Wishlists · 1:19am Jun 13th, 2017
Do you have a writer's wishlist? I sort of do.
You know. Things you wish you could write, or do, or whatever.
Give me yours, if you have one.
(ALSO--if you followed me after I hit 1000 followers, I have a question for you. Do you know what "Songverse/Nightverse" means? Are you familiar with the shared mythos? I've begun wondering how much of that shared narrative was lost along the way. I've also toyed with the idea of doing a blog or two to just sort of lay it all out and smooth out the sometimes ambiguous references strewn across like at least 3 years of writing.)
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1.) Write a CTS fic. I love the Clocktower Society stories and I've always wanted to write one. But I've also never been able to write anything remotely mature at a reasonable pace and without encouragement so it isn't exactly workable.
2.) Self-publish Absolution. I want to get the rewrite of the original fiction version of Absolution done. I need to finish it. What's worse is that I know everything I want to do, everything that happens, but I just can't bring myself to keep going. It feels so uncomfortable. Absolution is a good story, but not one I think can make it to an agent or a publishing house. Oh, I'll try of course! I'll try. But realistically, I'll not get terribly far. I've my doubts about the market out there for scifi horror about queer women who are afraid of the dark.
3.) Get back to writing almost every day. This is an obvious one. I've slowed to an agonizing crawl as far as writing goes. I go days and days without writing a single word of fiction and it is unfortunate and a little frustrating.
4.) Get to 100 stories here before the end. I'd like to get to a hundred. This is kind of a silly thing, but it really isn't impossible--my newer readers probably don't know this but I actually published 2-3 stories in a 24 hour period more than once along the way. Even during the middle of writing an epic I still managed to do several shorter pieces. It's certainly possible.
5.) Collab with a friend. I've never really collaborated with someone before. Not really--I don't count the thing I did with SuperTrampoline 'cause we were just havin' fun and goofing around.
6.) Write the sequel to The Night is Passing and Alien Suns/Redeem. This one is really a pipedream. The sequel to night has a name and a basic idea (All Along the Watchtower, vampires) but I just have so little motivation to do it. The sequels to Alien Suns and Redeem Us are basically the same story, if I'm honest, and so I would only do one. The problem is that both of them would just be... hard. Hard for different reasons, but still hard. And on top of that, it would be difficult to commit to them knowing that like, nobody would read it.
7.) Finish my FOE fic. Another pipedream. I had a whole story laid out for the Crusader, but... 76 views after 20K or something of words kinda kills a vibe fast. Real, real fast.
8.) Return to that silly Dark Tower crossover.
Nope. I started tuning in after Have You Considered My Servant, Twilight? Though I've seen you around for a long time.
Wish list:
Get something on EQD that people actually like.
I must confess, the night is passing have been sitting in my RIL
purgatorylist for a while now. I suppose " Nightverse" refer to that?So no, I am not really familiar with the term.
Oh man, you don't even know.
1) Write and complete an actual multichapter story. Seriously. All my stories are one-shots and I have no discipline. I feel like until this happens I can't really say I'm a true writer.
2) Finish Perytonfic. I really love the ideas I came up with for it, and I want to do it justice. The lack of attention it's gotten has hurt my appetite for it though, I admit.
3) Write every day. Simple.
4) Write a novel. I have a whole idea planned out for it, too, based on a short story I wrote for a Writeoff recently. I think it's legitimately brilliant, but this is definitely one of my more ambitious ideas.
5) Give From The Ashes the attention it deserved. I want to turn it into a proper multichapter affair, chronicle the descent of Empress Celestia as she eventually makes like some kind of weird fantasy Rome. That would be rad. But I never really had any concrete plans for how to do that at the time.
6) Write a story about Fleur de Lis being a vampire and Luna as her weird estranged monster mum. This is a weird one but it'll make sense, trust me. Cyne knows.
7) Write a Cyberpunk Twiluna AU. Actually have this one planned out mostly, so it's certainly possible.
8) Develop Ruled by Sin into something. I actually have 12000 words worth of a story based loosely on the same concept, but I have no idea what I was trying to do with it. Still, this is probably the most feasible thing to do so far.
9) Turn Tenebrae into an actually good story. I'll be honest I personally can't stand this story but I think the premise has a lot of potential.
10) Write that Sombra origin story that my friend and I planned out in obsessive detail back in like 2013. I want to do that just for my own satisfaction, I don't think it'll get much of a response.
I can go on, but you get the idea.
1) Get published on EqD.
Which I got, so bully for me. A hot needle jabs into my heart whenever I hear someone say, " I did that back when it used to mean something," but to hell with them. It's my victory, damn it.
