I'm back from Norway, so I can get to writing again. (The wedding was fine, and Oslo was pretty, but I'm glad to be home, travel is exhausting.) The good news is that I think my funk is over, and I can actually make progress again. Took me long enough.

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And I wrote a thing!

EThe Gift

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

Scootaloo receives a message and a special gift she will always treasure.

• Scootaloo
• CMCs

Wings of Black Glass · 4.2k words  ·  12  1 · 580 views

I didn't have time to do any editing or anything, cause I put this together under serious time crunch. I've only got an hour before I have to leave for the airport (going to friend's wedding, in Norway!)

I really wanted to get more done for Elements of Tyranny, but such is life...

My first story up here on fimfiction is not my first story I have ever written. That honor goes to a story I called "The Scythe of Man" which was an original world, but to be honest it ended up as Gundam fanfiction. I wrote that in 2006. I've been writing on and off since then. (Thank you, NaNoWriMo) Actually, the first time I tried to ever really write something was in 1999 or 2000, when I tried to write a novel. I managed all of 6 handwritten pages that first time, and it predictably

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So a week or so ago Night Wolf Pony was asking for OCs to practice on. I offered up Sable Stardust, and he (he? I assume) just finished.

Yay.

TThe Mask of Despair and the Face of Hope

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure
• Drama

Everyone is the hero of their own story. Maybe, just maybe, that isn't always true. Sometimes, they are the villain.

• Twilight
• OC
• Main 6

Wings of Black Glass · 111k words  ·  30  1 · 782 views

Has 100 views.

...Sigh.

The last few weeks have been harsh. After I finished session 5 for Elements of Tyranny I had planned to plan more for session 6, and then get started on the sequel to Mask of Despair. (The Ash of Fallen Stars)

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So it appears I can comfortably manage to write about 10k words a week, plus a few thousand more if I’m on a roll. Which is roughly 1400 words a day. That’s unacceptable. “Wait, what the hell?” I hear you cry out. “That’s like an entire story, every day! How is that unacceptable!?” Well, you person who probably didn’t say that. There’s a bit of backstory to that number, or more importantly, to the number 1,667. Waaaaay back in 2006, my sister introduced me to a little thing called

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Two short sessions leads to two short chapter updates. Well, short for me. My first story (The Mask of Despair and the Face of Hope) I had intended to be only 50k-60k. It ballooned up to double that. Even my short story (What do you Think?) was supposed to be under 5k words, and ended up being 7k. I also never intended the first

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Freaking. Yak.

I didn't make up most of his jokes. Those were right out of the player's mouth. He really did say "Yak will sleep with Pony." He really did attack the unlocked door after it was already being opened. Tiny really did challenge the Yak to a damage-off on the Helmed Horror (the animated armor, none of them were able to identify it) Red won. (It was resistant to physical damage, not Fire)

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I’m writing this blog for giggles, and in case anyone bothers to read “The Elements of Tyranny” and wants to know what it is we are doing.

We’re playing the Planeshift: Equestria homebrew thing that popped up on EQD a while ago. It’s pretty adorable, although it’s got some nasty balance issues.

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So, I’ve learned a few things from doing this the way I did. First and foremost, don’t change POV and tense mid-write. When I began this project, I was working in third person point of view, and present tense. About 40% of the way through it I came upon the idea of the framing device of starting the story right as Twilight resolved the crisis. (hence: “We Begin at the End” and “We End at the Beginning”) However, this necessitated a shift in writing style into first person past tense.

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