I’m a pretty big fan of non-fiction self help books. Especially the audiobook versions read to me at double-speed to the point I probably missed half of what went on. About a third of my audiobooks fit that category.

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There's something about posting on the internet that has the complete ability to scare me to death. And I think I've narrowed down that fear to the fact that I am far more introverted online than I am offline.

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I'm not usually one to contemplate fandom eschatology, but over the last few fimfic archive updates I've been noticing that the average words added each day to FiMfiction has been slowly decreasing. I thought I was witnessing the fandom lose steam as the number of words of fanfic it produced slows down.

But then this last fimfic archive update hit and I couldn't have been more wrong.

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Let me get this out of the way right now: Adding sound effects to fanfic readings takes time. A single sound that a listener may hear once for a half a second could take you upwards of a half an hour to find, edit in, and fine tune to fit exactly how the story is interpreted. But adding sounds can really make your finished product come alive in a way that a normal reading would not be able to accomplish.

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Hello everyone,

I've been working on a story for a while now, and I think I finished it.

I'm looking for someone to preread/edit it. Though I'm not sure if I'm at the proofreading stage yet. I feel like there are scenes I should probably cut, or ideas that should probably be expanded upon more, but I can't tell which one is which.

It's a philosophical piece that delves into some dark places, and clocks in at over 60k words altogether.

And it's a sequel to the Library of Discord.

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Alright, so I've mentioned previously that I have a creativity Twitter account where I'm keeping track of my words.

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What do you call a unicorn with wings? We refer to them as alicorns now, but where did we get that word from anyway? The show staff themselves didn’t know what to call these things, sometimes referring to them as pegacorns.

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The following is an old blog post written in February 2014 that I'm putting here because I don't know where else to put it. I also added some tips at the end I've gleaned since writing this.

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Oh, goodness. Never has a single project used so completely nearly every single talent I have: Illustrator, Photoshop, writing, reading, excel, VBA, Java, not to mention the hours spent watching After Effects tutorials. But it is done!

Please check out that video and especially all the spreadsheets, they're really fun to play around it.

So I finally figured out how to use a JSON parser. Thanks to the fimfic archive this means that I now know with certainty the amount of words of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction that has been written up until April 15, 2014.

925,510,718 words.
We're seriously about to hit a billion words! I love this fandom!

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