Random Ramblings CXLIX · 2:43am Mar 11th, 2017
IN WHICH TOPICS ARE FOR LOSERS
Good evening (or morning, or whatever; time zones are funny that way). I regret to say I'm spinning my wheels on my latest stories. I stopped working on Shimmer stuff to write a Twilight one-shot as an experiment, but I've gotten stuck just past the part where the Friendship Express explodes in a overload of illogic. I read the fic and my mind screams, YOU'RE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A BADFIC! STOP TRYING!!, but the other half of my brain says, No. You must put in effort, even if you don't want to! Then part of my brain says, If you really wanted to make a badfic, you'd just ape the style of the guy whose badness gave you the idea; right now you're just being experimental again, and you see where that got you with "A Day In The Park"?
Then I got distracted. I've been kinda down lately. Unlike my ex (*sigh*), I have yet to find the thing to always turn to when feeling down. After watching the trailer for its reboot, I decided to pop in a DVD of DuckTales. While some of the stories are clearly written & paced for little kids (like I was when it first aired), a lot of it holds up surprisingly well thirty years later. I'm optimistic for the reboot and hope it's as good as the trailers make it out to be.
I'm keeping this blogpost short. My next post will be #150 and, as with #100, once again I'm going to post a sample of rejected writing in its entirety. It's from the Pinkamena-verse, and is about Maud Pie. It's ~2,000 words. Look forward to it!
Sometimes just grinding through the badness is better than doing nothing at all. I had one I just sent to Moosetasm where I had a sentence trail off into a rant about how boring the scene was before jumping to more interesting lines... and I forgot to take that out before having him look at it. Cue facepalming and hilarity.
But the scene carried on!
4455461 - There's a particular writer on this site who is notorious for his absurd number of badfics/trollfics, as well as rarely if ever using commas. It gave me the idea to write a short story where the plot is: Celestia drank some bad tea and in her delirium banned commas and semicolons, so the entire story is written without them. It intentionally breaks grammar rules and gets rather meta at times. I'm trying to figure out how to end it.
I have named it: Comma Comma (chapter title: "Down Dooby Doo Down Down")
4455533 Alas, I must have missed this writer's oeuvre, but the concept of ill-conceived Celestial punctuation laws sounds like the stuff of good absurdity.
I might be tempted to fold the proposed chapter title into the story title itself though, as it would make the reference clearer to passersby.
4456292 - Fifty blogposts ago, you said you wanted to see more over-the-top absurdity from me. I am primed to deliver on that.
Trust me, you're better off not seeing this particular writer's oeuvre unless you have a high tolerance for pain, beige prose, and narrative stupidity, as well as a perverse love of shyte-quality entertainment – like my enjoyment of Charge-Man Ken (a.k.a. the best worst anime ever made) – as well as watching experienced writers, myself included, slowly going insane in the comments as the author pretends to acknowledge his mistakes yet never improves. It's like a near-daily trainwreck. There is a movement afoot to get this particular writer banned, but I will be a little sad if that happens.