Can't write. Glass too half-empty.

I suspect that I may have bipolar disorder. If that's the case, then what I'm currently experiencing is a depressive episode. I'm not going to whine about it. If I wanted to whine about it, I'd whine about it to a psychologist, and then I wouldn't have to say "I suspect" anymore. But I am going to let you know that the next chapter will be delayed.

I don't set deadlines for my chapters, but I'm in the process of losing a week of writing time, which is a full third of the time it took me to write chapter 1. I'm planning on making the next chapter significantly shorter than that, so this hiatus will have a definite impact on my update schedule.

It's also having an impact on my comment-responding schedule, which is far less important, of course, but some of these comments definitely deserve replies. I'll get to it! For now, 1. thanks a bunch for the nice comments; 2. thanks for answering my question; 3. darn those Princesses! As you can see, though, my blogging schedule is unaffected. Why? I don't know! Ugh.

Note that none of the things whose "schedules" I just mentioned are actually things I have schedules for.

I do, however, have a writing schedule, and, if you've read a certain reply of mine, you may be wondering why I'm not following it. A schedule's a schedule. Schedules don't care about depression or mania. Consistency is pretty much the point of a schedule.

Well, North pointed out that Twilight should have told the Princesses about Applejack's new powers and received some sort of response by now. I really should have noticed that. I've got to figure out why things happened the way they did instead of the way that would have made sense before I write the next chapter, because otherwise, I'll just do more damage. I can normally write in pretty much any mood. Writing and programming are the two main activities I can always enjoy. But I can't keep writing right now. I've got to adjust the plot first. And, apparently, the best strategy I can come up with for doing so at the moment is to stare at my laptop's screen and think about how stupid it was of me to let the error slip through.

As far as I've been able to surmise from experience, I've just got to wait it out. Then, once I've filled my screen-staring quota, the world will go back to being filled with sunshine and opportunity, and I'll suddenly be assaulted by a bunch of perfectly reasonable explanations for the Princesses' silence and Twilight's lack of concern.

In the meantime, I see much coding and re-watching of FiM episodes in my future. If you don't care about any of this, then I sincerely apologize.