What happens after Journey · 4:53pm Jun 13th, 2014
First thing you need to know would be that I write for fun. When I picked up my pen, or laptop in this case, I never expected to have more than like 20 readers at best. Our German message board wasn't that big at the time. But now thats different. I have a few hundred people who's days I can brighten up by updating my stories. Regardless I thought Journey would be my last story, my masterpiece if you will. I mean, its a really big project and as you read the German version is about to reach the 50% mark. Still, it likely will take another year to finish it.
Today I thought again about what I will do after I finished the story. I know there is also "The Impossible" but thats only a little side project with at best 20 chapters in the end. Because when I think about a main story I think around 100 chapters at least. And I always want to do everything a little different. So today I started to take some notes for a new story.
There are a lot of human in Equestria stories out there, but I think only a very few take stage during the founding of Equestria. Yes, I want to go back when Platinum, Hurricane and Puddinghead were regents of the newly founded Equestria. And also I want to take a serious attempt to write down a society of ponies. Herds, mares are at power and all that junk. Also, its a time for explorers. First contact with the griffons and other nations that are surrounding Equestria. Untamed wilderness and leftovers of a old civilizations.
While we will have a human turned pony as a main character (yes I know how loved turned humans are, but thats how the crystal mirror works) we also will have many side character to follow. Our human will be a earth pony with the name Stargazer. Also he will live a few years in the new world already when we join him. There will be intrigues, sex, politics, action and so on. As you can guess, a big inspiration was Game of Thrones.
As I said, at the moment I'm only planing and make notes, but I hope to get to write down this story in the near future, maybe even parallel to Journey (after The Impossible is finished). Well, that and I will have to convince Gron and JBL somehow.
I would like to have some feedback for this idea and if you have suggestions, that too.
That concept sounds really amazing, and you could make it little more complicated with different languages like Tolkien did when he wrote Lord of The Rings: First he created languages as he thought that language molds society and creates culture around it. You are bilingual and I can only see you having an advantage there as you could use your own native language as a model. Of course that would be really crazy amount work to do,but what I have gathered, you seem to be really dedicated when you start write something and could do it.
Now about the ponification thing. I am not really fan of that stuff. I don't see any point having a human protagonist when he is ponified (ponyfied?). It doesn't add anything to the story, besides he may have some human knowledge that he could use in his favor. But yeah, that's my opinion.
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I'm a bit uncertain about the human too, but I like my human in Equestria stories. But Maybe I drop it.
Nothing is written in stone right now.
The thing with the two languages would be a good thing to have, but I don't want that my readers need a translator open in a new tab or something like that. When I would do something like that I simply would use German, not invent another language that simply would sounds like Jewish (Klingon from Star Trek). Well, German speaking griffons would be badass ^^
I kind of agree with the frogman. The Human doesn't always have to be turned into a pony. If that's what you want to do, then that's fine by me, but I have an even greater idea.
Why not have the human turn into a baby dragon, almost like Spike?
Again, you don't have to do it, but I'm just bouncing ideas.
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Or a gryphon. He could become the bodyguard of an important figure.
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