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Nov. 6th, 2013 04:17 pmBeen working on some midstory chapters for Starbound and revising the outline this past week, but am only doing a little bit of writing each morning at this point. I've remembered this fic I read months ago, called StarCrossed, and I've been unable to stop thinking about it.
Mom just saw me laying on my bed a few minutes ago, and asked if I was feeling depressed, and I told her. She suggested that I write my own fic in which the girls go back in time to make the right decisions, similar to this movie called Run, Lola, Run.
I gotta say, I don't really have the will to think up new stories when I'm trying to focus on the one I've already got my heart set on. That's why I'm writing about this here.
Basically, the fic is all about some very poor decisions that the four main characters have made, and the prices they are paying. ( Read more... )
So what even brought this up? The Starbound arc I've been working on involves the downfall of this group called the Hunt Club, which is a secret club in Ryouou High School whose mission is to drive otaku and other cliques they deem unworthy out of that school through hazing. Said group originated from this other fic called Bonds, though only in backstory, and I found it an interesting idea to draw parallels between it and the Ku Klux Klan (and particularly how the latter's second incarnation was brought down in 1946 by The Adventures of Superman). However, the fact that everyone in it will be going to prison (just like Konata in SC) and will have little to look forward to is what makes it depressing, but only because one of them not only had a change in heart and ratted on the club's president, but was the only one given a real chance to do so. The rest of them were most likely under pressure to remain in the club or else become a target.
Now, you're probably wondering what even possessed me to read something like that. Basically, I was testing myself to see how depressing a fic I can handle, after having read the second chapter of yet another fic called No Birds, No Bees. I can take depressiveness in general; everyone has to be, if they're to be cut out for anything other than Pokemon or Disney. One time brought the topic in general up with Mom, and she told me that there was this book she liked, called All the Pretty Horses, which featured a whole myriad of heartrending themes, but there was also this movie that she and Dad had to turn off after the first minute or so, since it began with someone being raped.
Also brought it up with Chelle, and she said that if something's bothering me on end, I should just put it behind me, saying also that that's the only way she was able to stop thinking about Shinzo.
For the record, I still do intend to keep the whole Hunt Club arc and continue writing to it, mainly because there are canon characters to the franchise that I would like to have appear in the fic. This time that the main characters will be spending back home in Japan is obviously the best time for them to do so, and without anything really going on there, they will have very little purpose. (Of course, the storyline itself wouldn't have much of one in and of itself, but I've arranged for it to be one of six things leading up to something bigger.) Bloodscorpion88, author of Bonds, has also expressed interest in the arc when I asked her about how the club works in her story. To alleviate things, though, I do plan on having several of the girls mention how much they pity any members who might actually have changed their ways under the right circumstances like that one guy did.
Mom just saw me laying on my bed a few minutes ago, and asked if I was feeling depressed, and I told her. She suggested that I write my own fic in which the girls go back in time to make the right decisions, similar to this movie called Run, Lola, Run.
I gotta say, I don't really have the will to think up new stories when I'm trying to focus on the one I've already got my heart set on. That's why I'm writing about this here.
Basically, the fic is all about some very poor decisions that the four main characters have made, and the prices they are paying. ( Read more... )
So what even brought this up? The Starbound arc I've been working on involves the downfall of this group called the Hunt Club, which is a secret club in Ryouou High School whose mission is to drive otaku and other cliques they deem unworthy out of that school through hazing. Said group originated from this other fic called Bonds, though only in backstory, and I found it an interesting idea to draw parallels between it and the Ku Klux Klan (and particularly how the latter's second incarnation was brought down in 1946 by The Adventures of Superman). However, the fact that everyone in it will be going to prison (just like Konata in SC) and will have little to look forward to is what makes it depressing, but only because one of them not only had a change in heart and ratted on the club's president, but was the only one given a real chance to do so. The rest of them were most likely under pressure to remain in the club or else become a target.
Now, you're probably wondering what even possessed me to read something like that. Basically, I was testing myself to see how depressing a fic I can handle, after having read the second chapter of yet another fic called No Birds, No Bees. I can take depressiveness in general; everyone has to be, if they're to be cut out for anything other than Pokemon or Disney. One time brought the topic in general up with Mom, and she told me that there was this book she liked, called All the Pretty Horses, which featured a whole myriad of heartrending themes, but there was also this movie that she and Dad had to turn off after the first minute or so, since it began with someone being raped.
Also brought it up with Chelle, and she said that if something's bothering me on end, I should just put it behind me, saying also that that's the only way she was able to stop thinking about Shinzo.
For the record, I still do intend to keep the whole Hunt Club arc and continue writing to it, mainly because there are canon characters to the franchise that I would like to have appear in the fic. This time that the main characters will be spending back home in Japan is obviously the best time for them to do so, and without anything really going on there, they will have very little purpose. (Of course, the storyline itself wouldn't have much of one in and of itself, but I've arranged for it to be one of six things leading up to something bigger.) Bloodscorpion88, author of Bonds, has also expressed interest in the arc when I asked her about how the club works in her story. To alleviate things, though, I do plan on having several of the girls mention how much they pity any members who might actually have changed their ways under the right circumstances like that one guy did.