Now allow me to smite my head upon the desk...
Excuse me for a moment while I rant. My examinations took place last month--I've said this before on posts earlier on in this journal. I had average scores on some of them, did quite well on several--and nigh abysmally on one. Now, I should theoretically pass the last one, but the margin of error's high enough for my estimation that nothing's really certain. The upshot of this, however, is that my entire friggin' degree hinges on what, for me, might as well be a toss of a coin. The results are supposed to be sent to me at home, and should be arriving some time this month--and frankly, the suspense of waiting is killing me. Argh. And then there's always the possibility that the undergraduate office will screw things up massively and send the damn thing to my London address, where I can't get at it without flying all the way back to England...
Gah. Enough ranting. I'm sorry for inflicting this on anybody who may be reading this, but I had to get it off my chest. On to something lighter, I suppose.
I've been thinking about the first fic I began. I seem to have a tendency to start incredibly epic storylines. Right now, I've got three in the air right now, all in very early stages of progress. The one I'm thinking about had an absolutely terrible name at first, but was changed quickly enough to Champions of Eternity. It's a crossover fic, and it stars a main character who quite frankly breaks the power curve--he's a dimensional traveller as well as having superhuman powers analogous to Superman's. Oh, and he was friends with the Last Unicorn. :D Yeah, I suppose he's a godboy. I was aware of the concept of Mary Sue at the time--unfortunately, I was feeling a trifle rebellious when I started... :P
I suppose it was an experiment, too. I wanted to try and see if one could create a personally powerful OC with connections to canon characters and not have the character come off as something horribly obnoxious you'd find on GAFF or Deleterius or Ficbitches or...
You get the idea. In any case, recently, I started rewriting the first few chapters of this thing, mostly because they were the very first things I'd written, and, well, I'd evolved as a writer since then. I'm blowing my own horn, I suppose, but I was just wondering--if I posted the rewritten chapters here, what would people think?
Hm. It's late now. Going to bed. Perhaps I'll do it tomorrow.
Gah. Enough ranting. I'm sorry for inflicting this on anybody who may be reading this, but I had to get it off my chest. On to something lighter, I suppose.
I've been thinking about the first fic I began. I seem to have a tendency to start incredibly epic storylines. Right now, I've got three in the air right now, all in very early stages of progress. The one I'm thinking about had an absolutely terrible name at first, but was changed quickly enough to Champions of Eternity. It's a crossover fic, and it stars a main character who quite frankly breaks the power curve--he's a dimensional traveller as well as having superhuman powers analogous to Superman's. Oh, and he was friends with the Last Unicorn. :D Yeah, I suppose he's a godboy. I was aware of the concept of Mary Sue at the time--unfortunately, I was feeling a trifle rebellious when I started... :P
I suppose it was an experiment, too. I wanted to try and see if one could create a personally powerful OC with connections to canon characters and not have the character come off as something horribly obnoxious you'd find on GAFF or Deleterius or Ficbitches or...
You get the idea. In any case, recently, I started rewriting the first few chapters of this thing, mostly because they were the very first things I'd written, and, well, I'd evolved as a writer since then. I'm blowing my own horn, I suppose, but I was just wondering--if I posted the rewritten chapters here, what would people think?
Hm. It's late now. Going to bed. Perhaps I'll do it tomorrow.