I'm back from Norway, so I can get to writing again. (The wedding was fine, and Oslo was pretty, but I'm glad to be home, travel is exhausting.) The good news is that I think my funk is over, and I can actually make progress again. Took me long enough.

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So it appears I can comfortably manage to write about 10k words a week, plus a few thousand more if I’m on a roll. Which is roughly 1400 words a day. That’s unacceptable. “Wait, what the hell?” I hear you cry out. “That’s like an entire story, every day! How is that unacceptable!?” Well, you person who probably didn’t say that. There’s a bit of backstory to that number, or more importantly, to the number 1,667. Waaaaay back in 2006, my sister introduced me to a little thing called

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Two short sessions leads to two short chapter updates. Well, short for me. My first story (The Mask of Despair and the Face of Hope) I had intended to be only 50k-60k. It ballooned up to double that. Even my short story (What do you Think?) was supposed to be under 5k words, and ended up being 7k. I also never intended the first

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Freaking. Yak.

I didn't make up most of his jokes. Those were right out of the player's mouth. He really did say "Yak will sleep with Pony." He really did attack the unlocked door after it was already being opened. Tiny really did challenge the Yak to a damage-off on the Helmed Horror (the animated armor, none of them were able to identify it) Red won. (It was resistant to physical damage, not Fire)

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I’m writing this blog for giggles, and in case anyone bothers to read “The Elements of Tyranny” and wants to know what it is we are doing.

We’re playing the Planeshift: Equestria homebrew thing that popped up on EQD a while ago. It’s pretty adorable, although it’s got some nasty balance issues.

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