Put the cart before the horse, mix things up, and look at them in a different way.
When A.K. Yearling is injured, Derpy Hooves is tasked with ghostwriting the next Daring Do novel. But when Derpy takes the series in a different direction, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash are upset, to say the least. Now, they must cope with the diehard, blind fans of the terrible new series while trying to stop Derpy Hooves from ruining it any further.
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Oh hell yeah!
I will read the s
t outta this
Oh dear god, just the premise has me giggling.
Hope I can get some time to read this soon. 
Eeep.
You can do it, Derpy! Now I feel bad for her though, knowing how well this is going to end up going. 
A burglar can seriously sue for tripping on a porch?
I feel like punching someone now, that just seems so unfair to the person they attempted to burglarize.
This reads like terribly written fan fiction...
Carry on
Twilight Sparkle summed up my feelings about Season 4. So ironic, since she was the main reason I disliked it so much.
Sorry, just drawing parallels between this and real life.
It's odd that Twilight is making religious remarks even though she uses magic and she is well aware of ghostly spirits, and she admires the almost godly sisters that rule Equestria.
This is coming from an Atheist, by the way/
4685258 Twilight is what you might describe as a neigh-theist.
That was quite humorous. Nothing like taking common writing mistakes and turning them up to eleven.
My sides are in orbit.
God dammit Carts why do you people keep making me spend money on new sides.
4685251 2013 called. It wants its drama back.
4686393 How about we split? It keeps half and I keep half. No wait, never mind. The number 13 is a jerk.
That should be Twilight.
Otherwise I can't wait for 3.
-Hardc0r3Br0n3
Next chapter plot twist - this IS based on a real experience as Derpy wanted to as faithful to her sister's writing methodology as possible and, not really knowing what to do, found the local adventure store. It all just kind of snowballed from there.
That said, great story so far! can't wait for more
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Pretty sure they can also sue if you are home and injure them when stopping them, and can even sue if you have a dog at home that attacks them in an attempt to stop them along with having the dog be put down
I myself am a Team T-sus fan
I shall call this story: Least fave pony takes over best pony's job.
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That does not seem fair at all.
Twilight makes a grammar mistake.
There’s fan clubs?' should be 'There are fan clubs?'. Otherwise, it means 'There is fan clubs,' which is grammatically incorrect.
He died but saved us all from our sins, and from the ensuing winter which surely would have caaaaaused our extinction, death, and demise!”
the science is complected, but the dinosaurs incinerated from extreme heat, not froze.
also, twilight would be one to argue with religion, but not to force a lack of it on spike.
The Ponymorphs! Yeah!
4685187 Depends a little on the country, but sadly, no matter how good a justice system is on paper, it's going to depend A LOT on the judge and court you get assigned to. A lot of cases like that would just get thrown out of court immediately.
Wait a second? How will they find C.W. Hoovington (or whatever the hell the ghostwriter's name is). Seriously, I bet that A.K Yearling is going to be like "wut" when she sees Derpy's stories.
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If it wants it's drama back, it can take its Twilicorn back.
It's not like these issues just go away...
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Yeah, it's been a great, funny story so far. The author had entirely way too much fun writing it. ("as they struggled to move even but a just single inch forward"...
I think it would have been a lot better without Twilight's dislike of the religious, though. Not being religious herself is one thing, but actively disliking and insulting the religious is a different thing entirely, and quite distasteful. If there's comedy in there, I missed it.
...
“Well, it says here that you are Daring Do’s sister, making you her next of kin.”
Does everyone know Yearlings secret identity now?
Yearling is expected to go on adventure regularly every two months? Then again her publisher likely doesn't know that. I imagine she has to stretch things out in her writing if that's the case. Or have to do some ACTUAL fiction instead of just fictionalize her own life.
She took great pride in writing only about her own adventures that actually happened in real life,
I doubt they happened every time. And remember, she DID have her books delayed by months before.
it stipulates that Miss Do agrees to never publish the Daring Do series with another publishing agency.”
Can't she just renew her contract? And likely get a better deal this time since they KNOW she's gold.
so you don’t even have to try that hard.
Simplicity is different from quality.
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It's supposed to be a myth, but my dad used to put locks on our store's dumpster so hobos looking through it wouldn't cut themselves on glass and sue us.
“If I read it aloud to you, will you two be quiet and let me go back to sleep?” Spike groaned, frowning.
Uh Spike, how do you get back to sleep if you're reading? And don't you prefer Power Ponies?
Twilight had just fixed them all a pot of coffee.
