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Rao the Red Sun


Ph.D. in procrastination and occasional writer of pony stories.

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  • 221 weeks
    Ot No, It's WriteOff Time

    The sun, moon, stars, and hearts of all WriteOffTopia have aligned in a never before seen triple helix shape, finally allowing the Dread Prompt "Ot" to escape its prison beneath the long forgotten dreadwaves. So, if you want a chance to write some silly or serious or

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  • 230 weeks
    Happy New Year!

    And more importantly to me because calendar breakpoints are functionally arbitrary: new story going up soon. Soon-ish, it's in queue, however long that takes. Nothing too fancy or too long, just a mildly expanded version of one of my recent WriteOff entries.

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    0 comments · 258 views
  • 241 weeks
    Fin

    I self banned myself from FimFic until I could get around to watching the finale. Of course, I had to watch all of season 9 first, so it took me a while. I had nearly 60 notification to go through and, full disclosure, I kind of skimmed them because...

    My heart hurts. I physically ache.

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    1 comments · 321 views
  • 252 weeks
    BronyCon: The Final Frontier

    I'm not going! Woo!

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    0 comments · 310 views
  • 306 weeks
    WriteOff Shill: Redux: Artlectic Bugaboo

    So, it's about that time again. Figure I'd plug the WriteOff event before it actually got started this time. Seems helpful. Anyway, this is one of our odd rounds, called "pic2fic." Instead of writing a story based on a prompt, we'll be having art submissions based on the chosen prompt and then writing our stories based on one (or more) pieces of the submitted art.

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Feb
4th
2017

Inquiry v2.0 Patch Notes · 6:17am Feb 4th, 2017

Minor bug fixes:
Several spelling, grammar, and sentence structure mistakes have been corrected.
~300% increase in proper hyphen usage
~150% increase in proper em-dash usage

Fixed a bug where the old library caused significantly higher rates of proper noun address than intended
Luna's dialogue has been toned down ~20% to match emotional tone where necessary
Twilight now has better idle actions during tea time
Twilight's penultimate reaction in the last chapter is now ~90% less cliche

Bonus: New final paragraph added for more emotional resolution


Less cheeky, I finally posted the updated version after, what, like two years of it sitting nearly finished in my folder. Whatever. 99% of it was just fixing my mistakes from being awful and grade school level grammar. I toned down the visceral reaction a bit to Shiny's outburst (thought about scrapping the property destruction entirely per the EqD recommendation, but it still feels like an appropriate big-bro thing to do), Luna's dialogue with Twilight is less fluffy, Storm is less annoying with his constant use of direct names, Twilight's a bit more animated during tea, and there's a new ending paragraph that, I think, rounds out the emotional journey a bit better.

Better late than never, yeah? If any of you go through for a second read feel free to point out any other dumb things I missed.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

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Comments ( 3 )

4409407 Pretty much exactly what I said. Finally posted the fixed up version. Lots of basic grammar and dialogue cleanup, some more emotive movement, and added a new paragraph to the very end.

Didn't, like, do a 2nd chapter or a sequel or anything like that.

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