Sep
26th
2012
I Am A Terrible Human Being · 3:05pm Sep 26th, 2012
The things I am writing now are actually making me question whether I'm as empathetic as I like to think. A genuinely good person would probably not be this entertained by doing such terrible things to such good-hearted ponies. Yes, it's entirely fictional, but still. I ask myself, "what would make this a story I would read?" and the answer is "you should write about Twilight's psyche collapsing under the weight of her entirely justified guilt." This does not seem like the sort of thing that comes from a truly caring mind.
Not that I'm going to stop, mind you. This story has taken me down a darker path than I expected, and I feel like I need to know what's at the end. Hopefully the answer includes "a good story."
We writers are not nice people.
It might help to think of it this way: the torture we put our fictional characters through is an outlet for our darkness. We can channel our gleeful sadism where it hurts only the people inside our head, and entertains and illuminates the folks out here in the real world.
Aren't we all evil in some way, you less so then me anyway due to that fact your even able to feel remorce, and over a fictional pony no-less.
...and we weren't even testing for that!
I do the same things. :V Don't let it stop you!
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this sort of issue... I set out trying to write cheerful, humorous stories, then BAM. Drama. Angst. Horribleness. Why do I seem to have way too much fun putting ponies in terrible positions?