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I figure I'll update my PC blog with something sort of related to Pokemon: Fanfiction!
...well, not really. It's more of a general writing entry.
So, tonight, I decided to voice chat with a friend and read my old fanfic -- just for laughs, as it was very, very bad. I went into my drawer and suddenly realized that I had so much writing that was now outdated. And it's almost all there. One notebook that I know of is missing because the cat peed on it. And this doesn't count what was just typed onto the computer, but went missing during a computer move or reformat. There may also be missing notebooks somewhere, but I can only think of one I don't actually have on me.
What can I say. I'm a pack rat.
Anyway, I thought it'd be interesting to take some pictures of it!
So, here's the overall picture.
Note: Not all pages in some notebooks are full, and some of it IS missing.
From the left:
- Current writing (all three series: [ch] draft 2.5, [sa] draft 2, and [p-r], one story loosely based off of Planets)
- [ch] draft 2
- [ch] draft 1
- The Timetravelers (the Pokemon fanfic that basically became [ch] and [sa], minus the Pokemon bits), and
- My old fantasy series, Planets.
(The links are zoomed-in pictures of the piles.)
One average-sized pile of writing, and then four other piles... I guess this is what happens when you write for six years.
I had been feeling bad about not feeling like a real writer, for not throwing out most of my current draft. Then, I realized that I have thrown out stuff becuase it was junk. It's just been happening for years.
I'm sure I'll get to serious editing of what I currently write when I actually get it all typed up. That's really my priority. I haven't finished a series since the Timetravelers. I'd love to actually say "IT'S DONE! Now let's tear it apart!" for a change instead of "THIS IS JUNK! KILL IT!" when I reach halfway.
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To focus on the fanfiction... it was crazy. If you're really that curious and can stand me when I'm hyper, then read the summary on Livejournal. NOTE: There is swearing. And if you read it before, some of it was edited.
Yes. It was that bad.
I'm still surprised it was never torn apart. Then I remember it was posted on Fanfiction.net, and anime fic there (at least at the time) wasn't too popular. The stories only had a handful of reviews each, all of which I've lost, since it's not actually up on FF.net anymore, but I had a fan once! It must've been the crowning moment of awesomeness for me, for me to say "Ash and Misty should have triplets, duh!" and for someone to recognize it. :D
I did write a draft after this, one that was probably worked even less. Again, good concept, but I don't know if it really fit in the Pokemon world. If you want to see how far I got, you can look on FF.net. (Forgive the bad fanfic. I haven't written anything there in, apparently, four years.)
After this comes how that strange fanfic turns into what I write today. I'll put it in spoiler tags if you're not terribly interested.
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In conclusion? My fanfic was crazy!
...well, not really. It's more of a general writing entry.
So, tonight, I decided to voice chat with a friend and read my old fanfic -- just for laughs, as it was very, very bad. I went into my drawer and suddenly realized that I had so much writing that was now outdated. And it's almost all there. One notebook that I know of is missing because the cat peed on it. And this doesn't count what was just typed onto the computer, but went missing during a computer move or reformat. There may also be missing notebooks somewhere, but I can only think of one I don't actually have on me.
What can I say. I'm a pack rat.
Anyway, I thought it'd be interesting to take some pictures of it!
So, here's the overall picture.
Note: Not all pages in some notebooks are full, and some of it IS missing.
From the left:
- Current writing (all three series: [ch] draft 2.5, [sa] draft 2, and [p-r], one story loosely based off of Planets)
- [ch] draft 2
- [ch] draft 1
- The Timetravelers (the Pokemon fanfic that basically became [ch] and [sa], minus the Pokemon bits), and
- My old fantasy series, Planets.
(The links are zoomed-in pictures of the piles.)
One average-sized pile of writing, and then four other piles... I guess this is what happens when you write for six years.
I had been feeling bad about not feeling like a real writer, for not throwing out most of my current draft. Then, I realized that I have thrown out stuff becuase it was junk. It's just been happening for years.
I'm sure I'll get to serious editing of what I currently write when I actually get it all typed up. That's really my priority. I haven't finished a series since the Timetravelers. I'd love to actually say "IT'S DONE! Now let's tear it apart!" for a change instead of "THIS IS JUNK! KILL IT!" when I reach halfway.
