Finding a Balance · 4:38pm Jun 18th, 2015
I've been spending the last few days trying to figure out where I'm going with the companion fic to PSDAL (Princess of Shadows, Darkness, and Light, my first mlp fic. I'm only going to say the acronym once!). There's a lot of reasons why I really want to write it, though I'm struggling right now.
Writers' block.
I hate it. I hate it so much. See, I actually had another idea for my first fic, before PSDAL hit me upside the head. And I'm still stuck on that fic, right at the end of the last scene I wrote. I pretty much know what the problem is though. The concept is one that has been done before. Granted, in not precisely the same way I planned, but still. Not an old concept.
With the parallel/prequel fic to PSDAL, though, I'm stuck. I can't get past the third scene. I really want to try to avoid putting too much political bull in my stories (I'm writing romance stories here, not political commentaries); however, no matter how hard I try, I can't avoid it as the political situation explains many of the motivations for the characters in the fic.
I could write another scene that better explains the ramifications, but that will mean another rewrite of what I already have written. If I don't, it will come out as both repetition and exposition. The second one is something I've been trying to avoid, as my pre-reader Kodeake pointed out. I'm not even sure I could even write the scene without it being a big expo piece, and I don't want to drive my potential audience away. It's supposed to be a Twidash fic, not a dissertation on Equestrian politics, dammit!
Unfortunately, there's really no way around it, as I'm going to have to address the political climate in Equestria in my little AU anyway at some point. I think it would be better to do so in this fic, rather than PSDAL, as I'm really not in control of how things go in that fic. It essentially writes itself as I'm writing. I'm in more control of the prequel though, so I should be able to figure out the quandary I'm in.
Well, that's all the thoughts I have on this. I should have something ready to go within the next couple of days, as I really would like to see exactly how I managed to turn Rainbow Dash into an alicorn. I'm still kind of confused as to how that happened, as it wasn't strictly her destiny. Of course, since I don't believe in predestination, I can see how some of it may have happened.
Until next time...
*jwizard teleports out*
