I’m still here.
I’ve just had nothing to say.

Oh, The Mask of Despair is no longer my second-most popular story. Broken Wings and Mending Hearts has stolen that spot. Both still only have about one third the views of The Alicorn Limit.

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A couple months ago, I submitted The Mask of Despair to EQD. Rejected, obviously. At the very least, they gave me some notes on it. More notes than all the other comments and messages combined. On that note: why did no one tell me it was such a mess? It’s got random capitalizations, missing words, and tense troubles all over. I’ve fixed the ones they mentioned, but I know there’s plenty more still

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One year ago, I made this account and uploaded The Mask of Despair. Since then it’s had two-hundred forty views, no more than sixty-six total readings, fifteen votes (thirteen up, two down) twenty-two comments, and zero reviews. A single person contacted me with some detailed thoughts regarding the story.

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I’ve been in a good mood recently, which is a nice change of pace. Part of it is certainly some things which happened here on FimFiction. For one, Princess Estrella tried to promote Mask of Despair via a blog entry. She has only 16 followers, so I didn’t get a lot of new views, but its the thought that counts. For two, someone upvoted Mask of Despair! Which is amazing! It hasn’t received any votes (at all) since July!

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It only took seven and a half months, but The Mask of Despair finally made it to 200 views. Joy. (that’s an average of not even one view per day.) Approximately a quarter of that have read the whole thing.

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So a week or so ago Night Wolf Pony was asking for OCs to practice on. I offered up Sable Stardust, and he (he? I assume) just finished.

So, I’ve learned a few things from doing this the way I did. First and foremost, don’t change POV and tense mid-write. When I began this project, I was working in third person point of view, and present tense. About 40% of the way through it I came upon the idea of the framing device of starting the story right as Twilight resolved the crisis. (hence: “We Begin at the End” and “We End at the Beginning”) However, this necessitated a shift in writing style into first person past tense.

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