I don't know who this is, but it's definitely not me.

Just letting you know. >.<

Sorry, I'm late... Interesting things are happening! School, has started up again which is fun, and I have taken a step back from everything I am doing and have re-allocated time to each of my projects. In summary... I am going to do more writing and art, and less game design so yay!

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Wow, this week was long... It can be described in two words 'Drivers ED.' Bye bye fall break! It was nice knowing you. Anyways this week I got nothing done on the story (except for finding another potential proofreader). And that's story and personal! Two for one folks!

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Alrighty then, it is 12:33 am here and I am tired. Let's write our weekly report blog shall we? The last few have been rather short and rushed, I am going to try and making this one a little better, with the caveat that my grammar is probably going to be rather bad... because midnight. That was a run-on sentence and now with the report!

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I decided to write another microfic for the RariJack prompt tag contest this morning.

3,000 words later, I realized it didn't actually count as a piece of microfiction at that point. And that's not including all the alternate endings that I wrote because I couldn't quite decide how to end it.

So the good news is I have a new story now.

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That's what you're probably asking me right now.

Rest assured, I'm still alive. I've just been performing some housekeeping: I finally can get rid of Windows 8 everywhere--now I'm just working on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. Even so, I've still had to reinstall all my apps (still needed to do that last week), as I got a great Google Drive client on the Windows Store with "native" Google Docs integration--sure, it's just the embedded Google Docs editor page, but it's good enough for me.

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Words so far: 322

Paragraphs finished: 4

Chapter Completion: About 10 to 15%

Projected finish date: Late June to Early August

Oh man readers, I am bushed. Stuffed. Sapped. Exhausted. Wrung out. Conventions can take it out of you.

But it was so worth it.

Still, I’m just flat-out bedraggled. So there may be some typos in this post? Probably? I’m riding a bit of a sugar buzz at the moment, but I am also really tired. Like I-can-feel-this-pressing-at-the-back-of-my-eyes tired.

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Hello all.

I spent some time today looking through the archive of my past blogs and marveling at how, once upon a time, I updated this thing somewhat regularly. (Also marveling at how foolish of a person I was ten years ago, but that's a story for another time.) Presently, I hold to the idea that I should only make a post here when there is something significant to say, but given the enthusiasm of the last post I thought it appropriate to provide an update on it.

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Progress on next chapter of HMHS: ~38%

New oneshot I may or may not post: 40%

That's all I wanted to say, Captain signing off.

Hi all! Happy new year!!

Wow, another year already? And I’m only at 300k words? I really need to pick up the pace! I feel like such a sloth.

New Year’s Resolutions…

Publish original book(s)…
Write more in Rites in this year than I have to date…
Lose weight…
Keep my sleep schedule mostly stable…
Treat writing like my job…
Get a kitty…
Move into a new place with just me and my wife living there...

Yeah, aiming high with lots to do!

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Weekly Reports have now been moved to my Tumblr. Because I do Tumblr now. It is going to be a much easier way of keeping everything managed. Having one central location for everything. Keeps me sane you know! Thanks for the understanding and here is the report:

http://jdbener.tumblr.com/post/134644085195/weekly-report-1

I've been back at home for about three hours now. :) Just finished writing this up, so I'm posting it. Note that I wrote up each day after it had happened, then went back and maybe added some stuff in I forgot, so the timelines might be weird. Okay? Okay, let's go.

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Good evening readers! Welcome to the LTUE Report for Day One!

First things first: For the last few weeks, I’ve been keeping something secret. Something that, after the official book launch for Trace the Stars, LTUE’s first benefit anthology of short stories, I can finally talk about, since it was announced at the launch.

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Hey, look, it's the semi-monthly reminder that I still exist!

Sorry for the continued disappearing act; I think I can speak for everyone when I say the year so far has been absurd beyond our wildest expectations. Long story short, I got swept up in the wave and all my plans started eroding.

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Progress on next chapter of HMHS: 42%, give or take. Sorry it's going so slow, I know what I want to happen but I don't know how to write my way there. It's very frustrating

Porno writefaggorty oneshot : ~50%

Chucked two Fallout crossovers into the works. I'm going to force myself to publish them later, after the next chapter of HMHS is done. Captain signing off.

I got back home from Trotcon about 5 hours ago, and I'm finally all settled in and catching up on all the music that came my way over the weekend. :) It was a good time. Let's tell a story. (It's gon b loooong)

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Before I begin, I will say that I will not be talking about this week's episode. I can't trust myself to do it while sticking to my no spoiler policy. If you want an analysis go look up every other brony ever, after you watch the episode.

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Well, let's see: I just received a notification saying that an user called Fluffyrescent added my Terror of the Flutterbat story to one of his libraries. Now, that wouldn't be exactly bad...

Except for the fact that the library is called Nonsense... And it has an image of Pinkie Pie angry...

Let's make things clear: I don't like people who downvote stories for no reason, as I already said on another blog post.

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Whew! If I thought I was tired after day one of LTUE (by the way, after I finished yesterday’s report, I fell asleep on the floor of my living room), day two has seen me even more tired.

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