Blog: Short excerpt from upcoming SunFlower contest entry · 2:42am Apr 4th, 2021
Spoilered after the break, since it is a spoiler for the story.
“And it’s not just not having computers! Even the concept of digitization was foreign to them, much less the implementation! Ha, and no wonder, too. Digitization!” Twilight held her hands in front of her face, wiggling her fingers, then laughed again. Wallflower just looked at her, confused. “Never mind!” Twilight said. “Point is, I had a lot of work to do over these past few years to get them up to speed.”
“Up to speed?”
“Yeah! There’s just so much to be done! Standardization. Building an industrial base. Social engineering.” She put a hand on her journal and smiled. “The other Twilight has been very receptive to my ideas.” She laughed to herself. “Well, duh! She is me, after all!”
This could have been a story on its own, but it's not even a secondary plot of this SunFlower contest entry, just something that is talked about in one scene. There are many things like this that I had to cut down to mere paragraphs or sentences. So many darlings I had to kill. 15 kilowords just isn't enough! 
Ah, and so you decided to share the pain my making your readers face the struggle between "But spoilers!" and "But I want to see!", with a victory by the latter presumably then likely leading into "Now I also want to see how that turned out!"? :D
(Sorry about all the dead darlings, though. Still, if you want to, I don't see why you couldn't submit the 15 kw for the contest, then publish more stories in the same continuity later?
...I mean, except for all the other writing you want to do and the resulting opportunity costs, of course. :D)
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I was thinking of doing just that, expanding those ideas and scenes for more stories. Of course, if I'm having trouble distilling all this into 15kw, the planned Principal Investigator Celestia that's meant to go over the same worldbuilding and similar ideas at a more leisurely pace will probably end up being 100kw or something crazy once it's done! Especially since I plan to weave it through all of the major canon EqG moments. And how long will that take me to write!?
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Hah, sorry. :D
There are worse problems to have, at least! :)