2) Write a complete novel-length pony fic.
In progress, as of late last week. Expanding a narrative requires a different brainspace than distillation.
3) Have someone make fan art inspired by one of my stories.
One of the things I like most about this fandom is how self-perpetuating the creative content is, on the whole. Everything we do can inspire someone else to make something amazing. I'd like to know that I paid the inspiration forward.
4) I always kind of wanted to write a Twilestia story.
My inner DH fanboy is still going strong, what can I say? But, I'm not sure what new or interesting approach I could take on it, so it's firmly on the back burner for the foreseeable future.
1.) Finish Honey Pie III. It seemed like such a good idea at the time! It still probably will be when it's done, but it's been so stuck for the last like... four months. "I'll have seven months to write the rest once I start publishing", I said to myself. That's plenty of time, right? Ha ha ha haha. It's going to be my next story everyone thinks is dead and abandoned, but I swear I will finish it.
2.) Write another big, serious, epic. I have a few outlined and started, I think I know which one I'll probably pick once I have the time/space to do it in. Which since Spark to Light a Candle is finally done (it goes up tomorrow!) I may actually have, now. Or at least once I'm finished with June's commitments.
3.) Write more Moonlight by Starlight. Just because it's fun, and there's not enough pony space opera out there. I have three books worth of it outlined, though I don't know if I'll ever write it all. I would like to at least wrap up book one someday, though. It's in that "nobody's reading, most people don't care" category, but a few of the folks who've said they love it are people I think well of, so it may be worth doing anyway.
4.) Do this whole Ember's threesome story that I've totally written the setup for, I just need to do the rest of it.
5.) Write something involving Daybreaker. I love her visual design, and there are some interesting ideas that could be built around her other than the standard "The Nightmare Moon story, only with Celestia" that has been done five billion times already. Knowing me, I give it about 80% odds of ending up a clopfic.
6.) Do a collaboration.
Just leaving that here.
Edit: Oh, and actually finish/write more Zelda fic, but I'm kind of letting that lie until I have somewhere better to post the stuff. Fingers crossed that the genfic site happens and actually gets the kind of community that FimFic has.
4569600 EQD's status means nothing--I know I'm proud of ya either way.
4569592 I'd also like to put out my Sombra origin.
4569586 4569584 well, damn. That's mildly vexing, as these days everything is really steeped in the established lore and worldbuilding, and if you don't know how Songverse tends to work it may muck things up. hm.
4569613 Yay Spark to Light a Candle!!!! :D :D :D :D
now I'll have to binge it when the end goes up
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Oh, oh, I also want to do a collab, but the whole idea scares me. Fuzzyfurvert and I have a neat concept in mind for it though, but I don't really know what the most functional method of doing it would be?
any advice would be much preciated :>
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1.) Write clopfics. I have about nine fully-formed ideas sitting in a GDocument somewhere, five of which are threesomes and one which involves drug usage to get high.
I'm not fun at parties.
2.) Write a gift story. Long ago, I sought permission from another user on the site to write a 'what if' alternate scenario to what I consider to be their magnum opus. I held off on actually typing words for it, fearing that my then-incompetence would prevent my work from realising its full potential.
I might try it again someday, even if the author might not be around often nowadays.
3.) Two stories for Monochromatic. Both RariTwi. One which goes into meta territory, which deals with Mono's ideas and goals behind writing for her main ship and another story about a winter romance.
4.) Science Without Humanity, Magic Without Friendship. Another alternate scenario in which EQG Twilight never met the Canterlot High Rainbooms and went to Everton University, traveling to the school proper to tap into the ambient, foreign magic.
Imagine the intellectual battles between Light Yagami and L without deaths.
5.) Actually write a romance story. As someone who grew up socially awkward/ignorant, this is possibly the closest thing to a rite of passage I have as a writer.
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You had me at 'Sombra'.
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My experience with collaboration thus far may not be useful, I've always done it with somebody in the same house as me, which makes things kind of simpler. I'm not sure how best to go about it over distance.
...I mean....I was enjoying Crusader....
I know I'm one of few but fuck it, I was having fun.
4569655 ye same
CTS?
I have a handful of story fragments dating back from season 2 that I have wanted to complete, polish up, and publish
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Might be why I did not get " Now I Know In Part "...
I still liked Exit Interview though.
As far as wishlist goes, for me getting to writting again, something I've never really done outside of school, would be a very nice step to take.
Plus I've got an unfinished draft for a one shot and a plan for a multi-chapter HiE.
And Silver Glow's Journal interested me in poetry again. I should go back to that. Plus it could end up be a good way to vent the angst.
