Another instalment of my version of Sunset's story, a work that has been pretty much my sole creative output of some last five years is out there.

Its not as great as I wanted it to be. It was better in my head, but still, I am very glad to have posted it. It was a big challenge for me, in almost every aspect. The genre, the style, the language, the story itself, but I think I pulled through.

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Hi to ally precious few readers of Plomo o Plata,

Today, unfortunately, I will not be able to put out a chapter.
There are few last moment revisions that came up, and with the bit of chaos happening in my life I'm running late.

Sorry.

Ill get it done by next Wednesday for sure.

Why do I write?
Why do I write what I chose to write?

I've been asked this question a few times, and I think I should put to paper the answer to it.

So, why do I write?

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So, I've recently read Peter Watts's anthology and it was _great_. And after reading it, I wrote an excerpt wherein I tried to imitate his style.
Unfortunately, it neither fits in my current fic (almost done, I swear!) nor does it make any sense out of context.
Therefore I'll just post it out here for posterity, and perhaps those few who enjoy both pony-words and Watts's nihilistic-biopunk-hard-sci-fi can appreciate it:

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I am finishing my fic.
Finally.
It just clicked one day (and I think I barely wrote a hundred words on said day), that this is it. The final stretch.

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Went over all my fics with a slightly better of understanding of English style and punctuation (thanks to Strunk and White, as well as Grammarly chrome add-in) and fixed a bunch of errors.
Hopefully, now native English speakers will be able to read the "Dazzling Illusions" without bleeding from their eyes.

Sunset Shimmer's magical journal is not themost convenient method of communication, at least by modern standards: It is bulky, it does not have a "mute" setting, it has no spellcheck and, quite importantly, it is finite.
But where magic fails, technology comes to the rescue.

So, new and improved journal:
Consider a robot with two colored pens, that can put a dot in a given point of a journal. Not too hard to build with your basic Arduino kit and a long weekend.

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It's because they don't deliver on their promise.

I've read horrible clop, and I've read Fall of Equestria stuff, and I've read and reviewed things that were barely readable because of of horrid grammar, and as a rule I don't downvote them. To each his own, it takes all kinds and all that. Mostly I don't believe I'm good enough to judge that the fic is objectively bad, merely that I don't like it.

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I've just had a very random thought, that pony technological level and culture, are, on it's basic level, based upon essentially Amish core values.
And I don't just mean random strange/conservative/old-fashioned ponies like Pies and Apples. I mean the whole of Equestria.

In essence, Amish don't just dislike technology. They specifically don't use technologies that tend to disrupt the person-to-person interactions and small community self-sufficiency.

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ACHTUNG: This is not a well-thought out post, so beware of rambling.

I've been thinking on the things I want to write, and it kinda came to me that I want to tell the story of the other guy.

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