Interview with the Changeling
Closing comments and acknowledgements
This story has been an absolute blast to write. For a long time I held back on trying to write anything, somewhat afraid of rejection and ridicule. I also felt that I had never had that one killer idea to make a story out of. Several half baked ones, but never one that I was able to run with. This one came to me while reading the novel ‘Interview with the Vampire’ by Anne Rice, and it provided me the basis for the original theme and title. From there however the story morphed and altered as I was writing it.
All the comments authors have made about how their characters surprise them throughout their stories make more sense to me now.
Reception for this story had been far better than I could have hoped for on a first attempt at writing prose in over 10 years. I will at some point dust off my other half baked ideas and see if they can be salvaged into a good story. Currently I have three possible ideas.
1. the hijinxs of a vampiric Lyra and Bon-bon, with abilities based on Bram Stokers Dracula, no sparkling emo vamps here. (This one would contain some clop scenes, plus a little bit of blood, and thus need a mature rating)
2. Sweetie Belle gains the powers of Dr Whooves Tardis, resulting in a multiverse fic ala the Sweetie Belle Chronicles: Fragments, but with Dr Whooves and Colgate along for the ride.
3. Cross over fic Combining FiM with the characters of Sam & Max, Freelance police. Max and Pinkie Pie are made for each other.
And finally, the acknowledgements for this story.
WandererD, author of the ‘Three sisters’ series. These stories are what convinced me to actually write my own.
Anne Rice, for providing me the thematic basis for my story.
Edragon, for pointing out grammatical mistakes along the way.
Lauren Faust and Hasbro for creating the world of Friendship is magic. This planet is a better place for it.
And finally, you the readers. Every like I got was an ego boosting validation that someone out there liked what I was doing. You guys are the reason we write.
And so, as always.
Stay Frosty
Fimbulvinter.