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When one colts excursion into the Everfree winds up with him being nursed back to health by a particularly kind pegasus, they'll both end up learning a thing or two about themselves... and perhaps each other as well.

[This is my first attempt at writing a fanfic of any kind, loosely inspired by this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4OxgRHoK8Y]
[Also, the Shynight in this story is not me, its my OC. Guess I shouldn't have made my account name the same, huh?]

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Well, I doubt anyone will actually see this, but I'm finally changing the status of this to Cancelled.
Reading it again now, I still don't think I did a BAD job, I've certainly read much worse, it just feels... uninspired. Which I suppose is accurate. It was, like, 3 or 4 A.M. and I couldn't sleep when I got the idea to write this. I had the whole plan of starting the story in medias res with a chase scene, and I'm actually quite happy with that first section. Then I got past that and realized I had no bucking idea where I wanted the story to go. So I decided to wing it (Pegasus pun intended). Didn't work so well. The whole second half seems droning and rather rushed. I could probably improve this and come up with an actual plot line, but it would be more work than I'm willing to put into something like this.
Who knows, I may come back to this some day, or start with something else. Shynight's personality was originally based on Fluttershy's (whose personality is scarily similar to mine, at least offline), and I don't see how I could make the two personalities differ from each other enough to prevent the problems I had with dialogue in this. Besides, I much prefer FlutterDash to... FlutterNight, I guess? Not gonna call it ShyShy, that's for sure.
Plus, when I first wrote this, I was relatively new to the fandom and was still basically designing my OC. Nowadays, I have him pretty much completely ironed out, and I don't even ship him with Fluttershy any more, he's with Luna (makes more sense anyway, what with their mutual love for the night).
So, yeah, I doubt I'll ever come back to this, so, as a wise(?) draconequus once said, ARRIVEDERCI!

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:rainbowderp: You... you faved it... YOU FAVED IT! :pinkiehappy:
Damn it, now you're gonna guilt trip me into continuing this... :ajbemused:

I'm not really sure when I'll get a chance to work on it though. Besides college, I'm also doing a read-through of Kobalstromo's The Little Things and editing a 65k+ word fic (although one of the authors recently left FimFiction, so I might not be needed anymore).
Plus it's been almost a year since I wrote this, so what few ideas I had come up with are long gone. I had never really hammered out a plotline for this. Actually, I only really had 2 or 3 scenes in mind, and I only remember 1 of them.
Just don't be too disappointed if I ultimately end up never continuing this. As I like to say, "Us procrastinators shall take over the world! ...tomorrow." :scootangel:

OMG.

But.

Keep going.

Please.

For yo friend? :fluttershysad:

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I... but........... maybe.
If by some chance I manage to overcome my CLBS (Chronic Lazy Bastard Syndrome), I might go through and edit the first chapter a bit (it's not nearly as bad as I remember it being, but there's still a couple of spots of dialogue that make me cringe) before continuing on.
Actually, I might even do a bit of an overhaul and create a new OC. The Shynight from when I first wrote this nearly 3 years ago and the Shynight of today are practically two completely different ponies anyway, so making a new OC might help my mentality by keeping them separate.

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Hey, man, re-rewrites happen all the time! Go for it!

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