State of the Author - January 2020 · 12:52am Feb 5th, 2020
This month, I finally broke loose again and was able to publish two updates, one for Legacy of the Greatest and one for Phantasmare.
This month, I finally broke loose again and was able to publish two updates, one for Legacy of the Greatest and one for Phantasmare.
So you may notice this blog comes over halfway through the month, for a retrospect of last month.
There is a reason for that. Call it about 160 working hours in the month so far, and then a professional exam that I had to study for and write in between that.
As far as I can tell, I read 1.12 million words in August on FIMfiction. Of that, about 10k were story updates. 546k were stories on my Read for Later or which popped up in the New box that were Incomplete/On Hiatus, and are now on tracking. The rest were either complete and so I was able to put them in one of my bookshelves, or I flagged off partways through the story and simply didn't care to read anymore. Oddly enough, there was only one particularly large story in that list
Today will be the first of three blogs. I think I'm going to try a 'State of the Author' and 'State of the Reader' blog each month from now on until my whimsy flags off. State of the Author should be fairly obvious. State of the Reader will be more about the FIMfics I've read, and attempting to compile a word count read. The third one this month will be a one-off combined on my BronyCon experience, all the cons I've been to, and somewhere between a brief and an exhaustive personal retrospective
So tomorrow is the last day of BronyCon. With that a lot of people leave early. I don't leave until Monday at 1030am on a flight however. I'll probably either go to a party or dinner after closing ceremonies if plans don't fall through but there is still a lot of hours after that before I would need to sleep.
I'm here this weekend in Baltimore. If you see me don't feel shy. I won't bite. I may be hard of hearing though so don't take offense if I ask you to speak up. I'll have my nametag on ('Emperor'). Feel free to bug me to update my fics too. I'll probably be at Quills and Sofas in my downtime
In LA November 17th-19th.
I'm intending to go but haven't booked yet. I was curious if anybody would be willing to split the cost of a hotel room by chance.