In "Blueblood, This Is Your Life!" I changed language about Cadance being related to Sombra to being related to Amore, since later on I decided to accept the Umbrum backstory for Sombra.

This is minor enough I wouldn't even bother to bring it up, except that someone, who I think might have been DannyJ, called my attention to the inconsistency when the chapter about Sombra and the Element of Hatred came out. So, fixed!

Damn thing is long enough that I may actually be out of the 52 Project and able to work on it by the time I finish. :-)

It's my first priority once I can write fanfic again. At this point, I've taken enough hiatus weeks that the project's completion has pushed out to the first week of May rather than right before April.

Nothing written Dec. 2

2678 words on Not the Hero Dec. 3, and the chapter's finished today! I'll put it up tomorrow, I need to read through the whole thing and edit it.

So. I achieved half a Nano -- 25K words on my original novel -- while also sneaking in another 15K on things like The Rise of Chaos and some ficlets. What I learned is that it's really hard for me to stick to writing just one thing in a month.

So this month I'm going to write what I want, but my aim is mostly to write things I can post online, which means catching up on some MLP fanfics!

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I've written a total of 41K words this year, 6500 of them this August. This is pathetic. Three years ago I broke 400K in a year; this year to pull that off I'd have to write 3000 words a day for the rest of the year, which... is obviously not going to happen.

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Actually it's tomorrow. The hair's been gone for a while. I just really wanted to use that header.

It turns out I am actually a unicorn, but off-centered. Without any hair it becomes obvious that I have a very tiny horn sticking up out of the left side of my head. I am not joking. Look.

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I had kind of hoped to have the new chapter of Not the Hero out by now, but it's kicking my ass. It's a piece that's objectively not all that difficult, but it's hard for me to pull it off.

So I've been in failover mode. And since I am more or less on schedule for Year of Holidays, I decided to fail over to Elements of Opposition, and that's going a lot better.

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For those of you who are subscribed to my Patreon, I have the second piece of Chapter 23 of Not the Hero up tonight, the recruitment of Diamond Tiara. There's plenty more of this chapter to go before I'm done so I'm not sure when I'll be posting next here, but at least I can report it's in progress again.

I just have to edit and format for BB code and post.

I am finally done with the Chapter to Eat All Chapters, which will be broken into multiple chapters. Right now I don't know if it will be 2 chapters or 3.

Once I'm done editing and figuring out where the break(s) go, the first one is going up.

I'm re-reading Not the Hero and finding a number of places where I say one thing and then contradict it later because I've been writing this story for 2 years now, and this is the story where I do a lot of exposition and worldbuilding. (Elements of Opposition doesn't have this problem to nearly the same extent because there's a lot less general worldbuilding going on, No Escape From Yourself just isn't long enough yet, and so forth.) Most of it is really minor crap, like Discord positively

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I love writing this guy.

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This is recorded from Discord's tooth as he enters a Changeling hive in the nation of Hayre (as in Eire, or Ireland) to question them. (This is not Chrysalis' hive; we've seen them already by this point in the story, but I'm not going to spoiler any of that.)

Excuse me! Excuse me, sir! Or ma’am, or whatever you are, I can never gender you Changelings properly. Can you tell me –
--No, that is what we call rude. You do not try to mob the draconequus for asking—

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I admit it, I spend a lot of time fantasizing about killing Anon. I mean, I’m only going to actually do it if it turns out that I can and it’s the only thing that will work – I’d honestly prefer to stop him without bloodshed if possible. (This is a filthy lie and I should wash my mouth out with apple cider, which I’m doing right now. But there’s a difference between what I want, in my gloriously chaotic and impulsive heart, and what I feel is the best thing for me to do. Admittedly, most of the

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This is kind of how I imagined Discord's original draft of the journal that is Not the Hero looked like (the first few paragraphs), except it would also randomly go off the edge of the page and then double back backwards, or run down, or run up, or have huge gaps, plus there are a lot of places where instead of a word he drew something, and I can't replicate it in the limited HTML here (down, for instance, being an arrow pointing down.)

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I just lost an hour's worth of work on Discord's meeting with Gilda in Not The Hero because freaking Microsoft decided to do a Windows Update while I was in the middle of writing, without notifying me, so quickly that the damn thing didn't even have time to autosave!

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Because the purpose of an Element of Disharmony, as borne by an authorized agent of Chaos, is to instill that element in others or use that element in others to stir up disharmony, the Elements all individually grant magical abilities. Elements of Harmony mostly don't; they may have a slight effect in inspiring others to exemplify the element, but Applejack doesn't seem to make anyone but her family members, who were already inclined to honesty, more honest, and Rainbow Dash doesn't seem to

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The real reason Discord knows about the minor "villains" well enough to recruit them into his Elements of Disharmony is he went to Anon's world, which is how he knows that in Anon's world the ponies are a cartoon... because he watched it.

I needed him to have seen Seasons 1 and 2, Crystal Empire, Too Many Pinkie Pies, and that is it.

I went and found which DVDs he got!

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Well, I was worried for a while there. For three days I underperformed -- less than 2000 words a day -- and then for another three days I wrote nothing at all. This seemed likely to throw a huge monkeywrench in my plan to work my way up to 2500 words a day.

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The first written 3,000 words or so of the next chapter of The Last Draconequus is available as paid content on my Patreon account. There will be outlines for the next two chapters of that story posted there sometime this week.

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