I’ve been listening to Writing Excuses by Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells. I always knew about it, but I'm not sure why I didn’t listen to it sooner. It started around 2008, but the stuff they were saying back then still applies to today. Right now they are currently on season ten. I have a lot of catching up to do…

And listening to it, I had an epiphany of sorts.

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By now everypony is passionately engaged in the episode 100 discussion, tossing flaming horseshoes at one another, opening the bowels of Tartarus on other people’s blogs, flirting or sending love letters or perhaps assassins to Hasbro and M.A. Larson, and overall constructing or demolishing the foundation the past 99 episodes firmly stood upon. No, I misspoke. There was no true foundation, because these were (for the most part) background ponies, ponies whose lives were crafted and instituted

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