So, I’ve been planning this for more than 10 years. But because I’m obsessed with numbers, I felt like I needed a round number (round in this case, being even, multiple of 5, or 17). And finally, 2020 showed up and I’m like “there will never be a better number in my lifetime”, but I wasn’t going to be ready by Jan 1st. So decided I’d launch in March. But I was sick most of February. So I decided May. And then like three days ago I realized… no. Everyone is stuck at home looking for things to

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I think Discord named these, or some of them anyway.

Terra Fabula -- The Earth of Equestria (which they call Earth when they refer to the planet, and in fact most planets are called Earth.)

Terra Mundi -- A mundane, magicless world. Our world, the human world of Not the Hero, the human world of Ice, and the human world of the thing I am working on right now that I should not be working on because I have too many incompletes already but here we go.

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Damn, I thought we were over this.

I am really not at all fond of characters being assassinated and made significantly more awful than canon has ever implied them to be, for the purpose of giving them a horrible death at the hands/hooves of the heroes that we're all supposed to clap for because the character was so horrible in the story.

Also the misuse of "chaos" to mean "evil". Come on, aren't we done with this yet?

Finishing up the second chapter of "The Goose Is On The Loose", in which the goose torments the Apple family. I should have it out today or tomorrow.

Almost since I first got into the fandom, in fact.

When I first came up with the plot for Stumble in My Footsteps, there was a particular climactic scene that basically ends the part of the story where I know what happens, and past that we are in totally uncharted territory.

I wrote that scene tonight.

The chapter will be posted tomorrow because it's too late for editing tonight, but I wanted to share the achievement with y'all.

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It has nothing to do with MLP, although it does have anthropomorphic sapient animals, who are clearly distinguished from the non-sapient kind. (So far I have Cats, Dogs, Mice, and Parrots have been mentioned; this is intended to be the first book in a series, so other animals may make it into later books, possibly even Ponies.) Humans exist in it too and co-exist with the sapient animals.

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The house looks like a barn, but it's a house. None of the maps I've found or screenshots show an actual separate building in a place that's reasonable to find a barn, but... they're a farm. They've gotta have a barn. And I feel like I've seen the inside of it, maybe in a CMC episode?

This is important to know because I have a certain asshole goose friend who needs to know where the barn is.

That is all.

I'm doing real well this December with the writing -- averaging around 1700 words per day, and trying to work my way back to the completely ridiculous and overly ambitious goal of 3,000 a day.

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Nothing written Dec. 2

2678 words on Not the Hero Dec. 3, and the chapter's finished today! I'll put it up tomorrow, I need to read through the whole thing and edit it.