Currently I've largely left behind a lot of my ponyfic dream projects because I knew among the many things killing them, the time between inception and attempts at creation was one of them. The longer they go unmade, the harder it is to make them, and in some cases, the less meaningful they would be if published.
I've always considered writing a post detailing some of my old ideas, because a lot of them are funny in concept or interesting just to propose, like "Discord gets depowered and banished to 1770's New England and gets into shenanigans whether he wants to or not" or the ancient fic project of mine which I will probably never write.
As for more abstract goals... I've been on EQD with a story I'm proud of, been all over The Royal Guard in it's later days, I've yet to get a RCL commendation and while that would be nice it's not something I can actively control or affect, so not much point in dwelling on it.
I always wanted to be more popular, because I always wanted to have an assurance that people would listen to me. I want to talk about writing itself, and I've never felt confident people would pay attention unless I was One Of The Important People. My stint reviewing under-loved fics didn't get me much Skinnerbox feedback, reinforcing that worry of mine.
I want to do something for this fandom. I want to make it shine like I know it can. Like I've seen it do before. I want to help. I want to shine a light on those gems lost in the shuffle, to make people better writers with the knowledge my blood sweat and tears bought me, to share the strength my struggles have given me, and to celebrate what we've done on this website with the honor it deserves. So much I want to say, and I constantly come up with ideas for how to make that happen... but I'm always too tired, too poor, and too busy to really do so.
*sigh*
Anyway, yeah, I'd like for that to happen, but as I ever I doubt I could ever be that person - or if anyone would want me to be, anyway.
4569669 Clocktower Society
4569677 That one isn't really lore-heavy. What didn't you get in there? I can explain if you wish.
Songverse/Nightverse
I mainlined TNIP over a long weekend (and then ate an entire package of cookies to get over my depression). I am vaguely familiar with the basic concepts of the Songverse/Nightverse. However, I am unclear on the details, the timeline, or even which stories are included. A blog post or five would be very welcome.
Wish list? Hmmm.
Non-pony
I’d like to self publish a novel on Amazon. Just so I can show it to the world. I play with ideas all the time. I still hope to do this one.
Collaborate with a friend of mine on a non-pony story. I hope to do this some day, even if it’s just a short story.
Pony
My pony wish list is different. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get to any of these.
Collaborating with someone on FimFiction sounds like fun. Maybe someone should do a collaboration contest.
Write my Sunlight friendship fic. Set after Friendship Games, it’s a spiritual sequel to the deleted scene animatic where Sunset talks to Twi about possibly coming back to Equestria. What if Sunset did come back for a visit to Ponyville, and had to decide to stay or to go back to the world of hairless apes? A chance to show that Sunset was an awesome pony and deserved to be Celestia’s student, while maintaining that Twilight is also awesome and deserves to be the Princess of Friendship.
Novelize the The Last Days of The Kingdom of Equestria - an epic of how Twilight created the future by losing everything. Many of my stories (Awesome Is As Awesome Does, and No Pony Can Do That for example) are actually part of this world. The biggest challenge here is making Twilight look smart enough to manipulate everything, without making everypony else (including the author) look like an idiot.
Novelize Succession. It’s a slice of court life / drama of how Twilight and Cadance rule Equestria after Celestia and Luna move on. I’d like to do this to show how awesome Cadance can be when she’s not being overshadowed.
Rewrite No Pony Can Do That, my Fluttershy as uber-powerful superheroine adventure. I love the ideas, but the current execution needs work. I still think about doing this because the thought of unstoppable Fluttershy makes me giggle.
Write a sequel to Teatime. I even have notes and a title, “Courtship, The Romance of Twilight and Celestia”. Unfortunately, my current ideas a little dark for a romance fic. And I don’t want to live in darkness for the months it would take to write it.
Do a reading of Teatime and post it to YouTube. I may still do this one of these days.
Write a story and enter it into a competition. I almost did something for Mono’s Rarilight event. Maybe next time.
Being selected for EQD never did anything for me.
So, ya, lot of wishes.
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Even the concept of "What's included" is tricky.
You see, some fics are definitely in direct continuity--the original Raridash cycle was the original Songverse and are all "in". But about half of the gallery either directly references some things from those or borrows from a common store of lore in small ways--the Song itself, the Alicorns, Jannah and the West, etc.
But of course, outside of the Raridash stories... they aren't neccessarily connected to each other narratively at all. Night is under the umbrella and only narratively connected with Lily's Song, Seas of Mountains, and Sisterhood. But Redeem Us and a few others borrow heavily from its tone and universe.
It's best to think of Song/Nightverse as less a continuity and more as a bundle of alternate universe that happen to be next door.
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You should definitely write a blog post or five exploring the concepts.
