The tale of Cadence's ascension to alicornhood.
That's right: almost a year after my last published fanfic (and after multiple "it's almost ready" false starts), I put a new story out yesterday.
I have quite a bit to say about the writing of this story, and I'll put it all into a big post on Friday... but for multiple reasons, I'd really prefer for you to read it before reading about it, in this case. Well, for those of you who intend to read it at all, anyway; I can't exactly force you all to want to give it a look.
Still, if you do check it out, I'd love to hear what you have to think in the comments, here or on FIMFiction. Feedback--positive, negative, or otherwise--is always welcome. I hope you all enjoy!
I almost passed over this on EqD, but for some reason decided to scroll back down and read the description. After seeing you were the author, I added it to my queue, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I'll make sure to do so before Friday
ReplyDeleteReading this:
ReplyDeleteMade me think of James Thurber's classic "Many Moons." You've given us a deucedly fine story, sir!
Mike
Thank you! "Many Moons" is indeed wonderful, and I'll take the comparison as a complement (though, for reasons I'll explain then, you've just forced me to change the title of Friday's blog post...)
Delete*sigh* There you go mixing up "compliment" and "complement" again. You really need to watch out for that one, Chris
DeleteThere I go:
DeleteRuining ev'rything again! :)
Mike Once More
Unfortunately, I do not know what to think about your story.
ReplyDeleteI do, however, DEMAND that you change your avatar to this!
Heh, I suppose I can manage that. 'Tis the season, and all that!
DeleteI liked the story even if the fairy tale style put me off a little bit. The only little flaw I saw was the song bits seemed a little repetitive (which,again, could be due to the writing style) but you captured emotions really well, I thought.
ReplyDeleteThe repetition was intentional, but I can definitely see why it would be off-putting--especially depending on what one expected going in. I'm glad you were able to enjoy it anyway!
DeleteIt's a bit of an afterthought, but I didn't notice that I paid no attention to the alicornhoodishness angle (I just can't use that word without cloaking it in silliness, otherwise I feel dirty). It still seems like a bloody awful reason for alicornication--essentially getting a special reward for being a special snowflake character. Sadly, since this is the direction the show is going, it fits completely with the canon world; my complaint is solely one of principle.
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See now, that's why I thought you wouldn't like the story!
DeleteIf you'd actually made it part of the story, I'd have had an issue, but you didn't. As it stands, it fits within the fairy tale mentality which doesn't bog down at the notion any more than The Glass Blower suffers for having an earth pony making clearly magical stuff.
DeleteI suppose it's essentially that you only implied the change (via the description), where the story itself didn't strike me as having anything to do with it. In fact, if the challenge was specifically to write Cadence's ascension, I'd probably have to go as far as saying you failed, since without the extra info outside of the story, you wouldn't know it had anything to do with that. I just happen to think that what makes it work!