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• Today

  Backstory: The First Adventure

  In the first entry of this blog, I briefly described the creation of the OCs Quicksilver and Misty.  I developed information about them growing up, including how they met, how they got their cutie marks, etc.  The problem was that most of that content just didn't fit into your normal adventure story. So fairly early in the process of writing the other stories in the series, I attempted to do one specifically about these early years. It was a complete disaster. There was nothing to tie it

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• 2 weeks

  Laser Ponies

  For Christmas '20 I received some very cool laser etched Starlight Glimmer stuff from https://www.mylittleties.com/

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• 3 weeks

  Deleted Scene: High Water Mark

  As I mentioned previously, High Water Mark originally had a chapter 4 that explored a visit by Mayor Bigwig and Heavy Pony to Canterlot to see Quicksilver and Misty. My pre-readers didn't complain, but the editor had some pretty harsh words about it. And when I say "harsh", I mean curl up in a corner and consider if I should even be writing. The end result of that discussion was replacing the chapter with the current epilogue. I

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• 5 weeks

  Backstory: High Water Mark

  As discussed in a previous blog entry, when I first conceived of The Quicksilver Chronicles series, I envisioned them to be a go-and-do style. Quicksilver and Misty would go somewhere, something would happen, and they would have to do stuff to fix/escape/complete whatever was going on. I developed multiple story ideas using this formula. In the end, High Water Mark was the only story idea that actually got written. The rest

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• 10 weeks

  Other Artwork, part 4

  This is going to be the last of my weekly updates. Going forward, I'll probably only post if there's something noteworthy to talk about.

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