What Drug Would Twilight Sparkle Succumb To? Because I'm caught between A Journal-Inspired Story And A Narrative One · 4:36am May 12th, 2014
Basically, it states what it is, so yeah, I released a story a few days ago, and I deleted it because I quickly disliked the story immediately. So, the idea of Twilight Sparkle being a druggie still brings joy to me, though I'm leaning into writing clop now. Yes, now I am slowly becoming a clop-writer. Slowly.
I do have an idea brought by someone suggesting it to me months back, like when I was super-addicted to this place. Not so much, now, but here is the loose plot:
Twilight is smart right? Wrong. She's not, she just wants to be really good at things. Like those people on Wall Street she has a hard time dealing with all the pressures. On one occasion she tries cocaine. She gets a bust of IQ and performs the way she could only dream of when being sobber. But there are more and more ocasions that calls for the drug. Or so she thinks. She ends up being on it all the time. But can she ever go back to being just a regular pony?
See, instead of making her a depressive addict, this story really fuels the drive for both the reader and myself. It's rough, but you know, it's not bad.
Oh, and listen to the new Swans album, "To Be Kind" I heard it, and well, I was flabbergasted. Just fucking appauld of the thematic view of it. It's......amazing.
I see two options that would make for fairly good addiction stories. The first is Adderall. It would increase her focus and, considering the amount of college bronies around, would probably garner a sympathetic audience. If you really wanted to be edgy, you could replace Adderall with meth.
The other option is that Twilight is exhausted from her constantly racing mind, so she turns to something to muddle her thoughts and maybe allow her a modicum of decent sleep every now and then. She only takes a few sips of Granny Apple's hard cider before bed, at first. After a while, it just seems rational to seek out the harder bite of griffon vodka, and before she knows it, an innocuous flask finds itself in her saddlebags so she can sneak a shot wherever she goes. At least until her friends notice, that is.
Really, though, most stories that deal with addiction deal with the adverse effects they have on those close to the addict. You could cherry pick most any drug, throw it at Twilight, and write her friends' reactions from there.
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Liking the ideas, mate. I really do, but do you think I should make it a journal-styled story, or make it a first person-third person story?
Personally, what do you think that could make readers instantly just latch on to it. Personal taste comes to mind, but I do want to be innovative from what everyone else is doing, you know feng?
You don't mind giving me more tips and suggestions?
2103765 The easiest way to sell the story is to tell it from the perspective of one or all of her friends.
It's not really about making readers latch onto it, though. If you have a story, you have characters. And if you have characters, they want to be heard, whether it's by one person or a million. It's about telling your characters' stories, not about personal acclaim.
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Okay, what would you reccomend starting this story off, then. Don't go, "but it's not my story" I just want a personal opinion that if you were to do this, how would you proceed? I won't neccsiary take what you have, but I could have a valid suggestion to base my knowledge off of what you said, and what I could come up with and make one piece together.
2103866 Well, it's not my story. Sorry.
Look, I have a hard enough time writing my own stories. There's no way in Hell I could manage to write one where the characters aren't living, and breathing, and begging to be heard in my own skull.
If you're really having a hard time with this, just shelve it for now and let the characters stew in your head for a bit. If it's meant to be, they'll guide you where your story needs to take them. If not? Well, there's always the next story.