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Ianpiersonjdavis


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  • 433 weeks
    Progress Report VI

    I know it's been a while and I would like to apologize to those of you who have been waiting patiently for updates.

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  • 445 weeks
    Progress Report V

    Hey everyone, I know it's been a while since the last update here.

    Right now I'm putting the finishing touches on the newest chapter of Shining Dash since there is only two or three chapters that will be needed to wrap things up for this particular story-some of it is minor stuff like spellchecking and changing the original chapter title and italicize certain things.

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  • 457 weeks
    Progress Report IV

    Chapter 33 of Shining Dash is nearly complete, the story is now in the territory of being in the last few chapters-if anyone is interested in having more stories take place this particular continuity feel free to let me know as I've been kicking around a few ideas in my head, but I don't want to spend all of the time and energy writing them if there isn't much interest-I feel like that would be

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  • 457 weeks
    CISPA/CISA is Back.

    I wouldn't be writing about this on the heels of the TPP blog, but BOTH of these issues can adversely affect the internet and rights for those of us.

    The last blog I warned you about the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), but for those of us in the United States, CISPA has also returned under 'CISA' (The Cybersecurity Information System Act) .

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  • 458 weeks
    Trans-Pacific Partnership

    Normally I don't like to get involved in political BS, but considering the brutally censorious nature of this thing (since I am heavily anti-censorship) , I've stopped writing to spread awareness of this thing and try to ensure that it doesn't pass.

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Oct
30th
2014

This Night Aria-Should it be Continued? · 8:36pm Oct 30th, 2014

This is something that's been brought up frequently with this story with others claiming it to feel 'unfinished' and wondering why it only has a single chapter.

It was specifically written for One-Shotober 2014, which is a contest I participated in last year, when I felt like I wasn't really contributing anything to the site and a time where smaller ideas are encouraged.

The story was written to focus on Aria because of the lack of content featuring her specifically and the fact that nobody else seemed to care about any of the Dazzlings except for Sonata and her taco memes, so I wrote it in part so the character would have something focusing on her.

As for the idea itself, it was admittedly experimental and I didn't really have any ideas or intention to make it longer than it was-this was also partially due to the fact that in the future complaints could be levied at how it doesn't fit in Equestria Girls canon when 'Equestria Girls 3' or the spin-off's spin-off 'Equestria Academy' eventually come out it and if the Dazzlings are portrayed as completely different or never mentioned again, I'll risk getting complaints about that from people who don't bother looking at the date the story was originally published.

Which has happened to me before with quite a vitriolic comment from a reader.

Then there's the fact that if I do expand upon the concept, I'm not entirely sure how I would have everything play out (though, I do have a few ideas).

If you guys really want me to, I'll write it-I just wanted to let you know that the reason I have so much trepidation about returning to this story.

So let me know if you guys still really want it or if you think it's already a trite, cliche', train wreck of a story well-deserving of a thumbs-down-if it's the former I'll remove it from One-Shotober 2014 and request whoever added it to Short Stories to have it removed and get to work on the next chapter. If it's the latter, I'll just leave it as is.

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Comments ( 3 )

I really think you should continue it, unless you just don't think it's worth it.
I thought it was really well done, and so long as you could come up with an endgame for it,
would stay just as good if expanded upon.

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I really don't think it is, it's already in a queue to be torn apart of another user's review for shitty One-Shotober stories-so I don't have much hope for expanding it into anything of the same or better quality.

Even if I take it down and re-write the whole thing, it'll probably just turn out even worse and I don't think I'll be able to turn it into anything decent-since it would all just probably fall apart in the second chapter without a real ending planned.

If I keep it the same, people who feel like it's unfinished are going to be angry with me, but if I change it, people may not like what the story has become and get angry with me-it's a no-win situation, that's why I'm asking everyone's opinion on what I should do with it.

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