One Year · 9:03pm May 8th, 2017
Looking over a few things, I noticed that I've been on FIMFiction for a year. Wow, it's been a year already? Odd, considering I thought that I was going to stay active on this site for a week at most. Now I'm here every day with over twenty stories that I've published and over one hundred sitting in my box of "Unmade, Unpublished, and Most Likely Stupid". Guess my estimate was off by a bit.
Well, to self-celebrate my own existence (which totally isn't increasing my own ego), I thought I'd look back at some of the stories that I've written. Because why not.
Oh, and spoilers for most of these stories.
Another Human Turned Pony in Equestria
Ah, yes, My very first story and my very first idea. Just... Just what was I thinking? I don't hate this story that I wrote... It just hate that I wrote it. I mean, we all need to start out somewhere, but did I have to write one of the biggest things I can't write? Romance. But, whatever. It was my first story and I thought that I was cool. Basically, it's poorly written, has very short moments that should be much longer, just goes everywhere, and the only reason I haven't deleted it is for keeping it as a history of what I've written.
Don't read it, it's terrible.
My second story. It's short, it's silly. But I still love it. It's so much better than my first story, albeit short. Plus, it's what sparked my love of Raindrops. I needed a pegasus to write about that I could have act however I wanted, so I just clicked on her tag. And I still love that cyan and yellow pegasus. This story is mostly just me improving on my writing skills, and creating the love of a background character that hasn't said a single word before.
And then I stopped writing one-shots and actually wrote a story. Granted, it's just taking the show's story and adding another character to the mix, but at least it wasn't another one-shot. There's not really much to say about this story other than I'm not giving it up. I haven't updated it in ages (which is why it's on hiatus), but I really want to continue writing about Crystal and the mane six.
Darkwood and Known as Thy Pony of Timber Wolves
And then I went from happy-joy-sunshine-rainbows to stories about an Earth pony being banished and then killed by her own kindness. Yeah, that was quite a shift. But I wanted to write a sad story and the dark tag just popped onto it. Darkwood is like "shift" story, as I refer to it as. I see it as my story that shifted me from my older ones (the ones previously mentioned) to the stories I write now. I've noticed that my style has just seemed seemed to shift since writing it.
Finally wrote a story about Razor Blade! I've had several people ask me things like "Why is her horn orange?" "What's a unicron?" and the most common "You misspelled your user name." which I can't really blame them for saying. So just go read about Razor, even though the story is actually about Violet.
And I think that's all the stories I've wanted to talk about! Unless, of course... There's something big I've missed... Possibly some stories I've written that are the most popular out of everything else I've written...
Yeah, there's no way I wasn't going to talk about these stories. The first one, The Second Pony in Space, was written for one singular reason: "Hey, I should totally write a sci-fi story even though I can't actually write sci-fi stuff." And then I wrote it. My first idea had been to write about Rainbow Dash, but I didn't know where to go from there. So I had her fly into space and land on the moon with Luna. I hadn't planned the ending of the story until... well, the end of the story. And after I wrote it, I knew I needed to write another story to go it. It was always going to be about Nightmare Moon returning, and then some. I love this series more than everything else I've written. I've worked on it for longer than anything else and I love it more than anything else. Everyone else seemed to love it (seriously, why does this series have over two thousand views total?!?) and I'm just so proud of it.
Please go read them if you haven't. (Please?)
And those are all the stories I'm going to talk about! There's definitely more to be coming (I'm working on two new ones right now) and I'm going to keep working on my other ongoing stories. I'd like to thank everyone for reading my stories, the (current) sixty-eight of you following me, and everyone who's given me support towards my writing, helpful feedback, and excitement towards what I've written. I wouldn't keep writing if if weren't for all of you. So thanks, so, so much.
- Razor Blade the Unicron
