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Subj: Really? Time to reinvest in paper then!
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 at 10:52:12 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: Print book sales actually rose by 3% last year.
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 at 03:32:26 pm EST




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    At least he gets a snazzy tomb out of the deal!

    It's a bit of a fixer-upper.



Hey, I've seen those home improvement shows... Really, it's all about the staging.





That figures, because I actually found the Mix-alot one. I don't seem to have that one readily available... Hopefully on one of my external hard drives then.



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    The town in question is Willingham, an ideal name for a place where reality and fable meets.



Aha, yes! Regardless of the school storyline, I had always intended to explore that town a bit more. I wonder how George Gedney's old museum is doing. I recall them having some truly first class spoons.



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    There's a whole other world of adventure that I've just never encountered, isn't there?



You know, when I first started watching that show with my little cousin, I thought it was an excellent primer to get little girls enthused about geeky storytelling. It's not a primer for anything any more... it's a full on massive continuity of its own, making some comic book universes look positively quaint. An Official Handbook to the Pony Universe would be quite hefty by now.

The last season finale had a time travelling villain messing with the heroes' origins, thereby creating various alternate timelines where the present was at war with or enslaved by villains they had previously defeated. I applaud instilling such storytelling tropes in the minds of little girls.



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    Sadly, she didn't have a "Last Unicorn" style breakdown about being able to feel her now-mortal body slowly dying around her... Sure, that's maybe a bit dark for High School hijinks, but still a missed opportunity, I'd say.)

    That is what fan fiction is for.



Ha... on a hunch, I did a google search for "last unicorn" and "equestria girls", and literally the first image option was a screenshot making this exact joke.

I'm last to tackle all of my story ideas!



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    As I mentioned elsewhere on the board recently, a good way of breaking that deadlock is to change the point of view or delivery format. A diary entry might suffice for this one.

    Maybe I've got diaries on my mind, since I've just rediscovered a story I'd forgotten about where 11 year old Sam featherstone recounts her first visit to the Lair Mansion. I'd completely forgotten about it and it came out fresh.



Interesting idea... I'll consider it. I did enjoy writing that one Hallie story as a journalist penning an article about her... that's about the closest I've come to doing a diary entry. Although I suppose some of the Wangmundo stuff might count.



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    I'm not sure what their current status quo should really be though, or what the timeline is. The last thing I wrote was a future story about Griff as an adult SPUD agent, I think.


    I recall that one. I was only remarking to Rhiannon today that it was very tempting to just jump forward seven years or so and pick up with the Juniors, Mags, Griff, and Sam as the Lair Legion, were it not for the fact that it excludes many posters and almost all poster-heroes.



I sympathize, as I was inclined to do the same thing... just calculate how old they'd be in real time since I last identified their ages, and go from there. I had a lot of fun playing with the next generation in that one, including CSFB's youngest cast members.

(I also feel like I surely wrote something other than that one story that had Garrick's daughter in it, but I can't find any evidence that this is true.)

Honestly, though, I can't help but wonder if such a time skip would be welcome by folks in general... It would take the pressure off of having to continue things from where they left it. I, for one, have a very poor memory of all of my plotlines. Being able to say "Screw it... here's where they all are 7 years ahead" has a certain appeal. Hell, people could even do the whole "massive changes to be explained later" style reboot if they wanted to.

Naturally, that's more of a problem for you... Even in my own story about Griff, I really didn't want to overly define how anyone's else's characters were in that future... and it's challenging to write around them, to say the least.



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    The reason I flippantly mentioned fitting stuff in pre Da Visionary Code is that, as plotted, it involved Vizh and Hallie reincarnated - or preincarnated to be technical, in the past with their current memories - and human flesh.



Aha... a good thing to know. I will give it some thought.



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    I keep hoping that, like Beetlejuice, if you say her name enough times, she'll appear...

    Proceed.



Dancer! Dancer! Dancer!





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