a tribute a shoutout a question a plan · 3:36pm Jun 7th, 2016
"Twilight?" Applejack eased her head through the doorway. Dulled clanks came from further inside, and much of the equipment crowding the room glowed with a dull purple sheen.
"Working!" called Twilight from the other side of the largest element.
"Twilight, mail call!" insisted Applejack.
"I'm in the middle of something!" said Twilight. "I'm pretty sure I explained why I shouldn't be interupted in here?"
"Emergencies, right," said Applejack. "Twi, Fluttershy sent another Null Set record."
"She what!?" Twilight backed out from where she was studying the interior of a large rotary system and stuck her head over it. A halo of components followed her.
"Fluttershy found another one a' those Null Set Records releases, and she sent it along to you. I thought you'd want to know about it."
"I do, I just--" Twilight started pacing. "This isn't something I can safely walk away from, I've got to wrap up here." Her gaze snapped towards Applejack. "Wait, you didn't open it, did you?"
"It's surrounded in that clear archival stuff you use, with a label stuck on," soothed Applejack. "It's not like it's gonna get damaged."
"Ugh. Good." Twilight wrapped a hoof over her muzzle. "I'm sorry for jumping at you. I need-- horseapples. Could you put it in my quarters, please? I'd love to start recovery on it right away, but I need to track down the irregularity in the warp core and put all this back together before I can do that."
"Sure thing, Twi." Applejack looked around at the massive amount of stuff Twilight was manipulating. "Eh, do you want me t' send Pinkie down here? I think she's in the cafeteria, but--"
"No, she's good where she is," said Twilight. She dug up a smile. "Thank you, though. And for telling me about the mail-- something to look forward to."
I want to get back (ha, "back") into writing. I've got two ideas I can maybe-probably bullshit my way through, and I sorta want to write both of them but I'm not going to try to do both at once. Preferences? Requests?
(And: Yes, the snip above is related to one. No, you don't know enough to vote based on which one will tell you more about Null Set Records.)
On the one hand: Space ships and science fiction. I've got a setting in the back of my mind with our equines already worked into it and some surrounding-first-contact scenarios available. Beyond that I'd be winging it and probably exploring the not-quite-crossover setting.
On the other hand: An action-adventure-y setting, although I'm not sure I'd write it from that perspective. Non-crossover. Magical girls. No, really! Well, okay, the "action" side mostly writes itself after stealing its overarching plot from popcultural osmosis from another property. I have no idea what I'm doing character(arc)wise but that's half the fun!
In something like, I dunno, a week? nine days? Not more than two weeks anyways, I'll decide if there's a clear consensus preferring one or the other. I'm like 95% sure I know which I'll do if there isn't one so don't worry about that. Just which do you think sounds most interesting?
...And I would post this the same day Bad Horse posts his thing about writers' block and planning. My two ideas, in their current state, go against pretty much every point he makes. And I think they're all basically good points, too.
Ah well. Practice is good.
I was reading a talk by Neil Gaiman today, and realized that in the same way neither idea is a story in Bad Horse's sense, they're frameworks but not quite stories. Which is cool. It helps me tell where the work is going to be.
On a mostly-unrelated note, I'm sort of hoping to at some point find something that's "like a Western, but without gunfights".
Aright. I think that's long enough for my little deadline thing. I see no opinions, and so magical
girlsponies wins.