I'm sure none of you have missed my wonderful presence on the site the past several days, but in case you have: no I've not gone missing. I'm simply working on getting the last few chapters of Mr God wrapped up. I have a deadline to get it finished and ready by Halloween, so I'm taking some time to focus on getting the climactic ending written.

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If any of you have been followers or members of the FUNimation web site or their community message board, then you were no doubt sad when they took it off line recently. Now though, the site has been relaunched, and the forum has returned.

We have over 600,000 members, and dedicated sections for lots of community involvement.

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I've noticed a very popular trend with fan fiction that I find both interesting and equally disturbing. It has to do with the common practice of story credits.

I parodied this in my story, My Little (every)Pony; I used a few made up usernames as the editors, and I listed a fake group called the, A.B.C.D.E. (Assembly of Bronies for the Creation of Dedicated Excellence), obviously a pun on the group, W.R.I.T.E.

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So I was going through all the places where my book is currently selling, and I found another review from a customer. This one was titled, "Fresh take on fantasy!"

As much as I appreciated and loved the four stars that this reviewer gave me, I was more impressed and satisfied that aspects of the book were not only imparted to the reader correctly, but that this reviewer understood everything I was hoping to convey about the main character. He got it, and then got it some more.

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I am presenting this story here for two reasons. One; I doubt very much that it will ever pass moderation being under one thousand words. Two; because it is written completely without punctuation of any sort.

You did not read that wrong. I wrote a story with zero punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure.

Why?

Because I like challenging myself. I wanted to know if it could be done.

Here is the result:

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So I wanted to plug my group once more; I think it's time to give it a bit of a horn honking attention getting, uh thing.

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The Phrase "and with that"

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In my never ending quest to battle the grammarians, I have discovered a wonderful gem from a few years ago. I think this more or less sums up everything that I've ever wanted to say about the subject. I can now rest easy.

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For the past few weeks, I've been polishing up on some of my reading. Not a bad idea, really. I mean, I do write crime fiction, suspense fiction, and on occasion scary stuff. So why let the old wheels get rusty?

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