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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"! - Groucho Marx

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  • 21 weeks
    The needs of the many...

    I'm starting to make some real progress on my story "Danger Close" (unfortunately I'm still stalled out on "The Blue and the Grey") and I've already got almost two thousand words into the next chapter. My latest move is to find a possible new use for Daring Doo. She appeared early in my story, but I haven't worked her in very much since. The idea I had was for her is to possibly pursue a

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  • 45 weeks
    Uncharted Waters

    I've been working recently at the latest chapter of "Danger Close", and I've run into a problem. I've wanted to let one of my characters have a speech impediment, namely an occasional stammer. But, not having any personal experience with anyone with this issue, and having no training in the subject matter, I can't help but worry about whether I can do this and not have the character just seem

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  • 57 weeks
    The Cost of War

    I am making more progress of recent on the story "Danger Close" and I hope to have another chapter out within the next week or so. I'm aware that I don't have a huge following, but I still plan to finish the stories I've started. Today, my writing had to take a nasty turn as I've had to kill a character.

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  • 70 weeks
    Do Stories Have An Expiration Date?

    My story, "Danger Close", was originally started in the middle of 2019, right in the middle of the last season of MLP:FIM. I admit that it's been a long haul trying to figure out just how I wanted to structure it, and exactly how the story should develop. I'm not much of a writer, and even as a reader I tend to stick a little too much to history as opposed to fiction, which can limit one's

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  • 81 weeks
    Something is Coming

    I've been plowing ahead these last few days on the long delayed next chapter of "Danger Close", and I think I can say that it will be finished by next week. I should ideally feel a certain sense of pride, were it not for the fact that it has taken me close to two years to get this far. It's not that surprising as such things go. There are a lot of stories out there that have stalled out over the

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Dec
19th
2020

Inspiration in the midst of a pandemic · 2:50pm Dec 19th, 2020

Today I did something that was probably way overdue, I trimmed down the number of stories that I was following. I wasn't that I wasn't still interested in the stories on the list, but I had to conclude that those stories probably weren't going anywhere. Some of them I moved to my favorites list, but others I cut lose.
I wonder just how many of my readers have found themselves in the same situation regarding my work, concluding that a story just isn't going anywhere. I'm especially worried about "Danger Close". In many ways, it's almost too sweeping a story, but I really don't know quite how to par it down, or even if I should. And it certainly doesn't help that these days I really don't have a good way to entertain or inspire myself. I've been a fan of local baseball, car shows, and movies at the theater, and I've been trying to expand my horizons slowly but surely. But all of that got jacked up over the course of the year, and now, I'm stumped as to what to do next. Heck, there are still a dozen episodes of the show I haven't seen, not counting season nine, which I've barely seen at all. How does one get out of a funk like this? Anyone got some ideas? Inquiring minds...and stagnant minds...want to know.

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