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  1. Carry that weight

    in Fanfic Announcements

    Posted · Edited by i1976

    Sorry... I'm a bit... lazy. I'm very BAD in "promoting" my stories :roll:

    The story is not "abandoned" (even if I risked to abandon it), BUT it's still ongoing.

    15 (!!!) chapters are on-line... and I'm writing a new chapter.

    A story a bit different from my previous ones, as I said previosly... but I hope, despite the darkness and the pain in it (it's centered on a dramatic grief... I can't say anything more), you'd recognize all the original characters (their temper, heart, values and relationships), even if in a such dramatic and sad situation.

    It's very difficult to write something so apparently "out" of DOH's universe not forgetting it's DOH: it's why I was going to abandon it... too much "out" and "dramatic/painful"... but I think I've found a good balance, now (or I hope so).

    So, Let me know what you're thinking 'bout: any hint is welcome to "fix" it, if it needs to be fixed, some way or another (characters' reactions, relationships, psychological analysis, reliability, and so on).

    I'm open to discuss and analyze everything in order to improve my stories.

    I love to analyze, put together, break up, think of all possibilities, look beyond appearances, look "beyond" ('bout everything and everyone, myself too); I'm the queen of "what if" and "think different and look beyond"... and it usually drives people crazy, I know, LOL.

    Never mind... it's a weird and complex discussion :-?

  2. Edited fanfic

    in Fanfic Announcements

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    It's an idea I had recently.

    Looking at my traffic stats on fanfiction. net, I was really surprised 'bout how many people keep on reading my FIRST stories, stories I wrote in 2007 (WOW, nearly 6 years ago).

    I wondered why and how it happens: NEW readers starting from my last story and then going back to all my previous ones 'cause the liked my last one? (GREAT) or my usual readers that, time after time, need to go back to those stories? Do usual readers miss my oldest stories 'cause they prefer them to my recent ones?.. mmmhh not so great... Or do they simply have fun to re-erad them, sometimes? (GREAT, it means they've liked them very much).

    Anyway, NEW or OLD readers, I decided to.. ehm.. fix these stories because of poor grammar and poor execution: they were my first stories written in a foreign language... and, reading them NOW I feel a bit ashamed 'bout my writing skills at that time (but, anyway, I had to start, somewhere).

    In effect, I've started here on this Forum with a round-robin... and I wrote my first fanfic thanks to one of your challenges (old times, when there were so many great authors here and so many round-robins and fanfic to read, HERE :().

    OK, stop regretting the oldest times.

    I'm starting a "re-writing" of my oldest stories: I'm not going to change plots but I'm fixing grammar (or I hope so) and improving the style (adding some lines and deleting or changing some other ones... so the story "flows" better).

    People who's already read these stories won't find anything really new in it, but some hints and for sure a better style (so, if they want to re-read them, I hope they'll enjoy them more than the first time... when they had to "endure" grammar mistakes and poor writing). And people who's going to read it for the first time, I hope they'll enjoy these "new" stories.

    Anyway, I'm trying, the more as possible, to keep my original style, even if a bit naive and elemental: I can't deny my origin. Improve but not deny that spirit, even if a bit childish and naive (it's matured along the years, but it's not changed so much :innocent:).

    I want to find again THAT atmosphere and spirit, to find again my personal way to write fic and to imagine DOH's universe (lately I've a bit lost this way), focusing on characters' development and relationships (not only Daisy and Enos, but Bo, Luke and uncle Jesse too); I need to refresh the DOH I've always had in my mind: a mix of love, friendship, honesty, trust, family's bonds, sacrifice, where nobody is never alone or abandoned because of the strong idea of justice, family, friendship and love... a world full of good and sweet feelings.

    http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3560374/1/Reflections-Daisy-s-diary (this is my OLDEST story, edited and "re-freshed" :wink:)

    http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5275673/1/The-cure (one of my oldest one-shot)

    More "old" (edited) fanfics to come.

    A sweet look at the past.

  3. Romance of the Muses

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm glad that you have reconnected with your muse. Now hold on to her and don't let her go. My own abandoned me about two months ago so I can feel your pain when it was gone. I'm happy for you.

    Sometimes, when you feel your muse is gone (or when you don't understand what path you have to follow or you're not satisfied 'bout the path you're following), it's very useful to go back to the origin, re-reading your first stories (or stories from other authors you liked very much) in order to find again that spirit and that happiness in writing (and reading), washing away that sort of "emotional garbage" sometimes you met along your way (writer's blocks, doubts, lack in self-confidence, disappointments and so on).

    Really, it helps a LOT. :wink:

    For example, I'm "fixing" my oldest stories, 'cause grammar and style were really simple and elemental... they were my first stories written in a foreign language. I'm trying to improve these stories... without deny them, anyway (changing something here and there, but not so much, and fixing grammar).

