HOW TO EDIT A STORY ABOUT PONIES · 3:31am Jun 3rd, 2020
"Oh Tumbleweed!" you cry.
"Please, tell us, the few dozen or so people still writing ponyfic in the year of 2020-- how can we make our ponyfic BETTER?"
"Also in retrospect we probably should have asked this question a lot sooner. Still, seeing as of how you are BEST AT PONIES, what sage wisdom do you have to offer in this bleak time?"
WELL LET ME TELL YOU.
Step 1: Drink drinks. Drink whiskey drinks. Under normal circumstances, I would allow you to go find your own particular derivation of a particular drink, but editing is important. Editing requires a very specific sort of whiskey. Editing requires this whiskey. Observe.
Step 2: Listen to this.
Step 3: Post your fic anyway! I mean, people should get the gist of it, right? If anything REALLY falls through the cracks, somebody will mention it in the comments.
Somebody always mentions it in the comments.
Oh what bullshit.
What if they want to drink a vodka drink? Or a lager drink? Or a cider drink? :P
*snerk*. Best advt I've heard all day.
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Hey, look. Chumbawumba can tell you how to thump a tub, which I don't know what that means but I'm pretty sure it's something to do with Margaret Thatcher, but have they ever said anything about editing pony stories?
I REST MY CASE.
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I'm just saying your whisky bias is inappropriate. There are other drinks, Tumbleweed. Other booze is valid.
Truth.
For teetotalers, time works as a substitute for whiskey. The point is to look at your work in a different state of mind than when you wrote it, and writing is very much a mind-altering action.
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I mean, songs that remind you of the good times is clearly a metaphor for FIMfic, right?