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There Was a Ship has been retooled and completed but for the trademark post-climax fluff; there is less wangst but it is of higher quality
And this has inspired my fanfictional self-analysis:
My thoughts on my questionable creations
Three Multi-Chapter Stories:
If You Need Her - I clearly wrote this back when Evanescence was way too popular. Mostly takes place in the anime filler hell between Episodes 81 and 102, which is why Naraku is strangely absent. A lot of the beginning is weak, I fear, and a lot of the middle betrays the fact that I was sort of wandering in the dark and writing myself into cul-de-sacs which required retracing my steps. Plus, some nonbreaking space glitches as I was often writing in HTML at the time. Otherwise it seems to hold well. Mikaila did two absolutely stunning pieces of artwork for it. My major lesson from this was that writing an episodic work is a Bad Idea, as the story could desperately use a heavy revision, but on the other hand I really needed feedback on the story to keep motivated.
Stricken - My descent into angst. Sort of a reverse of “If You Need Her,” I think, in terms of character focus and interaction. Happens sometime after Episode 132.
There Was a Ship - I felt very artsy and, intending to do a story with poetic caption, eventually decided on “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” which is a poem I really did not like in high school, but after enough reading a lot of lines gave me some pretty good imagery. Probably without realizing it, Starzki gave me a damning criticism of the first version, causing me to really question where I thought I was going, and stopping me from going any further. Reading some Stephen King and discussing the problems with the original narrative with Starzki combined to break through my writer’s block. (I’ve really never talked much about works in progress before; I hate to tell someone I have a clever idea and find out later I can’t follow through with it.) I decided the whole thing needed to be retooled, and when inspiration hit a year later I wrote a lot of new scenes, and formed what I had before around that, while throwing out everything that didn’t fit. When finished, I had - in my mind - a story which removes a lot of unnecessary and unintentionally exploitative scenes in favor of a much tighter and deeper story.
Seven Sango/Miroku Shorts:
The Ninth Pain - My first forage into the Inuyasha fandom.
Butterfly - Something I threw together to put on Mikaila’s Kumo no Su website. Response to the first Inuyasha movie.
For Forgiveness - Response to Starzki’s To Be Proud.
Itch - Extension of Chapter 357-358, and sort of a response to Starzki’s very excellent (and IMHO, very necessary) Support.
Little Things - One of my more favorite Sango/Miroku talk-fics.
Getting Evens - Probably a response to Mikaila’s “Strip Poker” sketch.
Sweet and Sour - There she was, like double-cherry pie, yeah, there she was. Sort of the culmination of all the others, in that there is metaphoric doing it.
Two Other Shorts:
Fukamoriji Shiki - Miroku’s family. Inspired while I was visiting the Miroku temple at Houryuuji. My favorite.
Is She Promised? - Kikyou/Kagome smecks. Aiffe-inspired.
Cliché Sango/Miroku works I’m keeping to myself for now:
Looking at the Stars - prawn fic Finished.
Sting - undressing fic. Finished(?)
Iron and Tears - healing smex fic. Finished(?)
Shiro - blanket fic. Barely started.
Four Miserable Failures:
Terra Branford’s Flight of Fancy - This is a Final Fantasy VI fic. It is full of wangst and pron. Mercifully taken out back and shot by FF.net Morality Enforcers years ago. Taught me that the best way to get reviews is graphic by-the-book out-of-character sexual congress.
Locke Cole’s Final Repose - The sequel. Less sex, more violence. Contains my first real villain - a mustache-stroking semi-occult Snidely Whiplash with nonspecific revenge and a sexual kink. Taught me the second-best way to get reviews is graphic by-the-book out-of-character sexualized violence.
Untitled Zidane/Dagger Prawn - A Final Fantasy IX fic long since purged from this Earth. I can’t remember what the title was. Taught me the value of shame.
Requiem for a Genome - A Final Fantasy IX fic with a title more clever than the story. Taught me that the best way to end a story is to kill someone.
These are my leech-children. If you have the stomach, read and learn what not to do.
Four Sango/Miroku Anime Music Videos:
You Wreck Me (Tom Petty), Hurt (Johnny Cash), Possession (Sarah McLachlan), It’s Not (Aimee Mann)
- I need to put these on Youtube or something.
Also:
- Still a huge fan of Mikaila, wherever she is.
