Omay, I'm done for today. Was just on a writing streak. This chapter has major revelations and is appropriately named Answers.

Yep, released a second chapter on the day for the second day in a row for Pandemic: What you are Meant to Be. Luna's come a calling about Sunset Blessing and has her own insights.

Rewrote it in a hurry, but chapter is back up.

Okay not even sure how but a third of the chapter vanished after I published it. T was initially there and then a few minutes later a third of it and title were gone. So going to have to rewrite the chapter and republish it later today. Really wasn't up to that but looks like that's the way it's going to go.

So hitting an unusual snag. Getting to the point where I am literally running out of ideas of what to name chapters. Writing the chapter isn't hard, naming it is getting increasingly difficult after 55 chapters on the same story. Anyone have any tips for keeping naming chapters fresh? Assuming you have been naming them the whole time and can't just drop the naming convention at this point?

Well, place I am working at decided today that it is going to shut down and move operations to the Dominican Republic come November. 630 people are going to be losing their jobs. It just makes economic sense for them. They basically get rewarded for shuttering our location and laying people off as "business losses" and they can operate at a fraction of the cost in DR. Got to love Trumpenomics, its all about businesses making more money, not keeping people employed.

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Alright went through every chapter and got my dates in order to mark quick references of how much time has passed. As of the current chapter we are 12 days after counterspell. Day 27 after initial onset of the Pandemic.

After getting fussed at by various people about not being social enough I'm going to be winding down on the writing after this week. Hoping to finish up Pandemic: What you are Meant Be by Saturday with the possible exception of the epilogue. Ponies of Ocid should keep with once a week update after that. I've got to admit isolation is getting to me; I'm constantly grumpy, drive to get anything done is low, and struggling to get through day to day tasks sometimes.

Taking a pause from chapter releases today to just have a day of downtime. Went by the local game stop and picked up a few used PS3 games and just going to break up routine for today playing them. Have to bridge the gap between what happens in the current chapter I'm writing and what I want happening in two chapters and will be sleeping on that.

Hit both these milestones for Pandemic: What you are Meant to Be today. This is my third story to pass the 100K word mark and second to pass the 10K total view mark. Find it amazing that both marks were hit coincidentally on the same day.

Since I got chapter out early today doing a little tidying up of earlier chapters. Breaking up some dialogue, adding contractions, that kind of thing. Just went through chapter 10:Ponies Behaving Badly and gave a little more insight into Sunset Blessing's character (just a little) and broke up some of her larger dialogue spouts in that chapter. Will be looking over some other chapters here and there today.

Had the day off for Memorial Day and pushed through a second chapter update. This one is a bit more interesting than the past few with a strong callback to the original Pandemic story.

Working away on the new chapter. Work today is kind of dampening my mood as it is just a perfect storm of crap between natural disaster, holiday weekend, and clueless idiots. Dealt with 63 calls so far today and still have 3 hours to go. Really not in the mood for 100 calls of of this crap.

Released the weekly update for Ponies of Ocid. The update for Pandemic:What you are Meant to Be will be coming sometime later today.

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No update coming for Pandemic: What you are Meant to Be for today. Going to be just relaxing and pampering myself for the day without worrying about anything else. Going to curl up and read something, cook some good food, and get to bed early.

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Tentatively expecting to finish a second chapter tonight. Getting back into bigger picture stuff. Will still have some slice of life chapters but we are going to have a lot more bigger events moving from here on out.

Okay, night of sleep from around 7:30 till about 4 this morning helped. New chapter is now up.

As the title says. I'm exhausted. I've about 1000 words of the current Pandemic chapter written down and have been tossing around some ideas for some stuff that will come up in later chapters and how to effectively work those. In the meantime I'm staring still at the same 1000 words because I'm overtired and while my brain isn't off, it's in the completely wrong part of the story. Going to get some sleep since I've been up 20 hours and it should shift into gear early hours of the morning when I

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Still getting regular updates going on Pandemic:What you are Meant to Be and not stopping on those. Some chapters will be shorter, some longer. Trying to just let content flow rather than force particular minimum word counts per chapter. I have a general timeline planned out, but the more I look at how much time I have to cover it gets a little daunting not to have it go stale, hence you see a strong slice of life element going on as well. These are the normal everyday ponies after all.

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Well, being sore is not being in agony at least. I rate pain on a scale of uncomfortable, sore, hurting, pain, and then agony. Yesterday when I had to have an ambulance take me from work to the hospital it was agony. I can deal with sore. As such I am back to writing.