Even as I write, the Kickstarter churns on, but it has less than a week left! We've smashed through every goal, which mean more goals! We're over 23,000!

What am I talking about? This!

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It's one of those funny things. I cannot get a good review. The closest I got was for It's OK to be a Pony, which got a 'mostly good' kind of review. Reviewers? They seem to hate the way I write, a lot. They also don't get past the first chapter or three of many of these stories that go on -for a long time-. I linked A Dangerous Sparkle, because I just got a review back on it from where I had submitted it ages ago. Sorry, not good enough.

It never is.

Warning! I will host a poll on my patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ponyfinder for what next story becomes the next sprawling story of doom. Many said options will be direct sequels/continuations to A Dangerous Sparkle. The poll will likely take place next week, as I am heading to BABScon this weekend.

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I've never seen such a strong reaction before, especially of the negative variety. My apologies, Dangerous Sparkle readers. I've hit the last two chapters with the retcon red marker of doom and redid it to remove the objectionable materials and out-of-character drama that likely didn't belong in Dangerous Sparkle.

Do feel free to call me out on my hijinks in the future. I may not always agree, but I am listening.

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I tried to submit Dangerous Sparkle to Equestria Daily and was told the first few chapters weren't up to snuff in terms of... well I'm not a hundred percent sure, but it read like things an editor would fix. Anypony up for digging vigorously through the first ten chapters of A Dangerous Sparkle?

Thanks,
David/Rough Draft

A simple question here, but how are character tags to be used? Those who have the most screen time? Everyone who shows up?

If you didn't know, we have a Patreon going for Ponyfinder material. One thing not made as clear is that you are entirely within your right to use the credit earned there to ask for more work over here. Want your character to show up in a chapter of A Dangerous Sparkle, or want a fanfic about you/your idea? I'm OK with that! I like writing, and writing is what I'm gonna do, so throw your challenges at me and support my writing addiction while

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At the suggestion of my business manager, I'm slowing down to 2k words per day instead of the 4k/day. It's just as well, 4k/day was starting to wear through keyboards at an alarming rate.

Does this bother anypony? You're welcome to say so below!

This is more out of curiosity than anything else. Do other authors heavily plan their work before starting? I do not. I tend to let my fingers dance over the keyboard while my mind wanders, usually with assorted music going in the background, and words happen. I learned from the boiling crucible that is NaNoWriMo that writing time is writing time, and editing time comes afterwards.

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Reading back over my chapters, I notice I'm not big on scenery. Besides extremely basic layouts, I tend to go right into the words and actions. The protagonists could be having their conflicts in a perfectly white space without much being lost most of the time. I don't engage the senses besides obvious actions. No dripping water or soft echoing steps, odd smells, or anything like that.

Is this a bad habit? Does it decrease your enjoyment of the story?

Ah, pure love.

How to handle it tactfully? I come from a less than pure background. There's always that little urge to get 'down to business' when dealing with such subjects, but that can lead to things going way too fast in addition to blowing your rating out of the water. I've seen one guy do a side story for such raunchy distractions, making sure to put nothing in them central to the plot of the main story.

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It's time for me to prattle on a bit, since I haven't yet done so on this site.

I'm hard at work on A Dangerous Sparkle an done thing floats in my head. When I'm reading other people's fanfics, I admit to being turned off more than once when the character shows some 'ultimate power' within them, if only they knew! I feel it cheapens the struggle. People should prevail because they keep working, and stick together. Friendship is magic, and that's all the crazy magic we need.

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