Choices · 6:39pm Mar 22nd, 2016
Cards on the table: That's not a nearby self-help book. It probably is the title of one somewhere though.
This post has more purpose than ones I've made before though. This is here to tell... three? Yeah, probably three specific people what I've decided to write and then anyone else who wants to look.
More confessions:
I'm in a class I actually should be paying attention to right now and instead just spent twenty five minutes reading SS&E blog posts and thinking about my own fanfiction.
I should also be working on another project unrelated to fanfiction and school work that's so overdue I'm hiding from another website so I can reappear and pretend I had no access and that's why it took so long to deliver.
I also shouldn't (but probably will) write all that much this week since I have an ungodly number of exams I cannot fail in the next two days (but probably will).
That's that for now.
Now, I've made choices involving pretty much every story I talked about (except one), and I think it's in their best interests.
Masks: There's going to be a rewrite of the last couple of chapters. Following a re-examination of the outline. It's getting lost and it will only continue to do so on it's current track. Masks and the story it's going to tell cannot afford that.
Pony Pony Pony: I really hate, and I mean hate the next couple of prompts. I think I'm going to start blatantly skipping some or choosing the next one with a random number generator instead of in order. These will eventually resume flowing, parially just so I can say I did some writing every day when I don't feel like writing one of the other stories.
The Forest: Will not feature Twilight Sparkle as the main character. Will explore some interesting ideas and themes. Will not contain many subplots. Will be strangely reminiscent of the way Dark Souls tells subplots. I wasn't planning on that until I thought about while staring blankly at my professor, but I think I can make that work.
Crossing Lines: Will hopefully not be too long. For the most part the general idea here is cemented down, just the finer details need to be hammered out.
The Story Formerly Known as Epitaph: This is the big question for me right now. I still don't know what I really want this to be about. Well, I know most of the plot, but the way it ends can change the entire story. I don't know if I want to write a story about overcoming flaws, doubt, depression, and fear, and then starting to heal and recover; or if it should be a story about self-destruction and cycles we can't escape. I just don't know. First I really wanted it to be the first, but then I took a step back and it looked more like the second, now I've taken another step back and all I know is the original ending wouldn't fit either way. It just wouldn't be... healthy for the characters.
So if you have opinions on which kind of story you'd rather read as far as that one goes, or which of these sounds most interesting (and want to see started first) drop a comment.
Now, to draft a blog post (or several) about movies and tv shows instead of paying attention to this class.
I've done this. Not exactly this, but the same sort of concept.