Hey there, I'm Kaiser Wilhelm, but I will totally answer to Kaiser. I won't tell you much about myself (at least outside of the realm of reading and writing), but I will tell you that I'm a highschooler, whose dream is to someday get a book published. I'm a huge anime/manga fan, but as you can see from the HP fic, that's not the only thing I'll read/watch.
Okay, here's the deal, I could sit here and tell you about my favorite books, anime, music, pairings, etc. but that just seems irrelevant, especially considering that it's always changing for me. Seriously, though, if you want to know anything, just ask. In fact, if you want or need anything from me whether it be asking me to read a story, or wanting my opinion on what happened on Naruto last night, feel free to drop a line. Even if I don't know you, I love making new friends so that's cool with me.
So, here's some information on me as a reader and a writer. When it comes to fanfics, I can't give any guarantees as to what I will read, and what I won't. There's really no line for me. I agree with a lot of people who will tell you to keep looking for spelling and grammar mistakes, use a thesaurus, have a good summary, but it's all just dependent if this story speaks to me. I could place some guidelines, tell you what I generally like in stories, but all of them would be wrong because there has been at least one exception to all of them. I could tell you that I don't like OCs, but I've read a couple DBZ stories that I loved, that were based around OCs. I could tell you that I like good grammar and good spelling, but I have read stories that were written by people who took English as a second language, and every other word in that story was spelled so badly that it was barely recognizable. But I won't tell you that I hated that story because of it. It's all about timing, and creativity. I hate to say it, but there will be plenty of times where I will reject stories because they aren't in the type of genre I like, or they're not based off the characters I like, but there will be that one in a million story that just jumps out at me whether or not it's the type I would usually go for. And that is the story that has the plot or the plot device that I just don't see anywhere else. Or the difference is that, that particular story has an element that have never seen before, and that makes it interesting. If you have a pokemon story, and the summary is bad, but somewhere in there you add something like "Ash is a medieval knight with his trusted pikachu" I will read that story. Just because that is something I have never seen before. It's about creativity people.
So, I just went on a randomly long rant (I tend to do that a lot) about myself as a reader, so here's me as a writer. Lately, I've been writing a lot of Naruto fics. And you're probably wondering why I haven't posted any of them, and the reason is the way in which I write. I organize my stories in my head SO much that I know what every character is going to do through this story from beginning to end. I have to do this, because if I didn't my stories would never come together. I have the hardest time writing beginnings, so to compensate for that, I don't write in a linear fashion. It all comes together in chronological order, but all chapters are written at different times. For example, I'm writing a fic for Naruto called Bird-boy, I know, sounds dumb, but I guarantee that it makes sense. This fic is long and crazy, but I still don't have a beginning, because I find the setup to be the hardest part of the writing process. So, one day I'll say, "You know, I'm in a mood to write the chapter with Neji's reflection on his fight with Kidoumaru." and the next day I might say, "I think I want to write the chapter where Deidara fights Neji and Naruto." So that is my writing process. It makes me have to rewrite a lot more, because when I get better, I have to go revise some of the later chapters because in reality they were written first.
Also, I get ideas everyday, some stick, and some don't. The ones that stick tend to stay in the back of my brain for awhile, and during this waiting time, some lose their adhesive and fall, but others were made well, so they continue to stick. Only after a lot of waiting in the back of my mind, these ideas pop out, and I say, "I think I can go with this one." But because of all this waiting time, the ideas evolve, and they go through the sedimentary process. For those of you who haven't taken Geo-science, that means that they build on each other basically, until there are many layers. Yeah, go study of rocks! So, this means that during this waiting process my ideas start to build on each other, so instead of a bunch of one-shots, they end up becoming an epic, so that's why you'll get a lot of different, longer, weirder stories with me. If you want an example, I was planning on doing a Halloween fic (for Naruto), that just didn't end up happening. It was a high school fic, and I had the basic layout of the school, and how all the chars fit into the school set up. Since I didn't end up doing it though, it went to the back of my mind. But then I got another idea for a hs fic, and these two fics melded together to form a different, crazier fic. So, that's basically what happens in my mind. I know it's crazy but it's me.
To My Reviewers (the one's who have read Catcher in the Rye): I'm attempting to not become J.D. Salinger. Every time I write in first person, I feel myself slowly becoming Holden Caulfield. So, if my first person voice starts to sound like Holden...hit me with a shovel. A virtual shovel...I dunno...make one up. With spikes. After enough blows to the head, I should stop writing in that style, or at least suffered enough brain-damage to forget the book (not that I didn't enjoy it of course).
Thanks for putting up with my crazy rants!! I'll see you guys around.
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