Princess Cadance writes about her job and what it means to be a princess and a mother in a letter to Flurry's school.
Rated teen for language, sex references, and language.
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It's called garbage can, not garbage can't.
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Contest? What was the prompt? A letter?
But anyway- this must be a coincidence because I'm... writing a fic similar to this...
edit: Oh I didn't realize this was from you, Hap. Have a great day
10787076 https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215615/cadance-is-a-terrible-mom-2021-competition
Deadline is in, uh, five hours I think so if you want to get in on this now's the time.
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Most likely the Cadance is a Terrible Mom contest from what’s been popping up in the new stories column these few days. I don’t know for sure though
10787079 Nope, that's the one.
I, uh, went through a process similar to Cadance here. Well! It is what it is.
God Hap this was brilliant. Tragic yet hilarious all the same and just so delightfully meta. This was a wonderful way to start my morning!
Hahahahahaha good one! This one lightened up my evening like a Christmas tree on Hearth Warming's Eve Night! I can't say I understand what it's like to raise a child and feel I'm inadequate for the task, but I can say I know what it's like when you're given an overwhelming task and feel like you're not good enough. It's a place a lot of us have been to, and you did a splendid job of comically writing that out into a story. Good job, Hap, and hope to read many more stories from you in the future!
10787199 10787185 Glad you folks enjoyed it!
I've discovered that editing is a lot easier when the pony writing the story in-universe is drunk. A lot of those 'intentional' mistakes were, uh
Well they are what they are.
I feel bad for her, poor Cadence
10787383 Don't feel too bad. The price for her existential angst is, ultimately, a hot husband, a palace, a lot of cash, and a free invite to every party in Equestria.
Could be wooooorse!
Thanks for the entry!
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Deadline in 10 hours, actually.
10787405 What? Really?
I'm pretty sure 11:59 Central Timezone is 17:59 british time...
I mean, I'm not complaining, but now my hilarious meta joke has been undercut! I'll have to unpublish and post it closer to the deadline. Or I won't do that, because that sounds like effort. But I should.
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You got the wrong 11:59 lmao. Submissions are due by 12 AM. It's PM.
10787413 Ah you meant to write 23:59. It makes sense now.
Well this is where we are today! I'll just rebrand and say that I was getting in early out of a sense of punctuality or something. You know how it is. It's all about the marketing beybeeeeeee.
Darn, Cadance! You always struck me as the nicest of the princesses, but... good God, girl! That language
! I guess it's true what they say - it's always the quiet ones... 
one of the best jokes I've read in this site
Now I want a sequel where Miss Hardcase sends her own drunk/depressed confession letter telling her how she also has no idea what she's doing and that she was scared shitless about requesting something from a princess.
10787494 Aw man that has such Hero of the Imperium vibes now you mention that.
Mmmmmooood Kindred!
10787473 It is a truth universally acknowledged that any character no matter how prim and proper, when written by a scotsman may at any point turn into a foul mouthed sailor.
Jokes aside, I had a good time laughing with this story! It's both odd and yet funny seeing Cadance throwing down swears like a pro
10788097 I like to think that this is all the pent-up frustration she feels at writing the same letter over and over again exploding in one explosive tirade of self-deprecation. Imposter syndrome at its finest.
It's silly stories like these that remind me why I am still on this website. Thank you.
10789271 Anytime! I enjoy writing wacky stuff from time to time. : )
It's relaxing.
Last minute “cadence is a bad mom” contest entries are my new favorite microgenre.
10789589 They are certainly something!
I have a bit of a history of submitting contest entries last minute. Not my Rescuer was written and edited about 10 hours or something before the deadline and Farm Responsibility was written only 2 hours before the deadline.
I'm not happy that it's my specialty but this is where I'm at today I guess.
Amazing. The most in-character and show-accurate Cadence I've seen, that also makes the most sense of the canon surrounding her.
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While I usually spend months on even the simplest story, I occasionally write a story in a day or less. A couple of these have been well received and one is unambiguously one of my best stories.
Several other of these stories were very definitely not either.
10789957 I personally suspect that especially for folk like us (I used to spend a long, long time writing stories, much like you describe) writing something off-the-cuff allows for a 'higher energy' style that might be more enticing in a few ways.
But that's just based on anecdotal experience. I try to do a mix of both these days since I've found that writing things quickly is, to be honest, pretty relaxing. It's why I decided to try speedwriting, which also taught me a bit about writing I hadn't known I was missing.
10789837 Cadance is weird, to be fair.
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There’s a message for my perfectionism here.
10790454 Ha ha, yes, my perfectionism side doesn't like it to be fair.
One of the reasons I'm a bit addicted to contests is because it often forces me to shelve endlessly tweaking, editing, and re-drafting stories, which is something I've done. Whilst the actual writing stage of Titanium Jack was done only over about a month to two months, the initial ideas had gone through drafts for over a year before then, all of which I threw away. This meant I could write with a very mature, well-develloped idea, but it was a very delicate, precise process.
By contrast racing through something and blasting through it in a day simply feels more energetic and raw. It's not as polished and sometimes it goes completely wrong, but when it works well it feels uniquely satisfying, like pulling off a trick shot on the first try. Given the choice I'd like to be good at both delicately piecing together a story over a long time as well as just wing it. : )
If you're at all interested in speedwriting, there's a discord group I joined which regularly does informal little speedwriting contests. These vary from the very silly and absurd, to more serious and conventional. Info here.
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I openly acknowledge my perfectionism is a flaw. If we're talking personal satisfaction, "I finished something" is a much bigger boost than "This novel I've rewritten nine times might be really good one day". And that's NOT a hypothetical example. And in terms of success (by any metric) quality beyond a very basic level of competence is almost irrelevant, and persistence and luck are the primary determinants.
So, yeah, Quills and Sofas intimidates me but I'll give it a try. I think I might try to write something today. It will be terrible clop tho. I'm sorry.
10790486 It is what it is!
At the end of the day whatever helps you write is going to be a good thing, and frankly, some folks enjoy spending ages and ages tweaking something to satisfaction, which is fair enough so long as it's delivering what they want. I quite like variety, so I try to inject different vibes into what I write, if only so it continues to amuse me.
Good to hear you're going to be writing! And good luck with your terrible clop! : )
I really feel for Cadance, this isn't her fault its Celestia's ponies and people who don't know what their doing shouldnt be leaders.
66th like lol
At least she was honest
I think that alone deserves an E- at least
You okay there, Cadence?
This is just... sad. She obviously has some abhorrent shit to work through and she could obviously use some help, because it doesn't look like she's able to do it alone.
It would be interesting to see some other perspective(s) on this. Shinings, Celestias, maybe even a reply from miss Hardcase.
She is a beloved. Not only by her subjects, which may project a little bit to much onto her, but by her friends and family, too. And they ought to know her. So it appears to be more a problem of self-esteem than anything else.
And tearing yourself down on a daily basis... is something I'm awfully familiar with. I hope she gets the help she needs.
Good story.
Thank you.
Sure, this is comedic, but this is also pretty damn sad.
11251949 Comedy = tragedy + time
I'm just bad at math.
Good thing the Crystal Empire is like, one city with few thousands of ponies, or something. She can remember most of them by name and pretend that she knows what she is doing quite easily
Anyway, glad I am stumbled on it
Currently in a process of gathering inspiration to write proper Cadence
(yeah, she is an insignificant accident, pretty much)
11637247 Ultimately we are all insignificant accidents in the face of history and the universe. At least Cadance has a hot partner and cool love-powers.
More than many of us get out of life! Poor dear just has moderate imposter syndrome.