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Colt in the Moon


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After Discord had been defeated, everything returned to normal. Except for one building. One building at the edge of Ponyville that has remained lifeless. Celestia left it alone, thinking it will be fixed eventually. But after the changelings tried to invade, she sends Twilight and Spike to investigate. They find a mirror that leads to another world. Another world where every mare is a colt. Another world with something strange is beginning to arise...... Edited by Camlio.

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Next chapter will be longer. At least, I'll try

It's a big wall of text, I had to stop reading the story as soon as I started.

You might want to space out your paragraphs and when a character speaks.

well i like the originality so far, but it was hard to read because of the wall of text. Allow me to shed some light.

"Oh yeah? Just wait until you see what I have planned for the bachelor party".
Spike giggled as his pony friends laughed with him. His friends included Pinkie Pie, a party-crazy earth pony, Rainbow Dash, who was the fastest pegasus from Cloudsdale, AppleJack, a hard working farmer, Rarity, who had a knack for style, Fluttershy, a shy pegasus with a love for animals, and his best friend Twilight Sparkle, a bookish pony who was the personal student of Princess Celestia. Princess Celestia was the ruler of their world, Equestria. Fireworks lit up the night sky. DJ Pon-3 was still playing 'Love is in Bloom' while the ponies danced. Twilight watched her brother, Shining Armor, ride away after he was married. It was the happiest moment in Twilight's life. Her dearest brother was married to her old foal-sitter. A now Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. Before the wedding, Twilight had to deal with an army of changelings that were going to take over Equestria. The queen of the changelings, Queen Chrysalis, had taken over the wife. But she used her magic love to literally blow them away. Twilight watched as they rode off into the night.

When you bunch it together it can hard to follow the flow of the story and it can be hard for the reader to pick up details and suck so what i would do is space it like this.


"Oh yeah? Just wait until you see what I have planned for the bachelor party".


Spike giggled as his pony friends laughed with him. His friends included Pinkie Pie, a party-crazy earth pony, Rainbow Dash, who was the fastest pegasus from Cloudsdale, AppleJack, a hard working farmer, Rarity, who had a knack for style, Fluttershy, a shy pegasus with a love for animals, and his best friend Twilight Sparkle, a bookish pony who was the personal student of Princess Celestia. Princess Celestia was the ruler of their world, Equestria. Fireworks lit up the night sky. DJ Pon-3 was still playing 'Love is in Bloom' while the ponies danced.


Twilight watched her brother, Shining Armor, ride away after he was married. It was the happiest moment in Twilight's life. Her dearest brother was married to her old foal-sitter. A now Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. Before the wedding, Twilight had to deal with an army of changelings that were going to take over Equestria. The queen of the changelings, Queen Chrysalis, had taken over the wife. But she used her magic love to literally blow them away. Twilight watched as they rode off into the night.


It makes it easier to read when you split it up like that.

Okay mate, I'm going to nit pick this fiercely. First off, the pacing is horrible. Second don't say it's been edited by someone unless they have actually edited it. Because I hadn't even read this till now. So I couldn't have edited. And for the love of all that's holy fix the bloody wall of text.

When someone new is talking you need a space like the one above. Hit enter TWICE.

Hmm... I have taken a quick look. Yes, you could use some different formatting. A line between each paragraph is ideal. :twilightsmile:

EDIT: I see this story has been posted at 6:10 am. There is 2 likes and 1 dislike right now, which is 11:05 am. Also it's already left the main page.

Just something to register. :pinkiesmile:

I must say, it's great to see one of your stories that doesn't have a ton of dislikes. But, there are some things I wanna point out.

Let's get started, shall we?

"Oh yeah? Just wait until you see what I have planned for the bachelor party".
Spike giggled as his pony friends laughed with him. His friends included Pinkie Pie, a party-crazy earth pony, Rainbow Dash, who was the fastest pegasus from Cloudsdale, AppleJack, a hard working farmer, Rarity, who had a knack for style, Fluttershy, a shy pegasus with a love for animals, and his best friend Twilight Sparkle, a bookish pony who was the personal student of Princess Celestia. Princess Celestia was the ruler of their world, Equestria. Fireworks lit up the night sky. DJ Pon-3 was still playing 'Love is in Bloom' while the ponies danced. Twilight watched her brother, Shining Armor, ride away after he was married. It was the happiest moment in Twilight's life. Her dearest brother was married to her old foal-sitter. A now Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. Before the wedding, Twilight had to deal with an army of changelings that were going to take over Equestria. The queen of the changelings, Queen Chrysalis, had taken over the wife. But she used her magic love to literally blow them away. Twilight watched as they rode off into the night.

