Twilight, nooo! Bad Twilight!

Why did you do that to Nightmare? That wasn't in the script!

I hate being a discovery writer sometimes.

Oh well, I needed a way to involve Discord in the story. This will do!

Comments

[Blue_Paladin42]

Characters. What can you do? //dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/shrug_Derpy_Hooves.png

[Bradel]

You can write them badly, because screw characterization, there's an outline to follow!

(I'm pro discovery writing. )

[Causal Quill]

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I'm not actually sure I count as a discovery writer. I write without planning, but I'm not shy about pruning off directions I don't want the story to take. I sort of go back and say, "Well, what if this happened instead?" In this very instance, I am going to be chucking two scenes in order to add in a discordant intervention that I think will produce a better story down the line.

I might be wrong about that, of course. It's a gamble. Whispering Stars produced a lot of dead ends and non-standard game overs before I got to the ending. The best one involved Twilight Sparkle running away from Canterlot and throwing a pity party with her friends. It was actually rather appropriate as a means of exorcising the influence of Nightmare, but it was very anticlimactic for the story.

I'm also willing to rewrite dialogue, such as when I realized that when Twilight does 'that' to Nightmare, she got some of her magibabble backwards. I realized the flub later. Doesn't change the outcome.

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I'm more like a bonsai writer.

[Blue_Paladin42]

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Your new avatar.

EDIT: I am so sorry. But evidently not sorry enough to actually take this down.
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