03-13-2003, 02:33 PM
Why do I write?
There are a few different reasons:
First, it's really the only way I've been able to find release.
The closest I've come to getting laid was rubbing a nympho's pussy when I was in high school. That was just over ten years ago. Sexually frustrated is not strong enough to express how I feel at times, particularly as I do want to be a father some day. Being terminally shy, especially towards girls, does NOT help.
(Suggestion to find out how to write lemon scenes when you don't have experience, be sure to read lemons written by both men and women. Even if the writers only masturbated, they will still describe from their gender perspective.)
As a writer I can let my inner demons get out and take a stroll. I'd never go and fuck a twelve year old in real life, but there's a part of me that wishes I could do that. Rather than bottle up those desires, I let it out on paper. I'd never kill myself either, but I've been majorly depressed to the point I might have considered it had I not sat down and wrote the first half of the Ranma 1/2 Rejected series (that's 25 pages single spaced) in only two days.
Second, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
Ranma 1/2, NOTHING was resolved beyond Akane accepting her engagement to Ranma. Ranma still has his other fiancees, Ranma and Akane are not married, and the weird event of the weak wouldn't just magically stop. How does Ranma and Akane finally get married? What happens to the rest of the Nerima Wrecking crew?
Digimon Adventures... duh, WHAT?! Okay, what the hell were the execs at Toei smoking. It must've been great shit. Excuse be while I flush the ending down the toilet and start it over.
Digimon Tamers, great ending but... there's plenty of room for sequel.
It may sound presumptuous, but I'd like to explore the future of these worlds and how the characters react to different situations. How would Akane deal with having to relive her life with Ranma? How does having Hikari becoming pregnant as a teenager screw over the Chosen when a new threat begins? How would the Tamers deal with having a second adventure years after the first one?
Third, improving myself.
By writing for close to eight years now (after I took my last English class), my spelling and grammar has been vastly improved. Don't believe me, I'll show you my first fict some time unedited since I posted it. I had someone accuse me of having English as a second language. (Only if you count mathematics as a language would that be true. :P )
Because of the various stuff I've been writing, I've become knowledgable in a wide variety of subjects to better understand what I'm doing with the characters. Had I not started working on fanfiction: I'd know shit about Japan, still believed girls piss from their ass and that their hymen is located inside the vagina, have no clue what happens to a woman during pregnancy, learned about laws regarding age of consent and child pornography, found out that many countries still treat women as nothing more than a sex toy, and that's just to name a few of the things I've learned.
I hope to start writing a few original projects soon and see if I can get them published and actually be a professional author. (That would shock all of my English teachers into having heart attacks. I think my highest grade was a B-.)
Fourth, receiving praise and respect.
All too often we do our jobs day in and day out and rarely hear 'good job.' But with fanfiction, there isn't a week that goes by where I don't hear that at least once if not a few times. People I work with don't always respect me, but as an author I've got people from Spain and Germany who showed their respect for me and my work by making translations of some of my series.
Fifth, I write what I want to read.
Nine out of ten times, when I sit down to read a fict, I read one of my own ficts over someone else's. I include all the subjects I'm interested in my ficts, so why would I read someone else's that doesn't include them or does things I don't agree with?
There are a few different reasons:
First, it's really the only way I've been able to find release.
The closest I've come to getting laid was rubbing a nympho's pussy when I was in high school. That was just over ten years ago. Sexually frustrated is not strong enough to express how I feel at times, particularly as I do want to be a father some day. Being terminally shy, especially towards girls, does NOT help.
(Suggestion to find out how to write lemon scenes when you don't have experience, be sure to read lemons written by both men and women. Even if the writers only masturbated, they will still describe from their gender perspective.)
As a writer I can let my inner demons get out and take a stroll. I'd never go and fuck a twelve year old in real life, but there's a part of me that wishes I could do that. Rather than bottle up those desires, I let it out on paper. I'd never kill myself either, but I've been majorly depressed to the point I might have considered it had I not sat down and wrote the first half of the Ranma 1/2 Rejected series (that's 25 pages single spaced) in only two days.
Second, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
Ranma 1/2, NOTHING was resolved beyond Akane accepting her engagement to Ranma. Ranma still has his other fiancees, Ranma and Akane are not married, and the weird event of the weak wouldn't just magically stop. How does Ranma and Akane finally get married? What happens to the rest of the Nerima Wrecking crew?
Digimon Adventures... duh, WHAT?! Okay, what the hell were the execs at Toei smoking. It must've been great shit. Excuse be while I flush the ending down the toilet and start it over.
Digimon Tamers, great ending but... there's plenty of room for sequel.
It may sound presumptuous, but I'd like to explore the future of these worlds and how the characters react to different situations. How would Akane deal with having to relive her life with Ranma? How does having Hikari becoming pregnant as a teenager screw over the Chosen when a new threat begins? How would the Tamers deal with having a second adventure years after the first one?
Third, improving myself.
By writing for close to eight years now (after I took my last English class), my spelling and grammar has been vastly improved. Don't believe me, I'll show you my first fict some time unedited since I posted it. I had someone accuse me of having English as a second language. (Only if you count mathematics as a language would that be true. :P )
Because of the various stuff I've been writing, I've become knowledgable in a wide variety of subjects to better understand what I'm doing with the characters. Had I not started working on fanfiction: I'd know shit about Japan, still believed girls piss from their ass and that their hymen is located inside the vagina, have no clue what happens to a woman during pregnancy, learned about laws regarding age of consent and child pornography, found out that many countries still treat women as nothing more than a sex toy, and that's just to name a few of the things I've learned.
I hope to start writing a few original projects soon and see if I can get them published and actually be a professional author. (That would shock all of my English teachers into having heart attacks. I think my highest grade was a B-.)
Fourth, receiving praise and respect.
All too often we do our jobs day in and day out and rarely hear 'good job.' But with fanfiction, there isn't a week that goes by where I don't hear that at least once if not a few times. People I work with don't always respect me, but as an author I've got people from Spain and Germany who showed their respect for me and my work by making translations of some of my series.
Fifth, I write what I want to read.
Nine out of ten times, when I sit down to read a fict, I read one of my own ficts over someone else's. I include all the subjects I'm interested in my ficts, so why would I read someone else's that doesn't include them or does things I don't agree with?