Thanks guys, that actually kind of helps.

You could also get people to check it for any errors before submitting. You'll probably want people to proofread it and give feedback anyway.

Yeah, you could be really witty about your descriptions.

edited 11th Mar '13 10:16:27 PM by edvedd

Speaking as a writer, you always want as many proofreaders as possible. If you ever do decide to write anything, I could probably take a look at it, providing I'm not too busy.

And now I need to get to sleep. Goodnight everybody.

Well, I've got a lot of time on my hands. So perhaps. I'm just afraid of the rejection.

I really don't think every plot and setting has been done before. Sure, there's a ridiculous volume of fanfic, but 80 – 90% of it is terrible (thank you, Sturgeon) and huge quantities of them are variations on popular themes. So there's no guarantee that any plot you come up with has been done before... and even if it has been done before, it's probably executed much differently than how you would do it.

For example, I'm writing a fanfic whose premise boils down to "Derpy sees stuff that nopony else can see, and secretly uses that knowledge to save Ponyville from eldritch horrors." After publishing the first few chapters, I discovered that at least two other fics had already used that premise. But one of them was a one-shot and had a much more cynical tone than my story—and the other fic was a Magic: The Gathering crossover (and aside from that, leaned on popular fanon more heavily than my fic does).

Or heck, look at A Delicate Balance. It's a Twilight/Applejack shipping fic—that may not be the most popular pairing in this fandom, but it's hardly unexplored territory. But Jteeth's execution of the idea (keeping everypony in-character, portraying the less-pleasant aspects of a relationship) makes the story stand out anyway.

As for describing how stuff looks, I'm not sure that's truly necessary. Good writing should appeal to all the senses (and the written word lets us get into character's heads better than other media do) but most writers lean too hard on the visuals, if you ask me. So if your visual descriptions are somewhat sparse, you can make up with it through your descriptions of the other senses.

Hmm, from what little I've shown to friends, I do get comments on use of the other senses quite a bit.

It does make one wonder. Ponyville would be an interesting place to smell. Strong scents of nature and growing things. Probably sharp with horse musk and hay, but having an organized cleanness under it all. Not to mention pollution would be all but nonexistant. Also the possibilities of feeling things with wings, hooves, and unicorn magic as an extension of the body.

You know, I could bring a unique perspective if nothing else.

And horses would have a better sense of smell than humans would...

I'm grabbing some books on Equine anatomy and books on legends on unicorns and pegasi just to see if there's anything I can add. If I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right.

"Welcome to Ponyville. It stinks!"

I wonder if we'd smell like predators to them :V

In before "Sweetie does poetry" fanvid.

edited 11th Mar '13 11:17:31 PM by AceOfScarabs

Probably, the meat on our breath would at least be disconcerting. Pinkie's song about sharing and caring could take a disturbing twist if ponies considered meat-eating creatures unintelligent.

I would stand up in the town square and shout: "I AM YOUR NEW GOD."

Before using a magnifying glass to light a cigar, and saying that I am so powerful, I am the true owner of the celestial bodies.

It would be a good life.

@ dark: Like bears?

edited 11th Mar '13 11:26:15 PM by edvedd

Gryphons are carnivorous too :V

O hey I haven't seen this in a while.

Twi loves pickles?

Rarity baking

edited 12th Mar '13 12:20:07 AM by AceOfScarabs

http://derpibooru.org/268450 http://www.derpibooru.org/268587

I'm only surprised this didn't happen sooner and more often.

"Satan arrived on Pony" :D

Looks like Derpibooru will be down for a while.

They've been glitchy as hell lately. Hopefully this will help.

They've been using a lot of disk space on images.

That would be a given, considering they're an image hosting site.

I mean enough to cause severe performance woes especially when rendering/rerendering.

Maybe they should add some SSDs for faster caching.

Borrowing her sister's hat

CMC :3

edited 12th Mar '13 3:55:57 AM by AceOfScarabs

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So, darkabomination, an interesting idea would be what your pony would think of a Gotland.

(For those of you who aren't Swedish; a Gotland Russ is a sort of horse that's actually a pony that's actually a horse that's actually a pony that's actually a horse that's actually a pony. It rather resembles the Tarpan, the common ancestor of both Horses and Ponies).

I wonder whether a Gotland smells like a pony or a horse.

edited 12th Mar '13 6:44:03 AM by ATC

So, is it a horse or a pony or what. I am confuse

edited 12th Mar '13 6:49:05 AM by edvedd

is there a difference?

Yeah, horses are much bigger and a lot more of jerks.

edited 12th Mar '13 6:53:47 AM by AceOfScarabs