• Member Since 4th Nov, 2011
  • offline last seen Feb 8th, 2022

LEPShot


Being sad can be fun.

More Blog Posts18

  • 530 weeks
    Minor Update

    Perhaps I shouldn't make ridiculous promises like "I'll never write a chapter story again" without knowledge of the future first? Seriously, I have no idea what the buck I was thinking when I created that. Can I have a blank slate, please?

    5 comments · 674 views
  • 551 weeks
    laziness

    I should probably fix all the grammatical errors in Sundown. And work on Evolutionary Ideal's chapter 6. And delete Moonrise.
    *sigh* I just don't know what's been up with me for the past few months.

    Read More

    4 comments · 486 views
  • 567 weeks
    Evolutionary Ideals is officially on a Hiatus.

    So I'm going into this assuming most of you will want to crucify me upon reading the title, but I don't think it's fair to keep you waiting for something that may not rear it's head for a few months.

    Read More

    5 comments · 563 views
  • 572 weeks
    One-Shots vs Chapter Stories and Why I'm Not Writing the Latter Anymore.

    Well, I can feel Evolutionary Ideals slowly falling to shit as I type it out, and I think I know why. I'm quickly finding out that I'm a 'Big Picture' kinda guy, and I normally pass over the fine details, which is why I feel my two one-shots here on FIMFiction are my best works. In chapter stories, I have to pay close attention to characterization (which is my biggest flaw) and watch and develop

    Read More

    3 comments · 536 views
  • 573 weeks
    In Need of Some Advice on Evolutionary Ideals, Bros.

    So, Chapter 6 will have Mature, sexual content in it. I also want to release a Teen version for those who would rather avoid clop, but I'm unsure of how to go about this. Do I release two full chapters, with only the sex scene altered? Put the Mature scene as its own chapter? I'm pretty stuck, here. Any advice would help.

    Thanks!

    6 comments · 473 views
Apr
10th
2013

One-Shots vs Chapter Stories and Why I'm Not Writing the Latter Anymore. · 3:58am Apr 10th, 2013

Well, I can feel Evolutionary Ideals slowly falling to shit as I type it out, and I think I know why. I'm quickly finding out that I'm a 'Big Picture' kinda guy, and I normally pass over the fine details, which is why I feel my two one-shots here on FIMFiction are my best works. In chapter stories, I have to pay close attention to characterization (which is my biggest flaw) and watch and develop everypony, all while trying to keep my plans for the story in sight.

With one-shots, my characters are mostly static and go through one or two big events to tell the whole story, and I know most everything about the piece going into it, know what I mean? That's why I think E.I. will be my last chapter story, for a while at least. I promise, I plan to finish it, but that's the only thing I will promise.

Anyway, thanks as always for listening to me ramble.

Report LEPShot · 536 views ·
Comments ( 3 )

If you ever need an editor, or a wall to bounce an idea off of, you know you've got several followers here who can lend an ear, myself included.

Oddly enough, I prefer chaptered sections. They allow me to provide a progression of build up that goes into the dénouement that can tie a story together safely. Really, there are several types of authors, and if I thought I could just type something so that you'd be able to go from "One-Shot Specialist" to "Champion of the Chapter Format", I would. Unfortunately, some are just better with one, and others are better with another.

There's even MORE formats, too, like being better with "Stories that can work alone, but can tie together optionally if the reader isn't satisfied". You've probably heard this once or twice: "I liked __X__ until __Y__". Where X is a series, and Y is a specific point.

"I liked Pokémon until they got to Johto." "I liked Harry Potter until Prisoner of Azkaban". "I liked the porn until they started using cinematic explosions". You get what I mean.

Some can enjoy things up to a point, but the writer of those types of stories might not be content with writing, say, a 5,000 or 10,000 word, single standalone story. The point is, everyone's got their style, but if you don't think you're working with a style that suits you, well, you can keep at it, or you could always try finding someone who works at the style to help as an editor.

At the very least, they can spot plot points you may want to integrate in later chapters! But if you want to go it alone, no one will stop you... but really, why write if you aren't enjoying it? You can only feed off the enjoyment of your followers for so long before the writing feels akin to "forced labor". And at THAT point, well... I just hope you don't get there. :ajsleepy:

Pity. I was looking forward to ideals, if only because I found the premise interesting. Though I'll admit it suffered from something I tend to think of as 'fan fiction syndrome;' where all the characters tend to be a bit too....good.

Peili goes through a life changing experience when he finds a child of an alien species is terrified of him as he does awful things. Kay, not the most original catalyst for self reflection, but fine.

It took Celestia all of about 90 seconds to go from ready to beat him to a pulp and arrest him to pensive and apologetic. Well, alright, its Celestia, I suppose you can't paint her in TOO bad a light.

Spike and twilight go from terrified to buddy buddy in almost no time at all.

Kuva goes from thinking him a traitor of the worst Benedict Arnold type to a secret 'Yeah, I was always a supporter of the same ideal that apparently most changelings secretly want too' in the time it takes to have a school yard tussle...

Where is the CONFLICT? The opposing ideals? The drama? The dragging your character through mud and grime so you can see what they are really made of when you strip away the outer obvious characterizations?

I don't get why Peili and Kuva were concerned they were gonna have a hard time with the long term goal. At the rate they are going they'll convert all of ponidom to being tolerant of changelings by hearths warming.

996276 How I saw it with Peili and Kuva's goal:

The Changelings are still hostile. Do not forget that they attacked the ponies of Canterlot in an attempt at beginning the forced takeover of all of Equestria.

If the ponies of Ponyville and Canterlot accepted the Changelings with open... erm... forelegs? :rainbowhuh: A-Anyway, why wouldn't the Changelings, ruled by a tyrannical queen, see the ponies as anything other than a free meal?

Peili's goal is for all of the ponies to begin to accept Changelings as a species that isn't hostile. The problem is, the way they're currently ruled, they still ARE. Consider this: Kuva attacked Peili without giving him a chance to explain himself. Now imagine Kuva AND Peili facing... about fifty Changelings, all of which have the same mindset as Kuva had when he encountered Peili in Chapter 4.

See the problem? You have two "groups": One wants peace, the other wants to use the other group as they see fit, for the sake of their species. More specifically, for the sake of their hostile, angry, and now revenge-seeking queen.

You ask where the conflict is? It's the fact that Peili and Kuva have left the hive, and are now "Wanted: Dead or Alive" by their own Changeling Hive, which also wants to kill every pony from the town where the Elements of Harmony can be found.

Login or register to comment