1. You might want to use the advice that 1582899 gave you with spacing your paragraphs. It's hard on the readers eyes when you don't put any spaces.

2. Ehh, I'm a little iffy about this paragraph in general. Your writing this as if you're introducing the mane characters to a new person. Remember, pretty much everypony on this site knows who they are. You should only explain who the characters are if you are introducing a new character. Not a bad start, I'm just on the fence about it.

3. THANK you for establishing where this happens in the timeline. I like that a lot.

"My faithful student," nodded Celestia, "I need your help. Me and my guards had cleaned up almost all of the mess Discord made. But one building could not be fixed. I thought that it would weaken soon. But when the changelings tried to invade, I knew the time to wait was over". Twilight shuddered, remembering when Discord got loose. Discord was a draconequus that was the embodiment of chaos. Years ago, Celestia and her younger sister, Luna, used The Elements of Harmony to lock him up in a stone prison. But he escaped years later. It took the combined efforts of Twilight and her friends to put him back in his stone prison. They could pull it off because they each were an element. She then realized what the princess just said.

1. You don't have to explain what happened with Discord. It interrupts the overall pace of the story because we already know what happened. Twilight was there! If you were explaining to a new person, it'd be fine. Just keep this in mind, okay?

2. I...was confused by your wording. If this was a threat to Equestria, wouldn't she give Twilight more details?

"What do you mean? How could you not change something back"?
The princess sighed. "The magic around it is too strong. I need you and Spike to check it out. I'm afraid I have my own royal duties to do it my self". She then flew away. Twilight contemplated the task in front of her. She then realized that she had to do her duty.
"Spike," called Twilight, "Round up the others. We have a mission from the princess"!

1. Um, I don't like this scene. I don't think that Celestia would willingly put her student in danger if she could check it out. When Nightmare Moon returned, she captured Celestia. And she wasn't connected to the Elements when Discord was free. That's why I could understand why she needed Twilight and Co. to take care of it. But here, she seems rather indifferent to Twilight's safety. That seems rather OOC of her. You might want to check that.

Twilight and her friends were sent flying through a strange portal. None of them could move. They all saw each other and mirrors. Mirrors were everywhere. All the ponies screamed in terror as they rocketed through the strange place. "Tilight!" callled Spike,
"What's going on, where are we"?
"I don't know," she replied, "just hold on"!
All the ponies were then sucked into a swirl. Twilight heard Discord's evil laugh, and then she blacked out.

1. It's "Twilight", not "Tilight". Might wanna fix that. :rainbowlaugh:

2. Because nothing really happens in this scene, and you mentioned that they were sucked into the portal before, this part isn't needed. You can take this part out with no problems.

Final grade: B-

Final advice: Expansion and details.

You need to work on adding more detail where needed, and cutting back on it at other points. Don't explain what's happened in the show because we already know. Put some more details, like conversations between our mane characters and some more descriptions about what's around them. Also, make sure that every character is in character. They need to act like how we've seen and expect them to be.

Other then that, I like it. You get a like and a fave from me, and I'll be waiting for more.

Howling at you from here to the netherworld,
twow443, TWE's Psychotic Demon Wolf:pinkiecrazy:

Since I prefer reading something once it's completed and cleaned up, I have not read anything beyond the description. I only have one question, though. Is this at all related to Conner Cogwork's On a Cross and Arrow? (alternate telling, inspired by, etc.)

The reason I ask, aside from the main plot, is because a mirror such as you described makes an appearance toward the end of Conner's work as well. It makes me wonder what other similarities the two stories will share.

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Well, I believe I can field that question and the answer is... Not many. Mirrors are just a great portal placement due to the fact that you can explain away that it's just a trick mirror instead of a portal.

On a few other notes, I do feel the pacing is a bit rushed but, I'm not the one typing this out. Can't really change that. But, the main meat of the story is rather different from the norm for a R63 Universe visit. So don't instantly think it's going to stick to the norms.

