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  • 11 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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  • 35 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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  • 46 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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  • 60 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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  • 71 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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Feb
1st
2021

Intellectual honesty · 2:53pm Feb 1st, 2021

I had an interesting experience over the last week. I had recently renewed a discussion with another blogger regarding (in a roundabout way) Princess Luna, and an alternate potential ending to the series that another writer proposed in a story. The blogger asked me to propose how this alternate ending would have played out, and I did, to a less than enthusiastic reception.

When I made my response, I had to admit from the get go that there were a number of episodes that I had never watched over the years, for a variety of reasons. Some plots seemed like they'd be too cliché, while others took the story in a direction I wasn't fond of. And I must admit that though there were some good stories in season 9 ("Common Ground" being one of them), I made very little effort to follow that season, having concluded that the whole succession idea just didn't work for me. In saying this of course, I have to mention that I'm much older than most fans. My initial exposure to MLP came with Gen 1, and my impression of the cute perky mom Windy Whistles is colored by my memories of her predecessor, the restrained, analytical, but still charming Wind Whistler. I've certainly seen what happens when a cartoon like MLP gets caught up in the cute, and the "stories" just become the source of terminal brain rot. (which was a big reason Lauren Faust constructed the story she did to try and avoid such things) And yes, I'm well aware of the actual meaning of "jumping the shark", having witnessed it first hand.

But that said, can one make a proposal for an alternate ending without reading the entire story? I think that I've seen enough to get the general gist of things, but I have noticed that there are things that one misses if you don't focus. Heck, I've reread a couple of my own stories, and found mistakes and sentences different from what I thought was there. Our friend Quibble Pants was able in his own mind to take what he wanted from Daring Doo's adventures, but how does that work in reality, or is that at least part of the reason we're hear in the first place, to fill in the gaps and ask the "what if..." question? Or...are we obligated to hear the whole story, even those parts we don't particularly approve of. I'm not entirely sure, but in the meantime, I think that I will try to watch a few more of the episodes I missed before I respond to that particular blogger.

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