Hello world!
I realize that I have been a fail blogger for the past...um....four months, I believe it is. That's sad. So I'm going to try to get back into this, assuming it doesn't end up as yet another distraction.
Today's topic is fanfiction. I've gotten into writing it more recently, and it's fun. I see it as good writing practice, because writing is like anything else. More experience makes you better. Practice makes perfect. And fanfiction is easier than anything else - your world, your characters, your everything is all set up for you. All you need to do is tweak it a little bit.
So you have your idea. Then you get to writing it. Sometimes the characters take on unique characteristics that are totally out of character (OOC) for the fandom you're writing for. Sometimes things happen that could never happen in the book/movie/TV show/whatever. But that's why it's called fanFICTION. It's fictitious. And it's fun that way!
Now you're done writing it. You want to share it, so you post it somewhere like fanfiction.net or show it to your friends. In my case, it's both, but I'd like to talk about sharing online.
Online, you get reviews. That means you've got readers. People are reading your work, and sometimes they even like it and want to let you know. You get that first review, and you're stoked. You're dancing around, shouting about how wonderful you are and how you're going to be famous - or maybe this is all happening only in your head, and on the surface, you're just smiling. This, right here, is the glory of fanfiction.
But then you get that first flame. That's the pitfall of fanfiction. That's what happened to me today. I got - not one, but two - flame reviews.
This was me:
:D "Yay! Review!"
:) *reads review*
: "That wasn't very nice."
>:[ "That *****!"
Now I'm getting into my own personal experience.
I had an idea for writing for a fandom I can't even say I'm part of. I was writing for "Castle" even though I don't watch the show (well, I'm going to!). Strange, yes, but I'd gotten the idea, and there was no stopping me writing it. So I did. It took me maybe three days to finish the thing. Then I posted it on fanfiction.net just last night.
Today, I checked my email. Fanfiction.net sends me emails when I get put on alert, favorited, or reviews. So I started reading the reviews I'd gotten. There were four. Two of them were flames, even though at least one (possibly both) said they "don't mean to be flaming."
SURE YA DON'T.
I had warned in the disclaimer before the story that I don't watch the show. I had warned that it would be OOC. But what did they flame me for?
FOR BEING OOC.
Okay. Here's what I have to say: if you don't want to see it, don't look. If you don't want to hear it, don't listen. And if you don't want to read it, don't read!
(Of course this isn't applicable all the time. We can't just close our eyes to the world and not see what's going on in the world; we need to be aware. But I think you can get what I'm saying.)
*sigh* Thanks for letting me rant. I'm impressed if you got all the way here, and even more impressed if you have not changed your view of me (probably for the worse) along the way. I have decided that I will express my opinions, and you can think whatever you want.
Until next time!
~ Dani
P.S. It would make me happy if you'd like to check out my fanfiction. If you're awesome enough to do so, look here!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Friday, September 3, 2010
Finished Novel!
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh you guys!
Yes that was a direct Legally Blonde quote. Don't judge me.
But really, oh my gosh! I am so excited right now. Because I finished my novel! My first ever finished novel!
I've been working on this baby since about the seventh grade. (I'm now in tenth.) It's called Minds, and it's my masterpiece. It's my baby. I've been working on it forever, constantly continuing it and then stopping again, and now it's finally done!
The first draft, anyway.
But still. It took so long to get me here. First random writing for like two years, then JulNo this year, then AugNo, and now my last couple thousand words today during SeptNo.
The novel is now 93,845 words. It's 160 pages (11 pt font, single spaced) in Word. I am so incredibly proud of myself for getting it this far.
Now I think I'll leave it alone for a while so that I don't have to bleach my eyes in the middle of the month from too much reading of bad writing. (I wasn't as skilled in seventh grade as I am now. Let's just say that.)
So. Progress so far: one finished novel, one WriMo to work on. I'm 2,786 words into SeptNo at this point, so I'm doing well. I'm on track.
Anyway, bed calls. Good night.
Dani Pink Cloud
Yes that was a direct Legally Blonde quote. Don't judge me.
But really, oh my gosh! I am so excited right now. Because I finished my novel! My first ever finished novel!
I've been working on this baby since about the seventh grade. (I'm now in tenth.) It's called Minds, and it's my masterpiece. It's my baby. I've been working on it forever, constantly continuing it and then stopping again, and now it's finally done!
