PROCRASTINATING SKILL LEVEL: 55

Right, so I've got my midterm literature exam in about two hours. I've got to write three pages on In a Grove and Rashomon, due Wednesday. I've got my math midterm tomorrow evening. I've got Computer Science homework due Wednesday, and an exam on Friday. I can only thank fate (or whatever happens to be out there, if it is out there) that I've already got Filipino out of the way.
So obviously, the best way to spend my time is to PROCRASTINATE!

First off, coffee is awesome. I'm not going to make a habit of it - I didn't get a crash, but I'm aware that if I became dependent I would - but I can easily see why people love it.

Second, I've decided to share with you guys a whole bunch of story ideas I've had and abandoned (I sometimes pick them up again, but they all go nowhere). Feel free to take them off my hands, just please be polite enough to tell me.

IDEA ONE: The Conversion Bureau: Confirmation Bias
This story would have been a series of newspaper articles, blogs, and similar things that showed people's perceptions of the conversion. Blogs and the like would have often shown the opinions of people who supported or were against the conversion, while newspapers would have informed the blogs/emails/whatever, giving readers some context. It would have shown multiple biased viewpoints, and by the end of it the world is split in two by conflict, and most people are viewed as being in either of the two extremes - for or against conversion. One blog I imagined was one converted pony writing a blog (with his friend as his hands) warning people that he wasn't sure if he was the same person he was prior to the conversion, which would eventually be used as an argument by anti-conversion extremists which would garner many followers. I was hoping to make it as unbiased as possible by making both sides write biased things (including, eventually, the newspaper), and letting the reader decide who to believe - if they believed anything at all. This failed because I am shit at writing articles.

IDEA TWO: The Conversion Bureau: Unnamed Project (It's retroactively called 'Thresholds').
REMOVED BECAUSE INSPIRATION HAS STRUCK! Don't worry if you've already read this; not much was spoiled. Y'know, except for the endings. Which are still subject to change.

IDEA THREE: Meta Self-Insert
Right before he can begin his self-insert, a man ends up in Equestria in a pony body, and with an empty book. However, as time goes on, the book is filled with chapters that chronicle his adventures, and the man would have realized that he was the self-insert, and he was reading his own self-insert, and he begins trying to predict what would happen in the plot based on what he thinks he'd write, and exploiting information written in the story. Basically, he gets a book, and his information updates one chapter behind the audience; on chapter one he'd get the in medias res prologue, on chapter two he'd get chapter one, etc. And the reader gets to see him trying to outwit his writer.
That failed because I didn't have any plot whatsoever. It was an idea, but that was it.

IDEA FOUR: Fallout Equestria: Failures
Right, so you know how Fallout Equestria stories tend to show a hero being a sort of paragon of the wasteland? The original was about Littlepip saving the wastes and gathering the element bearers, while Horizons is about Blackjack saving her side of the wastes and stuff? Failures would have been a short story showing the chronicles of potential heroes. People Watcher hoped to save the Wasteland, but eventually succumbed to it. It would have begun at the end, and it would have shown how each of the six characters (one chapter per character) became monsters out of necessity, deciding to sell the slaves they'd just saved, blaming each other for the wrongs they've been through, and basically just destroying themselves.
I might actually still write this, but I don't think I will, so I'm putting this here.
Writing this nao. I don't plan to submit it for publishing until it's finished, and I've only just started, but once I've got something substantial anyone who wants to can go ahead and check it out; I'll make a blog with the password.

Alright. Go ahead and take these ideas, if you want.

I'm actually working on a recursive fanfiction for The Support Group for HiEs, and I'm feeling a bit optimistic about it right now. It's going to be a slice of life story, largely, and it'll be written in what I (well, originally Reality Check, in a disapproving blog post of his) call the 'unfinished' style

Comments

[Reese]

Midterms at this time of year? Hm… Are you in the southern hemisphere?

re 1 and 2:
Hm, those could be interesting.

re 3:
Hah! :D

re 4:
Ooh, neat. If you do write it, please let me know.
You know, I do wonder if there was ever a point where Watcher was trying to work with Red Eye…

…And despite my general leeriness of HiEs, my reading list has just gotten one entry longer. Again.

[bobbananaville]

2360783 The exam is in ten minutes.
I live in the Philippines. Not a bad place to live, though I'm a bit paranoid that someone's gonna mug me.

[Reese]

2360817
Good luck!