Have you ever thought to yourself "I'm really, really dumb"? Cause that's how I'm feeling right now.

I put up Monsters Never Die and, as requested by some in the comments, I wrote an epilogue that I had in mind. And then I thought it wasn't good enough.

So I did a little agonizing over it, and a little tiny editing, and then I all but abandoned it in GDocs folder for over a year. Just like the first chapter.

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Recently I made a rendition of Luna's Song of the Night for Monochomatic's amazing story The Enchanted Kingdom. I thought it came out alright, so I guess I should leave it here.
Honestly it's a wonderful story, up there with my favorites on this site, and everyone should read her series. And the final book in the story is starting!

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I'm trying something new this year. Aptly enough, I started it as a New Years Resolution. I resolved to, among working out and practicing music, write every day. I had hoped that it would help me actually make progress on the stories I've had languishing unpublished in my folders for years now, and it has. What I didn't anticipate is how effective it would be for fighting through writer's block.

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I've found I'm less creative when I watch videos in the morning. I've woken up with a wonderful idea, but with each successive video I watch I can feel the ideas draining away, and the motivation being sapped.

Until, at the end, the only thing I feel motivated to do is watch more videos.

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I know it's kind of a trope, and people are using it less now, but I still see Plot Armor come up every now and then so I thought I'd put my two cents in on the subject.

When a character has Plot Armor it's generally taken that they are invaluable to the story and thus we can feel safe in the assumption that they will be around until the end. I would argue that that is largely true-- with one caveat: Plot Armor makes one invaluable to the story but beatings still apply.

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So I sat down to (finally) start catching up on season 5 and I've noticed that, in this season more than others, I've a hard time getting through some episodes. Now at first I thought it was because I hate it when characters do something stupid, though I do maintain that it is terrible shame when such things happen, but while watching the first Big Mac/Apple Bloom scene in Brotherhooves Social I realized something. What I often defined as 'stupidity' was when characters seemed to open

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Something I've noticed that I abhor in stories is shipping without support. Where two characters without an established history, usually an OC and one of the Main 6 in the case of MLP, are shown to be romantically involved. This usually goes along the lines of: An OC is introduced and shown to be Interesting/unique for some reason ==> We receive a scene and some background info on the OC ==> The Main 6/Pony In Question is called in for whatever reason ==> Quickly followed by a

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So I found the animation There She Is!! today, the story that Derp She Is!! PMV was based off of and I couldn't help but love it! I'm not sure why I'm throwing words at you all, I just had to express how amazing this was. The story is told almost entirely without words (at least ones I can understand) but it's very easy to to see what's going on

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Everything that has a beginning, has an end. As the waves lap the shore slowly does the beach wash into the ocean until, while the sun sets one final time, we stare into the blackening void and think upon what we have left behind.

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So I just finished the fic Rainbow Typhoon (which is a really good fic and you should read it) and it got me thinking.

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