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// Progress Report Week 45 
// Story: A Muffin For Muffins 
// by BatwingCandlewaxxe 
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Progress Report Week 45
Having a little trouble thinking these days.  Nothing significant, not affecting my multi-focal ability, just feel a little fuzzy.  The migraines aren't helping.  I have them every few days now.  Fortunately they're mostly mild and Zecora has improved her remedy, so the side effects are much less inhibitory.  I developed a promising research path last week, but now that I have time to follow up on it, I am having trouble wrapping my brain around it.  All the pieces are there, I know it, it's just, seeing how they fit is becoming more difficult, they're not falling into place the way I'd expected.  Oh well, it'll come to me.  Probably just this headache, making it hard to think, like trying to swim through molasses sometimes.  Still waiting on the results from the medical examination.  Perhaps I should see if Zecora has anything to remedy my sluggishness.  Huh, never considered Zecora before.  I wonder if Zebra magic is linked like this, or if it's something else entirely.  It seems mostly based on herbalism; so is quite possibly a sub-branch of earth pony magic.  I'll have to ask her about it, see if she knows anything that might provide a new avenue of investigation.

Since I'm having a hard time with the magic research, I've been spending nearly all my study time writing instead.  Got my edits back from Redline, she was concerned I wasn't putting as much effort into them as my previous work, because she found more flaws than expected, especially in the last batch.  I let her know I'm just distracted with my other researches, and promised to give them the attention they deserved.  I've been working mostly on those and the novel.  My protagonist, Aurora Nocturnae, is a young unicorn filly who starts her life almost entirely without magic.  The least magical unicorn of her tribe.  Almost an outcast, she discovers that she has a unique talent for magic, different from any other unicorn.  A magic that goes beyond mere tribal boundaries.  I love her character, when I write her, it's like I'm writing about a special, hidden part of myself; although she's based more on Twilight than she is on me. (I can already hear your objections, Twilight.  Yes, she is definitely based on you, and yes, you are that important to me.  How could I not?)  There's quite a bit of Roseluck in there as well; and maybe a little of my mother.

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Fluttershy is very concerned about Muffins.  The poor mouse isn't eating well now, and had another migraine-like episode.  She also isn't grooming as well as she should be.  I asked her about Muffins' age, asked if maybe she was just getting old, but apparently Muffins should easily live another year, if not two, if she was in better health.  Due to her weight loss, Fluttershy said it was okay to start feeding her sweet stuff again, since the little mousie still seems to like it and will eat that more readily than her standard diet.  I've started sharing my muffins with her again.