Less - A Fork In The Road · 10:35pm May 6th, 2014
If you've been waiting for Less to update, so have I. But as I awoke from a bizzare dream last week, I finally realized why (aside from work and scheduling issues) I haven't written more on this story, a story so dear to my heart: I'm actually trying to write two stories!
I want to explore and deconstruct the American disability rights / advocacy / pride community, and the misguided views and aims of the surrounding social structures, all while creating a bildungsroman for Scootaloo; a coming-of-age story in which she learns how to be herself despite a world that doesn't believe in her, parents who do the wrong things for the right reasons, and a body that denies her dreams and her perception of her destiny. Tags: sad, adventure
I also want to create a show-style or comic-style story which takes Scootaloo on a journey from her disappointment in Flight to the Finish to her choice of activity in Twilight Time. It's more about Twilight and her compulsive need to help others, running into the general obliviousness of a kid just starting her life journey. Tags: comedy, slice-of-life
And as soon as I saw what has been holding me back, I realized I can write both, without contradiction; after all, neither story would be beyond the scope of this site's usual fare. I've already written different versions of Derpy every time I've mentioned her, so having different Scootaloos isn't much of a stretch for me.
I am going to fork Less.
So, if you've read either iteration of this story, I want your thoughts. What drew you to Less, what do you want from this story as it goes forward, and what do suggest I call the show-style version? (I'm partial to "More" to contrast with "Less.")
All right! That sounds like a good plan.
I really think "More" is the best possible title for the fork.
There's a certain elegance to less forking into more, considering that the unix commandline tool 'less' is descended from 'more' in the opposite direction and for exactly the same reason.
(Less is more.)
2087362 Less is more, and more is less. Something I knew intuitively when writing, but have since forgotten. I was raised on Readers Digest; there was always a six-month pile on the back of the toilet. Consequently, I look at my 1000 word stories, see the others on the site, and get disheartened. I guess I've got to take a lesson from my Scootaloo and learn to seek my own path instead of comparing myself to others.
Either that, or get a collaborator to flesh out my stories. Hm....