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#370251 Princess Gwenevere Sun, 26th May '13 8:41:48 PM from Carousel Boutique

Good to know your story is getting somewhere at least. ~~Now stop reminding me of things I want to do but never will.~~

edited 26th May '13 8:44:08 PM by PrincessGwenevere

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#370252 Steventheman Sun, 26th May '13 8:53:40 PM from Wales

Rather than be sad over wanting to do something, why not just do it?

I did that. I literally took the first idea I got and ran around with it for a while. Don't worry about quality then. You'll improve.

edited 26th May '13 8:53:58 PM by Steventheman

"I don't think he'll sexily describe your donkey kong sorry"

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#370253 Japanese Teeth Sun, 26th May '13 8:53:44 PM from Meinong's jungle

I can hammer out fanfic fairly easily, but trying to write original stuff is like pulling teeth. I know where I want the story to go, but getting over that initial hump of establishing the setting without feeling like an infodump is killing me.

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#370254 crimsonstorm 15 Sun, 26th May '13 8:53:59 PM from A parallel universe

i wouldn't necessarily call getting one chapter done "going somehwere." to be honest, this is gonna be a short fic. not disappointingly short, but not like 20 chapters long or anything. (though i have thrown in a Sequel Hook just in case plans change.)

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#370255 Morning Star 1337 Sun, 26th May '13 8:56:55 PM from the Pacific Timezone

@steven did you get my PM?

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#370256 Steventheman Sun, 26th May '13 8:58:51 PM from Wales

Yeah.

I'll reply in a second.

"I don't think he'll sexily describe your donkey kong sorry"

-kay4today

#370257 the Librarian Sun, 26th May '13 8:58:52 PM from his own little world

I know the feeling.

So I just watched the Bronies React thing for the EQG trailer. Ugh, the more I see of this the more apprehensive I get XD

That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.

#370258 Morning Star 1337 Sun, 26th May '13 9:01:15 PM from the Pacific Timezone

In contrast one of my fics may be 20-40 chapters long at least. the other may be short in comparison.

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#370259 Japanese Teeth Sun, 26th May '13 9:02:07 PM from Meinong's jungle

But how long are the chapters?

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#370260 Princess Gwenevere Sun, 26th May '13 9:02:09 PM from Carousel Boutique

Story of my life: I have a million plots and little headcanons, but I'm not comfortable enough with them to get them past the planning/ drafting stage.

Eh, I could sit here and complain, or I could get back to work. Or sleep. XD

edited 26th May '13 9:15:49 PM by PrincessGwenevere

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#370261 Irish Zombie Sun, 26th May '13 9:07:46 PM from Texas

She also has a screw-a-thing-into-a-socket thingy and a cut-long-piece-of-wood-in-two thingy.

Pinkie likes to draw her friends.

Don't worry, Keldeo. You technically don't actually have a gender. Actually, that makes it worse...

I have no hat and I must scream.

#370262 Morning Star 1337 Sun, 26th May '13 9:15:06 PM from the Pacific Timezone

@JT around a thousand words each (though a couple(Including Punishment's 1st chapter are around 2000 words.)

edited 26th May '13 9:15:56 PM by MorningStar1337

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#370263 Japanese Teeth Sun, 26th May '13 9:18:05 PM from Meinong's jungle

Yeah, see, if I wrote my story like that, it would be 150 chapters long. My chapters tend to average around 6-8, 000 words, and sometimes they go as high as 12K.

In other news, the tumblr is far enough along to start using images that I put in the queue.

edited 26th May '13 9:18:30 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#370264 Ace Of Scarabs Sun, 26th May '13 9:26:07 PM from Singapore

Enderman you are horrible

Scoots doing what we all love to do with that

The ultimate Despair therapy

edited 26th May '13 9:27:22 PM by AceOfScarabs

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#370265 storyyeller Sun, 26th May '13 9:43:56 PM from Appleloosa

Pinkie's crazy train should also have a ball pit.

In case of kite emergencies.

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#370266 crimsonstorm 15 Sun, 26th May '13 9:53:11 PM from A parallel universe

well, guys, i must bid you adieu. see you later.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

#370267 Morning Star 1337 Sun, 26th May '13 9:53:39 PM from the Pacific Timezone

@JT really? That seem like a lot of words per chapter IMO, but then again I'm just beginning to write stories again (Not that my first fics had a higher word to chapter ratio)

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#370268 storyyeller Sun, 26th May '13 9:58:05 PM from Appleloosa

Telling them to click links is going to break their immersion in the story, and if the video doesn't load for some reason (bad connection/takedown/whatever) it can completely stop the narrative flow.

It also won't work if they're reading it offline on a Kindle or something. Which actually happened to me with Crisis Equestria. Incidently, the colored text shenanigans really don't work on a monochrome screen, they just make it hard to read.

Rather than be sad over wanting to do something, why not just do it?

Because I'm too busy doing other stuff. Like programming.

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#370269 Japanese Teeth Sun, 26th May '13 10:06:46 PM from Meinong's jungle

@Morning: It really depends on the author. Compared to stuff like Fallout Equestria, my chapters are pretty brief.

It's mostly because I like cutting the story off at thematic points, so each chapter usually has something of a theme running through the scenes or something. Although I am working on another side project where all the chapters will be under 1000 words each.

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#370270 Steventheman Sun, 26th May '13 10:08:56 PM from Wales

My chapters tend to be either entire fights or conversations. Sometimes both.

"I don't think he'll sexily describe your donkey kong sorry"

-kay4today

#370271 storyyeller Sun, 26th May '13 10:11:45 PM from Appleloosa

If you're feeling brave you could ditch chapters entirely and just stick a line of asterisks through periodically or something.

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#370272 Japanese Teeth Sun, 26th May '13 10:14:38 PM from Meinong's jungle

You could, but it would be a tremendous pain to read. And if you're publishing on fimfic, it would screw up notifications unless you post the whole thing in one go. Not to mention that it would be tough for someone to keep their place. It's way easier to remember what chapter you were on rather than where in a giant block of text you were.

Anyway, I must sleep now.

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#370273 darkabomination Sun, 26th May '13 10:17:47 PM from deep within the Time Vortex

Speaking of, Harmony Theory's had another update with a whopping 22000 words.

I just could never such a large amount of writing in under a month.

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#370274 Blissey 1 Sun, 26th May '13 10:21:19 PM from a random Pokècenter

@dark: you're about 2 weeks late on that...

there was this one fic I was going to read. The first chapter seemed to be dragging on for a bit, so i went to check how long it was.

over 30k words. on the first chapter.

I never did read that story.

edited 26th May '13 10:22:30 PM by Blissey1

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#370275 the Librarian Sun, 26th May '13 10:22:12 PM from his own little world

I normally put asterisk lines whenever I switch story locations.

That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.