Coffee? Not tea?!
seeing as how it’s mostly about boring morning routines.”
Done that with my writing on occasion sadly.
that they have for mostly stay-at-home moms to watch.
Derpy, Derpy, Derpy!
WAIT! Derpy has a job!
or inherits it from her mysterious uncle,
HEHEH! There's something about that line! :-D
“Believe me, I’ve checked.”
THAT LINE IS SO RAINBOW DASH!
of this great new invention called the period?”
Well, I do write run on sentences when I get excited.
The floors were made of lava and the shoppers all had to jump around on stepping stones to get through the aisles.
Why does that not seem THAT ODD in Equestria?
"gun aisle"
RD, "HEY! Daring Do never uses a . . . oh yeah, that time with the giant stallion and the sword. Never mind."
The shelves were booby-trapped and had crushers on them that would chop off the hooves of anypony who wasn’t quick enough in reaching in and grabbing the merchandise, or who wasn’t a unicorn and could just use magic to grab it, but Daring Do was quick, and the whip was taken just as the steel teeth of the chompers came down, and then she flew back to the cashier, dodging falling tiles and fluorescent lights from the collapsing Adventure Store ceiling.
Fridge logic is only bad if your reader notices while reading. :-( I noticed.
whose name was Register,
That's the MOST realistic (in terms of in story universe) thing I've read so far here.
recalcitrant
New word. How does Derpy know it?
that she could take a sweet tax writeoff for it.
??????? How?
Like, a social commentary mixed with a snarky narrator who’s trying to show us just how clever she thinks that she is.”
Like Terry Pratchett?
“I swear they’re not normally like that!”
Normally they're 2-D action stories.
Spike frowned, narrowing his eyebrows. “Look, it says ‘friends,’ in all caps. See?”
Didn't Derpy have an editor?
“Daring Do is normally supposed to say something that’s funny, and a pun about what happened! All she said was, ‘time to go… hunt some dinosaurs!”
I imagine Yearling adds those post-script AFTER the adventure.
“Ghostwritten by C. W.
DERPY!!! You're not supposed to actually WRITE 'ghostwritten!!!' Geeze. Did they rush this through the door? I'm guessing Yearling has 'protection from editors?'
Rainbow Dash groaned. “Those are all terrible puns, Twilight.”
Naked Singularity people.
“Of time,” she clarified.
Of paper. Of characters. Etc. Any would fit.
The car was only raced by Daring Do merely part time, up and down Academy Boulevard and Woodmen Road at night. Not for money, since she got plenty of cash from adventuring, but for thrills of running through lights and endangering the lives of pedestrians. Whenever the cops came, she always bolted and outrun them. It was a fun little dangerous past time.
I CAN IMAGINE RD AND TWILIGHT'S FACES! I CAN IMAGINE THEM!
“Uh, guys…” Spike asked, “what’s a car?”
SOMEONE REMEMBERS!!! BY HEAVEN THANK YOU!
Not to mention all the cars we've seen in the series were muscle powered! Either by ponies or animals!
“Yeah, and maybe I’ll win the Cloudsdale Mega Millions,” Rainbow Dash scoffed.
RD admitting it UNLIKELY that she'd win something?! 0-0
Daring Do finally got out of the worst of the traffic and sped up to a ridiculous velocity of forty miles per hour. Now maybe she could find what she was looking for.
Joke is. When cars were first invented, 25 miles an hour was considered CRIMINALLY fast.
“I work alone!”
At least she got that right.
“After all, you need to check out that temple, right?”
Would we have learned of the temple if we read the whole last chapter?
“She never goes on an adventure with anypony else.”
Look in a mirror RD?
“No,” said Twilight. “He’s a high school minimum wage lackey! If Daring Do is going to break her vow of no sidekicks, she deserves a better partner than him!”
And now they're in fandom mode.
“Uh, come to think of it, why didn’t you just fly here?” asked Register.
At least Derpy's figured out the fine art of lampshade hanging.
football arena.
Isn't that hoofball?
(Dinosaurs have those, right? Editor, check on that one for me. Then, remove this sentence.)
?????????
Did this forget to be edited? Did Derpy think this would be edited and instead shipped right out the door?
The pterodactyl does have a point about immortal souls.
you’ll be an atheist like me.”
You're the trusted student of a goddess Twilight Sparkle. Sorry real life author, you bungled it on that one, sorry, but that line drew me OUT of the story rather than INTO it, sorry.
Yep. I get a Terry Pratchett vibe here.
