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    Hello Again :)

    To anyone who is still here, first of all, I love you. You're a fucking trooper. If I may be so bold, I'd like to update you on where I've been and what I'm doing now! It's been a while, but Lynk is back baby. First of all, what I'm doing:

    My website, Lynk Writes.
    My Wattpad.

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    Yeah, me too... sorry about that.

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Jan
5th
2013

Lynked gives a useless spiel about writing. · 8:03pm Jan 5th, 2013

And she's not that great at it, either. But I felt that I might as well. My holiday break is almost up, and I'm about to be put into the institution yet again (school, because my brain still functions on relatively normal levels). I figured that, that combined with the fact that it's been almost a year, I'd go ahead and do this for the new year. As you can tell, I'm late. But who cares? Oh. You do? Umm...

Ahem. So, it was about a year ago that I joined this place. It was different, mainly because the feature box still existed, stories had a chance to be seen without being buried, Poultron hadn't picked up his banhammer yet, and Regidar wasn't found on every story posted. Ever. I found this place and thought, "Well, I guess I can do this, too." I'd been watching the show for a while now; to realize that it could be expanded on like this blew my mind. So, I wrote this hurried little thing in a day, called Lyra's Lesson. It did well, surprisingly, and the comments tasted like honey, if you could eat text from a computer screen (working on it). It was about Lyra and Trixie basically being hobos and doing hobo things. It wasn't great, but it was my first pony fiction ever. Then of course I wrote Moonlight Sonata, which people really took to, and so on and so forth, with my Magnum Opus being All the Stars in the Sky, I think. ^^

Well, somewhere in the interval of "crappy hobo fic" to "contest-winning romance", I almost quit writing altogether. I really did, I felt sick and sore of it. I was reading things like Allegrezza, After That Fateful Night, and then Eternal, and more of these huge, 1000+ likes, 500+ comments stories that are fantastically written, and I actually did feel bitter with jealousy. Don't get me wrong--we're pony fiction writers. Nothing we do here is going to solve world hunger, but it is still good to look up to people. I got jealous though, heh. Yep, and it wasn't good for me, either, because I began to compare my works to them, and go, "Wow, I just can't write that." Started really getting down because, well, my ability to write is, as a friend put it, "My excuse for existing." Well put, too, because I feel less like a useless sack of [potatoes].

Along the way of landing myself on Taste the Rainbow, All the Stars in the Sky, and Learning to Play the Lyra, I was hit in the head with a boot. A big one, too. We're talking steel-toe, 1899 diving suit boot. I realized a few things, so lets start of with this one: not all stories are amazingly liked, and yet, I'll still look up to them. There is a story by Ottermatt called Somepony Else's Story. Yes, it has almost 300 likes, but it's not this big, popular fiasco like Background Pony is. I'll be damned, though, if it's not one of my favorites. I really enjoyed that thing.

So that told me a little something. Then, I realized that I shouldn't care about how many people enjoyed my stories, just that they do. I came into this fandom with that attitude, you know. I lost it somewhere, but hey, I found it again after doing a little, ahem, plunging. And I think it's pretty cool what happened. There's a guy I'm giving a shoutout to. A Brony Life 42, who found me somewhere in the bowels of one of the fics I had deemed crap. He asked me to take a look at the first story of his, and it was... interesting. But you know, now he's written things like Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Vinyl's Inner Fire. It's pretty interesting, I think, to watch how he went from that first story of his to almost having as many watchers as me. And, he's just an awesome guy. So he showed me something; it doesn't matter if people don't like what you write, because someone out there does, even if that someone is you, the writer. In other words, write for yourself, the world be damned. They'll come if you let them. I owe this guy a thanks, and I don't even know him in real life. So thanks, man.

Then, I owe someone called TinyHadronCollider a thanks, because he slapped me around a bit, and he also is a great editor, by the way.

So, before I get sidetracked, I also wanted to thank you guys/girls/changelings for sticking with me, because that's pretty cool. There's almost 400 of you all, individually, and you guys make it worth writing, knowing that someone is at least interested in what I'm doing. It makes me feel like I'm shouting with the wind for once. And damn, it feels pretty cool.

