This story is a sequel to Circuitous Scholarship
A FRUSTRATED RAINBOW DASH waits for the new Daring Do book to come out. Twilight tries to get her to expand her reading horizons with historical fiction, but she'll have none of it until Twilight makes her a deal involving sock washing.
Please note: OC and gore tags are for the story within a story—neither Rainbow Dash nor Twilight are injured or exposed to danger of any kind, except maybe paper cuts.
Pre-reader: Rarityshy ● Editor: BlueBook
Added to Twilight's Library 24th Mar 2013
Chapters (1)
Neat
The ending was predictable, of course...
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Well, yeah: we couldn't have Twilight wash socks by hoof now could we.
Thanks for stopping by again, and thanks for the comment.
Wonderful, very well written! I loved the interplay between RD and TS, and the fiction was very nicely done.
You have a nice, clean style that's very readable and conveys a lot without extra verbiage... I can't quite do that, so I appreciate it very much when I see it.
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Thanks very much!
I'm really trying to work hard to avoid throwing in a lazy adverb to get me going somewhere. Even after the final editing round, I went through and killed off about four "slowly"s in Historical Fiction before I loaded it up here.
Also, I cheat.
I use Writer's Diet to help me keep on track. It's a bit hard to do with a 1,000 word limit on the input, but I work in chunks.
My other cheat is Paper Rater. It's not perfect but it can sure help give a view of the story as a whole.
I see that you are a member of Authors Helping Authors. I was just looking at how they work, I'm still a little unsure of that, and I'm trying to convince myself that I want to join up. Is it worthwhile?
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I unfortunately have been slacking on AHA- I have been meaning to do at least one review a week.
I like the setup, I think it's a worthy group. Whatever effort you put out, you get at least something back, and all the reviews I got were useful and thoughtful. At the same time, I found a few fics I wouldn't have otherwise seen and actually struck up a great editorial friendship, as well as worked further to help another author refine a concept that's looking like it should shape up into a decent AU story.
If you're willing to read some other stuff and put thought into writing up comments for others, I'd say it's definitely worthwhile, even if it mostly just gets you more views and hopefully more thumbs/favs.
Heh, I was at the end of this when it got submitted to Twilight's Library. In you go.
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Heh, heh! Thanks, hope you enjoyed it.
2309235 It was quite enjoyable! I always love stories where Twi and Rainbow read together.
Neat story, short & sweet. I take it you watched Der Untergang a lot as inspiration for the scene with the generals?
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Who hasn't!
I actually read a never produced screen play for Napoleon as well as re-re-re-watched Casablanca while working on Gale and Rime's little romance scene.
Thunderhead and his generals are pretty much a mélange of any, let's say, late stage tyrant and his gang that I've ever seen. The poor generals don't get much of a chance to develop character here as their job is mostly exposition.
Thank you for the comment. May I ask how you came upon this story?
2435170 I found it while browsing the "Rookies on the Rise" group. New writer solidarity, brother!
Read Later list! Y U No get smaller!!!
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I know the feeling! Hope you can finally dig your way through it.
Oh, Dash. Reading is fun. Being a bookworm is fun. We are the book. Lower your lampshades and surrender your ships.. Your narrative and discursive distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your plotline will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
She really didn't have a chance. OleGreyMane, I have also enjoyed this tale.
Fittingly tragic.
You can has review!