New story idea that I'm just not sure of. · 3:08pm Jan 13th, 2016
Hello everyone! Due to niggling ideas I'm back. Time to BITCH!
I have had an idea for a story. I began to write down this story.
My original plan was just to describe the death of a pony that I fleshed out as I wrote the story. However something horrible happened. The story evolved too much!
What I wanted to keep as a single chapter short story started to expand into something that would be multi chapter full on story. I, unfortunately, do not have the confidence or ability to carry out such work.
To summarise. I started off near the end in the present with the main character, Morning Star, in Canterlot as a guard. I quickly realised that to give the audience a reason to care about her at all, I needed to give her a life, aspirations, friends, family maybe a sex life. Point is that as I wrote and wrote... Well it just hit me.
How long will this be?
I had to give her a source of her abilities so I gave her a teacher, Master Lokin. I had to draw out that meeting to make you care about Lokin too and give him a life and all those other things.
My basic point is... Well, do you want something like this?
I'm gonna make it clear now. I'm not a social person, never have been and never will be. I'm awkward and silences in conversations follow me wherever I talk. It's this lack of social skill that impairs my ability to write conversations and friendships. I'm not that attentive. I don't know if I can sustain the interest in writing this to even entertain the idea of doing it.
The story would take place over this Mare's entire life. Should I do it later? Should I try other things first? Should I run from Fimfiction never to return? I honestly don't know what to do with this XD.
Out of a lack of stuff to do. Would anyone like to provide me ideas for stories? Preferably ideas that don't lead to A Song of Ice and Fire lengths of stories please XD.
My advice: Try writing stories with 5 or 6 chapters, each with about 1000 words, until you are confident in your writing. Then try to write this when you fel better at writing.
As with your problems: I understand. Maybe make Morning Star somepony who isn't very sociable to make it easier to write. Since it's a made up character, make up her personality. Is she shy? Funny? Timid?
As with a character's life:
1) Start wth her birth. Was it eventful? If so, how?
2) Skip over toddler years, maybe referencing one or two events. Go to the time she got her cutie mark. Does she even have a cutie mark? How did she get one?
3) Then go on to talk about her in the present. What she does, what family she has, etc. Tie in Lokan, but don't write as much on him.
4) Her death. Think about where it happened? How it happened? What did she do to lead up to the events? Why she had to die maybe?
You don't have to listen to anything I've written. However, I think this will help you greatly when it comes to writing this story.
3683774 I actually did go over her getting her cutie mark.
I think she's an overachiever really. Her cutie mark is two knitting needles and she got it during knitting class. She was none too pleased to say the least. I even went on to describe what she's been doing. She's exercising and trying to find a combat trainer. None are available or want to train a 6 year old XD.
Overall I think I just lost focus and was too overwhelmed by what was happening. The original point was to see how well I could write death and make the reader care about a character in short amount of time.
My main problem is that I want it to be easy. I need to get it in my head that this shit is hard. Need to slow down and write slower.
Fortunately I've got other ideas at the moment. So good for practice.
Also it's hard to keep track of my word count. I use my phones note taking app to write so even The Rainbow Machines length was a surprise.
Thank you for the help ^.^ I appreciate it greatly.