Tales from the Archive · 3:24pm Dec 1st, 2018
What's up, anyone that still follows me. I was digging through my google docs recently to clean some stuff out, and I stumbled upon a bunch of old working documents. Since my writing days (for MLP at least) are pretty much behind me, I figured I'd make them available for anyone who cares enough to look at my outlines and writing process. I'll just post them as I come across them!
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The Beasts of Tartartus Outline
This was originally part of my "Ponyvengers" idea, a sort of multi-author collab which would culminate in a big Avengers style clash with all the characters. That whole thing turned out to be too ambitious, but I managed to get an outline (and a few chapters) of this entire fic. It involved Fluttershy basically being the Ghost Rider. That's probably all you need to know.
A Filthy Pastime Intro
A long time ago I was in a Skype server with a bunch of NSFW content creators, and I some point I had the silly idea of "hey, name a character and fetish and I'll write a story about it." This one happened to be Filthy Rich and Cucking. Seriously. It never got close to the NSFW bits, because writing is hard.
Crossover Explanation?
I'm pretty sure this is something I talked about at a writing panel during one of the earlier Bronycons. The basics of crossovers and how to deal with them. Something like that.
Equestrian Hearts Chapter 1
Speaking of crossovers, this was where I attempted to do a Kingdom Hearts crossover which ended up fizzling out after the first chapter. The second chapter is over on Alex's Scrapbook... but not this one, for some reason. Why am I like this?
The Rise of Iron Mare Outline/Conversation
This one is neat, as it contains the outline I had along with a bit of storybuilding conversation with the lovely Midnight Shadow (is middy still around at all?). Iron Mare suffered from sticking to the original Iron Man plot too much, and once people started to voice their concerns over that I didn't really know how to write myself out of it and do a unique take on the story. As said before: writing is hard.
Equestrian Hearts Discussion Doc
Another discussion type doc, where I pasted some conversations I had with a certain Daffodil and the great Pen Stroke himself! Also I just noticed the last edit to this was in 2012 god I'm old.
Legacy of the Sun Outline
My first crack at NaPoWriMo, which I'm pretty sure I failed. I think I only got like 30,000 words in, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, this was the entire story outline I had, down to the very end. I can outline the hell out of something, but actually writing it... that's a different story. I have no idea if Celestia and Luna had proper origin stories in the show, but back when I was writing this there sure as heck wasn't. 'Twas my take on it.
Some Weird Fic I Was Collabing With Nines Tempest and Daffodil On
Looking back on it, what little we have here makes absolutely no sense to anyone but us, and I'm starting to question even that part. Back in the day I think I did... Pathfinder or something over IRC with Daffodil and Nines, and we wanted to do a fic with our characters in it. Thus was bjorn this catastrophe we have here. In a way, it's beautiful.
Ponies and Cage Outline
Easily the crown jewel of my collection, here's my semi-outline and ideas for my would be epic of Nicolas Cage traveling the world to save Equestria. Only one chapter outline is there, but you can see my other plans down the line. I also have a strong suspicion Blueshift assisted with that first chapter, or possibly wrote the idea entirely. I don't know if it's because I'm tired right now or what, but I read "Giggle at the Ghost Rider" and started laughing my ass off.
Rain of a Thousand Flames Overview
Because I'm an absolute hack with no original ideas, this was yet another story based on something else. Mainly the album "Rain of a Thousand Flames" by Rhapsody. It starred Starswirl and Clover doing fantasy things.
Cyan and Steel Outline
Remember that time I tried to write a RainbowSparkle shipfic? Yeah me neither. At least the outline was there, because that's all I did. OUTLINES.
Sethixie Fic Outline
That's Seth as in "Sethisto" and ixie as in "Trixie." I don't know what was wrong with me, but at some point I thought it was okay to plan and outline a clopfic between the two of them. Not only that, but it was genderbend fic because I'm just apparently a fucked up person. I'm kinda glad this stayed an outline. For once.
Storm Chaser Character Outline
Once upon a time I applied to be a quest writer/NPC creator for Legends of Equestria, and for some reason they accepted me. At some point I was tasked with creating a character for Cloudsdale and a quest, so Storm Chaser is who I came up with.
Nonsense Idea Doc for that Weird Collab Fic
Remember that nonsense fic I was doing with Daffodil and Nines? Yeah, this was our "design" document for it. I legitimately don't even remember whose color is whose. It's just full of random things we wanted to include, along with choice quotes from various Nicolas Cage fics to sprinkle in. You could say it's a real National Treasure.
The SUPER COLLAB
At some point I had the incredible idea of getting like 50 writers or something together to write a giant fic, 250 words at a time, but due to organization issues it was eventually put on indefinite hiatus. At this point I have no idea who even wrote which parts of this.
The White Archer Chapter 1(?)
I believe this was an in-progress chapter to a story I had in works called The White Archer. It was an AU story where instead of Luna being banished to the moon by the Elements of Harmony, she turns into a... crossbow. And then Celestia wields her and travels the lands of Equestria for some reason. I don't remember where I was going with this but I do know it sounded REALLY COOL in my head.
Edit: Just found out this was inspired by the song World of Stone. Imagine if I wrote even half the stories that were based on music.
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That looks to be the end of all my unfinished business lurking around in Google Drive. Hopefully you'll enjoy poring through it a bit and seeing what could have been and what was better staying as an idea.
Also, side note, if you're someone who's in a conversation or part of document here that you don't wish to be posted, let me know and I'll remove it! Don't want to cross any lines here.
Anyways, that's all from me! Maybe I'll randomly pop back up in the future for a random reason.
Why must you withhold this magnificence from us.
Hi! "Sethixie"
Alextrazsa makes a post and Magical Mystery Oops updates on the same day? I feel like I'm in an alternate universe.
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We were so proud of how ridiculous that chapter title was.