So, I Reread The Twilight Sparkle Show Today...

I also read the accompanying apology post for taking the story offline for a rewrite. I am both comforted and embarrassed at what I saw when I read The Show again.

For some reason I wedged an OC into the prologue, before never bringing him up again. I see a few spelling and grammatical errors from a few miles away. I have so many subplots and squirming, bloody messes inside of my story that I cannot really remember what where I was going with half of them. For example, I had this thing going on with robots inside the facility staff. I dunno what that was about. I guess past me didn't realize that plot point shouldn't be there if it doesn't serve the ultimate goal of telling the goddamn story. A few references are in there that make me vomit when I look at them now. Did I really think I was that clever? I was not. I really did mess up the execution of, not to toot my own horn but, a fairly good idea.

I am at least comforted by the fact that I have improved over the last year of writing. I think that I at least learned the importance of necessary versus unnecessary scenes and plot points. Twilight Sparkle builds the water collector in Subnautica because she needs to drink; Derpy blew up a reactor in The Twilight Sparkle Show because... hahaha Derpy did something funny? Kinda? I also at least know how to do my homework before writing up my stories now, I actually know my beginning from my end while before I would sorta just go where I felt like in terms of plot. Not usually how your meant to make a long-term story.

All in all, past me was an utter beginner writer who stumbled over a pretty good idea called the Twilight Sparkle Show. He then took his idea and shoved it through a wood chipper and it became a story. What I don't understand is how it got any attention at all; the prologue is utterly unreadable to me now, I would have given my own story a dislike if it wasn't mine. However, the undeserved attention did spark my interest in writing, since before then I had never really gotten feedback on anything I wrote aside from that of family members, and at least random strangers can be semi-critical about your works while Mum'll always tell you you've got great things ahead of you.

Oh yeah, I guess I should get to work on the rewrite. I will admit that I've done absolutely no work on it since I took it down in January and I promised the reupload in May. Pfft. Me and my big mouth.

So... yeah.