Alone Eternal Dawn · 3:11am April 19th
The story behind the writing of Alone Eternal Dawn is similar to the writing of Don't Look, in that it was written as a single work meant to fulfill the criteria of a prompt for Bean's Writing group.
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215333/beans-writing-group
If I remember correctly the prompt mentioned snow and Rainbow Dash...
Natrely I tried to break the prompt.
First by thinking of discasing RD's identity in the start... having some pony not recognize her. So a RD to Alicorn story of some sort, being the first that came to mind... but I wanted to bend the trope... What kind of identity crises come with such a change, what could be done with that?
Trying to think of ways to bend the given information another of the thoughts that came to mind where, what if the snow was a hazard rather than being delightful... as I imagined most of the other writers would be working with, being that this was near Christmas.
Snow and weather being dangerous, among other things brought the works of Jack Londen to mind... particularly the opening scene of White Fang.
"In advance of the dogs, on wide snowshoes, toiled a man. At the rear of the sled toiled a second man. On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over,–a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again."- Jack London, White Fang
So it was, I wrote a short story about a stranger helping a stranger, and the two-growing close against the harshness of the environment and over shared sorrow.
Reading back over my blog, I am just now realizing that I used the wrong title, this entire post should be referring to Alicorn Down, and I still have no idea how I got the two mixed up.