Random Ramblings CLXIX · 6:00pm Apr 27th, 2017
IN WHICH I REMEMBER AN OLD LESSON
I like to listen to music, especially when I'm writing. Sometimes I'll air drum – better that than me actually playing my kit, as my hand-foot coordination is crap (I don't have room in my home at this point for it anyway… though I might if my ex ever gets her stuff out) and I'm years out of practice. But I digress. I prefer to listen to instrumental music, otherwise I get distracted by the words, especially if it's in English – I also have a crapton of songs in Japanese, as well as a few in Portuguese. Anyway, after spending far too much time listening to the Goofy Movie soundtrack amongst a bunch of other stuff, I went back to writing and recalled a valuable lesson. Please follow me past the jump for what it is.
When I wrote Sunset Shimmer Buys A Burrito just over two years ago, most of her internal monologue – written in two goes and then combined during editing – came during staring at my computer screen while tired as hell at 3am. Well, that dynamic happened again last night while working on Spider Queen.
The lesson: Sunset Shimmer says weird shit when I'm tired (and in this case so is she, as well as accidentally drugged out of her gourd), and it's often my best bits of dialogue or monologue. Point is, I'm now very close to completing Spider Queen. Maybe I'll finish it tonight, maybe it'll be tomorrow. But my policy of sitting on a completed story for a day or so and returning to it with fresh eyes still applies, so I regret to say you won't see it until Sunday at the earliest.
EDIT: Dammit Posh. You just had to suggest that, didn't you? Well, time to figure out how to revise the story to make Sunset's dialogue even more insane.
No worries about it taking a bit of time. Definitely looking forward to this upcoming story of yours. And yeah, strange stuff happens when one is incredibly tired.
4511856 - I actually have two almost ready to go. Spider Queen is the one I'm working on right now. But Envelope, which actually takes place after, is already basically complete. I've just got some more revising to do on it.
I also want to, brain permitting, write two Burrito stories and a Spike story. And, if I'm lucky, get some more groundwork laid on the Anon-A-Miss story I've had planned for well over a year. This weekend my city is expected to get 8"+ of rain in less than 72 hours, so I'll have plenty of time to stay inside and write.
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Two, eh? The fun has been doubled! Good luck with your other stories as well. On a more serious note, stay safe with the rain. That's quite a bit, and a lot of rain can do nasty things.
4512131 Ooo, sounds like productivity is afoot!
4512140 - Thank you. Incidentally, I live on a hill (and not one liable to landslide). I'm the last person in the world who has to worry about flooding. There are other rain-related possibilities, mostly involving trees, that concern me greatly. Hopefully it'll just be an annoying deluge and I won't have to deal with power outages or my insurance company (I have decent insurance; I just dislike dealing).
4512150 - I know, right? It's such a rare thing from me. But I got a lot more written than I expected last night.
You actually wrote a story about Sunset Shimmer becoming spider-queen?! You absolute madman! I love it!
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Can I expect heavy references to SFDebris's take on Captain Janeway, herself a vicious spider-overlord?
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As of right now, I don't have that in there, but since you brought it up, I'll try and find –
Idea! Oh, this could be fun… at least for me, not so much for poor Fluttershy.
Need to get back on the drumming train, man, it's the only kind of exercise worth doing