Prologue Revision, and Other Stuff. · 7:21pm Dec 4th, 2012
Hello everyone! Not much to see here. Just a few notices regarding the story.
Firstly, as the title of the blog post suggests, the prologue will be revised some time before or after the release of chapter 2. The style is too basic, and I'd like the story to be written in sort of a Tolkien-esque style, as I've said before.
Also work on the next chapter has begun, and it is glorious. We are reaching the meat of the story soon.
Now, against the advice of my readers, I submitted the story to EQD, mainly to see what criticism the pre-readers would have (I had a feeling the story wouldn't be accepted).
The main criticism I received was the fact that the descriptions were too long, and there were awkwardly-structured sentences that seemed to drag on in chapter 1. Now, that gives me a bit of a problem, because I'm intentionally writing like that. My point is to somewhat mimic Tolkien's style to give the story a sort of unique feel. As a result I may not submit this story to EQD again.
Any thoughts on this? I'm not mad since being rejected was my intention, but what are your thoughts?
Thanks,
~Ascension
If they don't accept it, so be it. Tolkien would be rejected by the pre-readers of EqD if they thought it was poorly formatted or too long winded during descriptions. Can't fault them, they're just doin their jobs.
My thoughts? Even though you are writing from inspiration from Tolkien, well that doesn't mean it has to be his style at all. This is you're style and who cares if the descriptions are long, it paints a picture. I understand listening to you're fans since I am one too but c'mon, a bunch of complainers actually asking for a story to be shorter? Sounds dumb to me, so please just write at your own pace and your OWN style.
Like I say to all of this when they reject good stories:
Their loss.
Well I like the way it's written, and the writing style is 25% of the reason I'm following it. Then there's 25% generally good writing (pacing, vocabulary, grammar and so forth) and 50% freaking Gandalf in Equestria
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And a 100% chance of Twilight Sparkle flipping the freak out.
The main thing to note about EqD is that the submission process is not a 2 trick pony with submission and response as the only dance steps. There is an open line of communication and if you have a concern regarding any feedback, such as writing style, you can reply with these concerns to open a discourse. You also have the review threads and prereader thread on ponychan as well to assist in your endeavors.
Keep your style, EqDs critics don't really know what they're talking about in my opinion.
Besides, if it has Tolkien, it needs to be little like Tolkien
You're doing good.
EQD Fic reception is hit or miss based on who ends up reviewing your story. Wait till you get down the road and have five or so chapters under your belt and a few thousand more story views.
You had me at 'Hello'
You should wait until your story has progressed more. Even if it is a very good fanfic (and it is
), with only two chapters it was likely to get rejected the first time. Just wait a little more 
.
I say, change your way of writing and re-write all chapters
Intentionally mimicking a well known author can have some varied results. If the pre-readers have never heard of the author, don't like the author or don't like the style, then the problem might not be based on content or other such related things. It might instead be based on personal preference or preferred styles of the pre-readers. Either way, you shouldn't give up on it. Perhaps a second read through might convince them. Maybe even a third. Just don't give up on it.
Sincerely,
Chessman
Also, (because the idiots at EQD are not worthy of a real comment) how major are the rewrites of the prologue going to be? Is it just going to be a style tweak, or are you going to be changing the substance of it in any way?
This is your story. The moment you have others write it for you... Well, let's just say it'd be a repeat of "Art of the Dress."
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Just a style tweak really. None of the story content will be changed.
589896 Ok, I won't bother going back to reread it then.