Also, there is stabbing.

Wow, I feel well enough to actually get dressed for real and Do Things. Laundry, writing, sweeping, writing. You know how you get a horrid illness and can't move for a week and when it goes away you finally remember what it's like to feel alive? That's kind of how I feel every time a fibromyalgia flare backs off. Which is, of course, very often.
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I have learned that if I can't educate the bullies or help them understand, I tell them to imagine the worst flu for two weeks with no relief. Usually, they'll still call it psychosomatic or psychiatric, so then I'll suggest they imagine all their nerves and connective tissues caught on heated barbed wire for hours during a thunderstorm after they've run themselves exhausted. Then again, these types of "pain bullies" usually have very little imagination, so I just tell them how grateful they should be that they can feel superior and condescending enough to not understand what chronic pain is like.

Why write that story again?

http://io9.com/5916970/the-22-rules-of-storytelling-according-to-pixar
I have astounded myself by realizing how many of these tips I have NOT been following. And that realization has now crystallized in my skull and now I know so much better and now I know everything I want to do.
Dude. Whoa.

However, endings are easier than middles for me. I have the worst problems getting from Start to End. I've had my novel's ending in my head for years, but the problem with writing a novel is that there has to be that Middle so other people know why the End happens.
Characters are easy. My college thesis was the first three chapters of that novel, on which I got the highest grade, and I was praised for how the story centered so much around characters in a future world where some technologies needed explaining, although at this point not really, because every single 22nd century technology I wrote about in 2001 has already happened, except the cars that drive automatically, although I'm waiting. Also, the fact that my story's 22nd century science is already happening means I am not creative in the least with science fiction. Which is why I never like to write about brand new technology, which is why I would be shuffled into a future fantasy subgenre and also a slipstream speculative subgenre, even though most the stories would always take place after the end of the 21st century and there would always be psionics involved which is still considered a trope of science over fantasy fiction.
http://io9.com/5671816/why-doesnt-more-fantasy-take-place-in-the-future
http://www.writing-world.com/sf/genres.shtml

I watch ponies. Ponies are cool.

I think I've figured out exactly why "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" entertains, amuses, and delights me so much: It reminds me deeply of Warner Bros. and Looney Tunes and other slapstick humor cartoons from my childhood. The consistent cocktails of wackiness, ensuing of hijinks, and humorous winks to adult themes make me laugh wildly. And so I wonder why so many people actively hate even casual fans of the series.

I am a casual fan of "My Little Pony." I still refuse to get involved in the actual fandom (certain things cannot be unseen or unknown, beyond Rule 34; in conclusion, some people are extraordinarily creepy when it comes to cartoons). But the TV show, characters, and concept as a whole has a serious little place in my heart.

Say what you will, some cartoons are just that cool.