Yesterday, I decided to take the plunge on what will be my fourth story, which will be a sequel to "The Good Fight". I can't help but wonder if it's a good idea to move into new territory with two other stories sitting incomplete. The idea for this one has been buzzing around in my head for quite awhile. And with the other two still needing some serious thought, partly because of the fact that they're connected to each other subject wise, maybe getting this new one off my to do list will help.

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Today I did something that seems wrong, but necessary. I deleted my most recent blog post. Now I know that in theory at least blogs are supposed to me one's thoughts in real time, unvarnished and true. So why does one do such a thing?

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I was just flipping through some of my old blog posts today, and I was puzzling over the lack of feedback. Not that I'm that surprised that blog posts don't tend to get much, and it's not like I'm that popular a writer and have thousands hanging on my every word. I myself rarely comment on blog posts, except recently to make a suggestion or two or in one case try to send a word of encouragement to a young writer who's going through a rough patch. I guess I don't understand how a blog is

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I'm making good progress on the next chapter of my latest story, and I expect to post it probably in a week give or take. This story has caused me to adopt a rather unusual method for writing, in that I start out on a conventional Word document, and then transfer it to the site to finish. It has the advantage of getting me away from my little laptop, and allows me to work on my story from anywhere that I can sign into. I think that the white on dark grey format that I use here on the site is

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Here I sit before the computer, having gotten only a slight inkling of the final episode of MLP:FIM. How is everyone handling it so far? I missed the first two broadcasts, and I wont watch it tomorrow because my schedule wont allow me to see it all the way through. (and I refuse to watch it in the middle of the night) I don't know when I will see it. It may sit on the list of other episodes that I haven't gotten to yet, which currently stands at twenty, or I may just wait till it gets on

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I'm making pretty good progress on the second chapter of my story "The Blue and the Grey", but I've run into an unexpected snag, namely the title. I've never been big about the whole idea of just having chapters numbered, and I thought that it would be interesting to have the chapters of this story taken from popular song lyrics. The problem is that the one I had in mind doesn't match well with the chapter I'm currently working on. It will probably be useful later in the story, but it still

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I was just wondering if someone could clear this up for me. Just watched part of the most recent episode. It was cute, and showed once again the power of friendship, this time including Daring Doo. My question though is this...in the course of the episode, Cabelleron(?) learns of Daring Doo and A.K. Yearling being the same pony. But, in "Daring Don't" his henchponies tracked down A.K. Yearling and she reveled herself to be Daring Doo. Did someone forget to inform the boss of this development?

I've been following some of the chatter about the most recent season, mainly because I've been reluctant to watch it. It seems odd when you look back at it, to create the School of Friendship, and introduce us to the Young Six, and then push them to the sidelines because their headmare is about to become ruler of Equestria. And are we really to believe that our heroes will still be able to live their lives, continue to teach, and also rule Equestria in some capacity alongside Twilight? It was

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I've gotten a good start on my third story, which will be used at least partly to introduce a character that features prominently in my second story (yeah I know, nutty isn't it?) The new story presents an interesting challenge for me, how to write a story with Rainbow Dash. I've never tried making her a principle character in a story before. She's in opposition, at least initially, to my new character, and I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to do it without making her into a total a-hole in

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Decided today to acknowledge the obvious by putting "Danger Close" on hiatus. I simply haven't been getting anything done on it of recent, and I've been tempted to go in a new direction. I still plan, as of now, to tell the story, because I think that I've got a potentially interesting character who has an interesting story. But I think that she needs a different introduction.