Being There

[twilightpony]

My draft article for the Canterlot Explorer's Society publication is back. The editor and the referees have penciled in lots of notes and arrows, changing my phrasing here and there and making several requests that I expand some things and shorten others. "Quote things said by your yak guide and the rescued explorers, in their own words". "Say how this made you feel", "what were you thinking at the time", "I can't feel the hardship here".

What is this, psychotherapy?

Well, I stuck my hoof into this, I'm going to slog through it. You'd think this Society would be more interested in how to choose the right snow to make building blocks for a caribou snow-stable than how often my stomach grumbled and how afraid I was that my hooves would freeze off. Maybe I'll throw in one of Machur and Pinkie's jokes.

Comments

[algernon97]

It sounds like the magazine is more interested in a story than a summary...

[twilightpony]

That seems highly plausable. All fluff and no substance. A bit opposite to me. If I was to learn that the filly hair tree drops fruit that smells like vomit, I'd want to know why. What would eat _that_? Or is that the whole idea, to not get eaten?

[algernon97]

Fruit that smells like vomit sounds like a defense mechanism of a sort. It smells so terrible, nothing would want to eat it.

[twilightpony]

Tell that to Winona (Applejack's pet dog). Or to Spike. I think Spike would eat just about anything. Not every critter eats normal, healthy food, like hay.

[flareblitzfury]

Indeed, but Society can be a bit different with things.

[twilightpony]

Different from me, at least in this instance.