The first draft, anyway.
But still. It took so long to get me here. First random writing for like two years, then JulNo this year, then AugNo, and now my last couple thousand words today during SeptNo.
The novel is now 93,845 words. It's 160 pages (11 pt font, single spaced) in Word. I am so incredibly proud of myself for getting it this far.
Now I think I'll leave it alone for a while so that I don't have to bleach my eyes in the middle of the month from too much reading of bad writing. (I wasn't as skilled in seventh grade as I am now. Let's just say that.)
So. Progress so far: one finished novel, one WriMo to work on. I'm 2,786 words into SeptNo at this point, so I'm doing well. I'm on track.
Anyway, bed calls. Good night.
Dani Pink Cloud
Thursday, September 2, 2010
AugNo, SeptNo, and School, Oh My!
Well, yet again, I find myself in the position of the lowest of the low: a fail blogger. Sigh. I'm sorry.
Yes, I did just apologize to myself. Don't judge. I know you talk to yourself too. Everyone does, you know.
Well! I guess I'll start at the beginning of last month. I decided to do AugNo, with a goal of 25K. This was a seemingly attainable goal. But naturally, I was wrong.
Because - wait for it - the dreaded . . . most feared . . . most blocked from a writer's mind . . . school came along.
That forced me to do my entire summer homework within a very short amount of time. That just goes to prove what my AP World teacher told me: "Procrastination is the thief of Time." Not that that'll ever stop me.
Anyway. So I was faced with writing, homework, a weeklong vacation, and then directly after said vacation, school.
It didn't go as well as planned. Basically, I pushed my goal back down to 20K, which I did manage to make, happily. I won AugNo, my second WriMo ever, with 20,484 words.
Now it's September. And from the title of this post, I bet you can guess what I did.
I signed up for SeptNo.
"Oh, Dani, you're nuts!" "How are you going to manage it with school?" "WHY?" I know that's what you're all thinking.
Or maybe just the last part. But still.
In answer to the most essential last question out of the above list, I signed up in preparation for NaNo. I didn't want to face a month where I had to write 50K during school so suddenly. So here I am, signed up for SeptNo with a goal of 25K. I really just need this to teach myself how to deal, how not to procrastinate.
Hopefully, it'll work.
In other news, my story Minds, which was my JulNo and AugNo novel, is now at 91,043 words! Exciting, no? This is by far the longest thing I've ever written. Personal goal: hit 100K. Oh, yeah.
I'm going to do it. Meaning the 100K, SeptNo, and school. I'll juggle it all. Somehow.
Good luck to both myself and whoever might be reading this.
Dani Pink Cloud
Yes, I did just apologize to myself. Don't judge. I know you talk to yourself too. Everyone does, you know.
Well! I guess I'll start at the beginning of last month. I decided to do AugNo, with a goal of 25K. This was a seemingly attainable goal. But naturally, I was wrong.
Because - wait for it - the dreaded . . . most feared . . . most blocked from a writer's mind . . . school came along.
That forced me to do my entire summer homework within a very short amount of time. That just goes to prove what my AP World teacher told me: "Procrastination is the thief of Time." Not that that'll ever stop me.
Anyway. So I was faced with writing, homework, a weeklong vacation, and then directly after said vacation, school.
It didn't go as well as planned. Basically, I pushed my goal back down to 20K, which I did manage to make, happily. I won AugNo, my second WriMo ever, with 20,484 words.
Now it's September. And from the title of this post, I bet you can guess what I did.
I signed up for SeptNo.
"Oh, Dani, you're nuts!" "How are you going to manage it with school?" "WHY?" I know that's what you're all thinking.
Or maybe just the last part. But still.
In answer to the most essential last question out of the above list, I signed up in preparation for NaNo. I didn't want to face a month where I had to write 50K during school so suddenly. So here I am, signed up for SeptNo with a goal of 25K. I really just need this to teach myself how to deal, how not to procrastinate.
Hopefully, it'll work.
In other news, my story Minds, which was my JulNo and AugNo novel, is now at 91,043 words! Exciting, no? This is by far the longest thing I've ever written. Personal goal: hit 100K. Oh, yeah.
I'm going to do it. Meaning the 100K, SeptNo, and school. I'll juggle it all. Somehow.
Good luck to both myself and whoever might be reading this.
