Chapter 9 is up, and boy is Celestia hard to write for. I like her. I like the fact that she still has a sense of humor after millennia of administrative work. I like how she obviously loves Twilight (maternally) but tries to keep things within the proper framework of a student-teacher relationship. I like how she uses a minimum of power for any given problem.

My conception of her includes trollestia and Machiavelli mixed with an eternal loving mother figure. I think she's complex.

Well, it seems folks like Titanomachy, 500 chapter views last night, 45 likes and 89 Faves. Wow, I'm just overwhelmed by the show of support everybody. I had no idea when I started this that anybody would want to read what I had to say, let alone this many. I'd hug you all if I could.

I got my first dislike too last night. I know you can't please everyone, I just wonder what he/she didn't like and if it was fixable.

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Oh god I'm in the little box. No pressure, nope no pressure at all.

One of the little details I'm most proud of was making sure that the only two choices for Luna's letter was either (that new fangled) rag paper or (the horribly out of date) papyrus. The intermediate tech level that Europe went through (starting in the 1st or 2nd centrury BCE) was the development and perfection of parchment. Parchment is the cured split and treated skin of an animal, most commonly goat, sheep, or cow. Vellum, the highest quality was made from the skin of calves and

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After taking a day off writing to finish reading "Eternal" I've gotten another chapter up. It's one from Luna's POV and I have to admit, she's the most fun to write.

Huh, I didn't explicitly think that I would be structuring the story as four rotating POVs. It just kinda happened that way and I think I like it. So far it hasn't led to massively different chapter lengths - which would be my worry with this format. I've avoided it so far by allowing other characters to watch or see the actions carried out by others; or by leaving some actions off-screen and implied by their results. I gotta say this is way more fun than writing a scientific paper.

So I've added another chapter to Titanomachy. This one is from Discord's POV and gives a little bit of the world building exposition. Enjoy

So here I am. I've finally made the leap from reading fanfiction to actually writing some. My wife is going to tease me forever for this. She things the show is "fun" or "good" but isn't a part of the fandom and certainly isn't a brony.

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