Mistakes Were Made · 12:10am Dec 21st, 2013
I've been on FIM Fiction for 2 weeks and I've already hit my first stumbling block. The hatred of Mary Sue stories in sexual / kinky contexts was much worse than I imagined. After the initial release of Miss Rarity, my work-in-progress story about a relationship between an OC and Rarity, I received 14 downvotes in a day. Comments informed me that this was because the OC's name and my screenname were the same, and that changing one of these would alleviate the problem. I had no idea that people cared that much about the name! Isn't there a Shakespeare story about that?
Anyway, upon changing the name of my character, the downvotes stopped.
Though I was shocked, I can only imagine what more there is to learn. How many other pitfalls are there out there? I know one way to find out.