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  • 17 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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  • 41 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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  • 53 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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  • 66 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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  • 77 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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Jun
30th
2019

Delayed Action · 5:23pm Jun 30th, 2019

Well, it's been a busy couple of months, and I find myself still trying to get things worked out. Physically, I'm still dealing with small issues related to my recent operation. Mostly the small annoying things that come as the result of prostate surgery. (and no I will no elaborate) Story wise though, I'm looking over the progress I've made on chapter 2 and I can't help but wonder if what I'm doing will make sense for other readers. In times like this, the lack of any real canon regarding Equestria's military really complicates things. I feel like I have to create way too much of it from scratch. If it seems like too much, I suppose that I could just bite the bullet and declare it alt universe, but I really hate to. There seemed to be so much not said in the movie to make what I'm doing that far out.
But, I guess the only way to find out is to try it. Which brings me to my next issue, writing an ambush. Being a veteran, but not one of direct combat, I can imagine how it would happen, but not necessarily how it would feel to those in the middle of it. What do you compare it too? Is there anything to compare it to? Well, we'll see.

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