Apr
1st
2014
Aight ya'll, it's time for some serious business. · 2:01am Apr 1st, 2014
I've recently received a spate of concerns, or more accurately straight complaints, about the guest chapters.
The most important of such is 'it's not part of the greater story'.
Thusly I put it to you, my readership. Should they continue to be posted in ACHNE, or spun off entirely on their own?
If the vote is negative, then the first chapter will be removed and the second, available for viewing here, will not be posted.
http://www.fimfiction.net/chapter/532364
Password is Magnificent , as always.
My $0.02. Unless the events that happen in the guest chapters are vital to the main plot (which they do not seem to be) they should probably be on their own spin-off story.
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I'm inclined to agree here. I was expecting something similar to Psuedo's chapter in Wildcard. Instead what I got is a tangent that, while it might be a fine story- has nothing to do with the rest except taking place in the same universe.
Tone is different, characterization is different, and apparently our interpretation of canonical characters is vastly different.
If this does go forward the solar guard references are pulled and that second chapter will get some heavy editing.
1971301 If it's requiring you to re-write your stuff to fit it in, then I kind of double my opinion that it should be its own thing. Side stories get shaped by main stories, not the other way around!
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Nah I ain't changing my stuff to fit. What I'm saying is I'll have to alter a lot of stuff in his second guest chapter to fit my plot.
Such as dropping the solar guard reference (doesn't exist), changing Omnicrons historical role (Luna had nothing to do with him), and changing this electricity dude to make him not actually a centurion, since that opens up the hole of just where the hell he was the whole time- along with his dialogue totally not fitting who the centurions are.
1971318 Ah, I see! Yeah, sounds like this is fan fiction of your fan fiction, rather than collaborative fiction, if there are things like that running about in it.
I do also agree that the style is totally different. The other guest chapter fit fairly well with your writing style, this has a clearly very different writing style, which makes it even more odd just inserted in the mane story.
It could perhaps be added as an epilogue when the story is done? "Meanwhile, in a slightly different universe, all this happened!"
Edit: I write too much pony, I wrote "mane" story without even meaning to make a pun. Whoops.
1971343 Mayhaps perhaps. When Omnicron gets around there is the idea of a separate story I could link in the description too. In that case he could go hog wild with whatever elements he wants.
Fan fiction of my fan fiction.. circles within circles... plots within plots....where does it all eeeendddd
IRC input also says pull it.
It's pulled.
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like mentioned, i would encourage the author- if he wants to, and with your permission- to write his own fic set in the universe you've established?
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it just doesn't feel like part of your story (once again, as mentioned
if i may, i feel like the biggest problem with these chapters is that they have no real objective
i think if the author was writing these as his own work, he would have more freedom to play around with the plot a little. i feel like the fact that these are intended to be a part of your story is creating two problems.
a. he has no power to influence major events within the plot, leading to somewhat aimless storytelling
b. attempting to fix the problem above requires you to restructure YOUR story in accordance
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Agreed on all counts. I sure as hell ain't gonna restructure my story, but Omnicron is free to use and any and all elements however he wants- on his own.
That's it folks, I'm sold. It's pulled, dead.
'Course I'm always open to guest chapters- if they actually have anything to do with the story. In fact I encourage it, and my core mistake here was probably assuming this was all going to slide in nicely like Psuedos chapter in Wildcard.
It isn't.
I'm down with a spin-off. I was surprised he actually fit it into the story to start with. I thought I would post it seperate.
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Also, you have to be blunt with me, as I do not pick up hints easily, when you need to bring up a concern with my writing. If you needed the second chapter changed that much, you should have just said so. That was the reason I asked you to look over it. I know a lot of your headcanon, but certainly not all of it.
Also, why did you include the first one when it was so different? I have wondered that for a while, but I thought rude to ask. I had written that one out of boredom (thus the original name of the piece) and a need to "stretch my fingers" so to speak, and then you added it.
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'cause I got excited
Then I thought better of it
But the train was already out of the station, rolling down the tracks
SRQ is a big ol' dumb butt and didn't want anybody feeling bad, poor decisions were made. I'm really glad this ended so easily.
Sorry for being a big dumb butt.