Blog Number 38: "On the Threshold" Edition

No, before you ask: this is not an April Fool's Day prank post. That holiday is a pain in the backside and I refuse to have anything to do with it.

In lighter news, we are all now three months into the new year, so time for a business-esque quarterly report! Lovely, eh?

No wait, where are you going!?

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Blog Number 37: Polaris Edition

Good grief, I was not expecting that.

More below the break, but the sentence you just read constitutes the gist of it. Pretty much.

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Blog Number 36: "Explaining the Radio Silence" Edition

On the to-do list at the moment is Ceffyl Dwr's Pinkie Pie Collaboration. It really is his project, since he's worked so hard to keep it going (and to keep us going, into the bargain).

So sadly, shamefully, I must report that, after a promising planning stage, I've stalled on both my chapters. Their current status is: planned but unwritten.

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Blog Number 35: Modus Operandi Edition

In the past week, I have - on three entirely separate occasions - not only been mentioned in positive terms, but been described, sometimes literally, as "underappreciated".

I did not respond at the time because, frankly, I had no certain idea of how to do so. Not properly. A simple "thank you" is not qualified for the job.

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Blog Number 34: Recalibration Edition

I'll say this in favour of 2017; so far, it's been my most productive year for writing. I've produced 26 fics - of which 18 are complete - and given a huge boost to Magical Deathmatch of roughly 35,000 words. That's about 370,000 published words total, or roughly 1,000 words per day. Neat!

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Blog Number 33: The "Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future" Edition

The 2017 National Pony Writing Month is now over. I did achieve 50k words, and even surpassed 60k, which averages at slightly more than 2k a day. That's a good effort, in spite of my own overambition, and one I'm rightly pleased with.

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Blog Number 32: "Laugh and the Whole World Laughs with You" Edition

I apologize in advance, but this is going to be an unhappy post. Specifically, it's about the mismatch between starry-eyed hopes and disappointing realities, made worse because the cause of the disconnect is not obvious to me.

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Blog Number 31: The Backstory Edition

Today is the sixth anniversary of my introduction to My Little Pony. My first proper introduction, of course: I was vaguely aware of its existence before then, but only in the casual “oh yeah, that thing exists, cue joke about how saccharine it is” sense.

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Blog Number 30: Unfinished Business Edition

Once Wednesday 1st November 2017 comes around, National Novel Writing Month will begin, as will its pony equivalent. I have of course already signed up for the latter. As for what I intend to accomplish on this, my fourth such event (fifth if you count Calming Moon's version earlier this year), I'm in two minds about it.

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Blog Number 29: Temporary Hiatus-Breaking Edition

I had intended to break the (unintentional) blog hiatus with something more retrospective, especially considering how many items I had listed for it. However, this is a fascinating project, and I would like to use what influence I have to bring it to your attention.

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