This Is My Curse · 2:31pm Oct 2nd, 2013
You know, I don't think I've explained to anyone how my writing process works. More specifically, the process of me obtaining an idea for a crossover story.
It works like this: I play ANY GAME AT ALL and I think, "What if pones?" Boom. Suddenly idea. Like, a full-blown synopsis that I could potentially develop into a 20 chapter-long epic. Is this the way it work for everybody? Does everybody get these ideas in their head spontaneously and/or double spaces after each sentence? Because I do. Call me old-fashioned, but that's a habit I'm NOT breaking.
Okay, here are some examples:
Warframe: During an overwhelming assault on their Dojo by the joint forces of the Grineer and the Corpus, Clan Prime manages to escape via ancient Orokin technology that they barely understand, which warps their station and the fifteen Tenno inhabiting it to an unknown location orbiting above an unfamiliar planet. Ties in with the same universe O.i.E. takes place in, set a year or so after its events.
EVE Online: Capsuleer Teeker Renza, a private Caldari salvager, is one day sifting through wreckages in low-sec space when a band of mysterious Gallente saboteurs manages to scramble all of his communications, including the one that transmits his brain-scan snapshot to his clone, and boards his ship, demanding that he take them back to his home station and help them infiltrate it. Teeker, torn between his loyalty to the Caldari State and his fear of his new life as an immortal ending, is ready to begrudgingly oblige them. Suddenly, an unexpected anomaly, a wormhole, appears a mere four-and-a-half astronomical units away from his ship. Seizing the only chance he has, he activates the ship's warp drive and plunges straight into the wormhole, throwing the saboteurs off their feet. Mere moments later, the ship crash-lands in the heart of a dark forest on an unidentified inhabited planet as Teeker, soaring away in his ejected capsule, lands and finds himself in a field of trees bearing strange, hanging red fruit...
Metal Gear Rising: Revengence: Former Senator Steven Armstrong has been given a second chance. After his defeat at the hands of Raiden in Pakistan, Armstrong wakes up to a new world, filled with everything but fellow humans. Finding that the state of this land, called Equestria, is strained by rising tensions with the Gryphon Republic, he offers his political experience to Princess Celestia, who cautiously accepts. Will Armstrong impose his own ideas of freedom onto the citizens of this kingdom? Will he fan the fires of war and lead the nation into an all-out conflict? I'll have to get back to you on that, because I still have to figure out his character. Damned crazy Japanese...
First one seems cool.
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I find the timing of something MGR: R related funny; I bought the game about two days ago and so far I've had fun tearing through it. So I know who Steven is and what he's doing as of before Raiden fights Monsoon, and this your idea is interesting to me, partly because of what it might mean for the later parts of the game.
If it's anything by you, I'll read it!
(And yes, I think the same thing, but it usually happens while I watch movies, not play video games. It's like; 'I can totally see what [insert pone] would do here.')
NANOMACHINES, SON!
It's the same with me! I'm working on a Dark Souls crossover regarding Ornstein and Smough as we speak!
Same thing happens to me when I'm playing games.
1390337
Sounds awesome. If you end up posting it mind telling me via PM?
1390386
No problem, still working on the prologue but trust me when I say it's coming, although given that it's my first shot in the dark at writing a story for Fim I wouldn't get your hopes up
(Hell this is half the reason why I don't write down more of my ideas, I'm not confident enough to trust myself to do the idea justice)
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Got a perfect name for the story, too.
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
It's an anti-war song performed by Pete Seeger back during the Vietnam War.
I think that Armsrong would be the "Ho-rah! Lets get ready to fight a war for the sake encouraging industry!" kind of person. The thought of him trying to spur up pony-patriotism so that Equestria would become more like America interests me.
COMPLETELY UNRELATED QUESTION!
Have you ever played Dragons Dogma? Theres a really good transition set-up in there thats just BEGGING to be used.
1390668
No, I haven't played such a game.
But, by the Omnissiah, you can bet I'll think of something if I play it.
Well, it does work for me.
But when it does, it's 10 stories which have a good, 500-word chapter that go to the "write later" list and the other story I publish is a piece of shit. I'm a bad author, impatient like crap, after I get neat 400 words I rush myself and the other 600-800 words are crappy.
Any advice for me, pretty please?
1390337 When it comes to publishing it, let me know mate.
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I've had problems with this as well, but on a scale of stories, not the individual chapters. If you've read Incepto Ne Desistam, you've probably noticed that the ending wasn't that stellar. Neither was The Day Ghost Shipped Rainbow Dash With Everything. It's something that I need to work on, badly.
As for you, I'd write more. Find those nitty gritty descriptive words and paint a picture in the reader's mind. Slow down! This is a story! We all have time to enjoy a good story. Then, don't think of the story chapter by chapter, think of it as one complete unit and divvy it off where you see fit, writing transitions from and to each chapter so it makes more sense. That's kinda how I do it.
I'm afraid that's all the advice I can give.
*Sees blog post* Hallelujah, I'm not alone!
*Coughs* but, yes, this does happen to me a lot, but with two exceptions. First, it doesn't always involve ponies (but since this if FimFiction, I'm going to leave this topic alone). Second, I usually have to nail down the protagonist and antagonist before I can do anything. And that can take anywhere from a week to two months, if I'm patient.
I look forward to reading the story of Armstrong MGR.