That I’m able to write well for Twilight is hardly a surprise to me, as she is like me in so many ways.

What’s a little more unusual is how well I can write for Rarity. Perhaps it is because I see more than a little of my mother in her, and we were very close in her last years.

Of all of the Mane 6, Rarity has the greatest gap between who she thinks she is, and who she really is.

Rarity thinks that what she wants in life is to be famous.

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Nobody is going to read this.

To get the demographics out of the way, I am a middle-aged white male of average height and am somewhat overweight. I have black hair and brown eyes. I live in the greater metropolitan area of Sacramento, California.

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I feel that Pinkie Pie is like a good joke: explain her, and she stops being funny.

I don’t think I’ve read a fanfic yet that set out to explain her without ending in a horribly-depressing way. And that’s just wrong.

A Pinkie Pie fic should be light. It can get dark in the middle, but it really should end on a note that leaves you grinning for at least a few minutes afterwards.

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There are certain classes of stories I have been impatiently waiting for somebody else to write, because I really want to read them, and because I know full well that I’m the wrong person to be writing them.

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The relationships between beings in the Cosmos can be exceedingly strange. Those that would normally be completely inferior to you may one day be placed in control of your destiny by higher powers with a strange sense of humor. Let me illustrate this with a story.

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I've got a very definite backstory plotted out for the "Betwixt Silver and Gold" series of fanfics I hope to start posting on FIMFiction in the near future. This is the story I used to plot that backstory out.

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Lesson 3

It is true that we created the ponies. Myself and my sister, the banished Mare in the Moon. This world was a wasteland, and we needed helpers in order to rebuild it into a paradise. I am not too proud to admit that loneliness played a part as well.

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If there’s one thing that absolutely forces me to write, it’s coming across a great idea that’s been insufficiently developed to my tastes.

Now when this urge leads to a full work of fanfiction, that’s good, because I can share it with others.

But sometimes, all I’m inspired to write is a single scene, and then what do I do with it?

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This is a little writing exercise I came up with. It has two purposes: to perfect Celestia's voice, and to work through some esoteric aspects of my head-canon.

I have no intention of formally posting these on the site. One because I think they are pretty dry, and two because they end up revealing the sort of things I always leave as a mystery in my stories. Nevertheless, I thought somebody might be mildly amused by them.

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I am an introvert. The history of my thoughts does far more to explain who I am than the history of my actions.

More precisely, I am an egoist.

I must be clear: I am not an egotist (note the “t”). An egotist thinks he is the greatest, most wonderful person in the whole world.

An egoist merely is obsessed with himself. I am strongly interested in myself, especially my failings. I know full well how annoying an egoist can be, so I will attempt to keep that part of me in check.

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