Dani Pink Cloud
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Why I Am (sort of) A Fail
I am a fail blogger. I haven't blogged in....I don't know. Weeks. Since last month, I know that. So, I'm back, and alive!
Oh, and the reason the URL had to change was because I changed my email, so I was able to transfer all the information onto here, but I had to make a different URL.
Anyway. The one redeeming factor here is that I WON JULNO! That's what makes me not so much full of fail. So, yeah, I won, with 51,507 and ranked 95. But I was in at least the top 90 to win, it's just that people caught up to me. So, yeah.
Basically, I'm really happy with myself because I won my first WriMo, even though I thought I would be an epic failure.
Of course, I didn't finish my novel, Minds, however. So I signed up for AugNo to finish it. That's the project I'm working on now. My AugNo goal is 25,000, and I'm at 11,714 currently.
Also, I am a total fail, because I procrastinated so much for summer homework. I now have to do it ALL before Saturday. Today's Wednesday. *dies*
Saturday is when I go on vacation, by the way. I come home the day before school starts. ;D
So. I need to get back to work. On both writing and homework. *sigh* Well, goodbye all, be sorrowful in my absence!
Dani Pink Cloud
Oh, and the reason the URL had to change was because I changed my email, so I was able to transfer all the information onto here, but I had to make a different URL.
Anyway. The one redeeming factor here is that I WON JULNO! That's what makes me not so much full of fail. So, yeah, I won, with 51,507 and ranked 95. But I was in at least the top 90 to win, it's just that people caught up to me. So, yeah.
Basically, I'm really happy with myself because I won my first WriMo, even though I thought I would be an epic failure.
Of course, I didn't finish my novel, Minds, however. So I signed up for AugNo to finish it. That's the project I'm working on now. My AugNo goal is 25,000, and I'm at 11,714 currently.
Also, I am a total fail, because I procrastinated so much for summer homework. I now have to do it ALL before Saturday. Today's Wednesday. *dies*
Saturday is when I go on vacation, by the way. I come home the day before school starts. ;D
So. I need to get back to work. On both writing and homework. *sigh* Well, goodbye all, be sorrowful in my absence!
Dani Pink Cloud
Thursday, July 22, 2010
All Caught Up!
Yay! I am finally caught up! I surpassed the daily word goal yesterday. Now I'm at 34,468 words. Yay! I'm going to make it. I really am.
But!
Somehow, summer always manages to catch me in its tight grip. I plan to be totally relaxed, do nothing, sign up for JulNo. And then all this STUFF comes along.
For example: diving. Practice plus a meet on Sunday. Also, friends. Yes, must be social. And UCLA. Dad's taking me on a tour. And of course, the ever tempting beach. Well, what else does one do in SoCal?
See what I mean? Somehow, summer always manages to get me all caught up in a net of stuff I just HAVE to do.
So that's what I think the real challenge of JulNo, of any WriMo, is. It's not to write 50,000 words. Anyone with no life can do that in 30-31 days. The real challenge is to make time to write. To force yourself to get into your craft, to not abandon it for all the stuff that you think is "more important."
I accept that challenge.
And I'm off to try to meet it.
Dani Pink Cloud
But!
Somehow, summer always manages to catch me in its tight grip. I plan to be totally relaxed, do nothing, sign up for JulNo. And then all this STUFF comes along.
For example: diving. Practice plus a meet on Sunday. Also, friends. Yes, must be social. And UCLA. Dad's taking me on a tour. And of course, the ever tempting beach. Well, what else does one do in SoCal?
See what I mean? Somehow, summer always manages to get me all caught up in a net of stuff I just HAVE to do.
So that's what I think the real challenge of JulNo, of any WriMo, is. It's not to write 50,000 words. Anyone with no life can do that in 30-31 days. The real challenge is to make time to write. To force yourself to get into your craft, to not abandon it for all the stuff that you think is "more important."
I accept that challenge.
And I'm off to try to meet it.
Dani Pink Cloud
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Sharing Isn't Always Caring
Yes, I do realize this is my third post of the day. Tough luck. I'm a very busy person, procrastinating and all.
Anyway. Sharing is caring. Not always true, folks, especially when it comes to the Internet. I already know that I shouldn't share a lot of my personal information. I mean, duh. I have Facebook, I think I've figured out by now that it's not good to put your freaking address out on the Internet.
