TO ALL MY READERS

It has been quite a while since I've posted any updates to my story.
This blog entry is to offer a bit of an explanation.

Four years ago, I was diagnosed with prostrate cancer. To put it in context, that was almost exactly the time I posted my first chapter of Twilight's World.

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Dreams are Hard.

You might think that writing a dream sequence is easy, but I have found it to be somewhat difficult.

“It’s easy”, you say. “Just string together a load of garbage and disjointed thoughts.”

Alas. That is exactly the problem. That string of disjointed thoughts and images are likely to be ‘Out Of Character’ for the pony you are writing about.

Here is an example of what I mean. Something I originally wrote for Twilight’s World’.

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The Plot Never Taken.

You may not have noticed, but I am trying to write Twilight's World as a Science Fiction story. Rather than treating Twilight as a cartoon character from a cartoon universe I am trying to write her as a real flesh and blood being coming from her own (real) universe. She just happens to be that person we have come to know and love from the MLP television shows.

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I've been reading Fim Fiction, almost without interruption, for over a year now. In that time I've managed to read hundreds of stories. And I don't mean short stories – I tend to avoid short stories. No, I mean that I've read hundreds of stories that are at least 50K in size. But today, my irritation quotient reached its boiling point.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I find it really depressing that a majority of the HiE stories have a need to 'enhance' their human.

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Who are the Princesses?

Talk about writer's block.

Chapter Sixteen is a chapter necessary to bringing us up to date with what was happening in the Equestrian universe. Specifically, I felt I needed to touch on the activities of the Princesses. And it's been giving me quite a lot of trouble because I don’t know what their characters are like.

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It's been quite a while since I last published a chapter and some of my readers have sent me mail asking about it. And to those people, I must apologize for promising what I am unable to deliver.

After you factor in my taking some time off and my general laziness, what remains is a chapter that I am very unhappy with.

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Alternative Title: Seeing the world as new – for the very first time.

Sometime around November, I had to stop and ask myself the question: What is this story about?

I was trying to write chapter twelve, and all of a sudden I seemed to be short on ideas. It was as if my brain had decided that I've explained everything and that nothing else was interesting. Write about it? - bleh!

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As a new writer, I had (have) a great deal of doubt about whether I could actually write a story.

I mean, from my days in high school English class, I knew I could write descriptive scenes. And even if I thought so myself, those scenes were pretty fair. But dialog? Ugh. Not dialog. Anything but dialog.

I imagined myself churning out highly stilted, robotic speech.

“Could you please pass the butter? Twilight.”
“Yes. Here it is. Mike.”
“Nice weather we are having today. Twilight.”

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I thought I would post something about my experiences as a new writer.

You see Twilight's World (TW) is my first story. My first real story.

There was one time when I was all of 13 years old, I grabbed a pencil and any empty notebook and starting to write a 'story'. After 10 pages I abandoned it for the awful piece of dreck that it was. Right now it's probably moldering away in some landfill. Finally turning itself into something useful, like methane gas.

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