[A Thousand Letters] Some discussion before we really get into the story

Hey all, thanks for those of you who are now tracking my new story. This time I hope I can make this a story I actually do want to finish. I suppose these should be written in as author's notes, but this feels like it'd be a bit long and I don't want to let my own insecurities hurt the atmosphere of the story.

I mentioned in the comments that I don't want this just to be an unabashed shipfic. I'm not sure how successful that notion will be given some of the reactions I've gotten already, but I really don't want this story to be fully predictable. I have the full story planned out already, and while this is a story I've really wanted to tell for a long time, I'm still quite hesitant about it because I'm just sure that my ambitions reach much further than my actual talent, which means I'm a bit afraid of what kind of reaction it will incite. Obviously, the description should give you an idea of where this is going, but I will say I don't expect to really get into the Twilight/Rainbow relationship during Chapter 1.

Also, there is definitely a bit of pretentiousness here, but there's a lot of significance in the various things that happen in even the prologue that will become relevant (maybe not important, but definitely relevant). I don't know that anyone reading the story will care for it until it becomes obvious, but I only hope to be able to inspire a bit of speculation about it. I'll probably be working on Chapter 1 over the weekend. My process right now is to just to write out a chapter in a single day, then run an editing pass over it that generally fixes up all the stuff I really hate about the first draft and will likely increase the length quite a bit, then just post it. If anyone wants to actually help me with the process, I'm welcome to it, since I'm the one editing my own work right now and I don't fully trust myself. Anyone reading anything I've written in any form probably understands that even outside of the mechanical issues, my sentences tend to get very long and convoluted.

-afb

Comments

[Arzoo]

If you've come far enough to plan it all out, I say go for it. After a while there is no way to improve but by putting stuff out there and getting experience.

I get that you fear looking back and thinking how much better you could have done things. But that means you did improve! And you can go back and make those improvements, or go on and write an even better story.

[Tarlek]

I could help with editing however I am not sure if you still want help...

[afakebrony]

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I could send you a link once I'm done with the first chapter, if you want to take a look at it. Just let me know, anyone taking a look just to make sure that there's nothing glaringly wrong would help a lot.

[Tarlek]

1867258 alright, btw if needed my email is [e-mail]