Calm After the Storm

This story, as is stated in the comments, was a collaboration between myself and OminousBrony. We got to talking after I finished tears, discussed some possible OC’s, and decided on Storm since I didn’t have one picked out for her yet and her OC was the most fully developed. We connected via Skype, chatted it up for a day, and I went to work. Every day since we’ve discussed outlines, plot advancement, and other details

I will say this now, OminousBrony has some great ideas. He knew where he wanted to go and made things clear for me. I nodded and got to writing, inserting my own ideas here and there. He did, thankfully, give me an incredible amount of freedom with the project, so I rarely felt like I didn’t have a say in the matter. As a whole, this story is much more grounded, and more cohesive, than “Tears.” That’s not to say I don’t like my first story, quite the contrary. But as a piece of literature, “Risks” is better. I will not deny this.

When the point of giving Proud Skies a backstory, motivation, and a more active role came up, I nodded my agreement. What happened next, I can’t recall for certain. I thought I raised the point to OminousBrony, but nothing ever came of it. This is not assigning blame to him, as this was a group effort. We both failed on that point, and will learn from it. Gonna introduce a villain? Give him a reason to be evil, and the means to not drop off the face of the earth until the very end. You’d think I’d have learned this from the whole ordeal with Bangles, but I am, apparently, a slow learner. Ok, blame over.

Overall, I feel like “Risks” is definitely a step in the right direction. While I missed some of the more fantastical elements that were present in “Tears,” there were a lot more things that “Risks” did better. And as a writer, being able to see such a vast improvement in your own work is incredibly heartening. And it’s not just on account of me. Thank you all for reading, everypony! Take it away, Ominous. Cerulean, out.

OminousBrony here. I first off, I wanna thank everyone who enjoyed Risks. This was the first ever idea of mine I ever had written out, and am overjoyed that people read it and liked it. I had been nervous about many things in it, from the stuff with Scottaloo, to Storm’s lightning resistance. I see now that those were needless worries on my part.

As for the issue on Proud Skies, I never put too much thought into him to the point he turned out as disappointing as he did. I apologize for that. As the one who came up with the OC’s it was mainly my job to make them work and I failed when it came to Proud. I guess you can say I am not too proud about that.

Hope to you all continue to read and enjoy the stories Cerulean pumps out.