I was going to do the director's cut for chapter 16 by itself. But since there was really only one notable edit to say, I thought it would be a waste.

Chapter 16 was planned to be the last chapter after I wrote it. But after deciding to have a Sunset Shimmer & Princess Celestia reunion scene, I edited the last part of it. How chapter 18 ended is similar to how chapter 16 originally ended.

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This will be a long one.

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With the length of this story as it is, instead of "director's cuts" for every chapter one by one, I'll have them be for 2 chapters at a time.

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Much less to say in this chapter's director's cut. The change I did with Sunset Shimmer spending the night at Twilight Sparkle's castle, which I said already in the chapter 8 director's cut, obviously effected how chapter 9 would have went if she left after the date as she originally did. I'm not even sure how chapter 9 would have started if I didn't make that change, or even how the chapter itself would have been like. I probably would have had Sunset come back to Equestria during

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As you might have guessed, I got the name "Hay and Shake" for the restaurant Eric and Sunset had their date from the real restaurant "Steak 'n Shake". But at first, it didn't have a name and it was simply called "the restaurant" in both narration and dialogue, but during editing I gave it an actual name.

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Not as much to say as I did with the chapter 6 director's cut.

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I got a lot to say in this director's cut.

First, I planned how Sunset would find out about Eric's crush, that she would not immediately form feelings for him, but that she would ultimately be the one to make a move from the start. But what would happen in-between all that I didn't decide until about chapter 2.

I couldn't bring this next part up in the director's cut for chapter 4, because it played a role in chapter 6, but now I can.

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Okay, did I ever say how fun it is to write the competitive side of Sunset Shimmer? If I didn't, it's very fun!

With that out of the way, this was one of those chapters that has very few noteworthy edits, but there's still some to talk about.

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At first, I thought all that would happen when Sunset Shimmer came to Equestria to spend a day with Eric Reed would be in one chapter. But as I was writing and saw the word count going up, it quickly became clear that the event would have to be made a multi-parter in the story. This is the first time one of my stories had a multi-parter in it since my first story, "A Giant Adventure to Equestria". That story had two different big events in parts; one was a two-parter and the other was a

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When I started this story, I thought what would happen in this chapter would have been in the 2nd chapter, and what happened at the end of the 2nd chapter was how I thought the 1st chapter would end. This was a chapter that made me see that the story would be longer than I thought it would be. More on that in the director's cut of a future chapter.

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First, it feels good to finally submit this story! I've been working on it for the last two months, and I'm currently much further ahead than chapter one; this was so I'll be able to update it regularly, and still be able to take some days off from writing.

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