Sir Terry Pratchett

I just spent the last half an hour, explaining to a friend of mine, why he should go read Sir Terry Pratchett’s, Discworld books.

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Whoo! This is finally done! Get a crazy combination of Half-Life 1, Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder, Back to the Future and Discworld in this wild ride through the fourth, fifth and sixth wall.

My entry to Aragon's Comedy is Serious Business contest!

TThe Narrative Cascade

• MLP: FiM
• Romance
• Adventure
• Comedy

Twilight and Sunset race against the clock to save Canterlot from a foe of unimaginable power… a romantic narrative.

• Sex
• Twilight
• Minuette
• Sunset Shimmer
• Moondancer

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There's an animated version of Terry Prattchett's Soul Music. Seems Pratchett was doing crossovers of Discworld with MLP before it was cool. (Also, holy crap, that's Christopher Lee as Death!) (Also, for reference, Binky is the name of Death's horse in the Discworld.)

Well, I'll say this: I'm less dead than I look.

Anyway, today I'd like to take a moment to talk about opening lines. We've got an Original Short Story Writeoff finishing up this evening.[1] I've spent a lot of the last week reading and reviewing, and beginning some revisions on an original story of my own. Going through this month's Writeoff entries, though, got me thinking about one of my favorite topics in fiction—and one it seems I've never blogged about before—opening lines.

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And the tradition lives on! That's right, it's a story suddenly conceived in a moment of holiday inspiration and a pseudo-sequel to one of my favorite stories I've done on this site: Reaping Rainbow! It's a holiday miracle indeed!

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So yeah. This "describe yourself with three characters" thing. I finally came up with something, so to be lazy I'm just going to share the screen cap.