For the Cadance is a Terrible Mom competition:

ETarget Praxis

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Slice of Life

Cadance thinks it's important a Crystal Princess lives up to her heritage. Shining isn't so sure.

• Cadance
• Shining Armor
• Flurry Heart
• Royal Guard

The Cloptimist · 1.3k words  ·  38  2 · 306 views

Nailah pointed me towards this contest and I immediately thought about, well, this. Then I thought of the title and decided I had to do it.

(Disclaimer: I do not, in fact, believe Cadance is a terrible mom, but I liked this idea too much not to write it.)

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Exactly two years ago today, I joined Fimfiction. To mark the occasion, I published a new story, my 16th!

TÂme Câline

• MLP: FiM
• Romance
• Slice of Life

Starlight cuddles Trixie as the sun comes up. That's it. That's the whole story. (Well, mostly.)

• Trixie
• Starlight Glimmer

The Cloptimist · 6.1k words  ·  51  6 · 475 views

Yeah, it's romance, mostly, and Starlight romance at that, and also I named it after an obscure French pop song from the 1960s which will be familiar to, what, maybe eight of you? Nine, tops.

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So! I'm still here, and reporting on a week of Things Happening! Oh, yeah, apparently there was some news in America, or something, but... this is about Fimfiction and me.

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So, I'm still unwell, but on the plus side I'm not getting worse, which was the doctor's key decider as to whether I'd potentially be spending Christmas in hospital. Which is... yay?

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So, I've been ill. Signed off work until the New Year. Yay.

(I had a negative COVID-19 test last month, but was then diagnosed with a nasty chest infection. I'll be back. Too many stories left to tell.)

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No reason at all.

The best way to grow as a writer, I'm told, is to challenge yourself. Deliberately try to do something different. Unfamiliar genres, Oblique Strategies, artificial conditions, whatever.

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It feels wrong to celebrate ten years when I was only here for less than half of them. I regret being a latecomer, not because I was ever made to feel unwelcome but because I missed the Golden Age - by the time I discovered the fandom it was already supposedly on an inevitable downward spiral, smaller and less enthusiastic and more factional. I don't know if any of these things were or are true, but whatever the case, I wasn't here when it started and - when it comes to the ten year

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For some reason, on August 23 and again on September 10, someone went through my entire story collection and hit downvote on (almost) everything without reading the stories.

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Every time someone begins a reply on a blog or tweet with the words "You DO realise that...", or ends with "I'll wait", they instantly get a splitting headache

Celestia, make it happen