My first post... Weee :3 · 4:35am May 18th, 2012
Are cupcakes superior to cookies?
Is there really a question to life, the universe, and everything?
How do I create a story and grab attention through the first part?
Should I try to write a fanfic blending aspects of the ponyverse with the homeworld-verse?
--- Prepare to grab the Homeworld wiki if you are not acquainted with the game.
Would Pinkie be an awesome Sajuuk-Khar? Or would it be epic if she fought with Celestia over the Hyperspace cores?
Would the core "brain" of a Mothership find himself/herself stranded on Equestria?
Would the Vaygr/Taiidani/Hiigaran fight over a lush and utopian planet with ponies on it?
Would the ponies, under the glorious rule of Celestia/Luna/Sparkle, lead their fleets to victory and thus establish a harmonious dominion over the galaxy?
Would said dominion be too restrictive for the rest of the galaxy?
Would the ponies be sent to an Exile for a long time?
Should I substitute a race with ponies, insert the ponies as another race or ponify everything?
Would it be a good idea to slam the Mane Six together in a conclave/fleet command/unbound state in the core of a Mothership?
Should a Bentusi-like Progenitor-ship impart knowledge upon the ponies, or should it/he/she reawake old technology and wait for the ponies to discover their legacy?
Would anyone be interested in a single entity describing ascendancy and a journey to find the source of an irregularity (MAGICKS!) in an uncharted corner of the galaxy?
If anyone comes across this... please give your twenty cents.
Well, first off, 'gratz on your first blog post... also FIRST! *Whew* Now that that's out of the way, I'm not familiar with the homeworld universe but you (obviously) are. In the end it really is up to you to decide what you want to write; I don't remember who said it but You write for yourself first and your audience second. That said, I think it could be rather interesting if you could ponify the entire 'verse...it could easily prove difficult. Another one I would find fun would be if the mane 6 are crew members on the same ship.
Personally, some of the things you listed here would end up being really intense and possibly over the top which might scare away readers. As I've already said, it's up to you but it would be a good idea to keep in mind that not everyone is familiar with Homeworld, so you don't want to throw in chapters that are constantly flying over the reader's head.
How do you create a story? You place your hands on the keyboard and start typing.
As for grabbing attention, I think the biggest thing for that is having a catchy summary. If your summary is exciting or makes the reader want to find out what the hay Homeworld is, then you are more likely to get positive results than if you do the average "Hey, I wrote this. It's a crossover. Yay."
And BAM! You are now twenty cents richer.
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You are getting to me with the philosophy of simplifying, elaborating and minimising aspects of the story. I really do have to agree with you that each brief statement is rather intense, although I do say that I had meant to use this as a list of the most interesting/catchy ideas I had in a small frame of time. That said; thanks again for flagging the interesting parts, since I have a bit of a hard time sifting through ideas. 
Thanks for the input.
The ponification of the universe seems like a possibility, and I admit that I got tired pretty quickly of my initial approach to the Homeworld idea. I really might go ahead and turn Equestria/Equis into a sandball of a planet, which is inhabited by different tribes of formerly exiled ponies and move on with the flow. The story and the flow hangs in a precarious balance with something else I recently had flaring through my mind, which means that I have to choose either or simply go write on the both of them.
That said, you are completely right in regards to how story creation has been forcing people to WRITE for millennia, which just proves that humans have a wicked thing for damned exercises.
I really have been wondering how I would break the ice on a Homeworld/FiM fanfiction in the summary, but the easiest solution is, as is apparent to me, that I simply introduce the created world in an interesting way and put the 'Crossover' tag on it. Delving into the matter of a completely new universe in the summary could just scare the audience away, wouldn't it? 
Again, what constitutes a 'catchy' summary in your opinion? I am considering constructing the summary as a recruiting poster, but that is just my initial idea.
Oh, great... How much can I get for 20 cents?
121764 A recruitment poster huh? OOH! IDEA~! You could make the summary out of your recruitment poster and then somewhere in the beginning of the story, have the mane 6 read that poster in the story and enlist and become crewmates on a ship! In a ponified universe...maybe.
A GUMBALL! Oh wait, that's a quarter...shoot.
Yeah, that sounds like a suitable approach.
I just need to get to writing then. Shazbot! 