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// Progress Report Week 24 
// Story: A Muffin For Muffins 
// by BatwingCandlewaxxe 
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Progress Report Week 24
EEEEE!!!  Redline Proof has not only accepted my submissions for the Fillydelphia University Journal of Fantasy, but has also agreed to edit my future work as well!  I cannot imagine anypony I would rather have as my editor!  I feel truly blessed.  I spent half the day squealing like a foal with a new stuffie toy.  To celebrate, I "accidentally" leaked the news to Pinkie Pie, and as expected, there was a huge party in honor of the acceptance and future association.  I even shared a little bit of cake with Muffins.  I need to be more careful how and what I'm feeding her, she's starting to look a bit pudgy.  Then again, so am I. We could both use more physical exercise.  

I've already started gathering materials for a collection of short stories.  I guess I can say I'm officially a writer now!  And as any good writer should, I've developed a few... eccentricities, apparently.  Aside from sleeping so little, I've taken to letting Muffins ride around on my head while I'm in the castle studying and writing.  I've also been using Rose as a sounding board, to work on my storytelling abilities.  Meeting up after dinner and reading her the stories I'm writing, or bouncing ideas off her.  She never seems to get tired of it, and is so supportive.  I don't know what I'd do without her.

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As if there wasn't enough good news already this week, Twilight informed me that an acquaintance in the Crystal Empire encountered a treatise on Old Terran language and culture hidden away in their stacks, complete with a number of folktales and myths!  It's written in the pre-Sombran Crystal dialect of Equestrian, which I don't speak much of at the moment; but what the heck, I already speak seven languages and/or dialects, why not add a couple more!  It's in excellent shape, what with being magically preserved for over a millennium (like the rest of the capital city) so they're couriering it down, along with a several other collections of mytho-historical tales.  Oo, I can't wait!

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Princess Twilight hasn't said anything to me directly, but I've been hearing through the grapevine that she's becoming apprehensive about the continually rapid rate of learning that I'm demonstrating.  I haven't really thought about it much; but so far I've learned things in a few weeks or months that should have taken at least a year, if not several.  The fact that I have not yet shown any signs of slowing down is unsettling her as well.  I hope she comes to me about it directly.  I don't really feel like there's anything seriously wrong, but she's still the expert on magic, and I can't help but feel a bit disquieted at her concern.  Not much else going on except studying and writing and spending time with Rose and Muffins.