As I continue to work on the first chapter of my second story, I took a moment to take yet another look at my first story. It was actually the second one I had written for the site, but the first one was just way too much of a copy of the most of the stories I had read, so I didn't publish it. In reading back through story two, I noticed several minor errors in how I had written the dialogue. They weren't serious ones, but they annoyed me some, and I was tempted to make corrections. But, there

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On a slow day last week, I reviewed the full list of the episodes from all seven completed seasons to get a count of how many I hadn't seen, or hadn't seen all of. I didn't think it would be a lot, but in the end it turned out to be 26. Some of them didn't sound interesting to me from the description, or had stories that bothered me, many times including Starlite. But if one has delusions of writing fan fiction, you really shouldn't do that. So my project for the next week or so is to actually

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These last few weeks, I've found my self with way too much time on my hands due to a recent medical procedure. When I was thinking about ahead of time, I was like "O.K...I can get work done on my latest story." Well, it hasn't been that simple. Instead of being incredibly productive, I've found myself spending way too much time on Facebook and YouTube. The boredom has been just too much. I guess if nothing else, it all shows that I need more ways to distract myself. So, all I can say is that

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I'm making good progress on the next chapter of my latest story, and I expect to post it probably in a week give or take. This story has caused me to adopt a rather unusual method for writing, in that I start out on a conventional Word document, and then transfer it to the site to finish. It has the advantage of getting me away from my little laptop, and allows me to work on my story from anywhere that I can sign into. I think that the white on dark grey format that I use here on the site is

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I've been looking over things recently, and I must say that I am pleasantly surprised to see the level of activity on this site after so many changes over the years. I'm also surprised at how the Gen 5 stories are doing here. It seems like things will not peter out on this site anytime soon.

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I find myself awake and reasonably alert at 3:30am, contemplating the nature of existence. But is there really a point to it? I'm currently obsessing over a medical procedure that I'm facing next week, namely prostate surgery. For those of you too young to give it much thought, it's said that if you live long enough, you will have at least some issue or other with your prostate. Mine unfortunately is the type that requires intervention. I put it off initially, but there comes a time when one

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Finally put out the final chapter of my story a couple of days ago, and I think that I'm ready to try something at least a bit different. It took over a year on the last one, and that's a long time to have the same story bouncing around in your head. Actually, I pretty much knew what I wanted to do with it for at least the last six months, but how to it was always the question.

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I'm continuing to plow forward as best I can, trying to find ways to amuse myself while I watch this thing develop. This is definitely revealing all the flaws in how I live day to day. My long term underemployment thing continues, which I am thankful for (God knows I don't need to be sitting around any more than I do), but this thing has seriously cut back on the little things I used to do to amuse myself. I now find myself sitting in front of the computer way too much, or watching the news way

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In the last couple of days, I've finally began the process of moving forward with my writing. Hearing that may excite some and bum out others, as I have noticed that I can be very wordy compared to other writers out there. I think that looking back, even though I was introducing an original character and a new concept in "The Blue and the Grey" (namely the Royal Flying Corps), I really could have used an editor to help keep me from rambling so much and help me cut to the chase.

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Finally got the next chapter out, and I'm looking forward to finishing my first story in the next few weeks. I have been tempted to try other ideas, but I've seen way too many incomplete stories out there, and I don't want to take a chance on this being one of them.

Yesterday, I decided to take the plunge on what will be my fourth story, which will be a sequel to "The Good Fight". I can't help but wonder if it's a good idea to move into new territory with two other stories sitting incomplete. The idea for this one has been buzzing around in my head for quite awhile. And with the other two still needing some serious thought, partly because of the fact that they're connected to each other subject wise, maybe getting this new one off my to do list will help.

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As some of you may have noticed, (though thankfully not too many of you) I recently pulled down one of my blogs. It wasn't much, though I put a lot into it. It was my attempt to talk at least a bit about what seemed to me to be a rather nasty sounding story. But it seemed a bit much for me to take on. Lord knows I am in no way an expert on much of anything, and I have no business giving advice.

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As I write this day, I'm hearing more news about the virus that is making our lives so complicated these days. As you can imagine, it hasn't been good news. In fact it sounds like a borderline clusterfuck. I don't know who to blame for this, or if it's worth trying to narrow it down right now, but it is discouraging. I've seen any number of people on Facebook posting their activities, seemingly bragging about not taking the whole situation seriously. Personally though, I don't have that luxury,

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How has everyone handled the new plague? I have to ask, given that it has come way too close to yours truly. It happened a bit over a week ago, at a car show. It turned out that my nephew had covid, and wasn't feeling quite right, but went to the show anyway. I went too, making sure to wear my mask as much as I could. We hung out, and I think that I had the mask on most of the time, but I can't testify to it. He mentioned at the time that he wasn't feeling well, and I think that I suggested

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In the last few weeks, I actually managed to get a bit more of both "The Blue and the Grey" and "Danger Close" out there. I figure that "The Blue and the Grey" has probably two more chapters to go, but I really don't have a final idea for "Danger Close" yet. I'd like to finish these darn things, but the last thing that I want is something rushed, or just plain abandoned. I've read a story like that, where a complex setup went in the course of one chapter to "and they all lived happily ever

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Today I did something that was probably way overdue, I trimmed down the number of stories that I was following. I wasn't that I wasn't still interested in the stories on the list, but I had to conclude that those stories probably weren't going anywhere. Some of them I moved to my favorites list, but others I cut lose.

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I had a rude shock today as I was prowling through the options on Netflix. I came across MLP:FIM and noticed that the number of seasons available for viewing had shrunk, from the first eight to the first four. This, as you can imagine, was a very unwelcome revelation, as I had always thought that "Someday..." I was going to sit down and watch the episodes that I had missed, or just plain skipped, over the years.

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I discovered just yesterday that a favorite ongoing story that I've been following has been declared complete. Normally, that would be a good thing, not of course because you want to see it end, but because of the sense of achievement that the author must feel. But unfortunately, the ending that we got was actually because of lost interest, and changing circumstances which forced an obviously premature conclusion.

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I've been following some of the chatter about the most recent season, mainly because I've been reluctant to watch it. It seems odd when you look back at it, to create the School of Friendship, and introduce us to the Young Six, and then push them to the sidelines because their headmare is about to become ruler of Equestria. And are we really to believe that our heroes will still be able to live their lives, continue to teach, and also rule Equestria in some capacity alongside Twilight? It was

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Was reading the comments section of a clopfic (which I am prone to do before deciding whether to go further) and I was struck by a passage that hoped somehow for cosmic justice. I have seen several stories over my time on this site that left me wishing for the same thing, which is hardly a comment meant for all clopfics. But let's face it, some of those stories are pretty hardcore.

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