sharing my work.
P.P.S. I should probably try to send some letters during the day as well as the night in future. You seem to be getting quite the majority of my recent letters. We wouldn't want Celestia getting jealous, would we?
