Did anyone else know that? Color me surprised.

And now for something completely different

So; I have my laptop back, but there is a major flaw. It seems to hate GoogleDocs.

I don't have Microsoft Word or any program that has word count and spell check on it; and using Wordpad is fine, but not as convenient, so I started writing a fanfic over on GoogleDocs to keep track of everything; and wouldn't you know, my laptop shut down randomly, like it had over heated or the battery was pulled out.

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Alternate titles: Fear, Part One, Life — Didn’t go with the first one because I was still in “Name the chapter after its central theme” mode, and Ch.8(Tension) isn’t exactly about “fear” so much as the lingering awkwardness or dare I say…? Tension between Smolder, Gallus, and Silverstream.

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Alternate title: Normalcy — Went with “Normality” since it sounded better at the time. I lean more toward Normalcy presently, but it doesn’t matter since they’re synonyms.

Ah, Ch.5(Normality), you will always stand out for being the only chapter to actually follow the original character-specific chapter plan.

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“We are not sure which way the air should be if the ice is so small—maybe the water that is floating in the sea is the way,” Luna muttered. “I guess when our ship got stuck in the glacier it was. It should have been ice but… why wouldn�t it be if it was solid?” “I don’t know—I tried opening an elevator from the ice to the surface, but the ship wasn’t there.”

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Ahh, Ch.3(Expression). Or as I like to call it: The chapter where I finally figured out what the heck I was doing.

Look, I was writing a story about Gallus receiving therapy for his trauma, his friends’ reactions to learning about his breakdown, and the blossoming romance between him and Silverstream who was going through her own breakdown, all while trying to work themes of identity, personal growth, paranoia, self-worth, family, and the classic “Coming of age” trope into the narrative.

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So remember that bitch who has a crush on me and treats me like her girlfriend? Someone from Jesus told me that she's been posting pictures of me on Instagram with flirty descriptions and calling me bae. I told her to take them down because I'm not her girlfriend but then she was like chill some of those pictures were really old but all the pics Jesus kid sent me were from this fucking year I'm considering asking her mom to check her instagram

i was tryna figure out wtf this is and then i realized it would've been my one year anniversary with one of my exes

Alternate Title: Identity — I’ll explain why later.

Oh, this chapter… Ch.7(Pride) had the most radically alternate version of all the chapters after Ch.4(Optimism), thanks predominantly to it suffering the most from the personality issue getting axed. I’m not entirely satisfied with what I ultimately settled on, but I still think it’s a good chapter.

Let’s get into it!

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Going a bit silly today. If you've travelled the YouTubes as I do, you've probably come across Translator Fails. For those of you who don't know, well, just check out the first minute of the video.

Well, last year, Malinda got with the Gregory Brothers and they gave some classic carols the translator treatment.

Very Funny. Have fun!

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Alrighty, for those of you who are interested and didn't take a look at my last blog post:

If you are interested in taking place in a giant collaboration, you're in luck! All you have to do is think of a short cuddle scenario involving the least-likely, most terrible pairing you can think up, then write it up (one chapter only- as short or as long as you feel is good) and send the link in a google doc to me in a PM so I can collate them all!

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And we're back once more with the next installment of The Writing of The Bonds of Love!

Today, we're discussing the very first chapter of The Bonds of Love, and was it the bang most stories are expected to begin with? Well…? We’ll see as we go on.

But to start things off now, we’ve already got a major cut concept to discuss, so let's dive on in!

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"Dying to get there" is a common English idiom meaning "anxious to arrive at your destination."

It also happens to be the title of a fanfic by yours truly about everyone thinking Twilight literally kills herself every time she teleports (as it turns out, I not-so-secretly love puns).

So, which is more important according to Google - the MLP fanfic, or the masses of humanity who use the idiom?

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Seems I can't do anything right the first time. Well, here's the in-progress collection to every single resource, note, draft, scrap, and plan I had for FMP. This is everything except the private messages between me and Twilight Is The BEST. And even now I'm still not done cleaning and formatting all of the documents in it.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxCTR40vqNmnfkNFM0E1Qk9USDJvY2lpZWdVb2RzZm9zOEJkajBuM1NNN01OQVBsblc3RVk?usp=sharing

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From one of my favorite chapters to my absolute least favorite…

I’m not gonna mix words here: I hate Ch.6(Stagnation). I have no qualms admitting Ch.1(Transition) and Ch.2(Reprieve) are worse written, but this chapter in particular was the one I had the worst time actually writing, and it was for one specific reason…

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I was driving this morning (well, yesterday morning, since it is already Thursday) back home on an unusual road, from a distant town that I had never been to, and I suffered a small incident. I was driving on a road in an unpopulated area, at 100 kilometers per hour, very calm, confident that Google Maps would take me home safely, when suddenly the GPS tells me to deviate from the road and take a dirt road. The reasonable thing to do would have been to ignore the GPS and continue on the road,

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Alternate Titles: Fear, Part Two, Death —Since the last chapter wasn’t “Fear, Part One” I obviously couldn’t name this one “Part Two” but as you can tell, I did keep “Fear” as the title for thematic reasons.

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Up until now, I've been using the Notes application on my iPad to write my stories, though I often used the word processor on Fimfiction to do most of my editing.

And then iOS 9 happened.

The app would crash in the middle of long writing sessions, and I would lose a good hour or so worth of work, with no way of recovering it, as the crashes occurred because the app was trying to send me an email with the contents of the document.

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ECT has failed. It worked wonders while it was happening, but a week after my last treatment I began to slip. Now a little over a month later, I'm right back where I started.

I am now embarking on about seven different medications at once to see what happens. One of these is lithium, which is likely to help me. Keep your hooves crossed, fillies and colts. Now, what's next? Oh, right.

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