Contest project, especial edition: Forget that crap from the last blogpost. · 6:25am Feb 5th, 2015
Alright, after cooling down and cutting my coffee intake, I gave a second look to the sketchbook chapter that is "Chapter 2: There's no hope against Unicron's forces."
I read it, out loud. I read it out loud and here's a decision I just made. It's not gonna happen.
I... am not sure of how to explain it, but here's my best try. I always wondered what was happening inside the heads of Alan Moore and Hideaki Anno when they wrote Watchmen and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I mean, it always puzzled me how those two guys, who always expressed an unconditional love for superheroes and mechas respectively, to the point of creating such beautiful pieces like Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow and Gunbuster, could bring themselves to deconstruct said genres into nothing. Over the years, Moore admitted he wasn't on the best of mods and Anno was diagnosed under depression by the time.
I wish I had an excuse but I don't.
I've always made an especial effort to write a happy ending. One thing is to bring a sad or harsh moment for the sake of conflict, but ending something in that tone was always something I tried to avoid. My entire point of even writing fan's fiction is to create something good, something I could look at and feel proud of it.
But now, I just wrote an spiral of despair and losing that only went lower with each word, only to culminate in the most depressing piece of anything I've ever done. I'm not proud if it.
I don't care if the prompt is to make the situation hopelessly impossible, or if the concept of the chapter is finally fitting with it. What you saw on the last blogpost is not going to happen. In fact, it already doesn't exist anymore.
This doesn't mean that I quit, that's not going to happen either. But I'll have to rethink what I'm supposed to do with the whole "It's impossible" thing. But I'm definitely not going for the "there's no hope" angle and that's my last word.
Impossible!? Nothings impossible!static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1244/draft_lens19291059module157977338photo_1332860585_0__4026929_lrg.jpg
Shame, I like a good hopeless tragedy. But I can completely understand if you don't feel up to writing such a story. I respect that. If you do manage to come up with another idea, I'll be happy to continue to support you. Good luck!
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No, right? Impossible is just a misconception of improvable, but there's hardly anything that could really be impossible.
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Well, I'm more of a Spielberg guy, like happy endings. Thanks for the support man, today was really a weird day but I'm pretty positive that I'm near to something here.
Although the chapters is completely scrapped, it doesn't mean that part of it isn't canon. it's just that now, the tragedy of war striking ponies will be now demoted to a five years gap, pretty much like in Pacific Rim.
Oh, and by the way, I happen to have a couple of sad fics under my pen. There' not THAT hopeless, but maybe you could like them.