Yes, I am writing things. · 8:29pm Sep 23rd, 2012
I've got four stories trying to escape from my mind onto the screen at the moment, which is annoying. Whenever I'm working on one, the other three are either vying for my attention or slowly fading away in a mental corner, looking at me reproachfully.
Number one, which has the most actual existence right now, is called The Spirits of Harmony. Basically, Twilight tests the theory that there is an anti-Discord. She's sort of right. A harmonious kind of mayhem ensues.
Two is a reworking of a HiE first-contact story which got to around ninety pages last try before I ran it into a wall. One of the major conceits caused too much friction and left the bipedal protagonists without enough agency. Starting again with that dumb thing removed, we'll see if it can get anywhere.
Three's existence is largely based on whether #2 works out or not, because I suspect they'll have several of the same ideas. It's a soft sci-fi story whose science-y part is the idea that the next big advance in virtual reality and artificial intelligence is letting parts of the user's own brain do most of the heavy lifting. Definite inspiration from The Matrix and Inception. Folks use this cybernetic technology to, among other things, mess around in virtual depictions of their favorite fictional settings. In the story, a brony suspects his non-brony roomie of planning to commit suicide, convinces him to visit virtual Equestria, and traps him in the simulation to keep him from going through with it. First-person from a journal kept by the roomie.
Four, the most recent idea, is a haunted house story. I really can't say more about it without a) planning it out more and, b) spoiling it.
Here's hoping these see the light of day, as I'm a bad and lazy writer who hasn't yet learned to outline.