    I'm having really fun, and, surprisingly, I've found again the same feelings (positive feelings) I had while I was writing those stories... and it helps me in my on-going story too.

    Another trick: go back to the scenes I've loved the most in the original show.. in order to "catch" characters' personality and relationships as much as possibile, don't losing the "spirit" of the original show: I love to re-write DOH in a more mature and dramatic way (a sort of 8th series), but... sometimes I need to re-watch some dialogues, scenes, looks and so on in order to write characters fitting the original show (focusing most on Enos' and Daisy's characters, OK, in my perspective, but not forgetting nor "betraying" the other ones nor the original show's values and meanings).

    Some people say we have to look at the future, always. I don't think so: I'm the kind of person who looks a lot at the past, to remember where I'm from and why I'm this way.

  5. Romance of the Muses

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by i1976

    I sincerly hope someday your muse will convince you to write again. :)

    Just few lines per day, sometimes it's enough. But... yeah, when you start with few lines... you can't stop, 'cause what's inside you starts to overflow, and it's fantastic and terrific at the same time: sometimes I wonder if writing (and having all this BIG and EMOTIONAL world inside you, something to form and to give a sense to, day by day, story by story) is a gift or a curse.

    Sometimes I think it's a great gift... but sometimes I'd prefer to be ... less dreamy, imaginative and sensitive, to live more in the realm of reality (what IS) than in the realm of imagination and possibilities (what COULD BE).

    The hard life of an introvert, LOL (the hard life of an INFJ)

    "DON'T BEND; DON'T WATER IT DOWN; DON'T TRY TO MAKE IT LOGICAL; DON'T EDIT YOUR OWN SOUL ACCORDING TO THE FASHION. RATHER, FOLLOW YOUR MOST INTENSE OBSESSIONS MERCILESSLY." Franz Kafka

    I like this quote from Kafka... even if... well, Kafka for sure wasn't happy, but a tormented soul. It's why sometimes I think of writing (and HAVING to write, having to follow your obsessions) as a curse. Uh, no, I don't liken me to Kafka, LOL, HE was a genius, and He was a real writer (I'm someone who likes to write fanfic... pretty different, LOL, but it's somehow a form of "writing", a form of "art").

  11. "Hazzard"ous Cliches

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    A little more to say...

    I think fanfics are GREAT 'cause anybody can find something he likes to read of or to write of.

    Obviously everyone has his own taste 'bout plots, style, characters' analysis and pairing, but there are enough writers to satisty any reader. :)

    I perfectly know my fanfics, for example, are for few readers, and it's OK, but I'm happy to enjoy those few readers. :innocent:

  14. "Hazzard"ous Cliches

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    And then of course there are the Enos/Daisy stories that always end up with the same results.

    It's not important the end, but HOW the story develops to that end, ;)

    I've personally written a LOT of Enos/Daisy fics, but any story is pretty different (I mean, I've written plots TOTALLY different), and any Enos/Daisy's writer had his own style, his own way to develop a plot, and his own way to "analyze" the characters and their relationship.

    And if someone is not interested in the pairing, well, he can simply not read fics based on this paring. :p

    Anyway, I think it's not correct to define a pairing as a "clichè". A clichè is a overused plot as "loss of memory", "change of personality", "false deaths and ..ehm.. resurrection", "hypnosis", and so on. But writing 'bout a given character (or pairing) is not a clichè, in my opinion. :roll:

  19. I need your help / opinion...please

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Brian is right.

    I think writing is a sort of NEED. I NEED to write, 'cause it's an "healty safety valve" to my fantasy (besides drawings, editing pictures and making videos, LOL); moreover, writing and publishing what you write is a great way to share with people like you your passions and feelings (writing and reading are no very common passions out there, and sometimes I feel like I'm "something else" in the world). Anyway, this NEED could be very "scaring" in its strength: it scares me how much deeply you can be driven into a story (a story YOU are writing, or you are reading too), enjoying and suffering with the characters. Scaring but.... FANTASTIC. Don't you think?

  21. I need your help / opinion...please

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I agree with MaryAnne. If you had decided to quit simply 'cause you were no more interested in fanfic (and Dukes... what a shame, LOL), you'd simply have quitted without any regret. When you quit 'cause you don't like something anymore, simply you stop to do it, naturally, without even talking 'bout that: the passion is gone, stop, go with another passion.

    But it's not your case, obviously. I know, like every writer out there, how depressing is when your story seems go nowhere, or when your muse seems gone. Somehow, writing is a sort of... physical need: you feel you HAVE to write, no matter what. And sometimes, your muse help you when you try a new path, a new idea, something never explored (it's a way to "refresh" your mind); you write for yourself: if you like your writing and your characters, people will like it.

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