Revised to clarify the final point.

“My goodness, you are so talented!” How often an artist or musician hears onlookers gush. “I could never do that!”

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During a story conference with Scampy, working out the chapter introducing Even Keel and in the process sketching out that character, I made the snap decision they would be nonbinary. To my pleased relief, though not surprise, Scampy immediately endorsed it with enthusiasm. My reasons were many and varied, and not all were clear-cut even in my own mind.

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Three-act Play continues to exert a subtle retroactive influence on Virga—or, at least, such influence is revealing itself to me. In this case the influence is on Sunset.

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Key: ⬛️ another of my stories; ⬜️ someone else’s story; 🌇 Twin Canterlots story; 🌃 another author’s continuity; 📖 stand-alone story

Long-form stories
🌇 Foreign Nationals of Unusual Importance ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬜️
🌇 Diplomatic Overtures ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️

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. . . Now my muse Icara is insisting I need to develop the fiction-within-fiction animated series Sunset and Rose discuss in The Campus, with the Mane Seven as the senior officers of the starship Harmony. The trick is developing a space-opera setting and series premise I can work with that still is plausible for half-hour animé-style television. I’ll collect thoughts on it here so I don’t forget

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Estee recently posted a journal entry I found intriguing. I too have noticed the presence of Plagscan in the lists of referrals to some of my stories, and I too am baffled by it. Many of the same questions posited in that journal post have occurred to me.

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Three-act Play is about a lot of things. It’s about depression and anxiety. It’s about self-harm and recovery, physical and psychological. It’s about love—in several forms—and about penance. It’s about Sunset and Rose as much as Wallflower; Rose, in fact, was the reason Scampy asked me to write the story.
   It also is about something else, something I hadn’t considered when I set out on this strange, uncomfortable journey. It’s about burnout.

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For once I have something vaguely approaching a budget, so I’m exploring the possibility of commissioning artwork related to Twin Canterlots. Following is a list of specific items I have in mind.

Primary interest: turnaround sheets

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Me: I could see Rose [Brass] and [Sticky] Note being coworkers. I think Rose would like him.

Me: I may borrow Sticky Note at some point, with I-A-M’s permission.

Scampy:
Sticky Note: “I got a new case today. Some girl named Wallflower.”

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