For once, this has nothing to do with ponies. Instead I am looking to exploit the wonderful Fimfiction tradition of helping each other further our writing ambitions. I want feedback on something else.

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It was great to see lots of interest in the proposal in my last blog post. This has convinced me this project is worth pursuing, but also highlighted a few things I need to think about. I will now work on preparing a more detailed description of what I want, a full brief of the particle physics topics (I think my abstract on antimatter was perhaps a bit too abstract an illustration). I will then invite anyone interested to pitch me a (very brief) story idea. If I manage to stick to my summer

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For anyone interested in my real world adventures and general science stuff, I have now created a non-pony blog. Check out https://particlegadgeteering.wordpress.com/

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I have a new post on my Particle Gadgeteering blog, which is all about pony fiction. However (before you all rush off to read it) this one is not written for you (although you are still welcome to read and comment of course). This is my attempt to explain what I do on Fimfiction to my fellow science communicators, many of whom have only the haziest idea about what fan fiction is, and whose only knowledge of My Little Pony is vague memories of a plastic toy from thirty year ago. This is

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I just submitted a new work which needs a short explanation. C̶o̶d̶a̶ Codex Equestria: Scientific Pony T̶a̶i̶l̶s̶ Tales is a collection of sub-1000 word shorts in which one or more ponies talk about some scientific topic.

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Here’s a question for all you clever writers who have studied literature, read books on how to write fiction, and enjoy correcting the rest of us about points of style:

Can you change the narrative point of view in the middle of a story?

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