The realization that I likely made a (story related) mistake... · 10:50am Sep 23rd, 2022
Well... I'm not very happy that it happened... but as the post's title conveys, I've been thinking about it, and I've realized that I likely made a story-related mistake with one of my fics.
Namely, with the idea of making the revamp of the first Equestria Girls movie that is part of Chapters of a Revamped Tome.
I say this because for one, even looking at it now, I can’t help but feel it grew big enough for the kind of independent stories that I said I would end up making some time ago. For another... the revamped sections will perhaps some across as unduly uneven when all is said and done. Uneven in the sense that while the next one will also be in the beginning of the film, the other one will be more to the middle, and the final two will be by the ending.
My initial idea on this front was that there was no section of the movie that needed revamping other than sorting out some timeline-related things, make Twilight’s stay in the human world more realistic, a few matters related to Sunset Shimmer, and (this one purely on the matter of personal taste) give the Flashlight ship a better starting point and fully establish which Flash Sentry Twilight has feelings for. Anything else would border into novelizing the movie.
I will say, I still don’t think I'm entirely wrong... but still, looking at the (realized or forecast) result, I can’t help but feel it will be a bit uneven.
For this particular story, I think I'll be just owning up to my mistake and seeing it through to the end... but this definitely taught me to consider these things more ahead of time.
On this front, I’ll say that as far as the Equestria Girls side is concerned, I already know that the revamps of Friendship Games, Forgotten Friendship and Spring Breakdown will be independent stories... but it still doesn’t undo the mistakes I made now.
Hopefully I'll know to make less mistakes in the future.
We all make mistakes like this. Lord knows that I've made a few of my own. Still, realizing them is always a strength, especially if you can learn from them.
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Thank you for the support. :)
I do wish I hadn't made this mistake, but... I guess it ultimately falls into the 'living and learning' category, as you conveyed.
I confess I did consider deleting the chapters and write it as an independent story, or to edit the story's title and summary so that I could then rework the chapters, but I feel it not only it could be perceived as messy, but would also force readers to re-read the whole story, not to mention it may be against site regulations to edit stories in this kind of manner. And on some level, I do still feel that the first Equestria Girls movie has enough sections that would border into novelizing the film if I incorporated them into its revamp.
Though granted, there are later bits of content I plan to adapt for my AU that will also have this issue, albeit to a lesser degree. It's part of why I'm not yet sure if I'll revamp Rainbow Rocks as an independent story or not, because as it stands, even if I make all the significant changes I think I'll make, it may not justify a full-movie revamp either.
Either way, it's a decision I'll try my best to consider more carefully than I did for this one.
Again, thank you for the support. :)