I just read The Railway Ponies: Highball...

What can I say? I kinda feel like an unworthy plagiarist now. What an amazing tale.

Good thing I didn't set out to write a story about steam trains in Equestria. If you haven't read it but like Steel Dreams, you HAVE to read Highball.

This is a review I did for "Luminaries," a now-defunct project I was invited to contribute to: getting a number of reviewers together to each write an in-depth essay on one of their favorite stories, each covering one by a different author. I jumped on The Descendant's The Railway Ponies: Highball as fast as I could, and as far as I know was one of only a few people (along with TheJediMasterEd and I believe Bad Horse, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong about that) to finish one.

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Forgive me dear readers for I have sinned......

I haven't written anymore of the story. I have been trying to write ch 4 for the last month and words are just struggling to make it out on the paper. That being said, I am still working through things with ch 5 to 10 (because I still have no idea how those are going to play out yet because the timing part is due in part because several stories intercept) so that everything lines up time/plot wise.

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So, new job working in a warehouse is going pretty well. I'm tired and sore and chafing, but it's a good tired and sore. Honest work, as Applejack might think of it.

But that's not why I'm posting. No, I've been catching up on my reading lately, and decided to make a small list of authors that have inspired me, continue to do so, and I feel like my life would be poorer for not having them. This'll be short and sweet.

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