---
To focus on the fanfiction... it was crazy. If you're really that curious and can stand me when I'm hyper, then read the summary on Livejournal. NOTE: There is swearing. And if you read it before, some of it was edited.
Yes. It was that bad.
I'm still surprised it was never torn apart. Then I remember it was posted on Fanfiction.net, and anime fic there (at least at the time) wasn't too popular. The stories only had a handful of reviews each, all of which I've lost, since it's not actually up on FF.net anymore, but I had a fan once! It must've been the crowning moment of awesomeness for me, for me to say "Ash and Misty should have triplets, duh!" and for someone to recognize it. :D
I did write a draft after this, one that was probably worked even less. Again, good concept, but I don't know if it really fit in the Pokemon world. If you want to see how far I got, you can look on FF.net. (Forgive the bad fanfic. I haven't written anything there in, apparently, four years.)
After this comes how that strange fanfic turns into what I write today. I'll put it in spoiler tags if you're not terribly interested.
Spoiler:
After that short time on FF.net... I decided it was better as original fiction. Thus, I started [ch] draft 1. It kept the psychics (except time travel, sort of), government organization, the main trio of Natalie/Lance/Arielle, and the Celedon family, now purely focused on taking the country I made for them. Well... for the introduction, anyway. It drifted away from that fast for other plotlines. I then threw it out because I started focusing on gods, and I felt that kind of conflicted with my faith at the time. So I threw it all out and started [ch] draft 2 my senior year of high school.
[ch] draft 2 goes back to what I missed from the Timetravelers: the government organization and the Natalie/Lance/Arielle trio, not just Natalie. The first and half of the second story are still used in the current draft (2.5), but after the second story, I decided to go a different direction, hence the [ch] draft 2 pile.
During high school, I started reading the fanfiction notebooks, and found I still missed some things that [ch] just couldn't hit: the Timetravelers organization, the Ketchup family dynamics, going back to save the father... So, I decided to try to keep the basic storyline of The Beginning and the top-secret mission to protect the father, and made the preliminary draft of [sa]. Time travel was back, but with its own secret organization, Secret Arts (named after the name of set of techniques). Since Natalie, Lance, and Arielle were in use, I made a new trio. Nadine was the illegitimate child. Alexis was her half-sister. And, instead of a guy, I made Lucille (or Diane), a character I had never expanded on in the Timetravelers. I thought it'd work out.
I tried doing it... I really did. But it just wouldn't fit. So, I soon stopped writing it. Yet... I wanted to go back again. So, last November, for my NaNoWriMo project, I went back and decided to make a light-hearted story about the Natalie/Alexis/Diane trio. It'd have Secret Arts again, but it'd be mostly a fun story, or so I hoped. Once I found what I wanted to do with it, it soon turned into the usual angst (and it's very easy to see the change), but NaNo was what I needed to get my time travel story back. And it's going pretty well. I'm actually farther in [ch] than I am with [sa].
[ch] draft 2 goes back to what I missed from the Timetravelers: the government organization and the Natalie/Lance/Arielle trio, not just Natalie. The first and half of the second story are still used in the current draft (2.5), but after the second story, I decided to go a different direction, hence the [ch] draft 2 pile.
During high school, I started reading the fanfiction notebooks, and found I still missed some things that [ch] just couldn't hit: the Timetravelers organization, the Ketchup family dynamics, going back to save the father... So, I decided to try to keep the basic storyline of The Beginning and the top-secret mission to protect the father, and made the preliminary draft of [sa]. Time travel was back, but with its own secret organization, Secret Arts (named after the name of set of techniques). Since Natalie, Lance, and Arielle were in use, I made a new trio. Nadine was the illegitimate child. Alexis was her half-sister. And, instead of a guy, I made Lucille (or Diane), a character I had never expanded on in the Timetravelers. I thought it'd work out.
I tried doing it... I really did. But it just wouldn't fit. So, I soon stopped writing it. Yet... I wanted to go back again. So, last November, for my NaNoWriMo project, I went back and decided to make a light-hearted story about the Natalie/Alexis/Diane trio. It'd have Secret Arts again, but it'd be mostly a fun story, or so I hoped. Once I found what I wanted to do with it, it soon turned into the usual angst (and it's very easy to see the change), but NaNo was what I needed to get my time travel story back. And it's going pretty well. I'm actually farther in [ch] than I am with [sa].
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In conclusion? My fanfic was crazy!