The Steadfast Sky 13 & 14

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Writing Luna is wierd. Very, very wierd. With Discord and Celestia, I mash out the rough draft and refine thier voices through editing. With Luna, I get her voice immidiatly in the rough, and there's very little left to edit.

I don't know if that's a good thing or not! It's certainly not a time saver, because I agonize over the draft anyway, panicking that I can't find anything to change. And things are paced all wrong and she's not that introspective, and auuuug!

LUNA!

WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?!

...

Do I panic like this for every chapter? God, I am only writing fanfiction. Light and silly fanfiction.

On another note: Yeesh, I did, yet did not realize how quick of a read these chapters are. I wanted them to be breif but... yeah, I'm glad I'm bumping up the word count per week to under 10k.

Midweek Nothings

I feel kind've guilty, I should be updating the blog more during the week, and not just have updates crammed all in the weekend. Maybe I'll come up with a new feature, or something. Like... I dunno, speed writing. Or some art. Or more Good Reads

In the meantime, here's a surrealist valentine!

Oranges!

The Death of Natural Beauty

The Death of Natural Beauty

I wrote about a month ago then shelved it immediately. Because god, this isn't in form at all.
There are exactly two ways I could make this work in my writing style. Way one: I needed to be properly invested in exploring the character. But the Fleur I had made was absolutely nasty, and I wasn't skilled enough to save her from  it. Way two: I needed to be intensely interested in the modeling world, and wanting to share what I learned about it through the story. But while I have interests in fashion... I have no interest in modeling, and that disinterest is incredibly clear in how vaguely I hint to it.

So this turned out to be is a decent story, but it lacks in detail, in verisimilitude and honesty. Its trashy and cheap, and proof that I really shouldn't write about things I don't want to get too heavily invested in. I fixed it up, and its certainly readable but... I dunno if I want to submit this to EqD. I'm certain I could manage to get it through, but it doesn't have my flair. It doesn't have anything I strive for in my writing.

I'm glad I wrote it though. Ideas always bug me until I put them on paper, and I think this was a pretty good idea. The execution though... it's just meh.

The Steadfast Sky 11 & 12

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Like I said... I think I got a grasp on how to push Discord's development in the right direction. Important direction being the ego boosting one.
As for Chapter 12... It was so easy, and so much fun to write. Yet it's one of those chapters that would have been alright from any perspective...
I'm sorry Celestia! You'll get a chapter of inner reflection next week! you're still my favorite pony, I swear!

S2 ep15: ...

Y'know, why do I even write these episode response blog posts? I really have nothing more to say than a comment or two, and...

...and I'll be right back. I have to write ALL THE FANFICTION.

So weird...

I didn't think it would be weird writing fanfiction. But it's weird. Really, really weird. Its weird investing so much time into thinking about a world and how you see it, then looking at a dozen other works that both come so close, or see it so radically different. It's weird going over the canon again and seeing where people took things, what they thought was important, and building from there.

I took dozens of notes about canon Discord, re-watching the episodes and trying to sketch a rough personality. Trying to simplify it to make an 'innocent' version. I think for the first ten chapters, I may have made him too innocent... he wasn't Discord-y yet. I thought of him as a quietly observing animal... strange and bizarre, yet intelligent and cuddly. I took too much out of the original, put too much of my own ideas in. Comparing him to some other interpretations, the Draconequus I build was almost washed out.

But I think in chapter eleven I've finally got a hold of 'my' version of Discord. Closer to the original, but different in the ways I intend him to be. I think I've really grasped who he is in Steadfast Sky, and what it eventually leads to. I don't regret the groundwork I laid, but I think it's for the best to let 'my' Discord move beyond it.

Chapters Eleven and Twelve should be up around Saturday. Been thinking of making that my schedule, two chapters every weekend. We'll see!

S2 Ep14 : The Last Roundup

This is about my reaction

This was just a great episode overall though, lots of funny stuff! Pinkie Pie going crazy is also getting a lot of attention, but I think my third favorite scene would have to be the one with the mailman at the surprise party.

But the Derpy Revelation is really all that's going to be talked about for a while, because it is a pretty big deal.