Alicorn of Music · 11:36pm Jul 16th, 2018
I've been thinking about it recently... And I realized that I should apologize for doing some stupid stuff with my story, namely Alicorn of Music: Reliving the Childhood (if you couldn't guess it by the title of my blog post). I've been... preachy on a few things in that story. While it still makes sense to me, the scenes and all that I did, it still fits in the world and the story in some way, but I should've thought about it more and tried to implement it better.
While the main character, from the POV of which the story is told, has flaws, one of which would be the attitude I described in my story, but, I suppose part of the blame lies on me and the way I worded his message (which is partly my message, especially in quite a few places).
To be entirely honest, I still believe myself to be right when it comes to what I wrote. However, I do realize that I could've written it better and should've thought about it way more than I did back in the day. I will not deny that my stories have certain flaws, that I have certain flaws in my own personality and behavior.
It is a gray area of right and wrong. Different people have different tastes, and a lot of people still liked my story. However, I shouldn't brush aside the fact that I also have downvotes, more than a hundred of them. That means more than a hundred people, which is a relatively big amount, didn't like my story for one reason or another. While some might've downvoted it just because it features an alicorn OC, it would be stupid to deny that it has no flaws whatsoever just because the majority of people who rated the story liked it.
I hope you understand my message, which I had trouble wording. If not, feel free to ask me because I still mess up words sometimes. I always try to be as clear as I possibly can but some things are lost in translation or interpretation. So, once again, ask me questions if you don't understand what I conveyed in my message, I will do everything I can to clear the confusion.
I never actually down voted or up voted, and I can't say for others, but for me it was how fast things progressed, how he was automatically an Alicorn, and how he was magicked into adulthood/teenhood. I dunno about the rest, but that was what irked me/killed it for me. :l
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Well, the whole premise of the story is being an alicorn and having to deal with that fact. Undeserved? Yes. But that's the point. It is a story of growth to greatness, a story about how someone doesn't just sit on his butt doing nothing but how someone develops and earns being who he became.
As for the ending (put it in [ spoiler] , okay?), this was yet another challenge and a plot device that mattered quite a bit. On the surface, it seems like a purely advantageous thing, but it's more than that, which was already revealed in the latest chapters of the sequel.