While I'm somewhat on the fence on a few things I can assure you I'm working with MitM to smooth this out. So if there's updates to an old chapter it's because I just finished dragging a fine tooth Comb through it.

1583958
Ah, thank you for the response. While I am still curious what the inspiration behind the story is, such knowledge really is of little to no importance from the reader's standpoint. Therefore, I shall leave it at that.

In my approach to fanfiction, the only predisposition going into a piece is set either by its synopsis or, if in a series, by what has been established in prior installments. So no worries there.

As far as pacing and other issues, that's part of why I always wait until the story's completion to read it. Allowing all the kinks and bugs to be worked out beforehand always makes for a much more enjoyable experience for me.:pinkiehappy:

1584122
While this is very true, I enjoy to watch the story develop. It makes it that much easier to feel more "In the moment" As they say. Allowing yourself to watch the character's learn and grow.

On the point of inspiration, there isn't really much on my end. I just signed on to help MitM with this. But, I have thrown a lot of my creative talent's at it.

Just finished editing the first chapter also. I encourage everyone to give it a re-read when it's up.

Waiting to see when the edited version is going to hit the page. Currently I'm not impressed by this effort. The idea is solid, at least the mirror universe idea where they're all colts and I'm interested in seeing where the author goes with this but I'm running into some problems.

The obvious wall of text is a big one. The paragraphs should be separated and sometimes there's an indent and sometimes there isn't. You need to be consistent with your spacing and structure.

The flow of the story is a little fast. You seem to rush over a lot of points in an attempt to get to where you're going. Only 1000 words and they're suddenly in a mirror universe. You really need to work on your pacing. Also you need to work on your sentences, they're too short or they run on at length. Try explaining a little more or combining the short sentences if possible and cutting down the really long ones.

Some of the descriptions are off. We all know who the mane 6 are and what their personalities are. It's not necessary to list them all and what their defining characteristic(s) might be. If somebody needs a refresher on this, they should watch the TV show or at least glance at a wiki.

The dialogue is coming across as a little forced. I would look into redoing it.

As I said, I would really like to see this once it's been re-edited and hopefully some of these issues have been resolved.

1584480 Did my review help? Did it? DID IT?:pinkiecrazy::pinkiecrazy::pinkiecrazy::pinkiecrazy:


Just wondering.:twilightblush:

1584515 Hmmm, You might need me to review it again.....

Nice. Can't wait for next chapter!:pinkiehappy:

Mare in the moon this is a great idea you have going and after looking at all the comments people made to help you I can't really offer you anything else
your story got 4/10 Rarities
:raritystarry::raritystarry::raritystarry::raritystarry:

-sighs-

I always loved stuff like this...

BEAUTIFUL I SAY:yay:

Add paragraph breaks for dialogue and it's spelled apologize.
Other than that...
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FINALLY!!!
A story about The Mane Six discovering their male counterparts!
Favorite! :pinkiehappy:

1585189 Can't wait!
I expect insanity when Pinkie meets Bubble Berry! :pinkiecrazy:

1585199 After they meet, the fourth wall will be only a myth

1585246 Anyways, hey man! Have you seen my Pony Personality Test Results? :trixieshiftright:

1585268 Yep! How did you do it? I've been trying to post mine

1585272 25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8h0nqmpgm1qckd7ko1_400.gif
JK. :trollestia:
Actually, you view your picture result using "View Image".
Then you copy the URL.
Once the URL is copied, go to your user page and press "Edit User Page".
Then, press where it says "Custom Box".
Try to find a small, thin blank rectangle on your page while our still in edit mode.
Then, press edit on the box.
In the comment box that will appear, type "img" with the brackets first. No quotation marks. :unsuresweetie:
Then, paste the URL.
Type "/img", also with brackets, at the end. No spaces.

There, I hope that helps! :twilightsmile:

[ img ]
And
[ /img ] at the end.
Take ALL spaces out.

1585430 and you put the URL in between. No spaces. :pinkiesmile:

1585525 Actually, sorry, I did something wrong and it worked now. I can't see it 'cause the computer I'm on sucks

1585598 I'll check out my laptop tomorrow. Do you want to know who I got?:trixieshiftright:

I will monitor this for interest

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