I'm very excited to be at Everfree Northwest this weekend. The internet is great and all but doing pony stuff in real life is special fun. Come say hi!

There's a park near me that I sometimes go to, with a canal running right through the middle of it. Recently I was wandering through a part of it I don't go to much, far off in a little corner. There the canal turns and that opens up a lovely vista where you can see straight down it and all the land around it.

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Haven't written anything the last few weeks because of wrist pain. Don't take your hands for granted, folks.

At least I've done plenty of reading.

Is it Friday again already? That week went fast; I feel like I hardly had time to read anything. Well, pony stories are something you find the time for nonetheless. Here are the stories I managed to fit into the gaps.

Sanctuary

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I finally got a new story out, hooray! The first draft of this was written last summer in the space of two hours as an entry for Everfree Northwest's Iron Author contest. It's hard to write a good story under severe time constraints like that, but of course you don't have to do things all in one go. The limited time is useful for breaking through writer's block and getting into the mindset of just putting something down. Ideas can be refined, worked with. The blank page is full of possibility,

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Is anyone actually reading these? I can see the views counter, but you just don't get the same kind of feedback with a blog post that you do with a story. There's no likes or notifications of people adding it to their bookshelves. Only comments.

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You know, that "State of the author" never did sit right with me. It sounds so grandiose. I think "Weeknotes" is a better fit in terms of formality. The nice thing about having your own blog is that you can ramble on about whatever shit you want. I can sit here hammering away at the keyboard and make it your problem too. I've been enjoying writing these posts, it's a nice way to while away an evening. This time around, I'm going to hop right into my reading list.

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I'm writing this to procrastinate working on my taxes, so let's have a lovely long chat, shall we? I'm here a week after my last post, but don't take this to be any kind of commitment to a consistent weekly schedule. Just an effort.

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This is the kind of post that I didn't really know what to title. 'State of the Author' works but it's kind of generic. I was considering "Change of Pace" which works in a couple of ways, not least of which is the fact that I'm posting at all. But anyway let's get into it. The title of this doesn't really matter.

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It's a quiet Thursday morning, and I'm making a loaf of bread to have to lunch. It's whole wheat with olive oil and rosemary. Baking bread is something I'm no longer able to do without being reminded of a piece of ancient Roman graffiti preserved at Pompeii: "On April 19th I made bread." Me too, Roman dude, me too.

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