Updates, and a story... and a question! · 7:13pm Jul 11th, 2012
There are some things that you just can't make up.
So my mom has this book, a curriculum for teens specifically dealing with issues from drugs to anxiety. She wrote it for her support group at church, Metamorphosis, after discovering that Lifeway basically had nothing that would fit the bill. Some self-publishing and editing later, and we're mailing stuff out to Youth Ministers in Mississippi.
By we, I mean me. And by mailing out, I mean I have the Southern Baptist Directory from '06 and I'm painstakingly making a 400+ person mailing list. It is awful.
But there was this one church. Friendship Baptist Church, which I still think is a silly name. I call, and ask about their youth/student ministry. This is what happened.
Mean Reception Lady: Yes, well, sorry. We don't have a youth minister, and we don't have any youth, really, and we're having a split.
Me: *opens mouth to say "Oh, well, thank you anyway.*
*phone hangs up*
Me: *closes mouth*
Well, there goes the hospitality of Christendom in the Hospitality State!
Anyhow,
I'm working on two stories at the moment. The long awaited: The Sepulcher of the Lonely Night (Adventure, Luna, Twilight, OCs. Jungles and ruins and puzzles and chases) and Moon Diary Supplemental: Black Box (GrimDark, Sad, OCs, Humans, ruins, puzzles, mystery). First chapter of the former is out this week for sure, perhaps tomorrow! The second of the other story will come and be done quickly, as Black Box doesn't take much time at all to write.
And a question: What makes you read Pony Fiction? What do you like in it that you don't find at all/ enough in regular books in the halls of the glorious emporiums of Barnes and Kuh-noble?
Ah, I had no idea you were a fellow southern brony. I'm from upstate South Carolina myself.
To answer your question. That's a tricky one. I've always been a big reader since as far back as I can remember. I guess the reason I read ponyfics is because I love the show and characters, and since there's only 20 or so episodes a season... well, I've gotta feed my need for ponies somehow. I can't draw, and my songwriting ability is subpar at best, so I kinda moved towards the fanfiction side of things when I got into the fandom.
Another reason is because of the variety and availability. If I'm in the mood for a stupid comedy, I can find an absurdly hilarious ponyfic with a simple Google search. If I want an epic action-fantasy tale? Again, one search away. Cheesy romance? Search. Done. And the big thing about all that is that every one of those stories is free. Money isn't something that I, as a lazy college student, have much of. Not to mention, the local libraries where I live never seem to have anything I'm interested in reading in stock.
Tl;DR. I like the characters/show and ponyfics are free to read.
Heya, between the two of us we're first and second states in line on the way out the door come 1860. lol
I think what you said about the ease of finding exacltly what you want does it for me too. It's easier to search according to genre and type.
Interesting question. I don't know why. I have written fan fiction before, but I never used to read it. In ponydom, however, I've found some fan fiction I really enjoy.
I used to write more than read myself... but with ponies, I've found some amazing work! Maybe the other fandoms whose stuff I've read did great work too, and I just missed it.