History Trivia / SpectacularSeven

* CreatorBacklash: Albinocorn admitted that Volume I ended up far darker than he intended, necessitating [[AuthorsSavingThrow a few changes to the second volume]] to keep the story from being too depressing. When Volume IV was announced to have a darker tone than the rest of the story in 2020, Albinocorn said it wouldn't be as dark as Volume I to avoid this sort of reaction again.
* CreatorsFavorite: Albinocorn has said in his postscripts that "The Letter" -- Volume III, Chapter 14 -- was his favorite chapter to write.

* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/SpectacularSeven Word Of God]]

* [[WordOfGod/SpectacularSeven Word Of God]]

* LongRunners: First released in September 2016, and still going. At the end of Volume III, with the story reaching over four hundred thousand words and more than four years of publication, the story has two more volumes left to go.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The post-scripts after each volume reveal a lot of changes that were made during the writing process.
** The role of the dark benefactor of Moondancer's family was originally intended to be a different CanonCharacterAllAlong in King Sombra, but this was changed after seeing a different canon character had a better motivation to antagonize the Spectacular Seven.
** Spring break, Moondancer's FaceHeelTurn and prom night were all originally going to happen in Volume I, but were pushed forward to Volume II. Prom night was, at one point, supposed to be where Sunset broke the spell she'd been placed under by the Elements of Harmony in ''Long Road to Friendship''.
** Moondancer was originally going to be part of the curse breaking in ''Long Road to Friendship''. Also, Moondancer was even more selfish and petty in the first drafts of the story, but it got scaled back.
** Sunset was originally going to be able to transform into her demon form at will and have full control over it. After the release of ''Friendship Games'' and the "My Past is Not Today" music video, this was changed.
** Lamia's introduction was set for Volume II, but got pushed up to Volume I.
** The Sirens were going to come back in Volume II, but the author felt the plot was getting too crowded to add them. [[spoiler: So their reappearance was pushed back to Volume III instead.]]
** Someone was going to be KilledOffForReal in Volume II, but they ended up spared.
** Sunset's breakdown in Volume III was suggested to be removed by the editor, but the author disagreed and kept it in. Albinocorn said it was one of the few times he ultimately disagreed with his editors.
** It took more than three months to write the chapter where Rainbow goes on a TwoTimerDate with Fluttershy and Soarin, because the author wanted to avoid UnfortunateImplications or queerbaiting.
** The final battle of Volume III was originally going to take place in the same hotel where Shining Armor and Cadence had their wedding, but that created so many {{Plot Hole}}s that the location of the fight was moved elsewhere.
** Sunset was going to give Lamia the Twilight plushie that Sunset used to have conversations with herself, but this ultimately didn't happen.
** Volume III was originally going to contain some introspection from Twilight about how she's biased in Sunset's favor, because she never saw the AlphaBitch attitude that Sunset previously had, with Twilight wondering if she would still look at Sunset the same way if she had known. However, the author said he couldn't find a good place for it in Volume III, and once the volume was over, felt that it was too late to address it in the story.
** Albinocorn toyed with the idea of having Adagio and Aria be redeemed while Sonata remained evil. He ultimately dropped the idea as he couldn't find a good plot justification for it. He also admitted that it would be contrarian simply for the sake of being contrarian.

* CreatorBacklash: Albinocorn admitted that Volume I ended up far darker than he intended, necessitating [[AuthorsSavingThrow a few changes to the second volume]] to keep the story from being too depressing.

* CreatorBacklash: The author admitted that Volume I ended up far darker than he intended, necessitating [[AuthorsSavingThrow a few changes to the second volume]] to keep the story from being too depressing.

** Albinocorn toyed with the idea of having Adagio and Aria be redeemed while Sonata remained evil. He ultimately dropped the idea as he couldn't find a good plot justification for it. He also admitted that [[ShockingSwerve it would be contrarian simply for the sake of being contrarian]].

** Albinocorn toyed with the idea of having Adagio and Aria be redeemed while Sonata remained evil. He ultimately dropped the idea as he couldn't find a good plot justification for it and that it would be contrarian simply for the sake of being contrarian.

* LongRunners: First released in September 2016, and still going. At the end of Volume III, with the story reaching over four hundred thousand words, the story has two more volumes left to go.

** Albinocorn toyed with the idea of having Adagio and Aria be redeemed while Sonata remained evil. He ultimately dropped the idea as he couldn't find a good plot justification for it and that is would be contrarian simply for the sake of being contrarian.

** Albinocorn toyed with the idea of having Adagio and Aria be redeemed while Sonata remained evil. He ultimately dropped the idea as he couldn't find a good plot justification for it and that is would simply be contrarian simply for the sake of being contrarian.

** Volume III was originally going to contain some introspection from Twilight about how she's biased in Sunset's favor, because she never saw the AlphaBitch attitude that Sunset previously had, with Twilight wondering if she would still look at Sunset the same way if she had known. However, the author said he couldn't find a good place for it in Volume III, and once the volume was over, felt that it was too late to address it in the story.

* LongRunners: First released in September 2016, and still going. At the end of Volume II, with the story reaching over a quarter-million words, the author said the story was "almost halfway done." Three more volumes are planned.

** Someone was going to be KilledOffForReal in Volume II, but they ended up spared.

** The Sirens were going to come back in Volume II, but the author felt the plot was getting too crowded to add them.

* LongRunners: First released in September 2016, and still going. At the end of Volume II, with the story reaching over a quarter-million words, the author said the story was "almost halfway done." Three more volumes are planned.

* LongRunners: First released in September 2016, and still going. At the end of Volume II, with the story reaching over a quarter-million words, the author said the story was "almost halfway done."