Shut Up, Brain! · 6:54pm Nov 19th, 2014
It's really annoying when you have what should be a passing idea that becomes a permanent, insistent idea. I was talking with Steel Resolve the other day, and he was lamenting the dearth of Fluttershy/Rarity romance stories. Mostly joking, I told him that I'm going to write him one some day, and that it would suck, but I'd write it for him all the same.
Strange thing is, I can't quit thinking about it!
Now let's break down why this is ridiculous:
1) I don't have any freakin' time. Seriously, I just semi-retired because I can't get three seconds together to write.
2) Fluttershy is not a favorite of mine. I don't particularly care for writing her.
3) I've tried to write romance several times. It's never really come together, besides what I write with Steel. I'm going to have to give him most of the credit on that one.
4) Every idea that I have for it is miserably sad.
All of this points to it being a horrible idea, but my mind is fixated on it for some reason. I should probably just bang out a chapter so that I can look at it and say, "Oh, yeah. That's bad. Let's throw that in a drawer where no one will see it again."
But it's something about challenge. I have all these great ideas that I think people will like and that I know I'll enjoy writing, but they aren't as challenging as writing a miserable romance about a character that I don't like in a genre that is my weakest. So my interest is all piqued. It crowds out all the thoughts that I need, and I find my imagination playing out scenes of a story I don't want to be working on.
Why, brain? Why?!
Ugh.
Weird, given both Fluttershy and Rarity are, have been in the fashion buisiness, and Fluttershy needs to have a way of ensuring supplies for all her woodland freinds.
There theres that foals game with the dressing up competition for pet rats, which look suspiciously like Lunas possum.
Hmm, Fluttershy and Rarity try and start the My Littlest Pet Store Fashion Line?
Never catch on?
Well, what could possily go wrong.
I've got an old Rarishy idea I could always toss out. :B
Yea, I tend to just shrug and start writing anyway. This has resulted in me publishing a comedy about suicide, which is currently my most popular story and yes I have mixed feelings about that. Also a few non pony stories I've written have some really odd ideas. One presents slavery in a somewhat neutral light, not humans but genitically modified creatures, and the main character disagrees, but even slightly neutral is strange. Also there was a story built around fetishes, which would make sense if it was porn, but it wasn't.
So yea, I think that is the problem with creativity. It's not something you control, at the best you can guide it, and then just hope you're good enough to polish even the bad ideas into something that works. Oh and sometimes if you write one chapter and get stuck you can let it go and write something else.
Now I really want to read this story from you.
If your brain tells you that you should write it, then you should write it.
It's your subconscious mind that want's to write it.
This can mean that you like Fluttershy in some way and that you just haven't realized it yet. Things like that happen.
Or maybe you crave for a real challenge, writing about a character that you don't like, in a genre you're not familiar with. It could be that it's your inner urge to get better and better in writing.
You mostly wrote comedy fanfics so far and "Cheerilee's Thousand", your only romantic story, is comedy as well.
Maybe you want, deep inside of you, write a really serious romantic story? Just to see if you can tackle it, when you're really get into it and when you give everything.
You should give in and try it out. Not because you can't deal with the constant urge anymore, but because there's a reason behind this urge.
Try it out. You may realize something interesting about yourself.
It has the advantage of being the only ship that makes even a lick of sense to me – plus I can make both characters do pretty much whatever the hell I want convincingly.
The world needs more Flarity. Are you really going to deprive the world of something it needs?
2605179 Trust me, I'm probably doing the world a favor. I've written some bad romance...