Yep. I've thought a lot about Pokemon mythology. I have no life.
Who has?
This marks the beginning of a rant that has practically nothing to do with anything. Please don't misunderstand my intentions and instead take this post as something that is meant to provoke conversation. Okay?
I just thought about this.
There are people who spend their entire life studying the grammar of Elvish or Klingon or analyzing the fictive mythologies and folk stories of literature. Why would thinking about Pokémon mythology in any way less honourable than thinking about philosophical questions that are based on axioms that are nonexistent in real life? Or studying string theories (no, they're not science yet)? Tolkien spent years thinking up the languages, beliefs and the history of a world that does not excist. People think of him as a genius. But then, if some trekkie spends his life thinking about the history of Startrekverse, people think that trekkie is crazy. Maybe it's because he didn't invent the world himself, but it's still quite interesting. What counts as overthinking and "no life"-thing? I mean, Tolkien left out a lot of stuff he had thought through. In a way, the stuff he created was
un-useful for the book as a whole. Why doesn't anyone say he didn't have a life? :D I don't mean he should be disrespected, but what he did resembles what fanficcers, for example, do, not to mention other novelists and the like. The biggest difference, of course, is in quality: Tolkien sure knew what he did and he did it well. Not all other novelists do their creative work with such care.
...I'm going in circles, aren't I? You people should crush me and my post so I can get my thoughts in order.
Fanfiction, on the other hand, is probably widely seen as rubbish because a lot of it
is rubbish. I just hate it when people have the "
fanfiction can't be good"-attitude. Or when people think all fans of something are impulsive nutcases.
I don't really know what I'm trying to achieve with this rant... I just think that fiction in a fiction is just as valuable as normal fiction is. Did anyone say it wasn't? Nope, but I felt like writing a rant...
In any case,
I aprticipated in NaNoWriMo a few days ago (I'll have to see how that turns out, though), and I noticed a strange thing.
I haven't felt like writing
Mama's Boy in a while now (I finished the story in my head, so in my mind, it's already finished :D), but when I started to write my genious NaNo project, I suddently had this incredible urge to write my dear little fic again. Also, as I try to concentrate, I get a dozen of good ideas for a story in a single day and want to write them all rightnoworelsei'lldosomethingawful. It's annoying. It's very annoying indeed.
So, now I want to write two fics, I should be writing some essays and poems and whatnot for my English portfolio, and what do I do?
Write my dreaded NaNo project.
I like my plot, though, but I don't want to write it
now.
Now, I have questions for you:
1) Have you any experience of something similar?
2) WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING?!