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I’ve come to the conclusion my stories just aren’t going to set the world, or at least Fimfiction, on fire. It took a nearly a year and a half to break two thousand views on one story and a thousand views on two other stories, with the rest trailing well behind. As of the time of writing, only one of my stories ever appeared in the “Featured” box, and that was a guest-writer short set in Rose Quill’s main story arc rather than one of my own. I haven’t broken a hundred followers. The

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So! Cutie marks for my primary trio of original characters, in order of appearance. Addendum: tweaked Rose’s mark to fit it better to the overall style.

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Cross-posted from Deviantart.

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The astute reader may notice I use a consistent design language for the artwork posted in each of my story cards. The proximate inspiration for developing it came from an editorial by Novel-Idea. I might quibble with a few of the precepts he advances—partly as a professional graphic designer and partly as a matter of personal taste—but it’s a

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Chaos Theory.

Searching for that phrase on Fimfiction brings up forty-five results. Seven of them are exactly that title and nothing else. Six others use it as part of a longer title.

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I rubbed my forehead. I wasn’t imagining it; a headache really was manifesting. “Do I need to talk to her too?” I didn’t bother to control my resigned tone.

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. . . But it probably was inevitable. Ah well. To revise or not to revise, that is the question.

Trying to figure out where he goes first—well, next.

It occurs to me I should cross-post the writers’ resources I’ve created and made available on my Deviantart gallery!

• World-building sub-gallery
• Twelve-page “Character Builder” PDF form for developing major characters

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