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Burnout · 1:40am May 21st, 2013
Hey guys,
I've told some of you this but basically I've been kinda burned out recently as far as pony fanfiction goes. I'm not sure what it is. It could be school, lack of inspiration, the fact that i've kinda taken on too many projects out side of fanfiction here, or probably all three.
This is kinda just a "meh" note to explain what's going on if I don't do anything on here for a while. I'm sure my desire to dive into ponyfiction will come back sooner or later. Just for now, it's like "eh...why?" and I go back to roleplaying.
Anyway, I've been hearing snippets about Oklahoma but I don't know specifics. I hope if you know anyone out there that they are ok.
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What happened in Oklahoma O.o
What's going on in Oklahoma? All I know is that we're getting some storms in the next few days (also had a tornado warning today), and that Tulsa will probably flood. Because it's Tulsa.
But I'm told their choir program isn't as good as Owasso's.
So meh.
EDIT: Also, you should be on the lookout for jokes/plot ideas during your roleplaying sessions. Just as a way to tie them together.
1094339 More or less a tornado trying to kill us Oklahomans. It already killed 2 people so far. Flatten towns and destroyed 2 elementary schools. And I was only a few miles away while all of that was happening. It is what we Oklahomans face every year for 3 months. And it only started.
1094339 Tornadoes. One neighborhood was wiped out to the ground, a school among it. I am from Oklahoma and your initial reaction to a tornado in Oklahoma is "Is it coming right over my house?" If "yes" then you do what people everywhere else does. If "no" then you ignore it. There are so many in Tornado Alley that people don't care unless this happens.
Aye, I know how you feel. There's just no spark left for me writing pony fanfiction anymore.
At first, it was the most exciting thing I had ever done, and I could type out a chapter a day and still have two completed ones in the bullpen. Now my readers are lucky if they get a chapter a month. I guess we do just burn out after a while, move on to different things when that spark of magic no longer hits us.
And I sympathize with the people of Oklahoma. But this happens every year, and the damn twisters just keep gettin' bigger.
For the past two days I've been able to look outside and be greeted with a rather rude awakening that I am no longer in winter. I've felt the heat, so hot that even with two fans in my bedroom I can not find sleep easily. I've seen black clouds swarm the sky, then vanish, then return with a newfound eagerness to flatten every sign of civilization in five counties. I've heard the sirens which have sent me sprinting for the shelter of my basement with every piece of technology I own, for I embrace the 21st century.
Finally, hours and hours later when the lights finally come back on and the local weather report returns to my TV, I retreat back upstairs. The damage usually isn't too bad; scattered leaves and branches, maybe some shingles. The occasional fallen tree blocking my driveway. Sometimes I might consider myself lucky to be alive, and that all my friends and family are alright...and then I hear about Oklahoma. I hear about Oklahoma and I realize that the thing that was just outside...that thing that sent me running and tripping into my basement to cower...that was just a mouse fart.
My best hopes and wishes go out to anyone in Oklahoma and elsewhere who has, is, and will suffer under worse weather than I've ever seen.