Obviously relating to a character is an important thing for a lot of people when they consume media. I saw myself in Twilight when I was young, and tbags what got me I to this fandom. I didn't have friends, didn't know how to socialize, and spent most of my time with my nose in a book. She and the show as a whole is likely part of the reason I have friends now. I'm still learning friendship though, primarily communication and trust. I'll probably never learn everything

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Hey there everybody!

I'm making this blog post to make a few things clear about the direction of "Cracks In Our Reflections" as a series, as I don't want to confuse people with some of the choices I'll be making as the story continues.

1. This story is a SunLight story, but it's not the primary focus.

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2017 is gonna be good. After all, it can't be worse than 2016. However, 2016 wasn't all horrible. After all, FIM Season 6 was good, Donald Trump was elected President of the U.S. (can't wait for inauguration day!), we got Pokémon Sun and Moon, plus Pluto is a planet again thanks to a little someting called "Planet Ten." So yeah, things are looking up this year. However, let's take a look at the resolutions I made at the start of the year and see how I did.

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Happy New Year! Man, this year was something. Quite a few interesting things happened. Anyway, let's take a look at how well I did with those resolutions.
1) Finish at least one more story. Check!
2) Get 30+ likes on a single story. Nope.
3) Get at least a part-time job. Check!
4) Get 50 + Followers. Check! Didn't think it would happen! Thank you all for your interest in my work!

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the fourth Writing Reflections blog! But first, some exciting news! As I said in my last blog, I have completed my latest story, Just What I'm Fighting For. Look for it very soon!

And now, on with the reflections!

Three Simple Words

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So I literally just finished watching the MLP triple-header ending (mostly on YouTube, after Brony Network got spammed and suffered buffering issues), and I figured I'd talk about how I'm feeling now that it's all over. Yeah, I know there's one more movie, an Equestria Girls special, and the comics will be doing a Season 10 in the next few months, but the show itself is over how we know it.

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"As I pull you out the oxygen tank..."

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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Sigh

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I'll cut my usual preamble and get to the blogs point. Three Steps Back is going on a semi-indefinite hiatus. This may be dissapointing to you, especially considering this is the second fic I've put on hiatus recently, but both have good reasons and they're interlinked.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of Bard's Writing Reflections! Before I go into that, however, a reminder that Will-Owl-the-Wisp has finished Night Terrors!

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Five Star Service, my first story on site, has finally passed the 300 like mark! I'd like to thank all the longtime readers of it, and everyone who ever commented on and contributed to it. It was my first and remains my most daring and unusual story in many ways, as well as sporting one of my biggest screw-ups that required a complete rewrite of two chapters to fix (The Attorney ones).

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Usually, as a writer, giving characters motivation for why they act the way they do or do things the way they do is very important. But in this specific instance, I found it more realistic to not have it. This was my response:

Spoilers for chapter 6 of FoE: Endless Horizon

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I have written a story for Lemon Crumble! The Season 9 Finale and her unexpected speaking role and heroic deed have overjoyed me and soon after I've seen the Finale for the first time, before I could finally find sleep, I had this idea for a Lemon Crumble fic and knew I had to write this.

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My authorial intent has been hitting something of a brick wall lately. While in my blog post two weeks ago I suggested I'd focus on Three Steps Back, I instead opted to use the May Pairings contest to advance some EQG 'verse plot lines I'd been working on. These failed spectacularly, with 4k words that...aren't *awful* but severely bloated and info dump-y. So, that went on the back-burner. This in turn led to Monday To Friday, 9 to 5 which is also a mess, but one I

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Checking this site for story updates and seeing, out of the blue, previously non-extremist authors calling for political violence on their blogs. Oh wait, that's the opposite of fun. Apparently violent rhetoric is okay if it's lightly veiled in metaphor. I have half a mind to write a metaphorical tale insinuating violence against the people who are doing this to test if it works both ways... but that would require the dishonesty of pretending I promote violence. It so happens that morality is

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That's right, I still exist! For those of you wondering why I disappeared and didn't post anything this past weekend, the answer is simple: I burned out. I realized over the weekend that, in my efforts to maintain a once-a-week update under my current available time, I was running myself ragged and producing a lower-quality product. So I decided it was time to take a break from FIMFiction entirely and just relax for a while. I bought me a new game and have been devoting the past few days to

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It's kind of funny that despite my preference for writing in the Equestria Girls verse, my most popular fic (that I actually feel like I did a good job on) is a FIM centred one. Admittedly, it's a distorted version. Yet a version it still is. 

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So, I released a new short story! This one is called The Long Death and is a Nightmare Moon focused story. I made this short little story as a little bit of an apology. As the story I mentioned at the end of my last blog post is taking a bit longer than expected to be finished. So, I hope you enjoy this story while I try and finish up the other bigger story I mentioned. Also I've begun writing When Gems Break chapter 4, so that should be coming out soon. And finally my schedule I

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Ugh, I haven't started on Chapter 9 of A World, Reflected yet. I know what needs to happen and why, but I literally don't know where to begin - there's a bit at Jackie's/Weird Bipedal AJ's that I want to work in in addition to the meeting with the Pank One. ...Actually, just writing about it has given me an idea. I love you, rubber duck debugging buddies!

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