Me Writer?

I became a writer but why?
According to Microsoft Word I started in February of 2012 with a prose with a working title ‘They Found Me’. Later changed to ‘Banging Your Heart on Some Mad Bronies Wall’. I just put some sad thoughts together and had a pony influence. It had a lot of Pink Floyd and Star Trek quotes.
I shortened and polished it. I found a way to mention each of the mane six and I solved the sad problem by giving it a happy ending and a little humor. It feels good to express that. It feels great to solve the problem. It feels good because it is 'Narrative Therapy'. I recited this prose at the Poetry & Prose on Perron-September 28, 2013.

About this time Bronies are creating Original Characters OC’s with pictures and stories. They were very colourful sometimes with armor from video games or invented. The Memes referred to a fan written story called ‘My Little Dashi’. I found it on Google Docs and read it. It really touched me. I couldn't finish it at first. It is manipulative but still humbled me. I discovered FiMFiction.net and started reading some stories. I joined FiMFiction in March ’12.

Again MS Word states that I started writing 'Grey Little Pony' in June ’12. So many stories started with ‘going to Ponyville’ or ‘on a train entering Ponyville or Canterlot’ I thought I could do as well. I decided to make him the opposite of every other character. He would be grey and bland looking and at the end of chapter one he would walk away from Ponyville. A name a name? Grey was very obvious but ponies have some meaning to their names or some background. It rhymes with a lot of words. Then I noticed the Dusty Millers I planted in the spring as border flower. The manliest Brony on YouTube is named Dusty so there was the idea to say that ‘his name was Dusty Miller but there were others named Dusty so he was just known as Grey’. At the Animethon we discussed that pony names are also related to their jobs or talents. It took me a year to realize it was his job to empty the dust bins.

The only thing I have ever written was patient care reports and essays. I described my writing style as being Power Point. I signed up for a Creative Writing course in April 2012. Eight classes lasting three hours each. At the end of class we had the opportunity to read our stuff and submit it to our instructor. I was very embarrassed writing about ponies so I changed my description of my protagonist and removed every pony reference. I told the class that they had to try to guess what I was talking about. But the first chapter I submitted I had missed one P word. The instructor saw it right away. The power of proofreading.
the instructor was also the moderator for the Poetry & Prose on Perron. She is the
Literary Representative of the St. Albert Cultivates Arts Society. Small world.
I will upload my prose when I get caught up on my timeline.

Our Metro Library Federation hired a Regional Writer in Residence. ‘The Metro Library Federation’s Writer in Residence program provides services to aspiring and established writers in the Edmonton & surrounding area including St. Albert, Sherwood Park, and Fort Saskatchewan. The Regional Writer in Residence (RWiR) provides individual manuscript consultations, public readings and talks, information on the publishing process and connections to the writing community. To find out more, please visit the website’.

Again I think myself clever. Natasha and I exchange E-mails. I tell her how I've been doing martial artist for years and I am writing a martial artist’s journey. I find a very good quote in one of my books and ad that to the start of the first chapter. I tell her that do means the way, as in Karate-do Ken-do Ju-do etc and that my character is on his way, his important martial artist journey. I don’t say anything about it being a story about small colourful talking horses. I E-mail her the chapter, she reads it and sets up an appointment to discuss it. I go there hat in hand to see if she was surprised to find out that my guy was a pony. Nope. She’s very well read and she talked about other stories that had that plot twist. I'm not so clever.

Aug. 2012 I become the editor of The Hash Trash, the newsletter of The Edmonton Hash House Harriers; a drinking club with a running problem. It’s a ten or so page newsletter for our running club. One person takes pictures and another takes notes and scribes a run report then I edit and upload the whole mess. In every newsletter since there has been an appropriate pony picture. This was the first one after our summer party retreat.