Ten Years ago today, I published the first chapter of "Shipping and Handling" to deviantart, as fimfiction either didn't exist yet or was very, very small at the time. Meant to be just a joke fic playing with the dual meaning of the word "shipping", I hoped a couple readers would get a quick laugh out of it.

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Hi everyone.

I haven't really written much of anything since moving in March. Moving to a new state and new job kind of adjusted my mind to be too busy thinking about new events in my actual life to spend much time thinking about new events in my fictional characters' lives. I really need to mentally dwell in their world for a while to write anything of worth, and only now, months later, my new situation is finally becoming something that feels normal, and I am starting to do that again.

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Hey guys,

I'm still here, though it's been a little while.

You might remember a blog post about two months back where I mentioned I got a new job, and things since then have been a whirlwind of activity as I shifted my life to something entirely different than it was at the beginning of the year. Here's some of what I've been up to!

1. New job - I'm a medical microbiologist now, working at a hospital and testing patients' specimens for pathogens.

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I see my strengths and weaknesses in writing haven't changed.

I've always found it much easier to write a novel than a short story. Which seems a little weird. I figured it was because I needed more time to develop characters and do some worldbuilding, which you don't have much time to do in short stories.

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For the last six and a half years, I've been stuck at a job that has demanded 11+ hours of me 5 days a week, sometimes 6.
It's possible the level of stress and overworking myself contributed to some of the health issues I dealt with in the last two years.

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THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MAGIC OF THE HEART. DON'T READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE BOOK.

It's been about a week now since I posted the conclusion of Magic of the Heart, so today I thought I'd do something fun and give you a window into some of the behind-the-scenes development that went into writing a novel of that length and detail, as well as some fun facts about the characters you might not have realized based on the story alone.

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Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I wrote a little something over on deviantArt called "Shipping and Handling", that was later migrated to fimfiction by popular request.

Now it's 2021, and the tale I set out to tell ten years ago has come to a close, and its story-universe and readerbase have both grown bigger than I ever expected.

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I'm moving the release dates of the final chapter and epilogue up, slightly.

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If you've been reading "Magic of the Heart", it's the moment you've all been waiting for.

On the recent blog post I made, I received unanimous votes to release the finale and the epilogue separately, so that's what I'm going to do.

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At the time of this post, the final chapter of Magic of the Heart is 75% written.

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