Writing right · 9:21pm Jan 25th, 2015
Don't know if anyone bloody reads these, but there's something therapeutic about putting your thoughts on paper (or in a text box).
Chapter two is now done, in first draft at least. I like to leave these things until I've forgotten they've even been written before doing a second draft (a minimum of two weeks I think, and that's being generous). I'd love to publish right now, imagine how it feels to have this thing you've been working on for weeks just sitting, using up storage, doing nothing, when someone could be reading it right now! Golly, doesn't that sound great? Unfortunately, only God gets it right first time (feel free to disagree there - ha!), so you and I must wait.
I'll be writing chapter 3 and some Detective Applebloom now (imagination permitting). I don't do second/third/hundredth drafts of short stories, so I can bosh those out with regular frequency (assuming I can think of something to write).
I also have exactly a gorillion ideas for stories, but I imagine trying to juggle multiple stories at once is near impossible (maybe you can, if so, i envy you), so it'll just be pure Grey Arbiter until it concludes. What then? Well, there's a gorillion ideas to choose from.
Stay gold.
Out of curiosity, what other story ideas do you have in mind?
2747255 I'm about to ramble, but permit a new writer his indulgences.
I've been toying with the idea of a Phantom of the Opera-esque story (though I suspect its been done, multiple times. If I can find well-written stories of that ilk, above-average in quality, I'll probably leave it). I thought a story about Twilight going partially mad due to the stress of her studies would be neat. Something about Cherilee trying to guide a problem child (or foal, more accurately) through school and all the difficulties it entails crossed my mind at one point.
As you can probably guess, I prefer to write slice-of-life (as much as I hate that term. How about 'stories about believable lives') stories as opposed to adventure ones. I wrote about 1,000 words of a story about an ancient dragon that hibernates on the mountain into which Canterlot is built, who's disposition towards Equestria can be described as uninterested and cares not for the lives of those he deems less consequential than his own. It didn't go far, since I got all giddy when I came up with the idea for Grey Arbiter and largely forgot about it until about a week ago.
Looking over it again, the dragon idea seems the most likely candidate for an adventure story currently stored in my head (and partially in OpenOffice), but given my affinity for dialogue, conversation and, in general, the nuances of relationships (which can be hard to convey when you're busy writing about epic battles, swordfights, magic and whatnot), I'd probably accidentally turn it into slice-of-life (ugh), just because that's what I like to write.
Those are a handful of ideas. Have an open invitation to nick one, or all of them.