Rainbow Dash is a busy mare. She has to juggle Ponyville weather duties, training for the Wonderbolts, handling the occasional friendship mission or threat to Equestria, and napping. After all that, she only has so much time to spend writing Daring Do fanfiction.
Needless to say, that means her writing’s not that great - especially when combined with her inexperience at anything eggheads do.
Clearly somepony needs to fill the role of editor… even if the results aren't what Rainbow had in mind.
(Begins in the middle of Season 4, but the events take place over the next two seasons. References to episodes will happen as applicable.
Artwork modified with permission from a sketch by EvoManaphy. Story proofread by SPark, and others who don't have Fimfiction accounts.
There's not a more fitting time to say it: this story needs an editor.
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I don't know if that's serious or not. I have an editor. Do I need to fire them?
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I resemble that remark!
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No, I just had to be the first one to make that comment.
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You should feel terrible.
Also, ironically, I found something that did need editing... which is one of the things my proofreader didn't get to check.
This fix is strangely relevant.
I like where this story is going. Although, the comments section has been almost as funny as the story itself.
I've never had an Editor, I've also never had any relevant criticism on any of my work. Its always been unhelpful stuff like "get gud". I've always been my own harshest critic and by lashing the whip at myself is how I've improved. That and reading a boatload of fanfiction and observing how other writers do it. Still I get where Rainbow is coming from. I look forward to more of this.
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I can't believe a story approver is saying this.
The expression of a writer should matter more than the quality they put forth. It might mean something to them that you could never dream of, and thus, you should feel bad about yourself.
GOOD DAY, SIR.
So far, this has been interesting and amusing read. I think it perfectly sums up the feelings of novice authors when they encounter a constructive critique for the first time. Every new writer should have this as a mandatory read
Also, the build-up at the end of this chapter was hilarious, though to me, Night Rain seemed a little bit too open and willing to help. But after all, it's ponies we are talking about here, not selfish and cold people...
Anyway, I am looking forward to the next chapters!
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Well, he doesn't know what he's getting into yet. He hasn't yet encountered the full horror of Rainbow's first draft.
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Oh my, poor guy
Noth Rainbow and Night Rain are surely far faster in writing and editing than I’m in reading
Anyway, glad to see a new chapter up, as well as more character development!
Didn't this story used to be complete?
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Nope, it's incomplete and has several chapters to go... are you thinking of another fic?
Finally I managed to catch up, really enjoyable chapter
And a real life editing note: checking the plot before grammar and spelling is essential 
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In retrospect, yeah. Not much point in spelling and grammar checking a section that you might have to rewrite entirely...
Hmm... I didn't know Dashie liked flirting with stallions this much!
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Sometimes the opportunity is too good to pass up.
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Okie Dokie Lokie!
Hmm. Super busy, in need of an editor ...
And this story seems to go a long time between chapters ...
Autobigraphical? :-)
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In all the wrong ways.
Oh, seems like a bit of a slice of life cliffhanger right there. Very nice.
Loving the reference!
I really, really appreciate that chapter title.
I also appreciate this story.
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?
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Just poking at OCs
This is the exact sequence I was
ing about last chapter 
Shame!
As much as I enjoy poking fun at dumb OCs, Night Rain is actually pretty reasonable. He jumped on board the editing train quite quickly, but he interacts well with Dash, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You kinda mangled the opening for this sentence
More shame!
Man, is this just gonna be infinite innuendo?
Shame!
Ultimate SHAME
Boo, hiss
Something weird happened to the text I put in bold, and you also forgot your commas in this sentence.
I was just gonna say "Shame!" for the random period there, but when I pasted this in, there were also a couple random italics tags?
All in all, this is some good fun. I like the way you've written Dash, and the story's been a pleasant read so far. Looking forward to more!
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It's not that bad is it? I only remember a couple instances...
Hey, you try coming up with writing-related pony puns!
Wow, after all this time, I'm still finding errors. Well, myself or other people.
Wow, that is a doozy. I think I know what happened there - at one point, I tried using a speech-to-text program on my phone to jot down things, and in that case I forgot to go back and edit it. Damn.
I think the rest of the errors - the missing spaces and the italics tags - can be attributed to the fact that I copy-pasted this from a Google Doc. Weird stuff happens as a result.
Ah, glad to hear it! Of course, I need to actually write more...
Will this be continued?
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Unlikely. I haven't had the will to write anything pony-related in a while, and I haven't had the will to work on this story for even longer. To be honest, I wasn't sure anyone cared. I haven't gotten a lot of feedback on this story, so it was pretty much me writing for myself, and that wasn't enough for me.
But mostly... I stopped because I was writing one day, wrote up a conversation between Night and Rainbow, then looked back at earlier chapters and realized I'd already done that, at which point I stopped with this story because I clearly couldn't keep things straight. Too long between updates.
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Alright then.