Finally gonna work on that fanfic

Now that my personal life has calmed a bit and I'm in the writing mood again, I'm going to continue work on Reforging a Broken Blade. I'm going to be doing a major overhaul on it, first and foremost. I went to the writing panels at BronyCon, and those really opened my eyes to some major flaws in the story that I hadn't realized were there before. The main problem was with the OC. I started off trying to write myself as a pony which turned out not only to be not awesome at all but both a bit narcissistic and just plain stupid. So that's out the window. That's part of what I'm tweaking - who Razor Blade is. I'm sick of writing myself because I'm really just not that interesting or fun to write. At least not the real me. But I'll address that later.

The next major change is going to be with the events in the story, mainly the flashback chapter. I started off writing about what actually happened to me, and that wasn't as interesting on paper as it is in my memory, so I embellished a little bit. Reading back through it, I realized that the entire chapter was COMPLETE rubbish. Not only that, but the related events later in the story are crap, too. Seriously, all of you guys who were super sweet to me telling me that it was good are sweet, amazing, dirty, rotten liars. Haha. That part of the story, at least, is garbage, and it's getting redone. As of writing this blog, I've only edited Chapter 1, so I don't know if the other chapters will get "major edits" or "complete rewrites," but shit's gonna change.

Finally, I want to address the direction I plan to take the story and the inspiration for this change of direction. When I started writing, it was largely therapeutic for me. I went through a bad breakup with a succubus whore, and I wanted to write about it to get past it. Like I said, that turned out to be a REALLY bad idea for the story's quality. I don't want to abandon that completely, though; a major theme, at least of that part, is supposed to be the pain of heartbreak, and that event in my life does provide a very good inspiration for that. What I will do, then, is what Tim O'Brian did in The Things They Carried (if you haven't read that book, go grab it. It's AMAZING). In the book, he writes in such a way that makes you think all of that really happened because it's all first person and stylized so as to be from his memory. He says, however, that none of those events ever happened, but that all of the stories are true. He talks about "happening truth" and "story truth." Happening truth is, as it sounds, what actually happened. The events. The who, what, when, where, and why. Story truth is the truth of the story. The point. The idea. The feelings. With stories that involve something deeply personal or emotionally significant, sometimes the best way to get the truth across is to lie. So I plan to rewrite a lot of that chapter, and when I'm done, very little if any of it will have ever happened in real life, but I think that, if anything, it will make the story more true. Does that make sense? No? Go read Tim O'Brien. It'll make sense after that.

In completely unrelated news, I wrote a new story. It's called I Dream of Discord. It's a short one-shot about Discord. Check it out if you want. Or don't. I think it's better quality than the story I'm currently trying to salvage, so it might show that I'm not a completely terrible writer even if my work to date has done a sub-par job of displaying that.