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CoyoteXray


"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"! - Groucho Marx

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  • 15 weeks
    The needs of the many...

    I'm starting to make some real progress on my story "Danger Close" (unfortunately I'm still stalled out on "The Blue and the Grey") and I've already got almost two thousand words into the next chapter. My latest move is to find a possible new use for Daring Doo. She appeared early in my story, but I haven't worked her in very much since. The idea I had was for her is to possibly pursue a

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  • 39 weeks
    Uncharted Waters

    I've been working recently at the latest chapter of "Danger Close", and I've run into a problem. I've wanted to let one of my characters have a speech impediment, namely an occasional stammer. But, not having any personal experience with anyone with this issue, and having no training in the subject matter, I can't help but worry about whether I can do this and not have the character just seem

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  • 50 weeks
    The Cost of War

    I am making more progress of recent on the story "Danger Close" and I hope to have another chapter out within the next week or so. I'm aware that I don't have a huge following, but I still plan to finish the stories I've started. Today, my writing had to take a nasty turn as I've had to kill a character.

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  • 64 weeks
    Do Stories Have An Expiration Date?

    My story, "Danger Close", was originally started in the middle of 2019, right in the middle of the last season of MLP:FIM. I admit that it's been a long haul trying to figure out just how I wanted to structure it, and exactly how the story should develop. I'm not much of a writer, and even as a reader I tend to stick a little too much to history as opposed to fiction, which can limit one's

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  • 75 weeks
    Something is Coming

    I've been plowing ahead these last few days on the long delayed next chapter of "Danger Close", and I think I can say that it will be finished by next week. I should ideally feel a certain sense of pride, were it not for the fact that it has taken me close to two years to get this far. It's not that surprising as such things go. There are a lot of stories out there that have stalled out over the

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Sep
5th
2019

The next big thing · 7:58pm Sep 5th, 2019

I've gotten a good start on my third story, which will be used at least partly to introduce a character that features prominently in my second story (yeah I know, nutty isn't it?) The new story presents an interesting challenge for me, how to write a story with Rainbow Dash. I've never tried making her a principle character in a story before. She's in opposition, at least initially, to my new character, and I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to do it without making her into a total a-hole in the process. Has anyone else had that problem with Rainbow? I'd love to hear how some one else dealt with her.
September 7: Quick update: I decided to submit my story. Or, at least I think I did. I hit submit, and got a message saying that I can't submit it for various reasons. Is this normal? The reasons they listed don't seem to apply. (and I did double check) Funny I don't remember having this issue when I submitted "Danger Close". Hmmmmm….
September 8: Quick Update: Finally figured out what I did wrong. I forgot to publish the first chapter before I submitted the story. Good God! Gee...do you think that maybe I need to read the directions a bit more thoroughly? Duh!!!

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