One of the things I had a great deal of fun with in writing To Cure Deception was creating associative identity markers. Something that means something to the character based off of what those things are associated with. The more context we're given about the character's past, the larger the frame of reference for the character's present and the past context revealed in the story.

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A one off statement by one of the changelings in my story had lead me to a concept I wanted to explore for the origins of the changelings. However, MLP Fiendship is Magic episode 05 totally killed that for me. I had intended it to run parallel to Daughter of the First Reign, which would be a nice expansion of my universe, however, I no longer feel like doing so as it would place my entire body of work into the territory of AU. Since I write in the in-between-spaces of canon this is not

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A hotly debated topic to be sure, the question of what is and is not "canon" is something that frequently occurs in all fandoms-- this one included. However before we can answer what is canon we must first answer what a canon is. There are three terms that are mainly used to reference canon material and they are:

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Those whom know me, know that I like having examples to point to, and no more frequent is such an example required than in creating outlines. That said, here is my outline for my story: Daughter of the First Reign.

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My cumulative advice for writers has been progressively expanding to an unmanageable point for a single blog post. It’s been taken down to undergo restructuring as to produce a more manageable format. This blog post will be the hub for all subsequent topics and advice. It is broken into sections with a link to the individual posts, while containing a short blurb about the topic in question. If you find a link that doesn't work yet, stay tuned, it will.

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