I had an interesting experience over the last week. I had recently renewed a discussion with another blogger regarding (in a roundabout way) Princess Luna, and an alternate potential ending to the series that another writer proposed in a story. The blogger asked me to propose how this alternate ending would have played out, and I did, to a less than enthusiastic reception.

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Today I did something that was probably way overdue, I trimmed down the number of stories that I was following. I wasn't that I wasn't still interested in the stories on the list, but I had to conclude that those stories probably weren't going anywhere. Some of them I moved to my favorites list, but others I cut lose.

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Having gotten the latest chapter of "The Blue and the Gray" out and into the world, I find myself turning once again to my other active story, "Danger Close". I'm thinking that I can make some progress on that over the next couple of weeks, having finally gotten a critical character a bit more sorted out. Which is a good thing, because I seem to find myself rereading a lot of my own work these days. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe I'm still just a bit surprised that I was able to produce

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How has everyone handled the new plague? I have to ask, given that it has come way too close to yours truly. It happened a bit over a week ago, at a car show. It turned out that my nephew had covid, and wasn't feeling quite right, but went to the show anyway. I went too, making sure to wear my mask as much as I could. We hung out, and I think that I had the mask on most of the time, but I can't testify to it. He mentioned at the time that he wasn't feeling well, and I think that I suggested

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I have finally moved forward on "The Blue and The Gray", though it's a big one, over 5000 words. I've never written a chapter that long before, and I have to wonder if the length will be a turnoff. I know that it has been an issue for me at times, but I really don't have an editor to help me par it down, and I have no idea if it could be shortened and keep it's meaning. So, lets see how it's received.

I'm making reasonably decent progress on two of my stories, and if I stay with it, I should be able to post something new soon. In the course of working on "The Blue and the Grey" though, I find myself with a dilemma. At the end of the last chapter, I made the choice to introduce a canon character as a potential antagonist, namely Chancellor Neighsay. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I realize that it has just made things more complicated. The problem is that I haven't seen most

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I'm continuing to plow forward as best I can, trying to find ways to amuse myself while I watch this thing develop. This is definitely revealing all the flaws in how I live day to day. My long term underemployment thing continues, which I am thankful for (God knows I don't need to be sitting around any more than I do), but this thing has seriously cut back on the little things I used to do to amuse myself. I now find myself sitting in front of the computer way too much, or watching the news way

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As I write this day, I'm hearing more news about the virus that is making our lives so complicated these days. As you can imagine, it hasn't been good news. In fact it sounds like a borderline clusterfuck. I don't know who to blame for this, or if it's worth trying to narrow it down right now, but it is discouraging. I've seen any number of people on Facebook posting their activities, seemingly bragging about not taking the whole situation seriously. Personally though, I don't have that luxury,

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Yesterday, just as a change of pace, I shut off my access to adult rated stories. I know, it's not the best choice, as I will miss out on some stories that deal with mature themes. But I was just getting turned off by all the porn that seems to proliferating on the site (or at least that's what it looks like). And I get that it's a major part of the fanbase, and I'm not advocating the idea of turning everything here into G rated fluff. (And I do read some of it, and not just for the drama) But

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Of the three stories that I have going right now, I've decided today to do some work on "Danger Close". The next chapter though is going to be tricky, as I have to balance the actual threat from the Storm King Invasion with the tedious process that the defenders have to use in a situation of limited communications to discover the threat. The scenario kind of reminds of the Pearl Harbor attack, where a fairly vague warning was delayed due to telegraph issues, while an actual warning was ignored

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