Recent Happenings · 5:05pm Jun 18th, 2016
I stayed off this site for weeks and weeks. Things were getting in the way, for reasons I don't want to go into. During this brief respite from the hustle and bustle of bronylife, I found myself idly writing a little story entitled Somepony Tries to Sell Twilight Insurance, based on Ambrose Bierce's splendid definition of insurance from The Devil's Dictionary. When I finally got back on the 14th of June, I posted it, expecting it to gain me a dozen or so upvotes, and maybe even a couple of followers.
Well.
When I checked back the next day, it had been up for 8 hours - since early that morning (GMT). It had 30 upvotes and no downvotes, qualifying it as the most popular thing I had ever written. Then it got featured. It was at about that time that I decided that maybe I could write after all. By that night, it was at the top of the featured board, where it stayed for about two days. At the time of writing, it has over 600 upvotes.
Well well.
However, a few slightly more honest comments pointed out the flaws. Notably, the core argument was far too similar to Bierce's original wording, and my characterisation of Twilight was a tad lacking. Bearing this in mind, I decided to re-read it. I'm glad I did. I had written 6000 words of pretentious tosh. For this reason, I'm currently engaged in rewriting large chunks of it. The updates will probably arrive on Monday, but I'll make sure the original is still available to view, for the sake of archiving and all that.
I now have considerably more followers than I had before, so I also intend to try some more comedy one-shots. Maybe even a sequel to Somepony Tries to Sell Twilight Insurance. Who knows? Let me know your thoughts on that one.
Thanks for reading,
Ever yours,
-The Minister
I'm pretty sure this is a "one hit" wonder sort of deal. But that doesn't mean anything other than the public giving you credit when it is due.
Don't just limit yourself to this, branch out and write as you feel. So long as you make sure everything is edited before posting you'll be golden.
4031412 That's what I figured, too. Still, I reckon I've got more in me, so you never know.
Personally I found nothing wrong with the story as it is. It has a nice tone to it and is very stylistically written. Quite fun to read.
Write whatever you like. If that genre happens to be comedy, good on you.
4031630 Thanks, that means a lot to me.
The main problem was that the core argument was too similar to the original Devil's Dictionary entrance that inspired it.
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Fair enough. I haven't read that so I can't say anything.
As the Great and Wonderrful Socks says.
Write what you like.
4035830 D'aww, thanks! ^.^