Sharing the Night Chapter 9 Author's Notes · 11:44pm Nov 29th, 2013
Well, since q97randomguy was awesome and proofread the chapter last night while all my other proofreaders did the sensible thing and enjoyed the holiday, I decided to just go ahead and post the chapter now rather than wait.
Go read Sharing the Night: Chapter 9 first, obviously. Spoilers ahead.
Oy, this chapter. The first section took several rewrites and lots of editing to finally get something that wouldn't put people to sleep. There's only so much narrative monologuing a person can take before their eyes start to glaze over.
I still worry about certain sections, but this is something of a 'break' chapter, so it's okay if it's not quite as dramatic as usual. Better to just get on with it.
Still, Twilight dies twice, so there's that. (Bad Luna, bad!) Did anyone actually expect not only the whole Winter Wrap-Up thing, but also the issue of Twilight's vest to crop back up?
Anyway, I'll be interested to see how people respond to how I handled the whole "Princess of Libraries" thing. I know people expected her to right up and squee or yesyesyes about it—and she does have some fun with it—but it and her acceptance of it represent a pretty big change. I mean, one of the 'tags' on EQD's entry for Sharing the Night is "not a princess," (and the others aren't faring too well either).
Rest assured, though, there will be more of Twilight and her librarocracy in the next chapter.
Also, if anyone is still wondering, my comment on the Season 4 premiere doing "the exact same thing" was regarding the whole mixed-night-and-day thing. In the end, though, they didn't actually go into it at all, so it's more of a cute little bit of synchrony rather than any big deal over being preempted.
I don't understand. Where is this chapter you speak of?
Edit: Nevermind, the chapter seems to have appeared while I wasn't looking.
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It can take a minute to actually happen
Should be up now.
(I had to make the blog post first so I could put the URL in the author's notes section)
Looks like I didn't get to that in time. Oh well. New chapter!
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I posted less than a day since the offer went out on one of the busiest set of holidays of the year, so I knew what I was doing. 
Really—don't worry about it
Wow, I have to say I'm digging the whole liberocracy deal. Also, that scene at the end was awesome. But I have to know, will we get to see more of the ROC?
'nother goodun.
Good job finding a place for Celestia in there. The endless monologue about how the librarachy worked was amazing/hilarious.
It's a rule of every RPG ever than whenever you start playing a character who respawns, you will, just coincidently, start dying a lot. Guess it's true of stories too.
Hummm... the scene where Luna just makes herself some tea and watches Twilight asphyxiate was kind of funny even though it really, really shouldn't have been.
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I'm sorry, it's been six hours and I still can't figure out what ROC refers to in your post
My best guess is the Rest Of (the) Cast...?
If that's the case, I hope to include them in the next chapter, actually, but I can't be sure I'll be able to fit what I have in mind in
1556648 It's supposed to mean Royal Observation Cloud.
I just really loved the way that just them sleeping on it made it as important as Twilight thought it might have.
I've just read through the 9th chapter, amd i must say that is has been an amazing read so far
It has been a while since I read last and though it has been a bit thick at times concerning the varid and complex emotion descriptions at times, the more easy reading sure makes up for it. At times the heavy stuff is perfectly, other times it is a big mouthful (could have something to do with the late hours but whutevur)
I particularly like way Twilights body dies but get's resurected because she's not really as much pony anymore as she has become the stars. It does remind me a bit of hard reset, where twilight dies in similar manners. Althought that story as has a more gruesome take on it to be sure.
Keep up the good writing ^^