Unfinished Sequel, and Writer's Block · 6:21am Feb 28th, 2014
So, writer's block. I've been suffering from it recently. It's like a plug in my head, keeping everything I want to write from getting out, and also a filter so everything I think about is bland and uninspired. I seem to run the same gauntlet after finishing a chapter to a big important story; I kind of go "Eh, that's good enough for now," and ride off the high of that completed chapter for a while, then realize how unproductive I've been. Then I fall into a deep melancholy and no longer want to do anything, because I feel like I'm disappointing my readers and myself whenever I don't write. I can't write. I don't want to write. I want it all to go away, for all my stories to already be finished. But they aren't. They're still there, mocking me, and here I am wasting everyone's time and slowly devolving into a sub-humanoid madman.
Ahem. So that's the state of the writer for now.
But! On the brighter side: I've got an idea for how to do a sequel to Unfinished. Get it? Unfinished? A sequel? Yeah, yuk it up you buncha lousy *grumble grumble*
Maybe I should call it "Untitled." Hurr hurr.
Anyway, I know I said I probably wouldn't do it, but here I am wanting to do it. It won't leave me alone. I have to say something about it, give it some kind of voice or it'll just strangle everything else in my head. Maybe telling you guys about it will relieve some of the awful pressure I've got going on in my head and get me back on track. Here's hoping you like it!
This is the synopsis. Imagine we begin with a black screen, with slowly building, ominous music...
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In the magical land of Equestria, Twilight Sparkle suffers from a sickness of the soul, alive but not truly living. When trust is broken, the road to get it back is long and full of strife.
In a vast expanse of dreams and empty imaginings, Dusk Shine wanders the wasteland of forgotten stories in a quest to reunite his friends and bring back his world. The price to repair a shattered soul may be too much for him to pay.
Both of them are driven only by the knowledge that the other is alive, and they must see each other again.
Two parallel lives draw close once more, not only to intersect, but to collide head-on.
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Bam. It's out there. And I guess now I... gotta write it...
Damn it.
People say keep an idea folder, and I'm like ideas are easy, finding the will and focus to finish them, THAT's hard!
I'd read it.
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Ideas are a done a dozen. A work ethic is priceless.
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(nods, smokes pipe) Quite.