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MerlosTheMad


Greetings, I am Merlos the Mad. I am a dabbler of both words and wizardry in my free time. I also invite you all to partake in my musings. Take care though, as they are the product of a madman.

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  • 170 weeks
    *Cruises through*

    I was going through an old hard drive and found this sound file I never uploaded. If anybody likes listening to nerds from ten years ago talk about fanfiction with little ponies in it here's one I recorded with Hoopy Mcgee and Mrpockets at our heights of fanfiction. (Warning there is a little vulgarity. I was just out of the army when I recorded this I think. lol)

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    54 comments · 903 views
  • 377 weeks
    Hello everyone, just an update.

    Well, suffice it to say, my renewed effort to start updating to schedule once again didn't pan out. It was maybe a bit naive of me to try and hold myself to that, especially considering how bad my track record had been the last couple of years. Still, I felt I had to try.

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    31 comments · 2,319 views
  • 400 weeks
    Well, I bet we all thought this day was never coming.

    That's right, ladies and gents, an Mlm update.

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    26 comments · 1,256 views
  • 400 weeks
    Moving Forward, cause I'm back!

    I probably don't deserve to use a song this awesome, but...

    Heeeello everypony. I hope you've been enjoying the updates so far. Or, at least, you know, tolerating them.

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    27 comments · 995 views
  • 400 weeks
    Whoooa. Two blogs in one year? Who am I and what did I do with the real Merlos!

    It's true, I am in fact... a changeling! The real Merlos is currently locked in the basement of this stinky wizard tower, and I am readying Queen Chrysalis' eeeevil plan to take over all the fimfiction writers and then the whole world! Bwahahaha!

    Except not.

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Mar
28th
2014

I hate writing blogs twice. · 12:44am Mar 28th, 2014

This is the second time I've made this blog, annoyingly enough. Fimfiction's updates obliterated my other one which I'd been saving up. So, this will be a little bit brief.

First off, though! Here's the update to My Little Marriage.

And heres the update to A Twilight Landing, in case you missed it.

The My little Marriage chapter was a little rushed, so I may very well have forgotten something or made a few more mistakes. Sorry. ^_^'

Anyway, I'm going to keep the rest of this brief. There should be more ATL and MLM soon, as most of it's already written. I split up the original intended chapters because they became huge and honestly I don't like posting 20k chapters at all. There was a time when I wanted to only post 3-5k chapters. Can you imagine that? I can't. Hah.

I've been mostly hung up on how to write the story. It's difficult to plan out the structure on the fly, and I mostly write on the fly, guys.

I've always winged chapters, with little to no planning, and I managed to force myself into a position with Twilight and Mary in which I need to PLAN very carefully what's revealed to whom, how I write, where characters are, which scenes involve who, etc etc and oh my god is it more than my brain can handle. I tried reaching out for help but it didn't exactly work out.


More News: Hopefully I'll have some Sweetie Bot and perhaps the ending to The Mane Makes the Pony out soon. I'm going to work on those next, because they're actually quite close to being finished. Shy's story and Rarity's and Pinkie's story will stay on hold for now, since they're the most complicated ones after MLM and ATL. I'm still looking for a hardcore helper as far as planning things. I do get people offering to help, and have received some, but so far no one's managed to really help support the weight of all this nonsense I've created. I'm not really above asking for help when I know I'm in over my head, so there it is. What I really think I need is a mirror pool that can make more Merloseses...

Well, I that's it for now. Feel free to ask questions below, I'm sure I'm forgetting things. I'm just trying to move forward at this point, though.


Special Bonus:
If you read the mlm chapter, then this may be of interest.

:x

I have an interesting perception of Twilight, I think.

Comments ( 3 )

So both ATL and MLM are updating on my Birthday. This really is the best Birthday ever! :pinkiehappy: Well, I look forward to reading MLM soon enough. I don't reading 20K chapters that much anyway. I prefer it in the chunks you've churned out so far.

Are "So Many Wonders" and "Abhorsen" really more complicated than ATL and MLM? :rainbowhuh: It's not like they've fully crossed over with each other.

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I said they're the most complicated *after* those two.

SB and Mane being stand alones makes them easier to write. :x

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