"A Scratched Melody" is finished · 8:00am Apr 23rd, 2015
Hello folks,
After about a week of constantly updating and publishing, "A Scratched Melody" is finally finished and out.
This one was my take on writing a story about the events after "I am Octavia".
I think as there is no official sequel, many of us played with ideas, how our beloved musicians will come along.
Everything after this could count as spoiler. So read on at your own risk!
Some Ideas I implemented in the story:
* I tried to use the "Doing Hurtful Things" meme in a sense-making way. After all many of us writers, kill, mutilate or wound our beloved colorful ponies - so I asked myself, what's the big deal with abusive relationships?
I just gave it a bit of context, trying to explain how things in this meme could happen. (And no - even if Blue Tune is an OC of mine, it's no self-insert and I don't like the character very much.)
* The chapter titles refer to music pieces. We talking about musicians after all, don't we. The pieces may not fit to one hundred percent. I chose them after lyrics as well as after tone, general feeling they produce and atmosphere.
* And yeah. Cannot deny - I love happy endings. So be sure, you most likely won't get an outright tragedy from me. In the end It's our colorful pony utopia we talk about.
Problems I ran into:
Besides a huge writers-block, occurring beforehand there were some minor issues.
Its not easy to describe scenes in first person. So as pointed out by one helpful commentator, the story seems partially a bit rushed.
I think my first work - written in 3d person multiple - has a better pacing.
Another one wrote the P.O.V-changes are distracting. I didn't think so - but as I wrote it I know who speaks.
And there may be a heap of typos left. I re-read the story about three times. But its just hard to find this pesky little typos for oneself. As you have written the thing you *know* what you meant to write. So your brain just ignores non-distracting typos.
So if anyone of you is willing to help me out - just comment or PM if you find anything distracting. I want to get better and I am willing to accept advises and critiques.
Can't wait to see your interpretation of the ending.