A Look Behind the Scenes · 4:47pm Sep 2nd, 2018
Here's a special behind-the-scenes look at my writing process! This episode, we're covering the latest chapter of How two Worthless Genetic Freaks Founded a Nation.
When I have an idea for a story, or even just a new chapter or scene, I'll jot down a few notes to help me remember my ideas when I come back to it later. This can range from a rough, grammar-less and punctuation-less version of dialogue to just a loose bullet-point list of concepts and ideas peppered with jokes or scenes that I want to include. The following is my unedited notes for the chapter that just was released, From Whom the Bell Stole.
Early knights
go with team to investigate mysterious power surge around tambelon ruins
- from one earth pony recordscel and Lu split off on own
find bell
"It's just like the one I had when I was little. Except it isn't all rusted over"
"And it doesn't have a jagged hole in the side."find fancy weapon on pillar
put down bell to pick it up
accidentally cut selfresurrected, swirling magic bones and fabric
does i have returned speech
sees pair, thinks them sacrificesfunny stuff here
figure out his soul fragment became stored in the bell instead of the weapon
sisters have fun summoning and storing him midsentence
-he maintains momentum and pose between summonsitems drop when desummoned
luna calls dibs
get "Mantle of Dreams"other knights see secretly, misinterpret to much shock and awe
"funny stuff here" has to make up, like, 40% of your notes.
Lol, I love that story!