Starting to look for another job after a senior co-worker with the boss' ear insulted and threatened me about my current one today. While I do appreciate the money, the air conditioning, and most of the people, I've got a computer science degree yet am not getting any assignments involving software development, writing code, or otherwise getting to live up to the title of "Cyber Security Engineer". So I get either menial tasks ("Copy these passwords down and by the way they're all either

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I'm planning to try writing another National Novel Writing Month novel in November. I've got only early notes so far, nothing locked in, and could use feedback. This is meant to summarize my thinking so far. Obviously inspired by Iceman's "Friendship Is Optimal" but meant to be its own story.

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I wrote over 3,300 words today, finishing draft two of "Granting Her Wishes". Now it's a 4,400 word story focused on just the first few scenes of the 14K version. Wrote this one without looking at the previous draft, so now I can go back and look for better phrasing in some spots before trying to get it critiqued. This isn't the first time I've massively reduced a plot, come to think of it; long ago I turned a story about "a devout Mormon girl who becomes a kitsune, frets about it, and helps

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Below is the first seventh or so of a story I just finished the first draft of. I haven't actually read it yet. So far my impression is that there's potential here, but it'll need a lot of revision. I want to write a version of around 5000-10,000 words so I can try to market it as a short story. This version includes too much of people saying "gosh, there are important implications!" to each other, followed by an action scene out of nowhere in the Seoul subway system, so it should be

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Over the weekend I tried the MMO "Legends of Equestria", in early development. It struck me that the NPCs just stand there and typically have only one line to say, except for a few with a multi-line conversation with the possibility of branching.

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"Legends of Equestria", a pony MMO, is doing an open server test this weekend. (Be sure to uncheck the default "I want to emigrate" button on the login screen. ) I tried it out once months ago, then once more for a few minutes but found it was crashing/logging out enough to make me give up, and then a bit today with NuclearPony.

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Not enough to be a story, but:

Gary looked over his new pony avatar once more and clicked "Let's Go!". The PonyPad screen gave him a swirling "Please Wait" message. He'd heard that the game tailored itself to your preferred playstyle, so he'd bought a copy to see what it'd do for him. How could you adapt some frilly pony game for a real hardcore action gamer?

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They aren't listed under my own story collection, but there are two other pieces of mine in the shared FiO stories: "Recursive Gaming" and "Consent".

I have two novels for sale on Amazon, in print and e-book formats:

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