An Oldie · 11:56pm Sep 15th, 2014
So, more than two years ago, I wrote a short story. It was told from the perspective of a blind newborn foal. It was easily the most saccharine, happiest thing I've ever written. Sadly, Love is Blind is also one of my most under-appreciated stories in my opinion.
I decided this evening to go back and give this a read, because everybody needs a bit of happy in their lives at some point. For me, that point is right now. I've barely got any writing motivation right now, and I'm more inclined to pick up, say, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II or Borderlands 2 than I am to decide to say to myself "I feel like writing." In going back and reading this story, I reclaimed some of that writing motivation, but not in the way you might think.
Being written years ago, Love is Blind was subject to far less editing scrutiny than my writing is today. It was only ever pre-read by DarkxRedemption [my first editor and a good friend from deviantART's #Bronies], and didn't actually get a thorough. As such there were a lot of tense issues [was intended to be fully present, but frequently changed tenses in a few paragraphs], the occasional faulty punctuation, and even a few lines not being parsed because of orientation coding. There was also a bit of wording weirdness, and some passive POV/show vs. tell issues. Surprisingly, when it was submitted to Equestria Daily in 2012, back when that sort of thing 'mattered', the whole passive/show vs. tell and 'lack of a conflict' were the only real issues that the pre-readers had ever pointed out.
So this evening, after seeing such a nice story in such disrepair, I decided to take it upon myself and go back through, touching it up as best as I could while retaining most of the feel of the original story. The result is the present build of Love is Blind, and I am perfectly happy calling this one of my stories again.
Here's the thing, I'd still like to see this story get around some more, but I'm not sure what groups it fits into. If you have a friend who you think might enjoy this story, or if you know of a group it would suit, by all means share. I would love to know that my non-cloppy, non-violent can be appreciated too.
All that said, yes, I'm still alive, and I would love to get back to writing... It's just hard right now. I'm doing my best to get back into the flow of things, and I think over the next few days I might go back to another of my older stories and give it an up-to-date edit run.
There's a place for everything in The Group That Is Pretty Much Every Other Group Combined. Don't know any other groups this might fit in, sadly.