So Friday I learned, before I even was really awake, that my friend's cat has cancer, and probably has months to live. This was particularly distressing for me, not only because I am a cat person, but also because I lost my cat this past year (on my birthday, no less). I had had him for years, and he helped me through some rough times.

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I made myself depressed while writing a chapter.

And not in the 'oh, I'm such a terrible writer, this is crap' way, either.

No, I had an idea for a chapter, and was playing out a scene in my head, and got depressed by what the characters were going through.

The fictional characters I was writing.

Going through the events I was putting them through.

And I got depressed.

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Some people should not be allowed out of the house.

I am an unabashed, and (somewhat) unashamed shipper. I ship. It's what I do. My very first fanfic at ffnet, I Can't Fall in Love, was a Teen Titans ship fic. (Yes, I ship the birds. I ship the birds so hard.) It's also secretly a song fic, but that's a different conversation.

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I'm working on one story while trying to creating the framework for two more. The problem is I'm feeling a bit lost in the stories. I have some decent ideas, but they aren't crystallizing into what I feel would make an arc.

I'm not someone who can write chapter at a time and just let it be. I've read stories that feel like they're written that way, and they always end up losing me. They feel directionless after a while, like they are adding more stuff without having a point.

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Luna changes her speech to include the archaic informals when she considers someone a friend. This happens with Twilight after the trip to the moon, but happens with all the Elements of Harmony. The only pony she always uses them with is Celestia, for what I hope are obvious reasons.

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In case you were curious, Greek has four words for 'Love'. Philia is the word for love which implies friendship or sibling-hood. Eros, as I hope is obvious, is romantic or passionate love. (Fear not. I have no plans of delving into erotic fiction. Write what you know, ya know?) Storge (which I mistakenly had as stogé, but I caught and fixed it), is the love between parent and child.

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So, I'm working on my next story as can. It will be a significant departure for me in several ways.

First and foremost, it has an OC. I've never done an OC before. Mostly I've avoided them, partly because I never really had a good idea for one, and partly because I was afraid of going Mary Sue all over the place.

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I Watch the Moon continues to get good comments and overwhelming approval. In contrast, Heat Death, my first story here, has almost no views, six likes, and three dislikes.

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It is an odd dichotomy that the more compliments I get about what I wrote, the more I feel tempted to change the story to reflect the feedback I'm getting. I have this odd feeling that hopes for my story are so high that I can't help but let people down.

Silly, I know.

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I just wanted to take a moment and say that you are all awesome. I've gotten more, better feedback on I Watch the Moon than on anything else I've ever written. Even the... less than glowing comments have been fair, and not nearly as snarky as I'd feared.

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