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Amazing Mr. X


I'm The Amazing Mr. X, teller of tales and weaver of yarns. After years of hiatus, I've resurrected this account to share some stories I've been dreaming up over the years.

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  • 80 weeks
    New Art & A Spooky Plan of Action!

    It's October, the spooky month, and that makes this an excellent month to release the starting chapters of a new mystery story! The Princess in the Coffee Shop has a new cover image by Helmie waiting for a coordinated release along with the launch of the story. It was really cool getting to commission him, and I'm really excited for you all

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  • 113 weeks
    My Schemes and I.

    Right, so let's talk about what I'm writing next!

    I've got three projects in the works. Two of them are stepping-stone projects designed to bring me back up to speed with a regular pace of writing. These are similar in principle to Premonitions but with a greatly expanded scope. Right now I'm calling them:

    • The Princess in the Coffee Shop
    • Victory: Rising

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  • 113 weeks
    Science Fiction Contest Results!

    You know, when I started this little prequel to my upcoming Victory Universe, I wasn't actually all that sure of what would happen to it within the context of the contest I was writing it for. Would it win big? Would it be forgotten in the entry pile? I honestly feared both options. Premonitions was the very first act of a writer, like the Tin Man of Oz, shaking off more than a

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  • 121 weeks
    A Hopefull Request!

    I've already started on my next story, but I've hit an interesting snag. One of the characters in this new story is a character originally from The IDW Comics called Cosmos, and there's no tags for that character on this site! From what i can tell, FiM Fiction's tags are manually entered by the site admins. I'd appreciate it if somepony added Cosmos! She's a really cool canon character that

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  • 121 weeks
    Victory: Premonitions is Completed!

    I was able to get a final edit of Chapter 6 uploaded last night. It took a few small adjustments to get the overall word count under 20K. Thankfully, nothing significant was lost in that transition. The original version of the final edit was 20,126 words compared to the final count of 19,997 words. That cut it very close to the contest's cap! In all of the site views that display the truncated

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Dec
29th
2021

Chapter 3 Complete and a Progress Update! · 2:40am Dec 29th, 2021

Chapter 3 of Victory: Premonitions is out! So far I've stuck to an every-other-day cadence with these releases that I really like. This chapter saw a lot of special attention in the editing process to correct for run-ons. This was the result of some specific feedback I got from the first two chapters. I may still go back and make edits to Chapters 1 & 2 to correct for this before posting Chapter 4. Behind the scenes, I completed work on Chapter 6 and have everything through to the conclusion of the story written out. The remaining chapters will need some small revisions to account for the way the story has evolved, but one of the biggest changes that finishing this has brought about is a reduction in the story's overall rating from Mature to Teen.

When this story started, I didn't really know what direction this tale was going to take. I initially didn't want to totally eliminate the possibility that it might land up a little heavier than intended, so I went intentionally high on the rating scale to give myself some breathing-room just in case. After finishing Chapter 6, I think it's safe to say there isn't any situation here that flies completely off of the deep end. This also comes hand-in-hand with the addition of the profanity tag, as Chapter 3 is the first chapter to incur the need for it. I'm still looking for feedback on all of this, if you'd like to give it, so feel free to leave comments with your thoughts!

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