Trading Chapters · 2:53pm Aug 22nd, 2014
After a small discussion between me and Wing Dancer, we decided that it would be a fun exercise to write one chapter of each other's stories. I wrote a chapter for My Little Changeling - "I" is Magic, and he wrote a chapter for Little Butterfly.
It was quite fun actually, as we both got different perspectives of our stories and their potential. We even got a few ideas out of them that can help our stories when we go to write the official chapters. Of course, with the limited time we had, we each produced a chapter of only 1,600-ish words, but the ideas that we got from them were worth it.
So what now? Well, I suspect that we just go about our business and continue writing our stories, but now with a fresh look at what we can do with them. I am looking at the chapter he wrote, and was thinking that maybe it could become the official chapter of Little Butterfly, but at the same time, I realized that it would require a great deal of story development to redirected it to where I was hoping to take it. I want the story to conform to and explain the story we know today, and so for that to happen with the chapter that is written, there will most certainly be very sad events in Fluttershy's future (as if there aren't enough already). But the spark of creativity and the ideas that came from this chapter have helped me to see outside the box of what I was planning, and be willing to consider strange possibilities that would make the story much more interesting.
So on the next chapter of Little Butterfly, I now have no idea what I'm going to write, but I'll make sure it's worth the inevitable wait.
And many thanks to Wing Dancer for his adventurer spirit! His writing is fantastic, I encourage you all to read his stuff, especially My Little Changeling.
Anyway, that is all for now.
Tortillas and cheese,
PiercingSight
It was really fun to write for Little Butterfly as well
Well now I feel left out.
2397504
It was sort of a spur of the moment thing, sorry.
I wouldn't dare attempt trading chapters with you, though. I would be awful at writing for your stories. Only you have your fantastic comedic taste.
2397715
It's fine dude, I was just screwing with you anyway. You shouldn't diss yourself like that, I would enjoy reading whatever you wrote, even if you felt you weren't up for it.
2397773
>You shouldn't diss yourself like that.
"The first step to improving is admitting you have a problem"... I forget the rest.
2397814
Very true! But one should have the attitude of "I gonna get better!" not "I'm not good enough yet."
...Which is completely hypocritical of me BUT STILL.
2397916
Lol, true, true. I'm just messing with you too. ;)
I've got a comedic piece in the works right now ;P
2397987
Nice! Good luck!