Outside of major plot points, character names, and places, My Own Reality will not be a carbon-copy of Pony-Me with MLP stripped away. While previous blogs might've made it sound like that was the direction it was heading in, I'm treating the new story as an essentially overhauled version of Pony-Me, complete with several revised elements that would set the story apart from the original. Though, there will still be small Easter Eggs tossed in referencing Pony-Me. For example, the date of

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1 - "Wake up" - Draft 2
2 - "Take a look around" - Draft 2.1 (Unfinished)

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I certainly want to keep all rights to my own story, which means that I'll practically be ruling out every major publishing house there is.

I guess I'll self-publish, then. I can handle writing and editing myself, I can join some reviewing groups to get the thing proofread, maybe stir up some hype with Kickstarter and some marketing muscle, and partner up with a printing company to get the thing rolling into stores.

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I'm gonna take a short hiatus from my usual stories to focus on rewriting My Own Reality and working on an entirely new original fiction project meant to push the boundaries with my current writing style.

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My Own Reality progress

1 - "Wake up." - Draft 2.1
2 - "Take a look around." - Draft 2.1
3 - "There's so much to see," - Draft 1

Added in a missing detail to the first chapter, began work on third chapter. The third chapter also addresses a minor plot hole pointed out by commenters in Pony-Me, replacing the food that Lisa eats after waking with something that'd be more digestible to someone who hasn't eaten solid food in years.

Story updates

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I've finally figured out what to use for the next chapter title. Given how the previous chapter left off on a cliffhanger steamrolling into a new section of the plot, I'd say that this one is gonna be rather fitting.

Relive your past.

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1 - "Wake up." - (Draft 2)
2 - "Take a look around." - (Draft 2.1)
3 - "There's so much to see," - (Draft 1)

Finished chapter 2, rearranging the chapter names a bit to fit the chapter progression better. I'll be working on Chapter 3 tonight, and likely will post another status update on the story then.

Catch y'all on the flipside! I'll be updating My Own Reality at the same time as Pony-Me over on Offprint! Let's see how many differences you can spot between the two versions...

This thing dates back to July 28, 2018 as the last time it was ever edited. It would sit around collecting dust until June of this year, when I'd ultimately toss out everything I'd written and start over from scratch.

The story below is how it appears directly copied from the Microsoft Word document. Though, for some reason, doing that also seems to place some scattered links to making a new blog post for some reason. Either way, I'm just gonna post this thing verbatim.

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Second button under Pony-Me's cover art, y'all.

Or, just, y'know, grab the PDF directly if you don't wanna bother checking out my website. :P
https://themajortechie.neocities.org/MOR_d1.pdf

Mild "holy crap the story I poured everything into is about to come to an end"-style rant coming up.

Yeah, for those (very few) people who wish to see Pony-Me but without ponies, I've been on a hiatus for around half a year now, focusing instead entirely on fleshing out the world and characters of Pony-Me to let myself have a stronger foundation for the story.

Well.

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Revised and partially rewrote the first chapter, and began work on the second chapter.
Starting from the second chapter, additional plot elements not present in Pony-Me have been added for additional realism concerning the effects of the transition between an extended session of virtual reality and real life.

Chapter-by-chapter status:
"Wake up" is now on its second draft.
"Take a look around" is currently being written, and is on its first draft.

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I honestly feel like this is the most awkwardly-written chapter I've ever created. I tried to maintain a sense of continuity, but at the same time since I wanted to change the story a little, ended up diving into multiple areas where things just felt... off.

Chances are that I'll probably come back to the chapter and rewrite it from scratch. I'm really not much in a rush for the My Own Reality project, since I'm still busy setting up the world and lore in the main Pony-Me story.

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While it's still not entirely finished yet, I'm currently on the second draft of both currently-existing chapters.

Here's what I've got so far in its entirety. Keep in mind that Fimfiction tends to screw with the formatting when I copy something over from Microsoft Word.

As usual, any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.

My Own Reality

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Marked a few things here and there to rewrite in the original fiction, but it's not nearly as much rewriting that I need to do as with Into Equestria.

Speaking of which, I still haven't gotten started on the next chapter yet.

This is a scrapped rewrite of the section of the chapter I was working on that got partially wiped because I was being smol brain and didn't save before turning off my tablet. I rewrote it a second time in a way that I preferred over this version, so I'ma post the scrapped content here.

Spoiler alert: this snippet is relevant to Pony-Me's plot. If you're fine with potential spoilers, feel free to check it out below the break.

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The story has reached parity with the chapter "Find yourself." from Pony-Me. Instead of the infodumping that was just showing the diary entries outright, the chapter in the original fiction instead puts Lisa's backstory into story form, piecing together the entries through Lisa as she reads them, letting the reader see a clear picture of who she was in the past.

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We'll kick things off with some more character/lore building chapters to segway into the end of Part 2 on the Pony-Me side of things, while My Own Reality will begin work on new chapters at the same time as continuing editing.

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Alrighty, since this may or may not end up revealing some major plot points for once the reboot is launched, I'm gonna put all of this behind a page break. Click "read more" to read more. :P

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Haha, now where have I heard this before... oh wait, that's it, I said that I was crossing over MLP with my original fiction in my first-ever story!

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