News, exciting and otherwise. · 5:39pm Aug 26th, 2014
Moonlight Palaver made it to the finalists of the Outside Insight competition! I'm pretty damn happy about that, about having produced something that's in the position of competing with stories by authors like Cold in Gardez and Obselescence.
This does, unfortunately, mean that it's competing with stories by Cold in Gardez and Obselescence. Outright victory there is vanishingly remote, but getting this far is something I'm proud of.
The Devil's Details has also received Twilight's Library's stamp of approval, which I'm similarly happy about. Progress on it remains maddeningly slow, though, with Skewbald, Chevalier, and Zephyr still stuck in one of those interminable points where they have to be shuffled from Exciting Plot Point A to Exciting Plot Point B in an entertaining fashion. It's a bit of a slog, and I need to write something else to recharge my batteries for it. (Alcohol, it turned out, didn't help the creative process much at all.)
With that in mind, here's the prompt of the next piece I'm working on, courtesy of CCC. (He and monokeras are also working on stories for it, check out CCC's in-progress one here.)
Tirek has won. He's absorbed all the pony magic - with perhaps the very odd exception, there's not a single undrained pony left. And every single pony, everywhere, has lost their cutie marks.
More importantly, until Tirek is defeated, nopony is going to get a cutie mark, ever again.
How do the Cutie Mark Crusaders react to this situation?
Stay tuned for Crusade at Midnight Castle. It'll be entirely sensible.
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Thanks, man! Don't beat yourself up on my account; many of the other things in your Read Later list probably are more deserving of your all-too-brief mortality and brain cell activity. Out of the spirit of philanthropy, though, I'll summarise what you mention.
Moonlight Palaver: Several non-ponies yell at each other around a table.
The Devil's Details: Our intrepid heroes learn to hate swamps and the Mysterious Plot-Relevant Entity sets a tree on fire for giggles.
Well, there were two top 10's up as of this morning, and you're leading the field based on those.
'Tis a good start!
Now do me a favour and lose :p
-M
(Good luck. Honest!)
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Oh, excellent! I saw PresentPerfect's ranking and your own, and I assume those are the two as yet produced.
Sadly, I'm that bit too proud to outright concede defeat before the end point. If it happens that the pair of us are in the running to be outright winner and the judges are having a hard time deciding, I propose pistols at dawn to settle the matter. Sound reasonable?
(If not, then best of luck to you also via the more conventional methods.)
2417045 Oh how wrong you are! AugieDog put his ballot up last night.
To say I was surprised how different it was is an understatement!
Pistols? Pah. Barbarian's weapon. Bring me my sword!
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Ooh, missed that one. Glad he likes it, and interesting to see the different opinions at play.
I approve of your preference.
Spending the three previous years in a club specifically focused on learning how to fight with longswords probably biases me somewhat.