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Dusk Quill


I once was lost, but now I'm found. Just a quiet blue unicorn with a passion for the written word.

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  • 203 weeks
    My Journey

    So I've finally set aside the time to sit down and properly write out a blog post for you all who are still around (the one I promised in my last post seven months ago :twilightsheepish: ). I want to tell you all about where I've been, what I've been up to, and share my journey with you guys. You were all around for some of the best times, and I felt it's only right to open back up again and

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    12 comments · 708 views
  • 234 weeks
    Well Well Well...

    Holy hell, that's a lot of notifications to look through! I suppose that's what happens when you disappear for... *checks watch* three years. Huh... I suppose it's been a while, huh? It would be shockingly rude and unprofessional if I was to just suddenly turn up again out of the blue, wouldn't it? Yeah, I guess it would...

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    14 comments · 482 views
  • 402 weeks
    A Soldier's Memoirs Spoilers

    For anyone who read my last blog and doesn't want to wait around for me to maybe finish the Soldier's Memoirs series, I do have the entire plot mapped and outlined. If you would like some closure, some answers, or just a glimpse into what awaits, send me a private message with the title: Will the Sky Fall? and any questions or comments you might have. I'll be happy to provide

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    0 comments · 790 views
  • 403 weeks
    I'm Sorry

    Over the past week or two, I've gotten messages from several of you guys asking if I was okay, if everything was all right, and just wanting to check in on me in general. I wanted you all to know that I was really touched by your concerns, and that I am just fine, but it also made me feel guilty. I'm sure you can guess why... I haven't written any new material for well over a year. I haven't been

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    10 comments · 673 views
  • 442 weeks
    Dusk is a terrible, awful, no good, very bad pony...

    I have apologies to make to all of you. It's been close to six months since I had any activity here on the site, and even less for my friends outside of FiMFiction. I feel I owe you all an explanation and my deepest, heartfelt sorries. I am still alive, if just barely by now. These last few months, I sort of bit off more than I could chew with life. I took eighteen college credit hours in an

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Apr
8th
2013

Thank You, Viewers! · 7:42pm Apr 8th, 2013

Thank you to everyone who took a few minutes to give me their opinions on the direction of my stories. It's really going to help me get a feel of what's too soft, and what's pushing the boundaries too much. Since I wasn't bombarded by votes though, I'm gonna use this more as a trend, or scale, rather than a hard "yes, we want this" vote. :twilightsmile:

Now, for the data... All of it is anonymous, but if you were interested to see how your votes stacked up against everyone else's, I made charts! :pinkiehappy: Okay, I didn't make the charts, a friend did... but that's because I don't know how to use Excel. Sue me.

First up was the genre question. I wasn't really all that surprised by many of the responses. It seems like a lot of you tend to enjoy what I'm doing now, and want me to keep going at what I know I can do best. Yep, Tragedy, Sad, Dark, and Adventure all took a majority of the vote, with some more... ahem... graphic content coming in second.

I have to say, I really wasn't surprised by the Gore vote. I mean, you're following me, for Celestia's sake, and all I've written about it war and death. :pinkiecrazy: What did surprise me was how many of you would be okay if I made it even more graphic and dark! Wow, you like your violence!

And lastly, was the Sex category. I expected a bit of a rift between the votes here, but actually, it was pretty even across the board! Half of you would be okay with graphic romance scenes, and half of you would hate it! Boy, talk about shades of gray (pun intended :pinkiehappy:)...

And that was it for this poll. Thanks again to everyone who gave their views! I appreciate it, and plan to have some new content out for you before Friday.

-- DQ

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Comments ( 5 )

New content! And as for your gore... well personally I'd consider your gore to be really light so I can see why people are willing to have you go a bit more so.

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I consider my level of gore to be light as well, and that's because I know how so many people in the fandom can be squeamish, so I deliberately kept it light to begin with. But Rank 5 was Cupcakes level gore, and that got a good portion of votes too! So now I won't! :pinkiehappy:

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Just don't go overboard! Those are threes not 5s!!!! :pinkiecrazy:

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Actually, 4 got the most votes... :pinkiecrazy:

993043 HU?:derpyderp1:
Oh, wait... I miss read the graph xD
I was reading totally different xD

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