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    Looking for a regular editor/prereader

    Now that I'm writing again, I thought it would be nice to do something more than post my docs drafts in various Discords begging passers-by to preread at the last minute. Would any of you be interested in editing/prereading for me on a regular basis, or know someone who might be? I would gladly return the favor if you are a writer as well!

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  • Sunday
    2024/06/15 Update

    whoa, time flies! since my last update:

    1. i published a new story!

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      This morning was supposed to be a goodbye.
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  • 1 week
    Announcing: The A Thousand Words Contest III (2024 Jun 09 - Jul 14)

    copied from the forum post below the break:


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  • 1 week
    Yearly Contest Schedule

    so i've been running contests for a while now! and at this point i would like to commit to some sort of regular schedule. there are at this point three "main" contests that i would like to keep doing on a yearly basis, and in any particular year i may run at most one more "big" contest, for a total of four:

    • The Science Fiction Contest: Early March to mid-April

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  • 2 weeks
    2024/06/02 Update

    so i've given up on the notion of anything like a regular blog schedule! i'll just post these whenever i have news, as a sort of record for any horsewords-related activities i've been getting up to.

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Nov
20th
2020

Blog: 2020.11.20: Gee Bicyclette! How Come FimFiction Lets You Have Two Featured Stories? · 3:36pm Nov 20th, 2020

It's the secondthird-lowest form of this feat, since you have to turn off Mature to see them at 54 and 7: The 41-Second Goddess and Starlight Glimmer Is A Hopelessly Oblivious Lesbian And We All Love Her For It. This is my victory lap.

Thanks to everycreature that has read, liked, and/or commented! This is literally thanks to you, that is how the feature box works.

I told myself when I started writing fiction for literally the first time a couple months ago that the joy of the craft and self-expression is what really matters. But your support has made me realize the truth. What really matters is the steady drip of endorphins I get from watching number go up, and I will reorient my entire life in pursuit of that goal. I hope to continue watching number go up together with you for a very long time, my new best friends and replacement for family.

2020.11.21 Update: It was nice while it lasted! *Plants soft, sweet kiss on Feature Box's forehead* Good night, sweet prince. I'll see you again someday.

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Comments ( 7 )

Congratulations!

I recently had a story get featured, drop off, and then get featured again. It was a surreal experience.

What really matters is the steady drip of endorphins I get from watching number go up, and I will reorient my entire life in pursuit of that goal.

I was about to say "this wears off after a time" but no, no it doesn't. You eventually know somewhere, in the back of your head, that the numbers going up don't really mean anything and you put too much importance on them... but you still watch them go up anyway because monkey like banana.

Let us be monkeys together.

Unhealthy monkeys, yes, but at least it's fun. Sometimes.

-GM, master of confetti.

Congratulations! I hope that is always the joy of writing and story telling that motivates you the most. The adulation is pretty cool too, though!:duck:

If you think it's good now, just wait until the impostor syndrome hits! :pinkiecrazy:

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Hey, it's all being unhealthy monkeys! At least this way we grace this fallen world with Art

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But we all must return to our old work and ask, at some point, "was this art any good?"

We won't get any definitive answers because art is subjective, but the questions will come.

What hath we wrought?

But how can we stop? For the "fallen world" itself really does need art. So we make more. And wonder.

-GM, master of eggs.

Why do you think I shitpost so much? Maximum reaction to effort put in ratio.

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Eggs?

Congratulations. :)

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