George Orwell once said that "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness."

By contrast, writing a 14 thousand word story about cartoon ponies is pretty awesome.

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I die a little inside whenever I see a Button Mash story with a "sex" tag.

Mostly because that's not the right way to use "thou".

Quick history lesson before I get to the practical gist of this.

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This is how I always feel:

"That's not a word!"

My current editors are all lovely people, by the way, so don't worry about that. But I was looking through some older stuff and noticed this. There's a line in TPP that goes "Wet. It’s the first thing I can remember. "

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I'm of two minds about FIMFiction allowing you to edit chapters after they've been published. On one hand, it helps a ton with grammar or stylistic mistakes you might have missed in pre-publishing. I'd be lying if I said I didn't occasionally need it.

On the other point, it feels kind of dishonest to edit out inconvenient plot points.

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