For the record: no, the fact that I took the numbers off my profile name and am now just plain ol' "Aquaman" is not the main point of this blog post. I'm just hungry and terrible at coming up with titles. Sue me. Actually, there are two things I really want to talk about: the first, of course, is Harmony, and the second is the quick new project I'm working on that will push back my starting Part 3 of the Farmer's Market level by about a week.

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I think the best excuse I will ever have for not working on Harmony on a particular day is, "I screwed around with a survey my school sent out and posted it on Reddit, and it spent most of last night on the front page of r/funny".

Anyway, expect a new chapter by the end of next week.

Seriously. I finally got in a routine and was churning out 800-1,000 words a day this whole week.

And then yesterday, I finally got a working copy of Borderlands.

It's been fun, guys. I may never turn the Xbox off again.

(Really, though, I'm getting close to being post-ready.)

So let's go over this real quick.

NaPoWriMo: worked on three stories; didn't finish one, barely started the other beyond outlining, and am unabashedly ashamed of the third one. Nowhere near the word count. Barely wrote at all in the last week and a half thanks to college move-in and orientation.

NATG 2: finished Day 1 and Day 6 prompts, and then completely forgot about it. Same time problems as before.

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Well, it's finally August: the month of the new Artists Training Grounds, National Pony Writing Month, and my first few days in college. A lot of people will be participating in those events, and some might even be doing two at the same time. But predicting the prodigious plans of the world's premier pony penners are not why I'm making this post, nor am I making this post to inform you that some of them might be participating in more than one event.

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Two things: first of all, in my eagerness to just finally get something posted for the first time in [I probably don't need to repeat this time again], I completely forgot to add the loading screen/teaser for the next section of the story. I've already added it to the end of "Welcome to Harmony - Part 4", but since there are probably many of you that wouldn't have known without this post, here it is:

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So as some of you may know, I moonlight as a EqD pre-reader/email sorter-outer sometimes when the Happy Bluebird of Initiative visits me. I've always thought they were a strange bunch--oddly obsessed with hoses and autoerotic asphyxiation*--but late last night their shenanigans took a horrifying turn for the exhausting. In the dead of night, they took me from my office, tied me up, slapped me in the face with one of their hose things, and then sat me down in front of a laptop and made me sit

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Guess what?

But I'm about to start doing productive things later. So that's good.

In the meantime, have Norwegian people being fucking insane.

That is all.

Still here: http://www.livestream.com/aquaman52

Crisis averted.

So hi, first of all. I'm back in the United States again, a few shades tanner and about 350 euros lighter in the pocket. And that means that I have access to both a) a laptop, and b) actual time for writing things of a pony nature. Thought I'd start off with that.

Secondly, if you click on over to my user page and check out the date on my bio box, you'll see something a little special. That's right, you crazy rapscallions. It's my account's birthday.

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