Well, I asked if any of you had any feedback on how I was portraying a professional psychiatrist in my story. And the feedback I got back was that I wasn’t really writing a psychiatrist at all, but rather a clinical psychologist. The fact that Dr. Franklin never proscribed drugs to his patients was sort of the giveaway.

Oops.

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A scant week ago, I posted a blog entry where I speculated what would happen if a psychiatrist character were allowed to run amok in the PonyEarthverse setting. I thought it was an interesting idea, but I didn't think it would actually work in practice.

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I’m getting tired of all of the story ideas I’ve been coming up with that can’t be accepted on this site as stories because they are not “pony” enough. I have far more visibility on this site that I do anywhere else, and although it’s fun writing the occasional essay or short story in blog form for a couple dozen readers, it just doesn’t feel worthwhile to do a novel in that form. So I’m just going to purge my latest unusable idea here in summary form and be done with it.

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There is a Ponies On Earth series on FIMFiction.com that has caught my attention recently called the PonyEarthverse. The twist in this particular series is that the ponies who suddenly find themselves on Earth are sharing bodies with the bronies that are writing the stories in the first person. And, after a few days of this, the personalities of human and pony start to merge.

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Anybody else in the world would have waited for it to reach 9,001. But I follow the beat of a different drum (and I had a major crush on Linda Ronstadt in the 1980's, but that's neither here nor there).

My thanks to you all. I can only hope you had as much fun reading "The Best of All Possible Worlds" as I had writing it.

It's called "Secret Histories", and you can find it here.

You'll notice that I've got a custom genealogical diagram as the cover art. As I was drawing that up, I realized that I never came up with a cutie mark for Butterbold.

Well, we can't have that! So I inserted the following into Chapter 23 of "The Best of All Possible Worlds", when Blue Belle first meets her:

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The second follow-up to “The Best of All Possible Worlds” should start posting in a day or two at the most. Below you will see one of many distractions that kept it from being posted sooner:

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I was writing the first chapter of my promised follow-up to "The Best of All Possible Worlds", when I realized I had some humans walking around in Canterlot, and hadn't explained where they had come from.

I suppose I could have thrown in some exposition, but the story about how humans and ponies finally found out about each other turned out to be too interesting for that, so here it is: "Parade Coverage".

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Chapters 40 and 41 are done, but I’m still working on 42, and those three chapters are so tightly intertwined that I dare not post what I have until I am satisfied with all three. And I'm pretty sure that 42 is going to be the last chapter.

Unfortunately, what I have written brought up a bit of a snag—for only the second time, I’ve run into the main flaw in writing a huge story like this on the fly: having to go back for a re-write.

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As a bit of an experiment, I thought I’d let you in on the work involved in creating a story. Specifically, I’m speaking of the upcoming Rarity episode of the Thought Experiments series (“The Perfect Little Village of Ponyville” and sequels).

Stop reading right now if you actually want to read this story without having it utterly spoiled.

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