Okay. And Derpy is an anti-religious flank hole. What happened? Did she get hounded by too many Luna's Witnesses?
It's also kinda hypocritical considering, ya know, DINKY.
It’s an adventurer’s right to choose whether or not to eat these eggs, and a choice that you have no right to take away.”
I wish now to see a dragon replay a version of this speech to Daring Do as it's about to each HER.
……
Derpy's speech she speaks through Daring Do makes me sick. I get the feeling she's never gone to a religious service (OF ANY RELIGION! THERE'S BLOODY MORE THAN ONE!!!) in her life, and has only seen them on TV or in movies.
And since when does Equestria HAVE TVs?!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseReligion?from=Main.YouFailReligiousStudiesForever
I HAD TO SKIP TO THE END of what Derpy wrote!
“By being rational? It’s not that easy to argue with the religious. Believe me, I’ve tried. They aren’t so easily persuaded.”
Sigh. Twilight's prejudice here is PAINFUL to read.
"I think religious is irrational and stupid. Therefore, those who practice it are irrational and stupid. Therefore, they do OTHER irrational and stupid things. I don't believe in religion, therefore I'm rational and smart. Therefore, I anything I do is rational and smarter, no matter how many people say I'm being irrational and stupid."
4688785 Well, i don't belive that equestria even HAD religion, what with Celestia made the world and stuff
Yyyyyyeah...no. No author would agree to a contract that stupid. Every six months is really pushing it. There's also the fact that in the show canon itself, a book that was due to be released in four months was pushed back another two.
You need to revise your initial premise to account for the series canon, which directly contradicts your premise, AND for the reality that no writer is stupid enough to sign a contract that demanding.
4691681 Thanks for pointing that out. I'll fix it.
The issues I had with the prologue setup notwithstanding, this is awesome.
Judging by certain things in the...ahem..."prose" of the ghostwritten book, I have a hunch Derpy didn't write this entire mess herself. At least two other ponies were in on this, and one of them is probably Vinyl Scratch.
Looking forward to more!
Your story is good but...the Daring do bits make it hard to read, its bloody hilarious but as dash said,
its bloody hilarious but i can't fight back my writers side of me when it came to the story, "Could be better" i think, then i go and laugh my ass off as i sympathize with RD and Twilight with how they feel about the story.
Love this story! Its a great non-cannon fix about a non-cannon fix. Please go on.
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Well, I don't know about whether Equestria NEEDS a religion or not...
Or what the afterlife or reincarnation cycle would be like for Equestria...
But I know of nothing saying that Celestia created the world.
So, people can write their fanfiction however you want the world to be, but a lot of that isn't spelled out in canon.
I really hope other dragons get a chance to read this and feel like Spike did, even if the dinosaurs drop religion at the end of the book. I can't be the only one who wants to see Garble going door to door, asking ponies if they've heard the good news about T-sus.
Derpy is awesome, but she can't write for crap.
Looking forward to more updates!
This is so damn good. I love the situation you've set up, and how you went about putting an ordinary (in a manner of speaking) pony in an extraordinary position. That's a good formula for fun, exciting fiction.
This, however, feels like some very stilted logic:
Wouldn't it have been easier to just limit the number of publishing agencies there are in Equestria? I wouldn't be surprised if 98% of pony literature comes from Royal Canterlot Publishing, and everything else is shit.
There's also this:
Just add an extra 's' in there. Scholasstic publishing. That's technically a horse pun.
And this:
What?
4702084 Oops! Thanks for catching that!
As for Foalastic, I thought it was a better pun. Scholasstic sounds like something else entirely
As for the whole publishing agency thing, I just needed a good excuse to have Derpy write a Daring Do book. I came up with the easiest excuse I could think of, that still probably sounds like bull
That line is so good that I rushed off to DeviantArt with the intention to make it my new signature. Then my common sense caught up and reminded me that Twilight is not Spike's fucking mother. I closed the tab and came back, but I still appreciate what an awesome joke it was...the kind that's more beautiful for being long overdue.
Face, meet desk.
Three scientific inaccuracies in as many sentences. Derpy should not be allowed to write about fictional characters who work in any scientific field.
Love how they are sisters and I wasn't anywhere close to that guess
. Heh can't wait to read on.
*Clap Clap* Derpy might have run over the series quite a bit, but all I can say is...well...
IT'S Derpy I shouldn't be surprised and I LOVED it.HA!
Can't wait for the next chapter
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That was pretty much my reaction to the new "Thief" game.
4916685 deally i just skiped derpy's train wreck
Derpy's story is hilarious