News - 1/20/11

I find myself not having the time to write like I'd want. I have various chapters of various works on my hard drive, but none are up to my standards, and I generally lack the time to polish them up.

That being said, Forward is on an indefinite hiatus. I had several chapters lined up to publish, but I started seeing news leaks in the latter part of last year about the possibility of Final Fantasy XIII-2. I waited on posting anything, just because I like to use canon when I write, and it turns out it is announced and would completely destroy what I was planning to do.

Few other works being planned here and there, but when time allows, we'll see which actually takes off.

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I started writing fan-fiction when I was really little, and honestly it's one of the things that got me into writing and reading in the first place. I always imagined little stories about different characters from random games. From Mario to Final Fantasy VII, I was constantly trying to take the characters I loved and make them do more. Well, here I am, so many years later, and I'm still into it.

But, let it be known, I look at fan-fiction as a tool, and I will treat it as such. I know that the first stuff you write is not supposed to be amazing. I have a few original stories I want to write and maybe get published one day, but I want to find my own style and trudge through my phases of "bad writing" before I get there. So, everything I do here is experimental. I'm trying to find out how I write now so I can do it later. And I can't make any guarantee as for how frequent the updates will be. It's all dependent on how much free time I have. Real life will always come first, sad as that may be at times.

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I'm at the mercy of my muse. She's fickle, and she brings me across fandoms more than I'd like to admit. Who knows what will work out in the end, but here's what I can share at the moment.

Currently, my main focus is Forward. Sort of my answer to the "WTF" of Final Fantasy XIII. I really enjoyed the game, and I felt the ending was perfect. However, I really like the characters, almost as much as I love the cast of Final Fantasy VII. Anyway, it's going to be a bit darker thematically. While the game was obviously gritty in concept, it was so bright and cheerful in atmosphere.

Blood and Gold is a Zelda fic that I hope turns out quite epic, but is currently on a bit of a hiatus. I have the next chapter ready to go, but I'm just not digging it like I used to. I know the general progression of the plot, including the beginning, middle, and the end, but I haven't drove myself mad with details since there's simply so much I want to put into it, from odd plot strings that really pick at the nature of what it means to be the Hero or a Triforce Bearer to the myriad of awesome characters within it. Though it will seem AU at first, I promise toward the end of the first arc (of which there is three), the relevance of the story in regard to the rest of the series will begin to make sense.

The other story I'm working on is a Final Fantasy VII novelization, though that's been cooking for years now. I finally got a decent start at it, but some days it comes easier to me than others. It's in a state of flux at the moment.