On the EqD!

I don't know if this was judged, if they only browsed for grammar, or whatever... but as of today, I am on the EqD.

Does this mean I'm popular? I hope not. I kinda' liked being underground. It was cosy.

Well, hurrah. Whatever the reason, this is a milestone I will not forget.

Comments

[Julia]

i wanna be on EqD

btw it's Eris

i'm being Ebola so people can kill me

[HapHazred]

2796578 Oh, hello Eris. I wondered for a second when I saw the name change.

Well, I'm sure you'll get there one day. We manage an author support group, after all... might as well make good use of our resources.

[Julia]

2796585
oh yeah

also, it turns out that even without using my absolute power and only using dark magic and pestilence, i'm still too powerful to be stopped

[HapHazred]

2796589 Welp... I'm sure I'll find a way eventually. I mean, I'd never try to supplant you, Eris! Heh! No plotting going on here!

[Julia]

2796591
yeah, it'd be best not to

once my karma is purified and i gain the blessing of Pestilentia, I'll have the ability to make karma a disease, and all who oppose me can be delivered justice immediately...

then, i'll kill Walpurgis once and for all!

[HapHazred]

2796620 Now I just need something new to write... Did you actually submit anything to EqD for this?

[Julia]

2796627
nope
i'm too much of a pussy to do so

[HapHazred]

2796628 Aw. But you can't win it if you aren't in it...

Nevermind. I'll fix that later.

Does that mean I'm the only one of the harmonists who got onto the EqD?

[Julia]

2796631
possibly

[HapHazred]

2796633 Actually, now that I think about it, Rated is on our group, so that's at least one other...

[Julia]

2796636
oh

well

i will achieve EqD level! someday...

it will happen someday...

someday....SOON

[HapHazred]

2796642 It's weird thinking that it hasn't even been a year since I started writing... I had expected it to take me at least two years to get on there, and I expected to give up fanfiction entirely before that point.

[Julia]

2796645
well then
just look at my case
i've been writing since i was four, and ever since then, writing has given me more ails than it has given me success
well over a decade of shit that words have put me through... all the stress... all the thinking and reconsidering... being rejected... countless times i've believed my writing would get me nowhere... countless times i've been persecuted because "writing isn't cool"... but i keep going

no matter what this curse of a blessing... this blessing of a curse puts me through, i'll endure it and keep writing until i achieve world recognition.

i'll make sure that even though i've been put down many times by this practice, i'll never give it up. even if anypony tells me to stop, i'll never stop writing. it's who i am. it's what i do.

so never give up writing... and never doubt your work. even if people say your writing is shit, keep in mind that it's your shit. and you will stand by that shit because you, and only you made it to be what it is.

it gives me such a nice feeling that i can please others with parts of my very soul... it makes me feel so good

[HapHazred]

2796656 My case is a bit different. Sure, like every other kid, I wrote the odd story, but so far back I wrote them in crayons. I always read, though. Our house almost has a library down in the cellar.

I wrote my first real story on this site, as a wild stab against unoriginal AppleDash stories. And that's kinda' where I started.

And I've never really been that beefed about writing well, because it's never even been my true calling. That would be engineering. Writing has just been a really, really fun hobby.

Unfortunately, I'm incredibly competitive, and I very much felt the need to be way, way better than I was. So... I learned. And I'm a very fast learner.

That said, I think the way you do things is also great, and it follows my first tenet: always stand by what you do. Sure, I know my earlier stories aren't as good as the ones I have now, but at the time, they were always the very best I could manage.

[Julia]

2796661
if only more ponies thought like us

but then, we'd be the MLP season five Marxist ponies

[HapHazred]

2796671 I'm not sure that Marx intended for that... But yeah, you're right.

Now my only concern is the coming contest I have to judge. I've been reminding people about it non-stop (and one in particular over skype).

So far, Dusk Midnight is winning. By dint of being the only entry. We still have two more weeks, though.

[Julia]

2796677
yeah, and Wave is still planning on what to write, i see
i wonder how many ponies will actually enter

[HapHazred]

2796682 I noticed about thirteen people saying they wanted in. My estimation is we'll get half that number. I have one other guy who was working on a cool idea, and I have a prologue from BFG.

[Julia]

2796690
as long as we get more than one

[HapHazred]

2796740 Oh, we will. BFG will know no end to his torment if he fails me.

[Julia]

2796743
make sure i get in on it too

[HapHazred]

2796749 I'll certainly try.

[Julia]

2796755

[Starlight Nova]

Really? When did this happen?

[HapHazred]

2796797 Just now.

This is the link to the fanfic event there. I still go by HazardPony on the post.