Backstory: A Lesson in Kindness · 7:23pm Mar 9th, 2022
I don't have much to say today... [There is a collective gasp, and two readers faint] So, this entry will be rather short. [Cheers and applause ring out]
Anyway... moving on.
When I first started publishing stories back in 2020, the subject of visibility and getting readers came up. One of the suggestions I received was to enter contests. It would be good writing practice, and some who saw the contest submission might look at my other stories. Since then I've looked at multiple contests as they appear. The problem is that the contest story prompts just didn't inspire me to write a story.
Enter the Who Crossed Over My Little Pony? contest. In this case it wasn't a story prompt, but a character prompt: an animated character introduced no later than 1947, or one included in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (sent in 1947).
As I looked through the list of characters that appeared in WFRR I came across little Peter Pegasus. He first appeared in Fantasia (1940) and also has a fly-by cameo in WFRR. Somehow he just seemed like a natural for a crossover with ponies. My first story draft was a little rough (as my editor was more than willing to point out). But I worked on it some more and ended up with something I enjoyed reading. Perhaps others will too.
I submitted the story last week, and now I wait for the contest to close.
See? Short. [I exit to a standing ovation]