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I second that idea!
Songverse? Nightverse?
No sweet clue. I just assumed you wrote with consistent themes and had a very distinct style. I mean, I know there were what seemed like references to past works in that bizarre Job story.
As for a wish list... Not really. I write as it comes to me.
4569727 Joblight took everything from the others and turned it up to 11. Mostly it's a much much less trying to be mythic sort of thing.
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Can't tell from your sentence structure if you're saying Joblight is the least or most mythic thing you've written.
4569736 it was trying to be the most.
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Hell, bits and pieces of your Songverse have escaped into some of my stories.
I'd be happy to help be your writing buddy for that word count, if you're up for it.
(And I'm too tired to come up with a proper list. Namely, it's finishing Wavelengths)
4569848 I am dying to know where and when
1) Stop shooting down every idea that comes into my head and find the passion required to actually write something.
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I've referenced Jannah a couple of times, and I'm not sure I've written it, but the song/well stuff lurks about the edges of a lot of my ideas. (There's actually a TwiLuna, sequel to Spring Tide that will probably feature it explicitly.)
1. Write a real book.
2. Write a clopfic maybe? Something sensual or flat out silly or both.
3. Write something that reminds people of the first time they watched the show.
4. Write enough that it becomes my life.
5. Write enough I spontaneously code a living being.
6. Have my living writing write so much of its own it creates a new universe.
7. Become the unseen but affectionate creator of a bookverse who brings ruin or reward at the stroke of a keyboard.
8. Subtly guide anonymous writers to greatness within the bookverse so they can continue the cycle.
9. Sit back from the screen and wake up from the dream.
10. Make an analysis channel full of biting wit that spontaneously makes Hasbro hire Faust again and create the next generation of MLP to bring back the good old days.
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Im not even sure when i started following you, would like to think it was before yoi had 1000 but no idea really.
A while ago i tried to find what stories there are in the song/night verse but couldnt really do it besides the night is passing and have you considered by servant twilight.
Maybe post a list of them in your user page? Maybe in chronological order of there is one.
My wish is to have the courage to post any kind of story on here. I'm too nervous about not finishing it due to work and other things so my ideas just stay in my head
4570052 I the words of Horace: dare to begin!
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I've seen these float about and while they are certainly, ah, better than what I believe...inspired their creation, of a sort, they always seem to still float too much into 'Powerful females ravenously hungry for the dick of a self insert or wish fulfillment' from the descriptions whenever I read them which makes me feel ech in a different way.
4570123 hm. That's odd. I've really never gotten that vibe from any CTS.
4569682 I meant it in the larger sense; as a whole, th story felt a bit opaque to me and I certainly did not like it the way people seemingly did. So I figured maybe after re-reading it a second time, still no good. So now I'm thinking maybe it was refering to your lore and that is why it did not have any real appeal to me, being only a fraction of a whole fresco...
Still, I do have two question that you may or may not want to answer:
Why did Twi react so strogly. Why did the ship call her mother at first if it's suppose to be Velvet's "spirit" (I don't remember if you made it literal or not).
4570330 short answers:because she created the physical ship, not directly, but in her conception of it.
long answer On second look, that is lore-based. The story Absolution is at the tail end of the cycle of Raridash stories,
being sort of an epilogue, I guess? The ship's AI was called Star Mother in Absolution, and it was sort of a callback.
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Admittedly my exposure is largely limited to 'Ones I see hit the feature box' which may be a more limited subset
1.) WRITE
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...you WHORE. DOES OUR SHARED SUNSET MEAN NOTHING TO YOU!?
For real I'm open to working together officially, make me less lazy. I got 500 words of a new thing more your speed, im just aping you on this one. I write too much dialog I think.
4570521 she just wants to go home
we must imagine Sunset happy
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That isnt fun and you know it.
At this point? Anything...
I've got so much stuff I'm sitting on and I can't bring myself to actually work on it. Even when I do work on it, it's like, "Oh, hey, cool, I'll work on drafting/editing this thing for a couple hours and then not do anything productive for the next two weeks!"
For real though
1 Finish my current project about a mare trying to help a filly who reminds her way too much of her childhood which is actually fully drafted, and far too long, but I can't be bothered to properly go through it properly and get it fit for publishing.
2 Draft and publish that piece of very heavy prose that I've forbid myself from describing as not to diminish it not that I can really diminish it if it doesn't exist... well aside from those two pages, but I digress...
3 Actually rewrite the one thing that I have published now that nobody should read ever, at least until I rewrite it
4 Write that one Safe Haven story I've been thinking about for literally years now.
5 Write literally everything else that I have conceptualized that I haven't done a thing with at all.