and this is where you all come in. · 2:23pm Aug 8th, 2014
I need to get my creative juices flowing to really make the last two or three chapters of Nightmare's Return a smashing success. I mean, you guys have supported it all the way, more so than I could have ever expected. Over 200 likes, constant praise, not to mention making it my first ongoing story to ever hit the Featured box. So I really want it to be a rousing success.
Like the journal entry says, this is where I want your help. I need some good oneshot story ideas so I can write one or two of them while I'm planning out what's going to happen to Twilight and company in NR. This will kick off with the (FINALLY) posting of my collaboration story between myself, Merlos the Mad, and PonySlayer titled Twilight Burns A Book... but the next few ones will be up to you all.
Post your ideas! I'll pick the best ones and make them into CG-approved stories (and of course, I'll credit you all with the story ideas)!
Picture unrelated:
Here's a list of my rejected story ideas. You can have one of those if you like.
This calls for utterly pointless random comedy. Ah well, I'm supposed to head for a festival soon, but heck, why not give it a shot.
You could write a story about a strange unicorn coming to Canterlot with a guitar. Despite his rough appearance he wars a top hat and thinks the Equestrian take on music is rubbish and worse than a bad fart of his. When he goes for a random show on a market square, what is totally allowed in Equestria, he naturally draws quite the attention to him, not only thanks to the enormously loud music he makes, but also thanks to the unknown type. And just as naturally he draws critical eyes upon him. Octavia, who was getting some fruits just then by coincidence, is one of the musical ears to see this first show. No need to say she'd hate it. Not only it's unnecessarily loud, but also sounds completely unnatural and weird, though what he plays looks like a proper instrument. When he even declares to the blinded audience, amongst them Vinyl who simply was fascinated of a proper instrument, as lame it is, can play so loud, that he set to his mind to create a movement to finally bring proper music to Equestria. Octavia is upset and feels insulted, what turns out that she's not the only one when she meets with the Sun Orchestra later. Quickly she plants the idea into her colleagues to bring up an anti-movement.
This plays down into a series of speeches and counter speeches, concerts and anti-concerts. Even Vinyl swiftly learns that the new thing isn't that cool at all, as it is quite loud, but sadly way too harmonious. in one of the occasions, she runs into Octavia, one of those orchestra snobs, defending their way too boring, way too harmonious and way too natural music. When she learns, however, that they are not only active to save their boring music, but in fact are defending the entire status quo from the stranger with steadily increasing numbers of fans, for all existing rubbish is less rubbish than his rubbish. Eventually Vinyl finds herself dragged into that movement and ultimately closer to Octavia.
In the climax this leads to the ultimate concert, with a classical Sun orchestra backing the popular beats of Vinyl against the aggressive tunes the stranger plays on his guitar. The etiquette of musicians in Equestria forbids any direct action to keep an, even if only self-proclaimed, artist from performing his art, what leads to an almost eerie atmosphere somewhere between peace and pure hatred.
Only when the stranger's fans begin to invent mush pits in Equestria, suddenly Kurt Cobain enters the stage from nowhere. Everypony is scared, but when he declares that he's in love with Celestia and swears that he doesn't have a gun it somehow cools down and then he tells everyone that it would be best for everything to just come as you are to Equestria. It sends pulses of new openmindedness through the town, and on Cobain's will the concert continued in the greatest get-together of the different styles Canterlot could deliver to audiophiles.
In a possible sequel you could have Cobain going for a marriage proposal to Celestia, who refuses because she's way older and couldn't satisfy his needs. He writes into his diary. Saddened, he trots through Canterlot, where he runs into Vinyl and Octavia. The two came closer in all the earlier mess, and are trapped in a relation between friendship and being marefriends. To get his mind clean, Curt want to get his mind clean and decides to interfere. When he learns about their problems, he begins somewhat a monologue about happiness and begins to drift away and telling them about a girl, something only loosely connected to Vinyl's and Octavia's problem. Still, that somehow brings them on track in the end and will make them ready to take the next steps sooner than later.
In the days those two get closer and closer, Curt avoids contact to ponies in general. In one late evening, at a lake, he writes a song out of his earlier line 'Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam'. He then wants to play this song to Celestia the next day, to change her mind in a last try, as he doesn't want to upset her with further futile attempts. Celestia, who had learned about his good deed with the two musicians in the meanwhile, decides that Curt is such a good soul that she can only marry him. When he sets up to play in front of her, Celestia interrupts him before the first note and accepts the proposal.
A few days later the stranger should found a band called Slash.
...And that's how Rockquestria was made.
Debonair suggests a simple fic.
Pinkie Pie has an idea to take the school ponies on a field trip to the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters, and suggests a game of hide and seek. We soon realize as she gets to the organ room she had set up cameras during the renovation, and helps and hinders them ala Cabin in the Woods.
Another idea I had was Discord uses his magic to take the school foals on an Oregon Trail type field trip, to teach them history and teach DT and SS a lesson. But that one's
What if Twilicorn casts a spell, and becomes Twili-COW-rn? Clop would be nice, but is not needed.
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you may be onto something. considering Cabin in the Woods is my favorite movie ever, I'm surprised i hadn't incorporated its premise into a story. the only problem is that this particular premise (the Pinkie/CMC one) seems like it's more geared towards a long, Incomplete-tag story than a one-shot. I guess I could write one that's like 12,000 words and then maybe I can fit in everything I'd want, but I'm not sure I could even write that much on one story. (In Nomine Equi was only 8,000 words, and I'd attempted to write Nightmare's Return as a single 20,000-word story, but it ended up only getting published after the first 6,000 words were written and it turned into an Incomplete story.) but yeah... long comment is long.
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I don't do clop anyways. Except for one story which was Pinkie helping Derpy "celebrate" Derp's birthday, but that never got published (and probably never will).
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The world ends. Nothing is left. Everyone is dead.
Except Angel Bunny.
Hmm... Twilight wakes up every day feeling unfulfilled. It's why she studies and works so hard every day, but maybe all she needs to fill it is... art. Something more than diagrams or charts. Something... beautiful. (No idea why I couldn't tell you the idea but... free description?
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Just do what I do when I have writer's block.
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you beautiful soul
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