2012 strikes back!

THE SITUATION: Saturday night, looking through my old hard-drive after work, when OH SNAP, WHAT’S THIS? A forgotten 10,000 word story all set and ready to go?! Say wha’?!!

Yep! This one’s from September 2012 and was meant to be a prequel to It’s Not A Cold Dark Place – the events of this one would have played a HUGE role in that story’s climax. Honestly, it's... not the best thing I've ever written. BUT! As a cute little diversion, I think it works, hence here it is two years late. I’ve given it one last mild edit, cleaning up the writing, adding one or two extra scenes, and cutting it down by over half. That's what counts as 'mild editing', right?

Hope y'all enjoy

FLY BEFORE YOU RUN

Comments

[Telaros]

Anything of Cold Dark Place I'm sure will make anyone happy. I for one look forward to reading the sliced in half 2012 version that's now been heavily revised to be a 2014 fic!

[Lucky Dreams]

2458512 I didn't even notice that. How on earth did I not notice that?!

2458375 I hope that it lived up to expectations

[Telaros]

2463004 It did what your stories tend to do. Left me near the brink of wanting to shed some tears over that scene with Scoot's mom and and RD in Scoot's bedroom. The way she got a bit defensive, showed off how proud she was, show us how much Scoot meant to us with very few words that were made all the more apparent of how powerful they are through RD's reaction.

You had a few words missing in some parts like "would you at this" and two more missing words near the beginning that made me hiccup through my read, but nothing that stopped me from loving every word of the story. Hell, makes me more sad to think this was laying around your harddrive all these years. I can't recall why you stopped writing. But I know I'll always regret loving this story too much.

By far it's been my most favorite Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash story to date. I for one still come across the story through my browsing of favorites to find something to recommend to a friend, pausing at it and just lamenting on what a shame it is that its author had left us so soon. The one story I most used to recommend now one I can't bring myself to mention lest it just leave others in the same state of wanting for closure for the story that'll never come.

And yeah, thankfully your prequel works very well as a standalone, something I assume is purposefully done by omitting the parts that take a future Scootaloo through her first adventure in the dream world. And now I wonder if that little doll of Daring Do being held by Scoots was so adorable, makes me wish others would write a Scoots who grew up with an imaginary friend who was her doll, adventuring in the waking world's dreams (day dreaming) and protecting Scoots at night (in her dreams) sort of bond. Until one day she finally found someone real to look up to, Rainbow Dash.

I do hope you end up writing your own story someday. But I still wish you had came back to finish if only that one story. Not that it matters much anymore, I'll be moving come Oct before the 11th. No idea if I'll be having internet access where I'm going. But it'd be sweet if I got to come back some day to see a complete tag on my favorite Scootaloo story.

Blah, I talk too much. Thanks for the wonderful nostalgia trip and for that incredible prequel story of 11 yold RD setting off to make her own way in life before anypony else. I guess I can say I now have a favorite Rainbow Dash story.

[Lucky Dreams]

2463157 Thank you so much for this entire review. Seriously. You have no idea.

I can't recall why you stopped writing. But I know I'll always regret loving this story too much.

Looking back, it wasn’t a single factor so much as it was a whole ton of little issues all building on top of one another. But that story became something of a monster. I couldn’t see it at the time but it was consuming my life, and I didn’t even have many chapters to show for it. So I don’t really regret never finishing, but I do regret taking readers such as yourself along for the ride. And I don’t think I’ll ever stop regretting that either.

And yeah, thankfully your prequel works very well as a standalone, something I assume is purposefully done by omitting the parts that take a future Scootaloo through her first adventure in the dream world.

You’d think so wouldn’t you? In fact the chapter worked pretty well by itself anyway. What I actually omitted was a 4,000/5,000 word section about how Rainbow came to Ponyville and stumbled into her babysitting job. And it was sooooo boring

I do hope you end up writing your own story someday.

I already am! I’ve been working on it since May of last year – if all goes well, I’ll start sending it off to agents by the end of October

I really hope your move goes well and that where it is you’re going, you manage to get your internet sorted.

Thanks again for your comment.