I Never Meant to Write a Cadance Story · 5:18pm May 11th, 2013
Which is to say:
I thought I was done with Cadance a year and a half ago after "The Birth of Harmony," my finally-confirmed-as-AU take on how the three princesses all arrived in Equestria in answer to Clover the Clever's call for help facing Discord. Three months after that story appeared at Equestria Daily, we finally got to see Cadance's episodes when "A Canterlot Wedding" aired in April of 2012, and, well, not to put too fine a point on it, I couldn't get the storyline to make any sense at all. And that was that, I figured, for me and Cadance.
Then in October of 2012, that notorious scallywag Mr. Jeffrey Channing Wells, known around these parts as Skywriter, posted an innocuous seeming request over on his blog for ideas about what sort of music might put him in the right mood for writing about Princess Cadance--if you haven't yet given eye to the stories in his Cadance of Cloudsdale series, please go and do so at your earliest convenience. And, as I posted at the time, Jevetta Steele's version of Bob Telson's song "Calling You" from the immensely odd and wonderful 1987 film Bagdad Cafe immediately started running through my mind.
So it's all Skywriter's fault that the story "Calling You" is now appearing with, I hope, my usual 10 days between installments. If all goes well, it should finally settle a fair amount of the questions "A Canterlot Wedding" raised for me, and then we can all get on with our lives.
Mike
I wish I could reliably write a new chapter every 10 days.
Well, I wish you the best of luck with this one!
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Thanks!
Archy the Cockroach once characterized the writing he did as "either a habit or a vice," and I feel that same way a lot of the time. There's literally nothing I'd rather be doing than squeezing words out of my brain and spattering them all over the computer screen.
Mike