- Living the rest of my life with Starzki.
:)
And this has inspired my fanfictional self-analysis:
My thoughts on my questionable creations
Three Multi-Chapter Stories:
If You Need Her - I clearly wrote this back when Evanescence was way too popular. Mostly takes place in the anime filler hell between Episodes 81 and 102, which is why Naraku is strangely absent. A lot of the beginning is weak, I fear, and a lot of the middle betrays the fact that I was sort of wandering in the dark and writing myself into cul-de-sacs which required retracing my steps. Plus, some nonbreaking space glitches as I was often writing in HTML at the time. Otherwise it seems to hold well. Mikaila did two absolutely stunning pieces of artwork for it. My major lesson from this was that writing an episodic work is a Bad Idea, as the story could desperately use a heavy revision, but on the other hand I really needed feedback on the story to keep motivated.
Stricken - My descent into angst. Sort of a reverse of “If You Need Her,” I think, in terms of character focus and interaction. Happens sometime after Episode 132.
There Was a Ship - I felt very artsy and, intending to do a story with poetic caption, eventually decided on “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” which is a poem I really did not like in high school, but after enough reading a lot of lines gave me some pretty good imagery. Probably without realizing it, Starzki gave me a damning criticism of the first version, causing me to really question where I thought I was going, and stopping me from going any further. Reading some Stephen King and discussing the problems with the original narrative with Starzki combined to break through my writer’s block. (I’ve really never talked much about works in progress before; I hate to tell someone I have a clever idea and find out later I can’t follow through with it.) I decided the whole thing needed to be retooled, and when inspiration hit a year later I wrote a lot of new scenes, and formed what I had before around that, while throwing out everything that didn’t fit. When finished, I had - in my mind - a story which removes a lot of unnecessary and unintentionally exploitative scenes in favor of a much tighter and deeper story.
Seven Sango/Miroku Shorts:
The Ninth Pain - My first forage into the Inuyasha fandom.
Butterfly - Something I threw together to put on Mikaila’s Kumo no Su website. Response to the first Inuyasha movie.
For Forgiveness - Response to Starzki’s To Be Proud.
Itch - Extension of Chapter 357-358, and sort of a response to Starzki’s very excellent (and IMHO, very necessary) Support.
Little Things - One of my more favorite Sango/Miroku talk-fics.
Getting Evens - Probably a response to Mikaila’s “Strip Poker” sketch.
Sweet and Sour - There she was, like double-cherry pie, yeah, there she was. Sort of the culmination of all the others, in that there is metaphoric doing it.
Two Other Shorts:
Fukamoriji Shiki - Miroku’s family. Inspired while I was visiting the Miroku temple at Houryuuji. My favorite.
Is She Promised? - Kikyou/Kagome smecks. Aiffe-inspired.
Cliché Sango/Miroku works I’m keeping to myself for now:
Looking at the Stars - prawn fic Finished.
Sting - undressing fic. Finished(?)
Iron and Tears - healing smex fic. Finished(?)
Shiro - blanket fic. Barely started.
Four Miserable Failures:
Terra Branford’s Flight of Fancy - This is a Final Fantasy VI fic. It is full of wangst and pron. Mercifully taken out back and shot by FF.net Morality Enforcers years ago. Taught me that the best way to get reviews is graphic by-the-book out-of-character sexual congress.
Locke Cole’s Final Repose - The sequel. Less sex, more violence. Contains my first real villain - a mustache-stroking semi-occult Snidely Whiplash with nonspecific revenge and a sexual kink. Taught me the second-best way to get reviews is graphic by-the-book out-of-character sexualized violence.
Untitled Zidane/Dagger Prawn - A Final Fantasy IX fic long since purged from this Earth. I can’t remember what the title was. Taught me the value of shame.
Requiem for a Genome - A Final Fantasy IX fic with a title more clever than the story. Taught me that the best way to end a story is to kill someone.
These are my leech-children. If you have the stomach, read and learn what not to do.
Four Sango/Miroku Anime Music Videos:
You Wreck Me (Tom Petty), Hurt (Johnny Cash), Possession (Sarah McLachlan), It’s Not (Aimee Mann)
- I need to put these on Youtube or something.
Also:
- Still a huge fan of Mikaila, wherever she is.
- Living the rest of my life with Starzki.
:)