Need something to kick my butt into gear, and I figure this is the best way to hold myself accountable.

Doing this as commissions and not requests because I was recently hit with a pretty big bill - not enough for me to worry about getting thrown out of my apartment or anything, but enough to make my savings wince. Also, if I do this for money, I'll be more likely to hold myself accountable for getting a product finished.

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IN WHICH TIME IS WASTED?
Yes, this is my second blogpost today (even though I did the first one before going to sleep, the calendar doesn't lie). I generally dislike making multiple posts on the same date, but sometimes it just works out that way.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I HAVE RETURNED WITH A NEW CHAPTER TO UNCOVERING!

Finally, after over a year of silence, I am back to give life to my dying fanfiction!

As a gift for y'all, here's an updated cover for the story:

NOW, GO AND GIVE THE CHAPTER A READ!

Like... I'm gonna try. Really try. Not to ruin everything.
No promises.
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Welcome back readers! I hope you’re doing better this Monday than I am. As I am still sick. On the mend, thankfully, and I’ll be picking up some Nyquil today to at last give this cough the boot, but it’s been tenacious in hanging on.

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Enough procrastination! I may have gotten my computer taken from me, but I still have my phone.

I'm gonna download Google docs, cause that's where the story is and that's where I write it, and I'm gonna actually write it instead of just saying I will.

Expect the new chapter to be out within... A month at the longest. I'm also experiencing writers block, but I'll try to work past that.

Okay so since Sunspot is going slow right now with the plague known as writer's block another Idea came to me on the same way home where I came up with the idea for My Little Sunspot.

This is the Cover-art I got for it right now

I want to get at least a few chapters finished before I submit it. Hope ya boys will like it.

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A few updates for everyone:

Chapter 12: Red Moon just went live. This is the fastest turnaround that I've ever done, but I think it helps that the chapter was not as narratively dense as some of the other ones in Equestrian Horizon. It's mostly straight action and not a lot of layers to peel back.

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I have absolutely no idea what I want to work on. I have a couple ideas like ABFOT or my crossover fic, but right now I have no desire to write those at the moment. So I'm going to be taking some time to think about what I'm going to do. Heck, maybe I'll release an entire story with ten chapters! More or less, I don't know.

Sorry if this is a little bit disappointing, but turst me, this is for the best.

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Chapter 3 of Victory: Premonitions is out! So far I've stuck to an every-other-day cadence with these releases that I really like. This chapter saw a lot of special attention in the editing process to correct for run-ons. This was the result of some specific feedback I got from the first two chapters. I may still go back and make edits to Chapters 1 & 2 to correct for this before posting Chapter 4. Behind the scenes, I completed work on Chapter 6 and have everything through to the

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Bit of a shorter post today, as it's Thanksgiving week here in the US and I'm trying to set myself up for a trip to visit the relatives. With that in mind, no time to socialize: let's dive right into it!

So, naming things. This is, as you might guess, a requested topic. And to be honest, I think it's one worth talking about.

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So a few months ago I picked up a fantasy book from the library. Pretty good book, actually; it kept me gripped well enough and had me staying up into the early hours of the morning to see how it panned out. But there was something interesting about it that I felt applied to today's topic.

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Hello readers! I'm back!

I know it was only a week, but honestly, it felt much longer. Funny how time works like that. It feels like forever since I've worked on a Being a Better Writer post, but at the same time, it feels like just yesterday I finished editing Colony ...

Time does weird things. And moves in odd ways. Speaking of which, that's probably a good topic for another BaBW post: Time. That one's on the list now.

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Today's topic is a bit of the inverse of the one I wrote last week. I didn't intend for this at first—in fact I had no plans for an inverse article when I sat down last Monday; the appearance of this one is entirely coincidence brought about by something I was reading.

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"Go! Go! Go!" Natalie didn't need to be told twice. With the clock ticking, the building was only minutes from coming apart in a blast that would level half the block. If she could get away before then, she had a chance, but if not ...

"Go!" the voice in her ear shouted once more.

"I'm going!" she snapped, crouching by the body of the colonel and retrieving his sidearm. Some of his thugs could still be standing between her and the exit.

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Welcome back, readers (and by extension, writers). It’s time for another Being a Better Writer post. The topic for this week? It’s another request, and an interesting, if complex, one. Today, we’re going to discuss how to write a scene of warfare. Not a shoot-out, or a simple fight, but a full-on war.

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I am very tired. I have been for a few weeks. I'll just leave the explanation at that.
It's been hard to do much of anything for me recently. But I'm working on finishing something old, starting something new, and editing something long overdue. I expect all three of those to be done with by the end of the month, partially because I promised one of those would be.

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Sentence construction is one of those touchy things with a lot of novice writers. Personally, I blame the education system for not doing an adequate job explaining things, but the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of young writers out there (or worse, novice critics) who pass judgement on their own or others work without knowing much about what they’re actually passing judgement on. In the best case scenario, this leads to confusing feedback. In the worst-case scenario? Bad

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Oh boy.

Yep, this post had to come at some point or another. Given the charged climate of “PC” these days (that’s “political correctness,” not “Personal Computer,” sadly) days, this topic is one that’s come up again and again in writing. Online, offline … just about everywhere.

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