As you might have guessed, I got the name "Hay and Shake" for the restaurant Eric and Sunset had their date from the real restaurant "Steak 'n Shake". But at first, it didn't have a name and it was simply called "the restaurant" in both narration and dialogue, but during editing I gave it an actual name.

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As should be obvious, I got this story idea from the episode "A Horse Shoe-in". The first time I saw the end of this episode, it seemed like something I could have fun with, but only during the last month or so did I have serious thoughts to writing this story.

I'm a little surprised no one had written a story like this already, or I just didn't see it.

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Not as much to say as I did with the chapter 6 director's cut.

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I got a lot to say in this director's cut.

First, I planned how Sunset would find out about Eric's crush, that she would not immediately form feelings for him, but that she would ultimately be the one to make a move from the start. But what would happen in-between all that I didn't decide until about chapter 2.

I couldn't bring this next part up in the director's cut for chapter 4, because it played a role in chapter 6, but now I can.

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Okay, did I ever say how fun it is to write the competitive side of Sunset Shimmer? If I didn't, it's very fun!

With that out of the way, this was one of those chapters that has very few noteworthy edits, but there's still some to talk about.

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At first, I thought all that would happen when Sunset Shimmer came to Equestria to spend a day with Eric Reed would be in one chapter. But as I was writing and saw the word count going up, it quickly became clear that the event would have to be made a multi-parter in the story. This is the first time one of my stories had a multi-parter in it since my first story, "A Giant Adventure to Equestria". That story had two different big events in parts; one was a two-parter and the other was a

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When I started this story, I thought what would happen in this chapter would have been in the 2nd chapter, and what happened at the end of the 2nd chapter was how I thought the 1st chapter would end. This was a chapter that made me see that the story would be longer than I thought it would be. More on that in the director's cut of a future chapter.

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I swung and missed with what "The Ultima" is, so I edited the story "The Ultima", so what it is has changed.

The user SuperSaiyanDiclonius suggested what it could be.

First off, yeah, I know I more or less swung and missed what "The Ultima" was.

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How chapter two ended was at first how I thought chapter one would end when I came up with this story idea. But after seeing how the word count was in chapter one, I decided to make this be chapter 2's ending. I didn't want chapter one to be too long; if all that happened in chapters 1 and 2 happened later in the story, I might have had it as one chapter.

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