A Bittersweet Realization

Dear reader
I have been very flippant with my promises recently, I've been very distant (Though I wish I haven't), and my story writing has suffered greatly for it. This is a fault of mine. I suppose I should start with my last blog post. I said I'd placed The New Beginning on hiatus until I'd fixed A Watchful eye so it wasn't unbearable. In the attempt I've deleted chapters from it that I should not have so I could have a reference. Eventually I drove myself so utterly insane I just hit the off switch and left the scene for awhile so I could cool off.

After some time with a friend who, until last year I'd not spoken to, I began to tell him about the story. He became so intrigued by it that he watched all three seasons and began to write his own stories. Eventually we started spending whole nights writing our stories. He used a notebook instead of a computer. Something that struck me (who typed on MS word) odd. I asked him about why he was willing to rewrite everything online. He responded by saying that he wasn't going to post it online. I asked why he wouldn't if he had taken all the time to write it. He said he didn't want people to judge the work he deemed to his liking.

I shut my computer off and put on the ground next to the couch where we were working. A small realization had come to me. Now this will seem like a major realization when I type it down here, but to me it simply translates to switching some things and learning to draw. It started with the simple thought of: an author has to do what he/she thinks is truly best for his/her story. What's the point of a masterpiece if the creator doesn't like it? This branched to what I thought was best for the formula of my story. I thought out what would happen in the world I had been given to augment. Then I realized something I deemed unsavory at first, and you may too.

I can't do the things I want to do in my story. I know why. I started thinking about this story when I was in sixth grade. Nothing but raw imagination, unconfined to a pre-rendered world. Now I love My Little Pony, it's been my firefly in the dark for a long time. But I can't do what I want to do with Stargazer and Applejack in this world. I have to leave it behind for this story. They'll be under different names and in a different world. Plus you'll be able to see them.

I want to Re-make this story in the form of a comic. Something I am currently incapable of doing now. But later (if the classes that teach me will show me what I need to know) you can see the whole tale take place in an original form. An idea that makes me beam at the thought of it.
I apologize to those of you (few in number but greatly appreciated) who were expecting this story to be finished on FIMFiction for your viewing pleasure. But my true belief is that I have to sever Equestria's ties to this story for good.

I hope you understand.
-AAB