Afterword: The Mare in the Moon · 9:22pm Apr 11th, 2019
In late July of last year, my cousin was going away for a week, and I was asked to house-sit for them. As an aspiring author, this gave me a chance to write in private (and use their internet). Of course, my brothers invited themselves over and spent the first couple of days watching cartoons. After they ran out of shows to watch—and since I wasn’t getting much work done—I suggested we watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
I’d never seen the show before, but I had heard about it from some guys who were really into it. After watching the first 2 minutes, we were hooked, and we spent the week watching about 2 seasons while I downloaded the rest to watch at home.
Later on, I got into reading a lot of MLP fanfic, especially ponyfication stories like:
But it was the premise of Lazy Coyote’s Something Missing that inspired me to write my own. Of course, it was also due to the book being unfinished at the time—ending when the brony-turned-pony leaves for Ponyville—leaving me wanting MOAR.
Now at the time, I struggled to write. I was slow, and I had a hard time just sitting down and writing consistently. But, because of this fanfic, I’ve revamped my writing process. I now work for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week with an increase in writing speed.
And so after two or three months of work, a brony, a pegasister, and some random guy were reborn in Equestria as an earth pony, a pegasus, and a unicorn named Clover Quartz, Featherdew, and Midnight Errant respectively. This trio would later find themselves in the town of Ponyville where they would help Princess Luna escape her nightmares and reunite with Queen Celestia.
However, this is just the first book in a series I call Hereafter Ponies, and it is going to be very long indeed.
I hope you look forward to it.
