Do I even belong here? · 7:48pm Feb 28th, 2022
It's been quite some time that I've been here in this fandom and writing here. I used to watch the mlp show with my sister but, I never really cared for it. It was just another thing on the TV that I could stare at and spend my time. It was the EqG movies that drew me in. I saw a potential. I saw something cool. I hoped to see more of what I thought the future of the show with this new attachment become. But, it soon faded as years passed, movies after movies and hasbro never really utilized EqG the way I hoped.
But it was what it was. And I still enjoyed it, don't get me wrong. It even made me care for the main series as well. But I always hoped to see more or rather see what I was hoping to see. So, I started brainstorming my own story. My own continuation of EqG. It, kick started way back from the second to third movie, but it progressively got more polished with each new instalment.
Long story short, I started writing my series. The only thing currently available on my profile page as my stories. But, I've realized that even though I care about EqG more than the main show itself, the rest of the fandom, and more specifically this site, does not.
I really enjoy what I write. But, I crave for something more. I crave for improvement. I crave for producing something of quality, something that does entertain the reader and my audience. To me, that's the true joy. That's the true accomplishment.
I've been talking to my newly fund friends from this fandome and reading others thoughts on various matters to understand that, what I write simply doesn't have that much of an audience to begin with (I actually don't know who I'm writing this for right now either.) and that here, people rather read about their favorite characters instead of original characters. Which bring me to my conclusion.
I'm not a fanfic writer.
I'm not really interested to write about already existing characters doing the usual we saw on the show. I don't think I can and even I could, I don't think I'll be enjoying it. I, always wanted to write something new, I wanted to add something to the picture. Not scale the saturation of the colors higher. Even my new project that isn't EqG, is a pre-hearts warming story that, the only character that we saw on show who appear in there, is Star Swirl. Meaning, the rest are still OC. (Clover the clever is the main character, but lets be honest, they never show up on the show either.)
People don't want new things, and I just can't write the same thing as everyone else.
Do I even belong here?
Don't be like that, friend.
I don't have the best advice to give, but if making something new is what you want, go for it! Don't let the idea of you not being able to conjure something up stop you!
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Make the most beuaifully decorated vase. But in the end, if its not holding water, its merely a decoration.
Of course you belong, I do too so that's counting for something. :D