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Fonypan


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New Story! · 7:03am Mar 19th, 2014

I urge you all to read Red Eye.

The original author has left the fandom, and gave me the rights to his story.

I would very much appreciate feed back, and help expanding the story, because it is far to short, and a little confusing due to the length, or lack there of.

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My, my...

I recently found the tumbler. For every part that impressed me, I just shook my head at two others but it was still decent enough for me to finish reading it.

How close is the new fic? Because I honestly felt near everypony except Fluttershy, Spike and Celestia was massively out of character and frankly acting quite mean-spirited.

1937883 KWF is also giving me copies of all of the notes he made for the story. I have a 100,000 word G.doc that is just a summary. (Actually its 8195 it total... but it feels longer.)

He made the fic short because he was told readers like short fics. 500k words is what I think this fic need to do it justice.

Would you be willing to Co-write? This may take a few authors to accomplish.

Edit: I just looked at the Tumblr, it is exactly the same.

1937900

Going to need to take a long think about it, but I've joined the group so I won't forget.

I'm a huge sucker for stories with intelligent and non-evil undead, but the source is just on the edge of as dark a story I'd read, let alone write. I don't think I've have the time, and even if I did I just don't think I'd be a good fit for the material. The original's just a bit too bleak compared to my own writing style.

1939261 And that is why I am trying to amass a group to help flesh out the story.

1939467

Fair enough.

No promises, but if I've got the time I can at least throw out and wet ideas.

KWF

1937883

Because I honestly felt near everypony except Fluttershy, Spike and Celestia was massively out of character and frankly acting quite mean-spirited.

I took a lot of inspiration from the Bridle Gossip episode of MLP, particularly within Session 17. If ponies get that upset over the presence of Funnytalk Stripehorse, I can't imagine them ever getting over the presence of an undead creature. Especially when you consider the same class of undead attacked Apple Bloom not so long ago :applecry:

Twilight, I imagine, would be emboldened by the events of the season 2 finale. She trusted her gut when she thought something was off, and proved her millenia-old mentor wrong. She's trusting her gut, she won't back down, she intends to prove the princess wrong a second time. Things obviously got out of hoof in session 13 :twilightangry2: Perhaps I did make her a tad bit hard-headed :facehoof:

As Fonypan mentioned, some fool convinced me that concise writing is crucial. This was my first project of this scope, and he made a good case for writing it short. So I went into this with a "say what I want to say in as few words as possible" mentality. 80% of the negative feedback after the fact has been about Red Eye's brevity. At the time, I thought I could trust that person's advice, and I was clearly wrong.

1939261 1945385 You don't have to write to contribute, you could do as much as help write down ways to expand on what we have to work with. The forum section of the group is a good place to do that.

KWF

1945390 I'll let you know if I come up with anything new.

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