I once learned that a movie is written three times: first during development, second during production, and third during editing. Though A Haunting in Canterlot isn't a film, it has been revised, edited, and rewritten many times. In this post, I will talk about some of the early outlines, characters, and everything in between.

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Nothin' like a good ol' hunk o' words to getcha outta that writer's block, amirite?

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So I'm studying up on Early Modern English (not Old English, mind you) in preparation for a short essay on how to write Luna-speak. Fun fact I found: "derring-do" (the inspiration for Daring Do, if you didn't get that), which is a noun usually meaning "adventurous nonsense" in today's usage (as far as I can tell), started out as a verb phrase way back in the sixteenth century, "dorryng do," which literally means "daring to do," and implied manhood and chivalry ("Robin Hood's awesome. He's

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Today's St. Patrick's Day (or yesterday was, depending on where you are).

Celebrate responsibly.

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Haha. I have another test tomorrow even though the term just started...

Random Fact: The Pentium 2 and early Pentium 3 models were based on a cartridge design to allow for external cache chips to be included at a cheaper manufacturing cost. However, later Pentium 3 chips came with cache integrated into the die instead of populating the surrounding board, as manufacturing technology had sufficiently improved to allow sufficient yields.

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1. I have written most of my stories on my phone. I rarely use the computer to do this, only the final spellchecking happens with a computer.
2. The name Shimmering Thunder came way before the story, The Power Within. I just couldn't come up with any other name, so I used this one.
3. Even though I wrote a coltcuddler story, I'm not a coltcuddler myself.
4. After two years plus, I'm still in the closet with these ponies. Nobody in real life knows about it.

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These four stories have been dormant for a long time now.

Almost all of them haven't seen any updates in well over a year.

Ruins in particular is a story I gradually lost interest in writing alongside my fading interest in G5.

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Some actors are in incredible motion pictures, some actors are in a ton of films, and a few actors are in a ton of extraordinary films. In this last category, Meryl Streep is the defending champion. From her first Oscar gesture for 1978's The Deer Hunter to her latest one for 2017's The Post, Streep has amassed a total of 21 Academy Award selections: four for best supporting actress and a stunning 17 for best actress.

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We’ll get to that title in a bit. Meanwhile, enjoy a pony picture, and then some cranberry facts!

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1. Nobody genuinely likes G5, they’re just lying to themselves.
2. G5 is objectively horrible.
3. Lauren Faust needs to be brought back in order to save the universe.
4. G4 was the only good MLP anything.
5. Cozy Glow did nothing wrong and is basically God.
6. All of these statements are true.

I sorta had a plan for an election day fic. A coup, involving Luna.

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Marching up to the white house, her saddlebags bulging with cans of soup ‘for her family,’ maybe some batponies.

Everybody loves batponies.

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So, if you've been keeping up with the blog, you'd know that I tried installing the Windows 10 Creator's Update, only for it to fail spectacularly, taking out most of my computer's functionality with it.

BUT NOW...

Many hours, two failed backups, a long and tedious manual backup, and a system reset using the original install media later...

I LIVE! LIIIVEEE, I TELL YOU!

Tomorrow, I'm gonna have to reinstall quite a few lost programs though...

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“I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible.”

—Lord Kelvin, not long before the flight at Kitty Hawk.

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“If at first an idea is not absurd,” Albert Einstein famously said, “then there is no hope for it.” Sometimes, however, absurd is just absurd — yet, even so, it’s a fascinating slice of history’s collective direction of curiosity and experimental innovation.

Here are some Weird inventions which might not have changed the world much however in any case provoked our interest. Investigate that deserve acknowledgment for being both imaginative and amazingly strange.

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Can I just share with you all some of the silly things I've found myself typing into my Google bar these past few days? I assure you, it was all in the pursuit of writing research. Still makes me laugh, though.

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(1/2) She was on vacation with her husband and they were scoping out graveyards on the way, as you do when she saw it. Rising out of the old cemetery, big as an old (macabre) telephone pole. Was this some kind of bizarre art piece the authorities hadn't gotten wise to yet?

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