But.
I am facing a dilemma. A writing dilemma, to be exact.
To share, or not to share? That is my question. I don't mind sharing excerpts. In fact, that's great. But I'm sort of hedging about websites like Fictionpress.com and Inkpop.com. Is it really a good idea to put my work, my ideas, out on the Internet in public like that? I don't know.
Pros: reviews. Reviews. Oh, and reviews.
Cons: potential plagiarism. People potentially stealing my idea, if not my words. Flames.
Lots more cons than pros there.
So I am seriously considering taking my work down from Fictionpress. I'll keep Fanfiction.net, since that's altogether different. But I think this is goodbye, Fictionpress.
I'm not that sad.
Of course, novel swapping is always good. I like that idea; it's cool that it's just private and everything. So if anyone wants to swap at the end of July/early August, go on the JulNo forums and U2U me!
Dani Pink Cloud
Anyway. Sharing is caring. Not always true, folks, especially when it comes to the Internet. I already know that I shouldn't share a lot of my personal information. I mean, duh. I have Facebook, I think I've figured out by now that it's not good to put your freaking address out on the Internet.
But.
I am facing a dilemma. A writing dilemma, to be exact.
To share, or not to share? That is my question. I don't mind sharing excerpts. In fact, that's great. But I'm sort of hedging about websites like Fictionpress.com and Inkpop.com. Is it really a good idea to put my work, my ideas, out on the Internet in public like that? I don't know.
Pros: reviews. Reviews. Oh, and reviews.
Cons: potential plagiarism. People potentially stealing my idea, if not my words. Flames.
Lots more cons than pros there.
So I am seriously considering taking my work down from Fictionpress. I'll keep Fanfiction.net, since that's altogether different. But I think this is goodbye, Fictionpress.
I'm not that sad.
Of course, novel swapping is always good. I like that idea; it's cool that it's just private and everything. So if anyone wants to swap at the end of July/early August, go on the JulNo forums and U2U me!
Dani Pink Cloud
To Do It or Not To Do It.....
That title sounds kind of bad. Oh well.
In actuality, it refers to whether or not I should do AugNo and NaNo. So, here is my conversation (argument) with myself over what to do.
Dani: Do AugNo!
Pink: Why?
Dani: We have a great idea already!
Pink: So? We'll only have half the month or so to write.
Dani: That's okay! Just make the goal like 20,000 or something!
Pink: Hmph. Fine.
You might be wondering: if your goal is going to be so small that it won't even be a real novel, why even do AugNo?
Because, I answer, I am a writer. And writers write for the sake of writing, not for the sake of getting published.
All right, there's AugNo decided.
Dani: Do NaNo!
Pink: Why?
Dani: 'Cause it's fun!
Pink: But we don't have a plot.
Dani: We can come up with one!
Pink: But we're taking lots of hard classes and we'll have lots of homework.
Dani: Oh yeah....
Pink: See the dilemma?
Dani: Well, we could just die that month.
Pink: But then it wouldn't be fun, defeating our original purpose.
Dani: Huh. Damn.
The argument has not yet been won over. You can help Dani and Pink decide; they would appreciate the help! Gracias!
Dani Pink Cloud
In actuality, it refers to whether or not I should do AugNo and NaNo. So, here is my conversation (argument) with myself over what to do.
Dani: Do AugNo!
Pink: Why?
Dani: We have a great idea already!
Pink: So? We'll only have half the month or so to write.
Dani: That's okay! Just make the goal like 20,000 or something!
Pink: Hmph. Fine.
You might be wondering: if your goal is going to be so small that it won't even be a real novel, why even do AugNo?
Because, I answer, I am a writer. And writers write for the sake of writing, not for the sake of getting published.
All right, there's AugNo decided.
Dani: Do NaNo!
Pink: Why?
Dani: 'Cause it's fun!
Pink: But we don't have a plot.
Dani: We can come up with one!
Pink: But we're taking lots of hard classes and we'll have lots of homework.
Dani: Oh yeah....
Pink: See the dilemma?
Dani: Well, we could just die that month.
Pink: But then it wouldn't be fun, defeating our original purpose.
Dani: Huh. Damn.
The argument has not yet been won over. You can help Dani and Pink decide; they would appreciate the help! Gracias!
Dani Pink Cloud
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