And yes, as I said, this is pony fiction. Did I--will I ever write the next Lord of the Rings? Mmm... no. Will I write pony fictions and short stories for my pleasure, and hopefully someone else's? Absolutely, and that's all I think I need. Just my keyboard, my word processor, some motivation and some friends, and I think I'm good to go.

All in all, I just wanted to thank you guys for sticking through my crap, my ships, my fails, and my pony sex, because it was pretty awesome. Kind of like writing, when I think about it. I started with a scene. I'm at a novel.

So thanks for giving me an excuse to write a blog so cheesy and so full of holes it makes Chrysalis jealous. I figured that a new year called for something like this, so eh. Hope I didn't bore you completely with my ramblings. Happy late new years people!

Funny how this fandom works.

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Comments ( 14 )

At first I cared what People thought, than I realized I'm writing stories about Multi-Colored Fictional Equines and decided I don't even care what I write.
So now I write whatever the hell I feel like writing and that seems to work out better than any planned story.

681580 I think that's what happens to everyone. :trixieshiftright: Well, most people. I mean, I've seen a few authors really lose it. But... it's ponies. :derpytongue2:

The problem is that when you're new, the hype train makes frequent stops, costs nothing to ride, and is easy to board—though you probably won't like where it takes you. But if so many people are on it, it can't be bad, right? It's easily the fastest path to frustration, burnout, ego-tripping, and resenting the fandom.

Yeah, I got caught up in that for a while, too, thinking I was worth WAY more than I actually was. Perspective, man. What a trip.

681656 Exactly. That train dumps right into a lake of fire, seriously. I rode that thing pretty far. Couldn't pay me to board it again :flutterrage: Seriously though, the first time I was published to EQD, I felt like a bigshot, no lie. It's easy to get a big head at the start, I guess. Have to be "broken in", or something.

681694
According to an EQD pre-reader my writing is so bad it will never get posted there.

681778 Hah, what! Really? I knew some of them could be asshats, but that's new :facehoof:

681796
Actually that isn't new, I was told that in a response email between almost a year ago when I submitted a small series.
Here were the major points.

-Celestia and Luna are out of Character. (Luna had only been seen once in the Halloween episode and their logic was she didn't speak in Old-English)
-Discord and Nightmare Moon are out of Character. (The tags were Slice of Life, Comedy, Random and they were mad these guys weren't villains)
-The plot line makes little to no sense and could not possibly happen in the series. (Once again Slice of Life, Comedy, Random)
-You're writing abilities are below average and your grammar is terrible.
And his personal note roughly stated
"If had my way given the other three stories you've attempted to submit your stories would be turned away at the front door."

So after that little incident with them I've decide that with Pre-readers like that I couldn't care any less what those elitist think. They let a select group of new authors in every once in a blue moon and spend the rest of the time stroking the egos of all the big name authors.

Glad your back to writing soon. Hopefully. Love your stories. Some of the first shipfics I read and fics in general. Glad you got out of your slump. I've got this quote in mind but not sure who it is or exactly how it goes. Something like this: if you try to please everyone, you will always be miserable. That's what your little speech thing made me think, anyways.

So he showed me something; it doesn't matter if people don't like what you write, because someone out there does, even if that someone is you, the writer. In other words, write for yourself, the world be damned. They'll come if you let them.

Words of wisdom :twilightsmile:

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Following up on this, despite having never submitted anything to EQD myself, most of what I hear about trying to get stuff posted there makes me not want to try.

Huh, very cool, I'm glad you stuck with it!

(By the way I just realized, I once lived in a town with a population of about 300 people, and here I am now seeing brony fanfic writers with far more followers than that entire town... that is awesome!)

"Funny how this fandom works".

I can not say it any better. Glad your back

O.o
I've worked on (editing, story-boarding, general idea rubber wall thingy) read, or absolutely fawned over just about every story in both your featured favourites, and the ones mentioned here.
Somepony Else's Story has definitely been my favourite probably ever.
That's pretty cool, I gotta say.
Thanks for being one of the really down-to-earth, AND talented writers on here. That's increasingly hard to come by these days...
-Snow

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