The Thousand Year Romance Of Clover The Clever, by Benman

Clover the Clever has found a love so pure and true that no pony can stop it. But even the greatest love cannot conquer death itself.

So Clover will keep looking until she finds something that can.

I've heard it said that the difference between being a writer, and someone who writes... Is that the former can't /not/ write.

My computer's back in the shop to swap out a dodgy hard drive (for a new one 30 times the size), so that I'm keyboardless - my only input device is my phone's on-screen keyboard, impossible to touch-type with.

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Happy 2013, for those of you using Gregorian reckoning and not, say, the Tranquility Calendar. :)

I'm settling back into a decent writing groove - I've been getting at least a thousand words a day down for the last few days, and increasing that number as time goes on. At this rate, in a week or two I'll finish this non-"Myou've" story in good order, post it, and will then be just about ready to jump back into the Myou've groove.

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I've got my outline down, and an initial draft of part of the first chapter. I can see that it could be better - it's entirely possible none of what I've written so far will make it into the final draft, since I'm not committing myself to post anything before I'm done editing. But I'm pleased with myself; it may not be the 2k/day I was powering through as I rocketed through the first few dozen chapters of "Myou've", but there's a /much/ larger difference between zero and one than there is

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The bad news - no significant progress on "Myou've".

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The main inspiration for my trying to write "Myou've" was, of course, Eliezer Yudkowsky's "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Today, he posted chapter 86 of his story, which was a lovely read...

... and in the notes accompanying that update, he lists a variety of fan-art for HPMOR... and other stories exploring "similar rationalist themes" - including "Myou've".

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My schedule's shifted again, and for the first time in a long while, I was able to take a nice, long walk, a couple of hours worth...

... and for the first time in far too long, I've been able to come up with some ideas which, when I wrote them down, I didn't immediately want to delete.

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Posted to FimFiction here, I've already had the pleasure of reading the draft version. It's completely different from "Myou've", but if you like "Myou've", you'll probably like "Optimal". It starts with Equestria being a MMORPG with procedurally-generated content... and, avoiding spoilers, ramps up to an ending that is, very possibly, the Best Possible Outcome. Iceman writes better than I do, too.

Yes, I'm playing with it in my various spare minutes. No, I'm not spending a cent on it.

There are in-game rewards for connecting with other players - and I'm using the same username there as here, so feel free to friend me.

Anyone want to start writing fanfic based on the game's storyline and events, rather than the cartoon's?

Crappity crap crap.

I finally managed to finish plotting out the next chapter of "Myou've", I blocked out enough time to type it out, I hauled my laptop to my friendly neighbourhood coffee shop to avoid all the distractions of my bookshelves...

... And my laptop's hard drive craps out.

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