I've fallen a little behind in posting artwork I've received that isn't story cover art. So I'm going to try and catch up with a couple posts since I don't have anything else interesting to talk about right now.

This first one is by the same artist that I talked about in https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/936822/other-artwork-part-4 (u/Princess_Rarity_MLP, Instagram: @princess_rarity_mlp). I really think this captures something special in the relationship between Quicksilver and Misty.

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Dark Steel was the last story written in the original Quicksilver Chronicles series. I'd finished the big ending story and was thinking about what to do next. It occurred to me that I'd introduced a new secondary character in chapter 3 of One of Us, the private investigator Dark Steel who aided Quicksilver and Misty in their search for Tinker Cob. He was only

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One of Us was the fifth story written in The Quicksilver Chronicles series, but the third published due to where it sets in the chronology. It's genesis was a what-if question (which I can't repeat since it's a spoiler). I asked what if something unexpected happened? How would Quicksilver and Misty react? What would they then do about it? In what ways would the resolution change their lives? It was an interesting

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

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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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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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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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Other Art, part 3

Today we have a couple more pieces of artwork as a result of free offers to draw OCs on Reddit.

The first one was drawn by u/majormilker94 https://www.deviantart.com/gothsuccthyme

The other one for this week is a physical drawing (paper & colored pencil) by u/JayfeatherSpitfire . I don't have a good download so I'll just point to the reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/ixcptn/bkc56s_ocs/

Just for fun, I decided to try one of those YCH (Your Character Here) commission sites a while back. For those not familiar with the concept, the artist provides an already drawn scene with the background and posed pony/ponies. You provide the gender/race/color information and they modify the already existing pony to match.

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