Director's cut: A Giant Adventure to Equestria, Chapters 2 and 3

If you like my "A Giant Adventure to Equestria" story, and you're curious about anything I either edited out, or changed from what it was gonna be at first, and why, then here you go! However, before reading this, make sure you're read as much as the story as I have out as you're currently reading this, to avoid any spoilers, if you're haven't read enough of it.

Chapter one didn't really change much, outside of some minor changes and fine-tuning, so I'm starting with Chapter 2.

The "Nightmare Prevention Spell" wasn't even how I planned Eric Reed to end up in Equestria at first. When I was thinking of this story, and how it'll go, it was gonna be because some magic just leaked out of Equestria and was why he was there. But I changed how he got there to the Nightmare Prevention Spell got there, for two reasons.

First, I thought that magic leaking out of Equestria to the "real" world, was something that happens a lot in other, similar stories, was a little too easy, and I wanted to do this story differently. This is also why I thought of adding the size element to my story, to add another wrinkle to it. I wasn't sure of Eric could realistically become so afraid of Twilight as he later did in chapters 7 and 8 (Unless she became evil or otherwise truly went crazy) if he was her size or taller, even with her being so powerful, because he knows her too well. So I thought the size element would help "sell it". The part of the story where Twilight shook Eric was one of the few things that happened in the story that I thought of even before I started writing, so I made sure to write the first chapters with that in mind.

The other reason for the Nightmare Prevent Spell idea was because of the huge plot point with Starlight Glimmer feeling so guilty. This wasn't gonna be much of an element in the story, and she wasn't even going to appear till much later in the story in chapter 8 (if the length of the story stayed the same up to that point) so other than being connected to when Queen Chrysalis appeared, Starlight's role was originally going to be a lot smaller. I got the idea for the plot point with Starlight's guilt while watching the rerun of season six finale of FIM again, and saw how Starlight was beating herself up in it. I thought that part of her could perfectly fit my story, so I changed how the story would go to add that in.

On a side note, the main reason I had Rarity in chapter 2 was really more for me, then for the story itself. Because this was the first story I ever wrote, I wanted to practice writing scenes that had more than two characters, so I brought in Rarity to give myself a bit of light practice. I would need it, for when more characters were in the same scene, starting in chapter 3.

As for chapter 3, originally, after "finding" Eric, Twilight was going to carry him on her back to the castle, and something would happen to make him fall off. He would've ran into ants, or something like that, and Twilight would find and save him at the last second. However, because it'll made the chapter much longer than I planned, I scratched it. I also scratched the idea, to how it is now, to help the part of the plot about the guilt Starlight was feeling. This means that Twilight wanting to hide Eric in her mane from Starlight was also very late change, and I made it was I was still writing chapter 3.

Twilight's castle was originally going to be empty when Eric and Twilight got there, so the rest of the mane 6 and Starlight already being there, waiting, was a by-product of the change.