Hello Readers, New and Old! · 4:54am Nov 18th, 2011
Greetings, Equestria Daily crew! Welcome to the 80's movie love-a-thon! Thank you also to all the readers who's advice and encouragement helped me get to this point.
So, a few behind-the-scenes points about Ch.3
-I love the idea of Celestia as someone who likes good-natured pranks because immortal responsibility is BORING. I can see her being in a future chapter easy; her dialogue just flows out. Heck, I have her statted out in D&D 3e as a 12th Lvl 1/2 Celestial Unicorn; I hope to play a Chaotic Good goddess someday.
-More Screwball this chapter; she's got a big part to play. She's just such a random, weird design that I love giving her an explanation for it. Of course, if she show up you must be able to guess who follows her to school....
-I have better discipline, but my classroom definitely looks like Red Glare's does. Rocket parts everywhere.
-I had started outlining Globe Trotter as a creepy sexual harrasser, but ran into two problems.
1) It raised the squick level too much for the story. Didn't want a sudden Genre Shift or Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
2) I had unconsciously recreated Gabe Kotter from 'Welcome Back Kotter'! I'm keeping it as a nod instead of a rip off, but I couldn't bring myself to defile Mr. Kotter; the Sweathogs would kill me!
I'm 1,800 words into Ch. 4. Flashbacks! Young Lyra! Screwball reveals some of her origin! Also, I'm planning a contest for someone to get their OC pony into the story in a cameo.
I got to head to bed. I have an actual faculty meeting in the morning; it'll probably inspire me. It was scribbling during a particularly boring meeting that actually gave birth to the story!
