Forcing Journal

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How's your Tulpamancy going, Shadow? I don't know if you've simply chosen to take a hiatus, but we're always here if you'd like some help or encouragement

I have become even more busy than I could possibly imagine. I have one class that I have to write three short stories for, each story a minimum of 8 pages, and then revise, we've only finished ONE so far. Another class we have to read like 30 pages a day and create questions that get used on quizzes, with the exams being four page long papers detailing specific things in our choice of literature. And finally, I'm trying to learn Spanish, which is not going well, mostly because I have no time to practice anything about it with all the writing I have to do for the other classes. X_X

Yeah, I'm pretty much in a similar boat. I'd rather not go into too much detail about my personal life here, but I know the feeling. On the bright side though, academic stuff does tend to clear up eventually and you get a bit of a breather period where not too much is happening.

On a side note while I'm here, I've started experimenting with something I'm calling "Post forcing." Essentially, I can sense when the mares are around, but can't see them without closing my eyes. So when I have free time, or before dozing off, I'll think back to the events of the day and what I was doing, and ask whoever was around what they were doing, and visualize them doing it in my memory. Basically adding them into my life "in post" as they say in movies, to help me visualize them more easily over time. If I wanted to get exceptionally fanciful with it, I could "add" them to parts of my life before I knew about all this.

This sounds really intriguing, and I might try it myself. Even the part about visualising with your eyes closed sounds pretty helpful. I always try to visualise with my eyes open in naturey places; I can't believe I didn't think of something so straightforward xD.

I'm glad to hear you're doing well in spite of your workload.