You gotta wonder... · 5:31pm Mar 25th, 2014
I read this story check it out it's really good. If you like TwiJack romance stories anyway.
Now I'm inspired to finish writing my own TwiJack story that wasn't supposed to be a TwiJack story... to elaborate it was supposed to be just a random little comedy, then I started writing the epilogue and one thing led to another and Twilight and A.J. fell in love(well not exactly like that... you'll have to read the story when I post it...)... freaking spontaneous love story... A.J. and Twi weren't even supposed to be major characters at first.
So I guess what I'm asking is, 'what is everyone's opinion on accidental stories?; Do you think it's okay for a story to just sort of happen without the intention to write it at first? Or is it better to squash the spontaneity and stick to the plan?
~ So hath proclaimed the writer Mayhew Cullen and as it is in his mind, so it shall be. ~
I would say it depends...
Do you have a plan for the story, i.e. an outline of sorts? Or maybe, do you have the entire story already written? If so, I would say post it up. I mean, you already wrote it, so you may as well share it!
In regards to the spontaneity, I pretty much squashed it for a couple of one shots, and now I'm writing full 10+ chapter stories after people asked for more.
Why, even in a fic of around 20k, I had thought to end it by the eighth chapter... but as I was writing it, I began to create an entirely different plot and storyline that could fit right after... So now I have to write a sequel. 
The way I see it, it's as if you are a scientist exploring some unknown idea, when suddenly you come across something else, something spontaneous, something unexpected. Would you be willing to let that discovery go and focus only on what you have found before? Would you end up asking yourself, "What if?"
In the end, I say: "Go for it." Spontaneous stories, in my opinion, pop up because there is something missing from the original story or because it can tie in to a larger picture. Your brain noticed this, and so it began to toil to connect it to something else. (The brain works in mysterious ways.
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Hopefully that made sense. I really need to practice on containing my wordiness.
1954409 It made perfect sense. As for the story, it is mostly finished, I got to right the closing few paragraphs, add some stuff around the middle. then a bit of cosmetic touchups for grammar and such then it will be ready, but now I've gotten to the point where I can't go back, I've already written too much into the spontaneity for me to go back... So it's either scrap the whole story, burn it, and try again later. Or I can finish it.
I'm not going to scrap it, it would feel too much like killing something that doesn't need to be killed. I have given the characters life and I'll be proud to show everyone what I've made.
As for planning, the answer is yes I have plans for everything I write and I've always given myself freedom to modify the story if I find something that fits better, but this is the first time I have made such a huge story altering change. I would write more but I got to get back to finishing that story, I hope to have it posted by the end of the day.
1954452 I look forward to reading it!
I still can't imagine anyone actually physically burning their own story.
1954460 Like I said it would be awful... like killing the characters I wrote...and no fictional pony deserves to burn alive.
1954468 You know, this gave me an idea for a story...
Referencing back to one of the first episodes of Season 4, the 'Power Ponies' comic absorbed the reader into the comic. What if, right after that episode, Twilight begins to research about those comics, looking for a way to get out of one in case of an emergency. She goes to Celestia to talk about it (or sends her a letter), and Celestia gives her an artifact (a pen, maybe) that allows her to edit the comic from inside it using a simple spell. Twilight tests it out, and she enters a comic. Using the pen, she begins to edit parts of the comic, and afterwards, she uses the pen to forcibly exit it. However, when Spike gets a hold of it, Twilight accidentally uses the spell on the pen in her own world and finds that the pen works. Twilight begins to question if her world truly is reality, and in an effort to know the truth, she uses the pen to forcibly exit her own world, entering our world. However, our world has an adverse effect on magic, and thus the adventure begins... Twilight and the human she met when she exited (let's say, one of the readers of the comic) must find a way to restore/power up her magic enough to return to her world. Twilight also has an existential crisis in our world, unable to know which worlds are real or not (kind of like in Inception). This could turn dark pretty quick, though, so I don't know how well that would work. What do you think?
1954964 I think that I would be intrigued. I will admit that I don't like a lot of Human in Equestria/Pony on Earth stories, but I could actually see myself really enjoying something like this.(Don't get me wrong, one of my favorite stories ever is about Luna on Earth's moon where she meets Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and its subsequent sequels)
As for dark... yes the whole idea lends itself to dark psychological undertones. Plus from what you've written I personally wonder whether Celestia knew about the possibilities of going outside Equestria... or if perhaps if both the human world and Equestria are mutually reliant on each other for their own separate existences. A la, one certain episode of Futurama where the professor makes a box with an alternate universe inside it while at the same time the alternate professor creates an alternate box with the first mentioned professor's universe inside it.
Perhaps Twilight might meet Lauren Faust and have a religious epiphany at meeting the 'creator' of Equestria... Wow... I'm actually excited now, this story would have endless possibilities. I will read "Ponyception"
1955116 Welp, new project coming soon for me, then! And with all the incomplete stories I still have, I think that may put me up to around 1.75 years to finish them all. (Without this idea, it drops down to 1.57 years.) I hope my readers can wait that long.
1955174 Yes, I can be very patient... wait you have other readers? No that can't be right...
Seriously though, just remember that you are not writing for anyone but yourself. If you start getting paid for this, that's one thing, but for me and probably everyone else on this sight, we are writing pony stories because we are having fun. And the moment we stop enjoying it is when we should call it quits. You are in charge, not the readers who get to see your stories for free and just need to relax and read something else until the next update..
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And thanks for that. I don't think I'll stop enjoying writing for a long time, so be prepared for more semi-decent chapters!
(Get paid? For writing stories? Now that would be awesome! I wish I could write that well...)
1956185 Well if you think about it and want to be a total sell out you can just write like what's her name who wrote the Twilight books. Terrible writing aimed in the right direction can be highly lucrative...
1956340 Yeah, but I don't think I would be able to live with myself.
If I was going to have people buy what I write, I would like to at least provide a decent product.