I'll keep that in mind. :)

I would pay so much money for that.

Go for it!

edited 10th Apr '13 8:31:53 PM by Posey

You know, it's funny.

The story I am working on actually started off as a pony fanfic. It was basically a humanized version of MLP, and I made some adjustments, but it turned out so differently that I figured I might better off writing an original fiction.

@D Roy: That horse has an awesome pompadour.

Yeah, I'd say go for it. 50ShadesOfGray, if you'll excuse an unfavourable comparison, has proven even known fanfics can be published. I've had the urge to do the same on more than one occasion.

@JT: forgive me for going slightly Pinkie Pie for a bit, but i always thought "pompadour" was a funny word.

@crimson: That's because it is.

So they'll write some of the best episodes of the entire series, then they take over and it all goes downhill?

@JT - It does, doesn't it?

@kegisak - I've been working on it for a while, actually. By now, I am pretty sure that no would possibly expect that this had anything to do with ponies. For one thing, the main cast is mixed gender, 3 guys, 3 girls, and etc.

Also, it can be pretty dark. Not grimdark, but more of Fyodor Dostoevsky dark (man, I love that guy).

edited 10th Apr '13 8:39:57 PM by dRoy

Oh, so Twilight writes that kind of fanfiction...

@Blissey: it's always the quiet ones...

So much me that it hurts. :(

Ahahaha, it's always Twi writing the Interesting fanfics :V

Friendship is Witchcraft had a whole episode about Twilight's fanfic; Rarity and Applejack get forced to play out Twilight's 70 chapters long shipfic, featuring Charity and Applesack.

Evening everypony. What's going on?

Posey's joined us from G1 :D

@Orion: we have a new visitor, and we're talking about fan fiction.

Oh, nice. Welcome to the herd.

Mm.

Applelight: To add more to the "just do something" pile, I recall a bit of advice from the blog of an amateur SF writer. He said (as best I can remember it) "The difference between writing your story and talking about your story is the difference between having a long-term romantic relationship and having a hand." In other words, talking about ideas gives you a quick high—not really as good as the feeling of properly birthing a finished story, but a hell of a lot easier to achieve. And that easiness makes it tempting to keep talking and never get around to writing.

In my own fanfiction career, I've taken that advice to heart and I only talk about unwritten portions of my stories in the vaguest of terms. For Alarm Clock, the first thing I ever said to anybody about it was, "Has someone already done a fanfic about Derpy being able to see magic and other dimensions?" The very next thing I said about my story was, "I've written two chapters; can I get some feedback?"

Furthermore, I'd like to second what Jteeth said about pinning an idea down and just writing it. You've heard about Duke Nukem Forever, right? Do you know the reason why it languished in Development Hell for 15 bucking years? Basically, the project head wouldn't settle on a specific vision for the game, just the idea that it would be the greatest FPS ever. So he was constantly getting new ideas to incorporate, long after the point where development should have been too far to make changes. Which led to a vicious cycle where other games would come out during DNF's overplanning-induced delays, then the project head would see those games and get more ideas to add, so DNF would get delayed more, and then other games would come out...

Nice to meet you too. :)

But alas, I must depart to laugh myself asleep atop my piles of money that I have accumulated over my years of being a college student.

Farewell all!

edited 10th Apr '13 8:57:33 PM by Posey

@CAG-ACE: um... hey. have you been here before?

Sombra never was one for subtlety.◊

He looks awfully feminate.

Random thought.

Is the hospital Dash was admitted in in Read and Weep a general hospital or a clinic? If it is a former, it's pretty odd that such a small place like Ponyville would have such a large institution. It seems to have a pretty small number of staff too.

edited 10th Apr '13 9:01:35 PM by dRoy

@Syd: That is pretty charming I have to admit.

Not really. The town I grew up in had a clinic, and it was 5, 000 people - the bare minimum size to be considered a town(at least in Canada). I'm not sure if Ponyville is explicitly described as anything, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me it could be around that size.

Besides, where else is there around? Are they gonna take someone all the way to Canterlot or M Anehatter in the case of an emergency? They don't seem to have much fast-travel transport...