Can't Stop Won't Stop · 2:46pm Nov 22nd, 2019
Guys, I'm getting in deep here.
So, I'm having some issues continuing Guidelines. Not that I don't have more stories for it, because I do, my issue is that right now I have kind of the opposite of writer's block. I have writer's open floodgates, and the only thing pouring out is the original story I've been working on writing.
I need y'all to understand me here when I say: I haven't written like this since the beginning of Featherfall.
You know, the story where I was writing and editing ~15000 words a week?
I'm over a hundred thousand words into this story about tragic lesbians and it's really screwing with my writing schedule because I cannot figure out how to divert course into something else. I'm gonna try and finish cranking out the next chapter of Guidelines, because it's a story I really want to tell, but boy howdy this is a tough one.
With that preface being said, I'm just going to rant for a while about this story. If you read this, GREAT! If not, well, I can't say I blame you.
The story I'm writing is called 'Bare Knuckles and Butterflies'. It began life as about a chapter and a half of what would've been a Sunset/Fluttershy fic but frankly ended up being something completely different. Basically, my thought was that I wanted to write Sunset as if the events of the EQG movies had never happened, and I got a chapter and a half into it when I realised that I... I really wasn't writing MLP or EQG anymore.
Like, it was so far departed from the source material by that point that I could've been writing just about anything. Sunset's personality was a blown up expansion on the sliver of 'one-dimensional bully character du jour' we saw in the first EQG movie, while Fluttershy was barely recognisable, even to me, and I was the one writing her. I realised that if I just changed the names these wouldn't even be the same characters, and, at least for me personally, if I'm writing a character that is so OOC that changing the name almost eliminates the 'fan' element, then I might as well just write them as OC's.
The Sunset-esque character is at least recognisable, I think. I think. Honestly I can't tell, because there is such a loud headcanon version of Sunset in my head and I know for a fact that she has very little to do with the real Sunset Shimmer at this point.
Anyway, one hundred thousand words later, here I am.
If anyone's interested in hearing more about the story, let me know. In the meantime I'll be writing the next SciNata story where I find the time. Sorry for the delay because between this story, being sick, working full time, and hating my job, I've been falling way behind.
Cheers,
I-A-M
Dude! Focus on that, fics can wait! Make the most out of it!
Never apologize for the Muse taking control. That's a great thing! Don't deny it. Write them tragic lesbians!
Sick, can't wait to read it. Glad you've had such a passion for writing it.
That sounds like a very lovely story to read. I'd be interested in it, especially if it's of the quality (if not better) than Featherfall.
Ah, sorry about the being sick and hating your job.
I'm glad the writing is flowing so well, though, even if sorry it's not quite on what you'd like it to be. It does sound potentially interesting, though. :)
(Though I am wondering: is not-Sunset still an alien? Or is that too spoilery? :D)
Good luck!
Yeah, that definitely sounds worth doing. Guidelines will still be there later, but you have to strike while the iron is hot with this stuff sometimes.
Yeah am interested in hearing more
Sounds like a good problem to have.