| The Ramblings of a Fanfic Author, Part 01: In the (semi) beginning... |
[Nov. 10th, 2007|07:10 pm] |
In a greater effort to make more use of my LJ, and try and write something consistently here, I'm going to go into something I've been meaning to for a long while. Basically, to go over my history as a fanfiction writer and pick apart most of the stuff I've written - IN PUBLIC - hoping that, in the process, I can further examine what I've done wrong (and right) in the past. By going through this process and tearing apart my older, crappier writing, I hope to get a better understanding of what I need to do to become better, and hopefully will at least entertain at least one person out there reading.
Or, if nobody bothers to read, I'll at least have kept myself busy. XD
SO. Watch out for random cursing, falling badifc, and all that crap.
It was around September of 1998, and I had just been given the best present EVER from my parents: The internet. Now, this was internet via Web TV, but fuck if I cared. I mean, I was 13, home schooled, and lacked anything close to social interaction. I was bored and starved for the ability to actually talk to people (who wouldn't also ridicule me). So, once I hooked that puppy up, what was the first thing I did?
No, the answer isn't to look up porn. AMAZING, I know. No, no, I immediately rushed to look up web sites for my two current fandoms at the time: Power Rangers and Sonic the Hedgehog. Almost immediately, I discovered this little novelty called "Fanfiction." Fans who would spend their time and energy crafting all sorts of stories based around things that I love, giving me even more entertainment beyond what the canon gave us? Fascinating. I was fairly well hooked. This was considerably better, and FAR beyond what I could have ever done, say, playing with action figures when I was ten. Conceptually, it just seemed fucking awesome.
Thus. I had to do it myself.
Oh, Lord God Almighty have mercy on my soul.
See, now, I'm not actually going to cover my earliest fanfiction. Oh, no.
I've made damn well sure to wipe as many traces of THOSE pieces of shit from the internet as possible. Oh, I could go over, say, their plots and what was wrong with them... but, some of that's hard to remember. I'd really rather not try to dwell on it, or else my memory will likely make it worse than it already was. There's little redeeming value in any of it, and there's PLENTY of of stuff for me to cover from the year 2000 and onward, since I began archiving my shit. (Having gotten an actual computer at the end of 1999.)
Yes.
Archiving it. I'm a pack rat at heart, and the complete deletion of my Power Rangers and Sonic fanfic is a benefit of having a lapse in my usual nature and just screaming to the heavens, "KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE."
No, for some reason, since I entered the Digimon fandom, I've been keeping this unorganized MESS of a folder simply labeled "Archives." It is for whatever I want it to be. Largely, it just sits at the top of my Fanfic folder, mocking me, daring me to open it and see what crap I've turned out in the past. I toss into it OTHER folders full of fanfic that I realize I'm never going to touch again, along with some random web pages I saved and reviews for fics I've deleted. Yes, yes, I'm pathetic to do that, I know. But, that's sort of the point of the folder. It is my own personal hall of shame.
Yet, it's not going to be the largest thing I'll go into in this series of rants. In fact, as it sits at the top of my Fanfic folder, and it's where my writing for the Digimon fandom began, I'm about to knock out a portion of it right here and now.
( And So It Begins... )
Also, one thing I'm likely to NOT go into much here is collaborations. There are some with other people in the past, and several with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) raptorscribe. I might touch on Digimon Evolution at some point, but I'm not going to tear it apart like I did the story above. Actually, I'm not going to be going at things with everything like I did above, anyway, because as my writing gets progressively more... well, decent, the less embarassing everything becomes. XD And the way in which I rant on things will vary depending on the topic.
But, for now... yeah. |
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