Heated Into Weakness | The Afterword · 11:40am Mar 19th, 2021
Most of these afterwards begin with some lessons learned from writing the above story. It began as a gift to a friend who, progressively, became less of a friend. That isn't to speak poorly of them.
Just how things go, sometimes.
There isn't really a great moral I can stake upon this. I wanted to start writing more gifts for friends, as see with the few that I wrote before, to pay homage to EQM. But even that type of goodness has run its course with me.
This was a story I put a lot of thought and heart into. It seems to be the fate of the world that, the projects you don't care for, do well, and the ones you do, then do poorly for it. This story bombed for whatever reason you wish to place on it.
I've become something of a black sheep for this site, and I know that affects people wanting to read my stuff. Can't say I blame them for it. There's plenty of people I met or heard about that, because of that, I no longer have a wish to check out their stuff.
So I suppose all I can be thankful for is the original urge of loving Spilight that took me to write this piece, and the few that came along, enjoying the ride. Maybe, someday, this story will come out in another form, and find a different kind of success like that. Or it will fail twice as hard.
Good news. Bad news.
Who is to say?
I figured it's better not to give this story a proper afterword, but instead, to leave this entry as a proper reflection of the person, at the time, who wrote it, forgot its contents, and then uploaded with a strange hope.
The story did not do well in all hoped regards. There was not a great learning or an overcoming at its finish. I started it hollow. And ended it hollow. I've been going back to read my older works to find them terrible.
It's my only wish now, that when I go back to this work, that I can see some improvement, some goodness, inside the work. That I became not only a better writer through all this writing, but also, wrote a story that I would enjoy—even if I was the only one to enjoy it.
~ Yr. Pal, B ~
I haven't been on Fimfiction for a long time, but I hope you're ok B. You're one of my favorite authors on the site, and I've enjoyed your writing more than most.
I'm not sure how much I can do for you what with us being online and all, but I'd love to help if I can. With all this quarantine going on, the isolation hurts us all. But the biggest thing we learn from MLP is that we're not alone.
I really hope my words are helpful for you. If you need someone to talk to, feel free to reach out.