Does one set out to create a verse? Does one decide that that is what one has made, or does someone else decide this for you? Is there an accepted definition for what must be present for a verse to exist?

So many verse-related questions...

Everyone and their mums' got a verse these days.

I subscribe to the 'Please God keep me stimulated' school of writing, where I have to keep doing stuff all the time or my brain boils inside my skull.

Hence the endless stream of hot nonsense.

Welcome, friend. You know, a lot of people say: 'Cackling Moron? Isn’t he the guy who writes all that HiE crap?' Well, good luck to you, you’re an idiot. Because my stories always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men', there's always a message or a theme. When I wrote, directed, and starred in Cackling Moron's Endless Deathmarch of the Same Story Over and Over Again back in the 1980s, I gave every episode a theme

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Thirty stories in the bank! Ah! I love an arbitrary milestone.

Uh, agreeably, like, three of them still need finishing...but still! They still count towards the total.

And most of them people also seem to want sequels to? Which is nice.

You know what, I don't know where I was going with this.

Hurrah! Words! Horse words!

Hwords!

Of course I've rather written myself into a corner with Johns now, as either he experiences a massive change in personality in which case the story has to go hard down that route which isn't really what I'm interested in - despite it being conceptually interesting - or else it turns out the whole thing wasn't that big of a deal at all and he was freaking out over what is actually basically nothing.

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I often get the feeling - here and elsewhere - that folks put a lot more care and attention into the reading of what I pinch out than I do into the writing of them. But that's life, I suppose. Death of the author? No, no, wrong term. Something else.

It's all just a joke, really...

Another day, another fine Magritte picture of a horse to use as an avatar.

And today, quite unexpectedly, I found myself reading through a story on here where a human somehow ends up on the wrong side of home, injured, and is thence taken care of by Celestia and during the course of this forms a bond with her owing to shared interests and a willingness to treat her as an individual rather than a title, followed by cuddling and shared feelings of warmth and affection.

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Okay maybe I didn't think the last one through.

I was tired!

Aww, I missed the moment when I could have said "Look! I have 666 followers! Hah!"

Ah well. It might dip again! Who knows.