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User ID: 49,353
Registered: 21st Jul 2012
Last Seen: 37w, 3d ago
Story views: 4,346

Just the Stats:

Name: Fly by Night (also known to answer to Lydia)

Age: Let's put it this way ... I remember diskettes.

Gender: female, and proud fillyfooler

Favourite Pony: ALL ponies are favourite pony! (Ok, Twilight Sparkle and Luna)

Why do I love the Bronies?: Because frankly, I've never seen, or ever would have expected to see, a culture so amazingly creative and positive as the Brony community.

Rambling:

I'm a newcomer to writing fanfics, but not to writing in general. Up until MLP:FiM, I never really felt a desire to write about characters and worlds someone else had created.

I'm constantly amazed and awestruck by the sheer diversity of talents and personalities in the brony community. I'd like to be a part of that I think. Before I post anything, I do make an effort to edit and polish, and don't plan to start posting bits of a story unless I'm sure I'll be able to finish it.

Unlike other area's of fan creation, such as art and comics and music ... fics are something that require a major time investment by the viewer. So, to everyone out there who takes the time to read and comment (productively) on the works of the fic writers, may I just say .. Thank you!

Current mood

wishing I could just use a hammer to pound all the rules of proper grammar into my thick skull.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

— Oscar Wilde

Well, after a minor premature publishing of my debut shot at writing a clop-fic; I must now consider what to do next. I think I'd like to try a sad, romantic story (with a happy ending of course (even if I tried, I don't think I could write a story that had a tragic ending. My conscience would torture me.). I have an idea for an Appledash one, but I'm always afraid it's a theme so thoroughly used, it'd be clique now.

I'm also still striving to improve my grammar and punctuation skills, as well as my general storytelling style. I wish I'd kept my textbooks from high school and college (a note to anyone still in school: Don't burn all your textbooks at a huge drunken bonfire party on the last day of school. You might need them later.). I think the best way to do latter is just by writing more stories, and hoping for feedback! Hopefully feedback that isn't wrapped around a brick and heaved at my unsuspecting skull.

It's good to have goals.

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#157766 · 31w, 3d ago · · ·
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U alive? :rainbowhuh:

#98401 · 40w, 3d ago · · ·
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>>98400 You're welcome :twilightsmile:  I'll take a look at the story, though I might skip over the gore part. (I'm not just a wuss, I'm a hypocrite too. I love zombie and horror stories ... but I can't deal with tragedy and gore in the ponyverse :unsuresweetie: )

#98400 · 40w, 3d ago · · ·
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:pinkiehappy:Thanks for the watch Fly by Night and I just need to say that if you never considered that relationship, then checkout this fic called Growing pains. It's one of the saddest stories i've ever read, a bit of gore in chapter 1 but it quickly ends.  

JTB
#95149 · 41w, 1d ago · · ·
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No problem, it's a fantastic story. :twilightsmile:

And thank you, will do!

#94432 · 41w, 2d ago · · ·
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>>94390

I guess. I mean, when I make up words and stuff them in my story, I don't hear people asking me what the word is. I guess I explain its purpose before I use it well enough.

And, if my story history and lengthy list of posts in The Idea Factory group is any indication, I write bizarre things...

Example: trying to come up with a plausible and humorous way to explain my job through the eyes of a Walmart-hired Rainbow Dash came to mind once...

Anyway... that's enough rambling from me.

For now. :pinkiecrazy:

#94390 · 41w, 2d ago · · ·
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>>94269 It was my pleasure :twilightsmile:

It's hard to say which of the ponies I'd say I was most like. I have bits of all of them. But, I think if I were being honest, I'd say I feel most like Luna. Not because I'm a special princess, but because I know what it feels like to always feel like an outsider (not always a bad thing mind you), and to all too often feel like I live in someone else's shadow.

Or Twilight, since neither of us handle stress terribly well :twilightoops:

I wouldn't worry about being a highly strung nutcase, I think it's a prerequisite for writing!

#94269 · 41w, 2d ago · · ·
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Thank you for your watch!

Which pony (any of them, fan-defined or main cast) would you say you're most like? Of the Mane Six, some online test said I'm balanced between Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash. At least, that's what I assumed... I got those three ponies on three different tries in that order.

...Would that make me a hard-working, highly-competitive nutcase, then?

#82329 · 43w, 1d ago · · ·
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>>82050

Sorry, I meant about Celestia wanting to keep her wound like a badge for awhile!

#82050 · 43w, 2d ago · · ·
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>>82026

The "tea-trolling" of the guardsmare, or the rough-housing?

#82026 · 43w, 2d ago · · ·
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>>81650

Thankee! I wish I could draw a custom avi, but I have roughly as much artistic talent as a stunned wombat. :derpyderp1:

>>82008

My pleasure Dei, I quite liked seeing that side of the normally reserved Sun Princess!

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