Plot, Structure, and Problems With Equestria Trek 2 · 6:54pm Aug 9th, 2013
So I'm resuming work on one of my stories... and it isn't the Search for Fluttershy. It's because I'm having trouble coming up with the plot, building the structure of the story into something that fills me with confidence that I can write it.
The story I am working on, Daring Do and the Ponyville Book Battle, on the other hand, has a well defined structure in my mind; an opening scene that sets up the conflict for the story, followed by a montage of attempts to resolve that conflict, and a big, dramatic scene where the primary participants in the conflict snap, only for- well, I don't want to spoil it. Anyway, keeping with the 'episode' feel I'm going for, the story would end with a letter to Celestia, as friendships are renewed.
And... I don't have that for the Search for Fluttershy. I've got structure for the introduction, a general feeling for how the central questions would be resolved, and some loose ideas for scenes and events that fit into the middle of the story... and that's not enough.
(I'm also feeling kinda squicked out by what I have planned to happen to Fluttershy, I'm not sure I want to write a story with that level of psychological torture)
Getting back to DD&tPBB, while I considered writing and publishing an alternate ending to the story, one that leaves things open for the story to turn into an action-packed adventure, I don't think I'll write and publish it... because it isn't a real ENDING, just an 'okay, let's change the mood completely' event, and I have no structure at all for that action-packed adventure. I don't want to start a story that I can't give a good ending to.
Fluttershy find herself with the Elachi?
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Worse.
Hakeev
1274405 one good thing might come from that: the Romulan Republic. maybe, if you're following the storyline, one of the 'brainwashed' officers is in a cell next to hers. and, don't count Fluttershy out yet; she's stronger than most realise.