So apparently surprise visits from in-laws are bad for schedules. Who knew, right?

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Quick update time! Once again channeling my inner Sparkle, I've made myself a fairly aggressive schedule for the remainder of Perfect For Me. I know I can keep it if nothing else distracts me though. Tonight was the deadline for finalizing the overall plot progression. I met that. I've given myself until the end of the weekend to tinker with the details, and then it's time to write again. As of next week I'll be writing first draft material on the weeknights, and editing and publishing each

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Quick, name a few of the most important things every story should have. If your list included "a plot", you win an imaginary pony.

Now guess how I got myself writer's block 1/3 of the way through Perfect For Me. If you guessed plot again, have another pony.

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Still fighting with writer's block, but I'm trying to keep the creative process... if not necessarily flowing, at least not entirely stagnant. So I've been indulging random ideas with short, one-shot scenes. Ponies Visit McDonald's was one, although when that hit a thousand words, I went ahead and published it. Here's one that didn't hit that mark. Which is probably for the best.

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Somewhere past the sun and the moon and even the stars, there is a world where the sky is green and the ground is blue and the trees grow upside-down. Inside that world is a little sun, and all the leaves of the upside-down trees stretch toward it day and night, for day and night are not times there, but places. Creatures frolic and play in the daylight inside, and when they are tired they return to their cool, dark homes in the wide open night to sleep.

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My original plans of starting the story by Valentine's Day got derailed by an emergency in the extended family, and I've spent the week a few states from home and quite busy. But it's finally wrapping up now, and I'm starting to publish Perfect For Me. The first chapter is 1.8k words, only half or so of what I originally wanted to include with the initial post, but at this point I just wanted to get something out again to get back into the swing of things. I'll be heading home tomorrow, and

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So, I just gave FIMFiction another terrible human-meets-pony story. As if it needed more. (Not that they're all terrible. The good ones are all but buried in the bad, though.) That's inspiration for you, I guess. Fickle creature. At least I had fun - and I'm exaggerating when I say it's terrible. I'm sure some folks will enjoy it! I dunno if I'll keep writing it, but it's out there now in case I get any more ideas for it. Should make its way through the queue soon.

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Apparently I've become enamored with Terry Pratchett's writing style, because I've caught myself going off on circuitous tangents or inserting semi-relevant footnotes with a frankly alarming frequency in Perfect For Me. It's funny when he does it - but I'm no Pratchett. This can't possibly end well. I mean, really, a footnote in a tangent? This is getting out of hoof.

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Well, that was fun. I can't even describe how pleased I am that so many people enjoyed A Perfectly Ordinary Day in Ponyville. Pony fanfiction writing is my first foray into really creating my own content in, like, a decade, so having readers is a totally new experience to me. I hit the Publish button in the hopes that I could brighten some people's days with what I thought was a pretty well written and fairly funny story. Seeing my faith in my own abilities justified like this, and

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As I write this, my new story (a 4.5k-word one-shot) has just been submitted to the moderation queue. Hopefully it'll be immediately clear what I meant by being "unoriginal" - it's a parody! (If you see anything in there that looks like it's targeting your own story, rest assured that it's probably because I'm tracking it. I poke fun out of affection, not malice!) And now the question once again arises, what to do next? I'm thinking I should try to dig into my biggest idea, a novel-sized

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