Hey there everyone! I got it bad, real bad.

The Story I Wanted to be Famous: Vision, a beautifully crafted, multi-chapter psychological piece with an amazing crew of editors and co-writers, with every chapter fully illustrated and beautifully realized.

The Story that Was Famous: Regarding the Need for Sex Education. A Twilestia fic. That I wrote on a dare.

Ugbl, I know that feel, though it kind of crosses media. Some throwaway doodle on my ask blog will snowball into this runaway thing, while I've got like maybe 5 people who could be considered "fans" of my stories. Admittedly my fiction to date is... not the best work, but an 80,000 word adventure story definitely takes more effort than a two-day cut-and-paste job for a meme.

>>304114304114 Writing on the wall was freaking amazing.

"The Writing on the Wall": a tightly-wound psychological horror story, which some called the creepiest pony fic they had ever read.

"Biblical Monsters": an oppressively grimdark thing I belted out as a from of therapy. It's my least original, most flawed work so far.

The former has a small number of dedicated fans. The latter quadrupled my followers, gained attention from several big-name pony authors, and earned me hatedoms not only here, but on EqD and the spacebattles forums.

I write things I put a lot of heart into... things I try to make original. But sadly, the thing that I'm most known for? A subpar Dark fic that slipped past the Cherubim to make it on EQD and a story called "Twilight Likes Weird Things". 15 other stories with heart and lots of effort, and the fic about Twilight enjoying stupid, nerdy bookish "dirty talk" is what people actually read.

Heh... I didn't know this group existed or even that there was a "name" for that problem. I'm not a good writer... Never said I was. But I got ideas and MLP showed me how fun it was to write them down.

I don't speak English, not in my life nor my work. I speak French 99.9% of the time, but since the internet is English, I had to learn it. So, I write more English than French, but since I never speak it... No need to say sometime it turns weird. My horrible grammar and weird sentences structure no doubt block me from moving forward. I work on it, but it's not easy and takes more time than I wish or had. Will never get a 1000+ likes story, but it's ok with me, as I know just enough English to see how mine sucks terribly and how it would put off a native speaker.

But even if I'm probably my harshest critic, I like when people enjoy what I write. I just published a story that was fairly short (9k) that I put a lot of effort and time... I wanted it to be good and people who read it said it was, even with the grammar flaws. I did put a lot of time trying to nail down the grammar, even if I'm not really good at it. But it didn't even got in the current top 45 and the views are very low. On the other hand, I had that stupid story that I wrote because it was wasting space in my brain. No storyline, no plan, one or two chapters with no real development, not even 3k words, no real grammar correction... Six times more views and likes. And don't start me on my 100k words story that I put an insane amount of time, where I felt the story was well planned ahead of time with lot of twists and surprises... and whatever.

And then I look at the feature box and two of the top 5 stories are Halo crossovers. Yeah... Paint me jealous, but it's a jealousy I assume..

Ah well, I should post my story here.

I spent a week with a fellow author of mine writing a tentacle fiction with Vinyl Scratch that had no grammatical errors (as far as our combined editing powers can tell) has a cute story line, and everyone who read it says it's very good, and one author amusingly jests of wanting to make neucosal contact with me for writing that story. Even castortroy, the King of Fetish Clop, recognized it and commented on it. So far, only 40 likes. I am dissapoint.

Then, there's my most popular story with over 800 likes. It's got plenty of errors, was a spur of the moment idea that I wasn't that commited to, it was a BRONY IN EQUESTRIA STORY!!! WHY DID IT GET SO POPULAR!? ...And I spent 1 and a half hours writing it. I mean really. :P

It was nice at first, but it's sort of bittersweet now. I gotta write it though I don't know where to take it exactly...

That feel when 'Hiatus' is nearing 200k views and none of my other (and better) fics will likely ever top it.

Feels bad, man.

Woe is me!  To be remembered for that hackwork, Dark Demon King Ravenblood Nightblade, when I spilled out my art, my soul, on my true magnum opus --Twilight Sparkle and the Quest for Anatomical Accuracy!

I'll join, even though it seems like whining.  'Coz it lets me plug my stories!  I'm more thrilled to have gotten views of my one-shots than I am disappointed to have had other stories fly past the front page (or, in the case of one story that I'm fond of, fail moderation) and be fossilized under layer upon layer of fan-fiction.

I have no right to complain.  I wrote my cheesy one-shots to prostitute myself in order to gain watchers for my more-serious writing.  And they were fun, and I'm proud of them, even though they are not as good as Pinkie Watches Paint Dry.  Prostituting yourself for your art is fine, as long as you enjoy the act.

Sorry if it seems weird that I keep following you around, but this is the only group I've heard of that deal with this, so...

My story 'Christian and Geo in Equestria' is a multi-chapter story. It's not done yet, and I'm not sure it ever will be. Within an hour of first posting it, the first chapter received 87 likes and favourites. Not bad for a 3,000+ word chapter with literally no editing. It recieved a lot of praise. That's good. Since then it's spanned into a 50,000+ word adventure, still with no editing or proofreading, and received further praise.

Then I wanted to write something better. So I wrote 'Brains!', actually got it proofread, made it 12,000+ words, the works. It's far superior to my original story. And yet...it's not doing very well.

So here I am. Even if this is just me whining, I'll support others as best I can here.

So yeah, there's that.

I can sympathize, really. Spent a few hours on a stupid idea. Most popular fic, spend months on long fic. 2.5K... Oh well...

As someone who doomed himself to be a clop baron, I can relate! Now we are in the same boat!

I joined the group because I know this is going to happen to me my Fic The Flame Of Equestria is what I'm poring my heart into but its ive been told its good its going down the drain.

I joined the group because, like I think I have said before, this has happened to me on a much smaller level. But I know how it feels. Write a barely close to finished and currently at 80,000 word story, get 200 views. Write a cheesy story about putting a voilent video game charecter in Equestria, get 3,400 views. The hell life? Why did you do this to me?

I joined this group because I am an impressionable person.

Peer pressure for life.

Ooh, three new members already!

I am SO AWESOME.

HA! I'm loving this!

I haven't had any stories do this to me yet...even though I haven't MADE any stories but...count me in.