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So about Learning Curves
9 years ago
Scribbling nonsense all across the board like jaguars leaping from trees of leather bodices encasing aged withered corpses whose eyes dazzle with the light of one million and three silver satellites flying over Los Angeles hiding illegal immigrants from Irish potato farms built atop the golden ruins of El Dorado filled with demonic Ewoks hurling tremendous tankards of tons of Tylenol at the panda bear ninjas that hide around every corner of the magic square building trying desperately to pull up its skirt and set roots on another cubic square inch of the board upon which I am scribbling nonsense.
You know. Learning Curves. That one sequential story I was doing years ago. The first MLP story I ever did. I know you all remember and care about that.
I've been in a rut about what to do with this story for a while. Part 4 has been roughly halfway done for a while now, I've gotten myself stuck at a point where I don't know how to continue without it feeling really dumb and contrived. The overall arc of the story is set in stone, but there are a number of details I'm uncertain about, and I'm still really uncertain exactly how to go about doing the fifth part. I've ended up putting the lion's share of development into a tangential side chapter.
I have a feeling that the story is going to need to be largely rewritten from the beginning. First and foremost, Terra Juno needs to go, I shouldn't have a character like that and she only serves to muddle the narrative. The problem however is that at that point I don't know how to put the rest of the story together, the setup for Rarity being put in the situation she's in requires Terra Juno or something of similar power, of which canonical options are limited. It would have to be a completely different situation, of which I know I had other options back when I was planning out how I wanted the story to go but by now I can't remember any of them.
It would probably be better to just drop the project, lord knows I have a bunch of other things I need to work on that ought to be higher priority, but I don't feel like I can do that at this point with how much time, effort, and emotional investment (not to mention money) I've put into it. I'm open for suggestions on what can be done, I know that there are plenty of people who were interested in the story as well, and I also know there were plenty who had their criticisms, I'd be interested to hear anything that could help.
I've been in a rut about what to do with this story for a while. Part 4 has been roughly halfway done for a while now, I've gotten myself stuck at a point where I don't know how to continue without it feeling really dumb and contrived. The overall arc of the story is set in stone, but there are a number of details I'm uncertain about, and I'm still really uncertain exactly how to go about doing the fifth part. I've ended up putting the lion's share of development into a tangential side chapter.
I have a feeling that the story is going to need to be largely rewritten from the beginning. First and foremost, Terra Juno needs to go, I shouldn't have a character like that and she only serves to muddle the narrative. The problem however is that at that point I don't know how to put the rest of the story together, the setup for Rarity being put in the situation she's in requires Terra Juno or something of similar power, of which canonical options are limited. It would have to be a completely different situation, of which I know I had other options back when I was planning out how I wanted the story to go but by now I can't remember any of them.
It would probably be better to just drop the project, lord knows I have a bunch of other things I need to work on that ought to be higher priority, but I don't feel like I can do that at this point with how much time, effort, and emotional investment (not to mention money) I've put into it. I'm open for suggestions on what can be done, I know that there are plenty of people who were interested in the story as well, and I also know there were plenty who had their criticisms, I'd be interested to hear anything that could help.
TheGuy12345
~theguy12345
I sincerely hope you do decide to continue and/or revise the series, I personally think it was wonderfully written, going from sexy to emotional and back again. It was the story series that actually got me to find you, so it holds a special, marshmallow shaped place in my heart
NonUberis
~nonsequitur
OP
Aw, thanks, I really appreciate that. I just think the context of the situation needs to be revised more, the whole alternate dimension stuff that had been happening was far too extreme for what the message was supposed to be.
NonUberis
~nonsequitur
OP
The biggest challenge is how to initiate the plot without Terra Juno, how exactly to go about getting Rarity big and why it happens, the best options for cause are Twilight and Zecora.
