Either that or I'm a reverse jinx of some kind. Whenever I make a post on this blog about not being able to write for some reason or another, within days I'll find the time, motivation, and what-all to get a chapter of SOMETHING done and thus give lie to my earlier whining. In this case, I got BOTH Sohndar and SS,DC updated within minutes of each other despite expecting to be writing school papers up through Sunday.
Maybe I should whine more often

I'm undergoing a kind of psychological torture here. I'm brimming with the desire to write everything in my to-do list: Summer Sun, Sohndar, my Order-naries original fiction. This high is made even stronger by having just returned home from celebrating my best friend's wedding out in Colorado, which is practically my home-away-from-home. However, between class time and work this week I need to wrap up an essay and start gathering research so I can write a Sci-fi version of the

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Less than 48 hours gone by and I think I've already seen the beginnings of most if not all the common types of fic that Queen Chrysalis will star in: Alternate Universes where she wins (Trust), Redemption fics (The Day She Dreamed Of), past/alternate character interpretation ( Memories of a Past

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I'm sick of writing. Never thought I'd say that. Don't worry, this isn't a declaration of sudden retirement or anything; I've just had a crazy couple of days out of town, I've got another set of crazy days planned for next weekend dealing with a wedding, AND a number of papers that need to get done within the next week and a half, PLUS figuring out next semester's class load. I need a day or two to reset my brain...

Item one: for blog-readers who aren't aware, I've started up a short-story anthology/ idea dump called My Strange Ponies. The meaning of the title is related to the intended purpose of the "story:" If I remember any odd dreams containing ponies I will try to write a story or blurb about it as a "chapter." Alternatively, the first story I posted, "Skin's Story," has rooted some concepts deep in my mind that are developing on

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I'm probably not going to pursue Crystal Roots at the moment, due to a combination of having plenty of other things on my plate and how much world-inventing I'd have to do to give the hero party a proper quest.

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Sohndar is definitely not going anywhere for a while; I simply can't keep my mind on it long enough to write. Summer Sun, Dawning Chaos is proceeding at an acceptable rate, but now I've gone and started ANOTHER pony-fic >_<. Why do I do these things to myself?

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Faithful readers,

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For anyone who's read Aitran and thought "Wow, I really want to play the game this is based on," I've got news. GOG (that's Good Old Games; www.gog.com), a website that sells classic computer games, is having a 50% off sale on Cyan World games, including Myst and Riven, this weekend (3/2/12-3/4/12). I haven't used GOG myself, but I've heard good things about it, namely that everything they offer is fully compatible with Vista and Windows XP. Both Myst and Riven are going for $2.99 this

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I may very well have gotten in over my head in taking on the challenge of converting the game Riven: The Sequel to Myst into the fiction Sohndar (No subtitle needed). If you've never played Riven, allow me to enlighten you: the game is HUGE compared to Myst. Back in the ancient days of CD-ROMs when it was first released, each of the five islands comprising the world got its own CD; every time you crossed from island to island the game would pause and make you switch

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