My Royal Canterlot Library interview for "The Magician & the Detective" · 5:52am Feb 2nd, 2014
I read all the comments on all my stories, eventually, but I'm behind now. Friday was Bad Horse Day, what with "Moments" and "The Twilight Zone" in the featured box, my Royal Canterlot Library interview site post, and continuing blog-post fallout. I had over 500 notifications over the past 3 days, and about 20 new watchers. Axis of Rotation cleverly managed to be #800. Abandon hope Welcome, all!
Which reminds me. The Royal Canterlot Library, which is currently Benman, Vimbert, Chris, presentperfect, & horizon, selected "The Magician & the Detective" for the RCL. They proved their sound intellect and taste by making flattering observations on it, and interviewed me. The interview was posted as a fimfiction site post on Friday, but it was first posted here on the Royal Canterlot Library page, and I forgot to mention it. Sorry! I answered a couple of questions about how I wrote it: how I decided what characteristics to use from MLP vs. Sherlock Holmes, and why I made Holmes flawed in the way that I did.
I am still very pleased with that story (except for Watson getting tired at the end of chapter 8, which doesn't ring true to me). One thing I didn't mention in the question about what to take from crossover sources was on style. Some people don't like the style in "The Magician & the Detective". EQD didn't care for the grammar. But I copied style and grammar from Doyle. I deliberately wrote some sentences that were ungrammatical in particular ways, and used an unornamented yet verbose style, in order to make it sound more like a Sherlock Holmes story. For readers who haven't read Doyle, it may have been a bad decision. Still, it should at least invoke London in the late 19th century. I couldn't very well write a Holmes story in a modern idiom, could I?
BTW, I really do appreciate comments, even when I don't reply to them. I just read a new comment from Red Scare, for instance, and I appreciated it but didn't reply. I don't usually reply to compliments, because I don't know what to say, but I do read and appreciate them.
I see what you did there.
Whaaaaaat you had two stories in the feature box? That must have felt nice. Next stop, three at one time! But don't go all the way up to five; that's my goal.
It doesn't surprise me that mimicking Doyle's style didn't blow over well; one of these days, should I gain enough followers, I want to shock the world by showing portions of writing taken from classic literature that blatantly break so many of the "rules" about writing I've seen fanfiction critics and aficionados spout endlessly.
Anyway, don't worry about not responding to every comment; it's nearly impossible, and if not that, then certainly too taxing.
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Well that's kind of blackmailing me into following you, isn't it?
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Well if that's how you see it don't let me stop you!
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I'm expecting that blog post now.
Aww... you get flustered. Ain't that adorable!
I feel encouraged to comment more
...and the status quo was met.
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Haha sorry to disappoint, but unless you want to gather me at least a thousand new watchers, it's gonna be a while. If I'm going to take the time to do it, I want it to make an impact/difference (otherwise why bother) and for that, enough people have to see it. Twenty some isn't enough
1792033 It's a chicken-and-egg thing. Throw some thoughts out there. You'll have more thoughts later.
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eehhhhhh... I guess? I dunno, maybe.
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Listen to the Great and Evil Bad Horse. Think about it, you write it and your followers like the Thoroughbred of Sin will share it with their followers, thus increasing your sphere of influence and gaining an influx of new followers.
re: Holmes & modern idiom, there are some really, really good modern-day Holmes rewrites out there. Then again, I'm thinking of a TV show, so it's probably a different case.