That sounds pretty cool.

In other news, I've writted two scenes for an upcomming fanfic and have no clue what order they should be in.

I got a request on deviantArt.

In other news, I've writted two scenes for an upcomming fanfic and have no clue what order they should be in.

You could always try A/B testing.

edited 14th Aug '13 1:25:11 PM by storyyeller

@Sereg: Is there any reason they shouldn't just go in chronological order?

That's what I currently have it as. That would make the first scene a sort of prologue.

The other option is to have it as one of the flashbacks.

Most of the fic takes place mid-season 3 (soon after Keep Calm and Flutter on)

This scene takes place during Dragon Quest (it's the aftermath of Shiny and Cadance announcing their engagement to Celestia.)

Most of the rest of the flashback take place about one and a half thousand years ago at the end of Discord's first reign or about three hundred thousand years ago, when Discord was still a hatchling.

Anachronic order can be fun if done right.

Hey I wrote a whole novel in Anachronistic Order. I just think you should stick with chronological order unless there's a good reason to do otherwise.

But that sounds like a small enough scene to serve as a flashback. Go with whichever one is more interesting to start with. If the reader isn't hooked, they'll never get to the fun stuff.

The thing is, the scenes look like they have like nothing in common.

The one is Celestia giving Shining and Cadance a talking to about what it means for an alicorn to marry an ordinary pony and the other is undead ponies deciding to escape the moon.

EDIT:Makes sense to me. That's basically the principle I follow. The question is ... are they going to prefer starting with Cadance and ... Most people are going to want to get to the undead moon ponies, aren't they?

edited 14th Aug '13 2:04:26 PM by Sereg

Lol yeah, I think undead ponies escaping to the moon is much more interesting starting point. It sounds like a prologue already: an inherently confusing yet intriguing premise that promises to be connected to the actual plot somehow later. Then you can transition into the talk with the 3 royals to establish all their characters and such.

Escaping from the moon actually. They're the four stars. And the other four original element bearers.

Goodnight folks.

Dangit, I'm never on the same time as Applelight any more because of work. Oh well.

Also, thanks to everybody who commented on that original fiction thing I left here yesterday. I already got a few interesting ideas that I could work into the setting.

Also, I'm the same way with the ordering thing; Anachronic Order can be used well, but I don't think it should be unless it enhances the story in some way. I've seen a lot of cases where people just reordered things for the sake of being complicated and it just ended up making it harder to read rather than enhancing the events.

I've thought of an idea, though I'm not sure if it would be funny or stupid. Taking cues from Sweetiebot, I've thought of recording various screen reader voices for different characters reading the transcripts of the episodes for comedy. For instance, giving Spike a deep manly voice and Pinkie a hyperactive high-pitched one.

Ugh! I know what you mean! I recently read The Algebraist and while I enjoyed it, the ordering was weird. And that includes the order in which things were described.

EDIT:Okay. I'm not sure whether this is a good idea or not, but it sounds like it might be.

edited 14th Aug '13 2:45:09 PM by Sereg

@Dark: That actually has potential if you use interesting voices. You could also incorporate Gizoogle for extra lulz. I Gizoogled a few episode transcripts and the result was amazing.

Case in point, here's the gizoogled version of the opening narration from the pilot:

edited 14th Aug '13 2:47:43 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Did you mean to say Anachronic or were you making a pun or something?

Yeah, I did that too. I could do some interesting things using Google Translate to get Word Salad phrases and other tricks. Coupled with some out-of-place voices, it could make an interesting Gag Dub.

I was wondering why it was a red link. No that was unintentional, probably on account of my being up til 4:30 a.m. last night (JT inspired me to work on my own eventual Big Epic Fantasy World (TM)).

edited 14th Aug '13 2:54:55 PM by Bluespade

Whoohoo I did something useful!

But seriously, you were really helpful. I'll let you know when I get some more done.

Twilight doesn't know how to computer

Either that or the upload site just borked.

been there. :|

Hey guys I have returned after a gruelling day in Edinburgh and I gotta say, I'm gonna be very sad that I'll be leaving Scotland because tomorrow is gonna be the last night I spend in my wooden villa before I have to go back to the UK and I don't wanna leave! Anyways I'm gonna go over with what I did today, I saw some indoor taiko drumming though it was more for my sister I enjoyed it. With energetic and pretty good all round. Then my father wanted to go to Yacht Brittana which was pretty much a tour around a ship, which I had to carry this 80s telephone esque audio guide because the ship was peppered with signs that told you when to listen to the audio and you had to punch in digit numbers whenever you came across a sign involving a part of the ship.

And as you can imagine it was pretty BORING! Most of the time I didn't pay attention to the audio guide or the ship itself and I had to muck around with a bronze statue of a sailor that was there and had to amuse myself with me sticking my finger up it's nose, I know it's juvenile but come on if that was you and you had to carry around a big plastic telephone of an audio guide around a ship that ya didn't care about and was bored to death of it, then you'd do the same. Plus I kept on getting thoughts about Rainbow Dash when I was about to go there because I saw more plushies of Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle at another Build-a-Bear.

I'm really getting a pattern here and it's quite irrating to say the least! Anyways I tried to block out thoughts of Rainbow Dash while I tried to concentrate on what to get a friend of mine but it was damn impossible....don't ask me why I was thinking about Rainbow Dash, just don't ask!

So out of the whole yacht trip I decided to spend the £10 that I got from my grandma at HMV and got The Goonies, I'll see it when I get home.

Watched a stand up comic for tonight, pretty hilarious stuff and that's it really.

edited 14th Aug '13 3:54:30 PM by Starscream759

It's amusing at very but it quickly becomes repetitive and dumb IMO.

Scotland is part of the UK.

Britain! I mean Britain! Damn my stupid typos!