So now, with the aid of all those who responded to my last blog, I have a fairly epic fight mapped out that's taking 60 line items in my outline worksheet. If a single line item turned into just 200 words, that would be 12,000 words.

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No, not the way every other goddamn click I click on this site brings me to a phishing site, although I will admit that is FRUSTRATING AS HELL and has effectively broken the site and honestly Knighty should disable all ads until AdSense fixes this shit because sweet filly Celestia on a pogo stick this is annoying... but no, that's not what I want to talk about.

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So I was feeling kind of depressed and freaked out because I was certain that I'd plotted out at least chapters 10-12 of Not the Hero, but when I went to my spreadsheet of story outlines, 9 was the last one there. But today I found my notes, in an actual paper notebook. Apparently I wrote them down manually and then never typed them in. Woohoo!

In the tongue of the llamas, Wiñaypaqori, who I shall henceforth call Winnie, means “Eternal Gold”. This is because Winnie is sitting on a pile of gold that is quite literally the size of a mountain. He’s hollowed out the mountain he lives in, and has filled it with gold. The parts that aren’t gold are him; he’s the size of Ponyville. Greed makes dragons grow, and our pal the Winster has been a very, very greedy boy. If he had any interest in power within dragon society, or indeed in creating a

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I realize there are not a lot of actual antagonists in MLP, and certainly not very many that don't end up all fluffy and friendly by the end of the episode, but I get just a little bit tired of people casting Gilda as an actual villain.

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Meant to have new "Not the Hero" ready last week, and it's been frustrating the crap out of me that it's taken me so long. (OK, so I wrote two one-shots in that time period too, which probably didn't help my speed any. :-)) Now that I look at the word count, though... that's reasonable, for two weeks in which I also wrote two one-shots. I didn't realize this chapter would be so long when I planned it (story of my life...)

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Wrote 4,000 words on Not The Hero today. Looks like switching off Last Draconequus was the correct decision.

I will try to come back to it once this chapter of Not the Hero is finished.

Not The Hero has officially acquired more likes than any of my other fics, including my former front-runner Hit Me.

It also has almost as many dislikes as my most "disliked" fic -- it currently has 8 and "Discord in Hell" has 9. Nothing else is even close.

I never expected this story to be this popular. I wonder what happened?

I have written articles like this in the past (Mary Sue DeVille, and why she must die too, written for the X-Men fandom, and the more fandom-generic Make Up Your Mind: What Is A Mary Sue?), but this fandom has some unique characteristics I'd like to discuss. Because I'm writing a story that features the Gary Stu archetype, this has been on my

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