Edited My Story, Background and Where I got the Idea From. · 11:39pm Jan 13th, 2018

Hello again everyone!

First thing I want to say before continuing is...again...WOW! As i'm writing this my first story has 218 likes and nearly 2,300 people looked at it. Seriously. It's still unbelievable to me. So again, thank you all so SO much for the support, feedback and just taking the time to even look at it Thank you

Anyway, yeah. As it says in the title. I FINALLY got around to editing the darn thing. It wasn't easy to put it lightly. I still can't believe I missed some of the most obvious mistakes Like I said in my previous blog I'll NEVER put such a deadline on me like that again. I hope some of y'all could take the time to look at some of the changes I made. Maybe see if I missed anything (I probably did. Seriously, it was like finding a piece of hay in a needle stack). More than anything I just hope it flows better than before. Thank you for those who checked before and are going to check.

Now, I want to get down to the more fun part. Where I got the idea. I might as well go in a bit into myself so y'all could have a good idea.

I started watching MLP back in September of 2016. Soon after I moved in with my brother to start college at Texas State. Before this, grown ups liking MLP was just yet another weird thing people just do in this crazy world. I easily glanced over it for a long time. However, with nothing to do and nobody to hang with in college I quickly became bored. It's weird, but suddenly, I wanted to know why people actually like MLP after seeing a meme with Rainbow Dash in it. So after much MUCH debate with myself. I decided to just watch the first episode. But I didn't know it was a two parter so I watched the second. Then the third. Then the fourth. The fifth. The sixth. Seventh. Eighth. Ninth. First SEASON. Second season. Third. Fourth.

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I MUST watch it all before the sixth season finale

Of course it's deeper than that but that's how I view it now Essentially, I got hooked. After season six was over and that semester was over I couldn't wait for the seventh season. I wanted to know the community more. THAT'S when I discovered that apparently people actually write stories based on the characters and the world from MLP called FAN FICTIONS. I never even heard of fan fiction so I was really skeptical hearing about this. Then I saw video review by drwolf on youtube who reviewed PAST SINS. I decided to read it.

I was blown away.

Since December of 2016 I've been actively reading many fanfictions. Many large and epic. And many small and slice of life. But I've come to love a lot of them I finally created an account in June 2017 so I could comment on others' story.

However, my big guilty pleasure is that many of them are romances or at least has to do with romance Bit of hopeless romantic. I began to see MANY different pairings. Many I've loved. Some...I just don't agree with. I don't really have a favorite but for a while I've come to love Twilight's adorkable personality. I also began to really like Spike too. I kind of somewhat began to see myself in Spike in many stories I've read about him

You may not see it now but, for the LONGEST time I did not approve of the TWISPIKE pairing because I saw it as pretty close to incest. It made me a bit uncomfortable. Understandably, it's probably where a few of the dislikes on my story come from. So, yeah, I avoided TWISPIKE stories. Until I ACCIDENTALLY came across THE ONES FORGOTTEN. Like the cover art, I thought it was another RarityxSpike story. After I read the first chapter...it clearly wasn't...but I liked it. I read the story and I understood that at the end of the day, Twilight and Spike are not related AT ALL. By writing the stories on fan fiction, we see characters as however we want. It opened my eyes a little more and saw that I could view them like any character as however I wanted to.

Since that story I began to read TWISPIKE stories for a little while and went back to normal routine.

One night during Thanksgiving break I was looking through TWISPIKE stories and got the idea of maybe there was one where maybe Spike was there to help or comfort or please Twilight in some way. I did. But there wasn't a lot of them, at least from what I saw. I then got the idea of maybe hoping there was one where Twilight was REALLY down on herself and Spike is there to rescue her. I TOYED with the idea of writing it myself...but I just rolled eyes and went 'yeah right'. I don't write much.

Then something happened in December 2017.

No. My grandma died back in April 2017. It's something else. For over the months of October and November in 2017 I kept track of a story called GRIEF IS THE PRICE WE PAY. And...well...I read the chapters that came out in the early parts of December 2017 and, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. It left me feeling REALLY fucking shitty. Of course with the title, I felt grief. Not just over what happened in the story but over my grandma, again. I was barely getting past it and with Christmas that was coming along soon at that point it was NOT what I wanted to feel at the time. I know with a title that has 'grief' in it what did I expect? The author AT LEAST could have put in the proper GENRE TAGS (Tragedy or Sad) with the title to WARN ME!!! Godammit

In short. It was really really REALLY bad timing for me to feel grief again. I knew I had to make myself feel better somehow but I didn't know what. Until I thought about my story idea. I REALLY wanted to feel good again. Because I was thinking of my grandma I thought of the scripture my grandpa said at her funeral. I decided to base my story on that. Without out much to go off of and only a week to finish before leaving to visit family, I wrote. And by the end of it all. I felt happy again Just like how wanted y'all to feel after reading it

So yeah, that's how it came to be. I don't 'entirely' blame the author of that story. It was just REALLY bad timing.

Like I said, I hope to make a sequel of this one day, but I'm gonna start school again soon so that maybe a while. But I hope y'all will do well for now.

Take care and God Bless.

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