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  1. Kendrick

    Now Published!

    By Kendrick,

    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 break. Maybe a new pony story will come to me now.
    That or I'll work on the sequel.
    Or the new fantasy world I'm building inspired by some of the wonder I've felt at MLP: FiM.
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    Cards

    By Kendrick,

    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?!?!
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    New dog

    By Kendrick,

    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.
  6. Kendrick

    Life Choices

    By Kendrick,

    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 of mine, but I know I will keep writing, but some things may have to go.
    *sigh*
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    Pen name

    By Kendrick,

    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.
  8. Kendrick

    Politics?

    By Kendrick,

    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!
  9. Kendrick

    Fear

    By Kendrick,

    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 when I was younger. I did some crazy things, some of which people don't believe when they hear about them. I figured it's something to do.
    And I clicked on the link to put ads on my blog where you get fractions of cents per click. And was rejected.
    I was rejected by a place wanting to put ads on the internet.

    Rejection is part of trying to do something with writing. I know this is true, just not sure if I'm prepared to deal with it right now.
  11. Kendrick

    New Revelation

    By Kendrick,

    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.
  12. Kendrick

    Muse Abuse

    By Kendrick,

    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.
  13. Kendrick

    Sooo....

    By Kendrick,

    Lesson learned: Don't do a blog post when you are very tired and feeling crappy or you'll feel like an idiot and delete it in the morning.
  14. Kendrick

    Decisions, decisions

    By Kendrick,

    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 not run afoul of copyright/TM issues.
    I seem to recall that we are allowed to start multiple blogs. I wonder if that would serve well.
  15. Kendrick

    Beep beep

    By Kendrick,

    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.
  16. Kendrick

    Meh

    By Kendrick,

    Just feeling very "What's the point?" lately.
    Some days it just feels like all everything amounts to is a dreary slog through each day.
  17. Kendrick

    Me grammar good

    By Kendrick,

    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.
  18. Kendrick

    Summer wrap up?

    By Kendrick,

    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-day.
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    Where Tiny gods tread

    By Kendrick,

    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 existing world to decorate and modify.
    Now in writing my novel I've discovered that the main character doesn't always care what I want or where I think the story should go. She has her own ideas and I can follow along the best I can or she'll just leave. I've tried to redirect the story to the way I want it to flow and had it just stop. She goes on strike if I do this. As soon as I delete my version and put what she wants down it all starts to come again.
    So as the "creator" of worlds, do we owe anything to the inhabitants of those worlds? What are our responsibilities to these beings?
    Sometime I wonder if I create these worlds or just find them. If I am doing it wrong will they just pack up and find someone else to tell their tale?
  20. Kendrick

    Obsessive thinking

    By Kendrick,

    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 self publish this fall in ebook format, just to get her out.
    So for the first time I'm writing fan fiction for anything, and it's for ponies.
    Since I started I've become obsessed with the feedback on the stories I'm writing.
    Real, public feedback on my work is something new to me and I am tending to look to that for validation of my writing in general.
    I doubt that is healthy, but that's how I am.
    Now I'm considering doing some world building because I'm becoming fond of some of the concepts I'm using in my fanfic.
    Don't know if it is doable, or worth it, but it's nothing but thoughts fired into the dark for now.
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