I...This...What. · 2:34pm May 2nd, 2013
You know, I don't like to bash on peoples' stories. If I am asked for help, I do my damndest to leave an in-depth, informative comment. I understand that many new writers fall into the same traps over and over again. That's fine. We all start somewhere, and I know that I'm no elite writer. However, I was sent a link to a story today. The synopsis reads as follows:
Shadow Dust and his dragon friend Darklight a light darkness dragon a rare breed and last of her kind now both are moving to ponyville and none know Shadow is a Alicorn and both try find friends and maybe love
I have made no revisions to the above. If that wasn't enough to make you cringe, the very. First. Line. is:
:Ten Years Later::
No context. No explanation. If you're familiar with MST3k, I suggest the episode where they review "The Final Sacrifice." There's a riff in there that popped into my head the moment I started reading the story.
Like I said, I understand that new writers often fall into the same literary traps. There are just times when I wonder why someone is going to post a story without any ambition toward bettering him or herself. I'd laugh if it weren't so damn common. Seriously. What the stuttering fuck.
Damn, so I said exactly what you had said... I didn't read this 'til just now.
The fact that it rewrites some scenes from the first episode just puzzles me- it's obvious it's a reflection of a different telling of the story the author has in their head, but there's no feeling of a desire to turn it into a compeling story.
I think part of the problem is that so few people learn HOW to tell stories- they're so used to them being packaged up nice, neat, and done in 22 or 44 minutes, that they don't understand how the mechanics of storytelling work.
Hell, I don't understand. I'm trying to work around my ignorance, tho.