It pains me, perhaps more than I can articulate, to have a flawed work out there. It reflects badly on me, and the ideas and themes I want to convey. I want to change everything I've written to be at a certain level of quality that I expect from myself. For the past months I've been going through and doing that, the last being at CH 33.

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Act One of When the Everfree Burns has been fully rewritten. About another 50,000 words, major theming, character motivation, and dialogue changes. Minor changes to the overall course of the plot. Some chapters, like the Bridge chapters, have been rearranged. I'll make a comprehensive list of changes later. Check back later for that if you care. Right now I'm just upset with my perseverance to take it this far and happy its over.

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I seems to have a crippling compulsion not to get work done. In fact, I am just so repulsed by the things I should be doing right now that I make tasks for myself to avoid it. So, I'm going to look through all the blogs I've made and fix a few of the broken image links and things in them.Actually, I'm not going to do that stuff right now. I'm just going to distract myself for a few seconds by typing out his blog, wasting precious seconds and key-taps which otherwise could go into my research

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Heyoo! I have come once again to give you a map. From the last one, we shift East and slightly South, to new horizons in cartographic adventure.

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It's finally happened. People are starting to call me out when I say "I'm writing, don't bother me!". Hunching protectively over my sketchbook instead of my computer might make people think twice about bothering me though. What's more dangerous, a troubled author or a troubled artist. Well, let's just say I ain't never seen the literary analog to a red splatter painting.

Chapter 43-50 Spoilers!

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There's nothing like a good map. Showing detail without clutter, conveying scale and shape to the reader accurately or artistically. Truly it's been a hope of mine to create a great map.

Well, I gave it a good shot.

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I tried my hand at the fairest form of creativity once again, with expectedly bad results. So If you think you can control your gag reflex for long enough to survey my crappy, self-congratulatory fan art, continue.

Warning: Act 2 spoilers

Ancepanox

This may or may not have involved some plagerization from pics I found of Nightmare Moon. I hope I can eventually refine one of these enough to make it the cover art.

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Hey Everybody, it’s the update you didn’t even know you wanted. The best fanfiction to ever besmirch the name of MLP: FiM has just undergone major renovations!

Oh wait, that's not it. It’s (cue Drum roll):

WHEN THE EVERFREE BURNS: 2.0

THE LP RELEASE

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Things SpiritDutch is Bad at:
Metaphor
Going the Speed Limit
Soldering Irons
Digital Art

On the subject of the last item, I tried doing some art for Everfreee Burns. I've drawn things by hand for pretty much my whole life. On the computer... Note so much.

Warning: It's not great. I'm using my mouse to draw because I don't have a digital art pad yet. That's something I'll probably look to getting sooner or later.

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