Thank you all so much · 10:06am Nov 19th, 2016
I am really blown away from all this positive feedback... and a bit scared.
When the first story appeared in my mind (Little Shockwaves) , I thought : 'I really should write that and looked if fanfiction allowed german stories...' , it didn't. I already have to much hobbies taking my time, you can see some of them at my Art account . So I thought it was a stupid idea anyway...
But I really wanted to get it out on (digital) paper.
'Whatever I write it in english... people will hate it and I can get back to my other projects...' not to forget my twin daughters who need attention too.
I started to write it, submitted what was ready so far and I got a 50/50 love / hate rate, just what I expected. But from the comments I found people were upset about the part were she acts completely out of character "Luna would never do that". For course she would because she is... oh... the readers don't know what is in my mind and will be obvious a few chapters later.
I learned to see things from the perspective of the reader and love all feedback pointing out flaws and story holes... I hate story holes and will not allow then, everything happens for reasons. I added things in earlier chapters to make it visible earlier to the reader, so he/she knew there was something that caused her to react that way.
And things changed, suddenly feedback got mostly positive by a large margin and people asked for a sequel on I finished the story. That was unexpected.
So I waited for a new idea to form in my head. Do anyone of you know the movie "Enemy mine"? I guess you are all to young for knowing it. It was the inspiration for "Know your Enemy".
Funny thing is this second story was never meant to end the way it did, but at some point the characters demanded it to get this way, this might sound stupid. I envision how the characters would react to the situations and often they react in an other way as my story arc was planned. So I listen to the characters and change the story arc.
... Why the hell am I writing all this down?
... guess I just wanted it to be out too.
... I really should have written this as a blog instead of a comment, oh well I copy it over and have it at both places.
The short version is:
I am blown away by that amount of positive feedback but I am a bit frighten about how many people read my 'just for fun, let's mess with some characters' stories. I try to lock these thoughts out when I write, pretend only a view will read it and half of these will hate it anyway, so why not make Dashie funny in this story, who cares.
At the same time I love every single feedback, all of it, not just the positive ones. Everything helps me grow, even the discussions about "have ponies utters or teats", I want to have everything right.
I should really stop now an make lunch for my daughters. Bye.