As I mentioned previously, High Water Mark originally had a chapter 4 that explored a visit by Mayor Bigwig and Heavy Pony to Canterlot to see Quicksilver and Misty. My pre-readers didn't complain, but the editor had some pretty harsh words about it. And when I say "harsh", I mean curl up in a corner and consider if I should even be writing. The end result of that discussion was replacing the chapter with the current epilogue. I

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As discussed in a previous blog entry, when I first conceived of The Quicksilver Chronicles series, I envisioned them to be a go-and-do style. Quicksilver and Misty would go somewhere, something would happen, and they would have to do stuff to fix/escape/complete whatever was going on. I developed multiple story ideas using this formula. In the end, High Water Mark was the only story idea that actually got written. The rest

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