As the song says, "It takes two to make a thing go right."

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So I was digging through some gdocs tonight and found this little nugget waiting for me. Whipped this up over an afternoon around Valentine's Day, got a few chuckles from some prereaders, then got rejected for improper paragraph structure. Oh well.

Since this is a blog, however, I have no such restrictions. As such, I present to you what was tentatively titled "Pinkie Pie Eventually Asks a Question."

Enjoy!

...or don't. One reader told me they got all googly-eyed three lines in.

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An old man and his grandson went to town one day to shop at the market. When they started their journey, the small boy rode the mule while the old man walked ahead, holding the reins.

They passed a traveler on the road, heading the other way. He scowled when he saw the pair. “Ridiculous,” he said. “Why should a strong lad ride and force his elder to walk?”

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With their permission, I'm making this blog to plug this contest, and my entry in it, one more time.

The theme this year was making new friends, and you can drop a comment to vote for your favorite entry here. Extra Sprinkles is listed as Entry 72. If you'd care to vote for it, that would be appreciated.

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Every war has two sides: the history that is written, and the history that is.

Every war has its root, and it is most often found in the latter.

For a species that lives in secrecy, the truth can be as deadly as any foe. For the queen of this species, the sins of her mothers demand that she act to save her crown. Her life. Every one of her people.

Mind, body, and soul.

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As a writer, there are numerous factors you have to consider in your story. Are you keeping the reader engaged with your balance of showing and telling? Does the plot make sense, or at the very least, will it make sense in the end? Have you obeyed all the proper rules of grammar, like not using none of those double negatives?

Wait...

Screw it, moving on. You see my point.

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A greater man than myself once said, “’Scuse me while I kiss the sky.”

Well, ‘scuse me, because I’m about to kiss wherever I’m at right now.

And where I’m at is a pretty good place. I started writing my first story in July 2013. In the months it took me to finish that story, along with two others, I kept telling myself it would be worth it if I could reach one person and make them smile. I found that one, and I am very happy for it, but I also found two hundred and fifty-one more.

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Where does a tree draw its strength? From the roots that keep it anchored down.

Fluttershy learns this lesson by a quick anecdote from Applejack, but the strongest of trees all start from the smallest of seeds. Even the briefest exchange can show you how deep someone's roots go.

With the new year, I am pleased to announce the launch of a new group on Fimfiction. This group is a collection of writers, editors, and readers that have come together to share the stories they enjoy reading on this site.

And that is the one and only question we ask: “Did I like this story?”

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I like stories that turn things on their head.

We all know and love our ponies. Twilight is the bookworm, Rainbow Dash is the athlete, Fluttershy is the gentle soul, etc. We've all seen their adventures and slices of their lives. We've seen them come and grow together.

Now... what if things had started out differently?

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