I haven't been doing any pony stuff for a while. Well, other than watching the new episodes. Sad to think we're already close to half way through the new ones. (and the term alicorn is somewhat canon now) All of my energy has been wrapped up in finishing a project several years in the making. My first book, a story about a girl vampire, is now epublished and out for the world to read! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/261735 Only 99 cents with the code DZ58H Now I can take a bit of a bre
Got my special edition Fluttershy card today!!! *SQUEEE!* And I got a regular Fluttershy in a pack with a Trixie. Got a Luna the other day. Now I need an Applejack and Apple Bloom. Why the hay aren't they making CMC mini packs?!?!
We got a dog from the county shelter. We saw that it's a kill shelter so we felt like those dogs needed us more than the Humane Society ones. Got a male terrier mix to go with our Jack Russel terrier. So far he's a nice dog that seems happy to have a home. He needs a lot of domestication though. Peed on my wife's computer chair tree-style this morning. Even though it's a he we're thinking Dash has a nice ring to it. Spike has been in the running too.
Been thinking a lot lately about what things in my life deserve my energy and attention. There are so many things I have invested so much emotional capital in with very little payback. I wish Season three was here, having something that would make me smile to look forward to would help. It's hard to consider walking away from things that I have invested so much into, but if you get more sadness than joy from something is it worth continuing? My writing is in that boat along with other hobbies
So I am in the last stretch of self publishing my book and I need to decide if I should use a pen name. It's a short novel about a colonial girl turned vampire when she was 13. I just don't know if my real name (Jeremy) will flow well with the genre/subject. Debating a female pen name considering. Or a name I don't hate as much as I do my own.
Not much to say. As one of the (few?) that see Princess Celestial as a benevolent ruler as opposed to a troll or a tyrant as the internet likes to paint her I would so trade our current cycle of hate and slander for a few years of her in the White House. Imagine that NATO meeting!
I've been feeling discouraged about writing lately. The urge is strong but there just aren't words there to write. I've never had this happen before. I've had spells where I didn't feel like writing, and there was no way I could do it when I felt like that. Even with a project, if the spark wasn't there I couldn't make something happen. But I've never had the spark and nothing to write. I decided to start a blog to post some of the more ridiculous events I've been a part of/responsible for
So a good friend from the SCA replied to my "Oh, I know how to call a chicken!" FB post with a pony reference. His daughter watches the show and he's been along for the ride, but he said he's not a brony yet. However today he changed his profile pic to a pony and has been posting Equestrian "propaganda" posters in response to the political BS that's been eating Facebook. So suddenly I'm not feeling so alone.
The muse has been bashing my head in with the urge to write, but not providing inspiration to do so. It also takes enormous emotional energy to pour into the work and I just don't have that right now. *sigh* I wish I could draw.
I'm debating taking a crack at the RP thing. I've played tabletop RP games for over 20 years, but currently don't have a group. Tried a few online fantasy RPs using chat rooms with built in number generators too. But this seems like a slightly different ballgame. I'm not sure my skillset will carry over well. Too many questions! Also debating posting the first chunks of a new story brewing in my mind here for feedback. I want to do an original world based on MLP:FiM, but distinct enough to
Got this stuck in my head today... *sigh*
It's cute and helps with the toska though. Once I get some projects out of the way and have a clear slate to work on things *I* want to do I think I am going to forge Rainbow Dash's cutie mark out of steel. Trying to decide if it will be worth doing simply for the moment/photo-op of pulling the finished thing glowing from the forge and dropping it on a board to catch the picture of the wood erupting in flames when it hits.
So I've had a second submission auto rejected by EQD for grammatical problems. I wish I knew what program they use. It would be nice to be able to see exactly what it's flagging, and if it's in english.
So today I am posting the "end" of my "Twilight Years" fan fic. I would be open to continuing it if the characters and followers both want there to be more. I am also working on putting together my submission packet to send my vampire novel to a publisher. There comes a point when a pony just has to say enough is enough and toss the dice. Even if it doesn't get picked up, I'll e-publish it myself. But this is the first step. And that on top of some pressing blacksmithing projects. Be a busy B-
Reading and writing are both creative forms of escapism. I don't see watching movies or games as creative in the same way as reading. The images and world are already there for you in those, but in reading even you have a world described to you but it is your mind that renders the images and casts the characters. The world was built for you, some assembly required. Then there is writing. You build a world from scratch and populate it. Or in some cases, mark off your own corner of an existin
Well, here it is. I've done a couple of posts on FiMFiction (3 total), but in reality I've never done a blog before. I doubt I post very often, and honestly I doubt this gets read. But I have thoughts I need to shoot into the ether and get them out of my head. I've spent the last 2 years writing a vampire novel, and the beginnings of a sequel. This character has been in my head for 20 years and I finally had to put her out there. But only 5 or 6 people have read it so far. I will probably se
