Aug
23rd
2023
Writing Pinkie Pie Dialogue is hard · 12:24pm Aug 23rd, 2023
I don't know why, but out of all the characters I've written in this story so far, I'm having the most trouble with the famous pink party pony. I feel like it shouldn't be so hard to try and balance Pinkie Pie randomness while making her an actual character, all the while keeping her faithful to how she is depicted in the show at this point in time, but it really is.
Do you guys have any tips on how to write Pinkie Pie dialogue?
(Outside of this, Chapter Five writing is going pretty ok. Nowhere near ready for release just yet, but it's going.)
I don’t know if I can provide advice, but maybe I can frame problem in a way that helps? I think Pinkie is perhaps one of the most difficult characters to portray. Maybe that’s why she’s featured so seldom compared to the others of the Mane Six.
Sugar-fed high-energy, Pinkie senses, third wall breaking, potentially BPD, super nice and sweet, extremely intelligent and perceptive with people skills, organized beyond Twilight’s boundaries (for party purposes), impulsive, joyful joker, practical joker, trained in geological agriculture and labor, baking savant, potentially overwhelming in certain situations…
It’s really a task to pin down what she’s going to do, say, and how especially if you’re aiming to capture and depict her whole character in a short period. Or if you’re trying to stay accurate to the story-events in the show? That might be a good place for a starting point.
Also from a literary standpoint, is the character helping to moving the plot, expounding her / others’ characters, world building, or providing a narrative break with comic relief?
I think she is fun, but also far more perceptive than most. She is always trying to brighten the lives of others. Overall, she always puts making others laugh over her own needs.
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That helps a lot, thanks. I think I might step back a bit and think about it a bit more with this in mind. Maybe even work on a different chapter in the meantime.
Thanks again.
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Actually it is 4th wall breaking. Seemingly breaking the rules of space and time just enough to know things she shouldn't logically know and pop out of places that she shouldn't fit Plus her pinkie sense allows her to know the near future. Some people wonder if she was related to discord the way she kept doing the impossible.
My own theory on the matter, although not quite tested, is to keep her nonsense at a 3 to 1 ratio, but make that 1 count, when pinkie pie is serious, or when she is saying or doing something that makes sense, use it.
That 1 out 3 Is your plot-hook, your punchline, your emotional resonance.
That said, out of that 3 in the 3:1, the nonsense: for about 90% of it Pinkie should be engaging in with a Motive.
Wether making friends, or scaring of parasprites, she is an agent of chaos, but she still has wants and needs and desires, just like anypony , and she cares deeply for others, these things guide her.