Feb
14th
2014
How to Explode · 5:32pm Feb 14th, 2014
Step 1: Get writer's block and break out of it, get bored at school, write random story in sixty minutes in school library.
Step 2: Get Magnum Opus Dissonance.
Seriously, how did this random shit get more popular than all but one of my stories in two days? I mean, I can't complain, but it's still pretty damn confusing to me.
I'm at day two of four on my class trip to Berlin, laying in a cheap bed while surrounded by drunk classmates, wondering what to do once I'm back.
Is there a point in continuing this story or writing more random stories like this? Please tell me.
Do not continue this; there's simply no reason to. However, maybe you've found your niche! Keep writing simple stories like this and see how popular it gets you.
Be warned though, if you do only write stories in this manner, you might lose your skill in writing normally.
Less words, less to complain about. It's true fics like this are nice but at the same time I also find them easy to forget.
Please don't try to continue it. It's a fun diversion even if you're familiar with the original song (and thus the fact that the story itself isn't too original), but the punchline has been delivered.
Writing more into it would just derail it into mediocrity. I've seen many good, entertaining oneshots go to ruin that way because the authors felt pressured by their readers to write more instead of maintaining the integrity of the piece, and I've unfaved them with great sadness as they spiraled into the dismal doldrums of "okay, what do I do with this now that the joke has been told?" Please don't be one of those writers. You at least had the forethought to ask if it was a good idea.
Do not write a sequel. Walk in, tell the joke, hear the laugh, go away.
You should do what you want. If you want to write a sequel, by all means, do. Otherwise, don't. If you write a story you don't want to, than you'll never be happy with it, and maybe your readers will notice, too.
Don't believe me? I bet you can name a franchise where they made one sequel too many.
I think it might be partially because it's a one-shot. Really short stories are easier to read all at once, now. Incomplete stories sit there and update every now and then... long stories take time to read... but if somepony wants something short to read now, a quick one-shot is just the thing.
Length has an effect.