I am about 5200 words into chapter 10. I am so, so sorry that this has taken so long for me to get going. Work more or less ate my life for the past 2 months, leaving me not a lot of free time to write. However, I am hoping to finish up chapter 10 by week's end to get it to my editors, and hopefully to you not much later than that!

Heartshine

PS: Please don't duct tape me to my computer chair till I finish. I swear I'll be good!

Heya readers!

You might have noticed I'm offering a bit more writing advice in the form of answering questions given to me!

Well, I didn't get one! However, Heartshine, lover of the pony based wasteland apocalypse and bunnies, has a wonderful blog post that everyone who is an active writer should consume voraciously !

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Ooof. The holidays can be a difficult time for people. I don't know about the rest of you, but sometimes Snowfall Frost's "Say Goodbye to the Holiday" doesn't seem like a horrible idea. At the very least, at least without them on Earth, there's far less world ending consequences (no matter what big businesses may tell you).

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Body language and nonverbal communication play a large role in what we are trying to communicate in person, so it stands to reason that it’s just as important in writing.  One thing that I’ve been hearing from a lot of the writers that I spend time with is that writing non-verbal communication is often difficult, daunting, frustrating, or downright intimidating to do well.  While I think some of it is largely due to overthinking on the part of the author (let’s be real, no one is

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After starting the process of getting my roommate moved in, I finally had time to sit down and write. Bronode and Solis have the document, so I'm hoping to get chapter 11 posted this weekend if at all possible. Sorry for the wait, everyone!

"December 24th, 1989, 9PM, Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my old shit" - Mark Cohen from Rent

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There are days that the five minute drive home from work is not long enough. Usually those days have been especially frustrating, emotionally taxing, draining, and/or all of the above. Those are the days that I am highly tempted to drive anywhere but home so that maybe at some point on the drive I can at least pull over somewhere pretty to just sob my eyes out and sit doubled over until my stomach decides to stop hurting. Otherwise I don't want to eat, I don't want to do anything but curl up

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Before I say anything let me preface this with a statement warning that this blog will talk about depression and suicide. If that is something your either uncomfortable about or cant handle this is the point that you should stop reading and move on.

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We think you'll come back to today's story.

We Were Bunnies
[Mystery] [Slice of Life] • 5,231 words

Fluttershy asks Twilight what happens after death. Or if there is anything that occurs before life. The answer, it turns out, is complicated.

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I AM ACTIVELY WORKING ON 15! I PROMISE!

I just had a very silly idea that was light hearted and shippy, and fit in really well with Hearts and Hooves Day, so I decided to write it. It was kind of fun to write something that wasn't super deep, but still explored some interesting themes.

I just wanted to let folks know I was still working on Speak! This was just something I wrote up in a sugar fuelled fit of insanity on Hearts and Hooves Day!

This is a song with the same four chords
I use most of the time
When I've got something on my mind
And I don't want to squander the moment
Trying to come up with a better way
To say what I want to say - "You Were Cool" by The Mountain Goats

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I had to do some major revisions to 17, but I got off of my lazy butt to do them. The last few pages of the chapter ended up pushing it past my normal 10k-ish word count, so... there's that? Also I'm moving to nights in September, which will free up a lot of time to do work on Speak. And my goal is to get a chapter out every 3 weeks. Hopefully. Maybe?

please put away your duct tape I'm working on 18 already, too!

7:30 am: Still can't sleep. Get out of bed, take shower.
8:30 am: Check computer.
9:15 am: Go to Denny's.
10 am: Regret going to Denny's.
10:40 am: Finally get back to room and change into real clothes for the day.
11:00 am: Make note of which episodes that Larson and Rogers worked on so I can reference it during panel to maybe ask for questions or elaborations from stuff they worked on.
11:15 am: Get to room for first panel. See Xepher and meet Pen Stroke.

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GM Berrow: I'm still at the airport.

Heartshine: Okay, so, she's going to be late. So, how do you write female characters?

Amy Keating Rogers: Women are people. Just write them like people.

MA Larson: What she said.

*insert 58 minutes of making fun of Spike here*