Fic Status

Main Projects:

Tsunade's Heir: Chapter last completed: Chapter 13 (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3082320/13/) (New Everyday Life) - update priority varies

Side Projects:

I Just Want a Vacation (Zelda) - higher update priority

Shippuden Complaint - lower update priority

What's the Difference?

It's a matter of focus and quality control - the main project does not include experimental techniques - I stick to what I'm reasonably sure will turn out well. My 'masterpiece'. Updates may stall - because I don't have something good enough to post. More polish. Will not abandon without exhausting all effort.

Side projects are everything else. More experiments. Less stall - more likely to just abandon.

Personal Stats

Hello, excuse my high-on-life, cavalier attitude. I'm told it's genetic

Name: Joseph

Age: It's a secret!

Location: Also a secret! I will tell you that I'm not in America, England, or Japan!

Gender: That one, actually, isn't a secret. I'm male.

Religion: This one is kind of odd. Somehow... a lot of missionaries like to approach me. I don't know why? Technically, I'm Catholic. But I don't really go heavily into religion. I guess you could say I'm agnostic.

Things I would protect with my life: My younger brothers. Hmmm... would I die for my country I wonder? Well, depending on the circumstances...

Favorite phrases:

"Oh, shut up already"

"Well, if you say so..."

"Because I'm -just- that good"

"funga fu fu, funga fu fu" (no, it doesn't actually mean anything. Yoh from Shaman King says it during a special episode)

Some things annoy me, but I don't hate much. I'm actually a relatively laid back guy most of the time. But when someone tries to 'bully'. When they try to use force, or threats to steal away the freedom of choice from me or the people I care about... I hate it.

I - hate - it.

On that topic: I've been on the receiving end of bullying, and seen the effects of bullying visted upon other people. If you aren't strong or stubborn enough to stand up for yourself proudly when they come at you, things can get very ugly very fast, and I'm not just talking about the physical bullying. And that's not to say that the bullying will be less. But at the end of the day, it won't feel like such a big deal if you've stood up for yourself. Not in your heart. I mean it.

About the chapter completion statistic. I used to update it every day. But recently... I tend to simply forget it's there. What I do make sure to update is the 'latest chapter completed' section.

Personal Views on:

Faniction

My fanfiction... hmm... well: I somewhat write fanfiction for myself, but my readers are also a factor, of course. I've read so much fanfiction already. I kind of write it now for the sake of... other people finding that fanfiction and having something good to read.

Anyway, I dab in reading many fanfictions from the "anime" and "game" categories, I guess. I love fanfiction. It's so free and people can express themselves so easily. If you write you can get a large audience and feedback. If you read, then you can see your favorite characters portrayed in awesome new or old ways, and you can offer feedback. Awesome.

Hurricane Yoh

My first real project. I wrote it back when I was going through some troubled times. There were... circumstances, I guess. Not really that bad of circumstances in the large picture, I suppose but... hmmm... I'd say it was a bit of a torturous time. Before this, I'd only written a short story and a half-page blarb in Guilty Gear named "testing" to see if I had any potential as a fanfiction writer.

Hurricane Yoh had a lot of problems. Chief amongst them is that there were just too many ideas, and not enough motivation to see those all come through properly. I'm still proud of it. It's a good story, I think. Quite funny. I love what I did with Yoh, too. I would have liked to see what the review count would have been like if Shaman King fanfiction had more readers at the time I wrote it.

As I was writing this one, I gradually picked around and learned more about what it meant to write a good fanfiction. I will probably always remember pacing up and down the room as I thought up the scenes in it.

Tsunade's Heir

My third project. The second was a Card Captor fic that I deleted. I'm currently writing this. I started one summer and uploaded the first two chapters at the same time: as that way I could get a more reliable statistic in my 'hits' category (the super cool new traffic tab makes that obsolete).

I was really gleeful when I saw what kind of response this was getting. People liked it. It got put in C2s which is more than I can say for Hurricane Yoh. As I write this one, times are still troubled by various things. I can't say that the 'circumstances' are better now than they were when I wrote Hurricane Yoh, but I may be dealing with it better...? I wonder if that connects and shows in my writing...

Well, I'm sure I've gotten better with this fanfiction. I should probably go back and re-work the older chapters, but I kinda feel like keeping them how they are. So this way, I can see that 'growth process'

I'm a daydreamer, sometimes. When I was younger, I used to have nothing to entertain myself with except for daydreams much of the time. I daydreamed up a story in my head over several days/weeks about Naruto actually taking after Tsunade if she adopted him - which sprung from the often referenced mother-son/sister-brother relationship in fanfiction. Compared to my other projects... this was really the only one that I had such precise plot ready when I sat down and started typing the first chapter. That was one of the reasons that I didn't think I'd end up writing it in the end. I figured it would have been too boring.

But... it's funny. There are many scenes that I've never daydreamed before. But even if I write a scene that I've thought up in my head before... it comes out differently. And that's strangely not too boring. Perhaps because my daydreams are in pictures, and fanfiction is in words: but who knows? It's mysterious, mysterious.

I implemented some new writing ideas with this one. There's the whole 'I'll tell you a story' thing about it which I honestly... just sort of did at first in order to get myself writing. I was actually not going to post the whole 'story telling' bits. But it ended up quite good. Also, I made the omake all actual parts of the story. At first it was just because I had all these odd scenes dreamed up already that didn't really advance the story much, but were fun and were supposed to be a part of Naruto's childhood. I've used most of those up now, but Omake are pretty good. Writing one is usually fast once I've got a framework of an of idea. Tends to be an hour or two to write one most of the time. Quite fast. Grasping an idea itself may take a good while, though.

Working on this... I really appreciate all the positive reviews. And it's especially helpful when I get someone who comments about exactly what they think is positive. Of course, purely negative reviews crush me (I'm trying to work on my tolerance)

Because I lack a Beta, I've also been asking my reviewers to help me out by pointing out things I got wrong - they've been stellar-awesome thus far.

Shippuden Comlaint

I honestly wouldn't even call it a project - yet. It's just some scenes I made to break the monotony one day and hopefully give me a rush of creativity - like how some artists doodle a full picture as practice. I'd been trying to get myself using a more condensed writing style for a while now and I think this fic has helped me.

It was built on the premise of Naruto's dream. Wanna be Hokage? Okay, then he should come back in Shippuden and fight/live/make choices Hokage-style. Of course, he should still retain some of his original character. Also, he shouldn't be a total badass, then wuss, then badass again over the span of a few chapters.

I Just Want a Vacation

I know Zelda fanfics aren't v. popular right now but I'm not in it for the reviews (I wish I could get more constructive criticism though). I'm, like, pretty darn proud of this one. Link is teh awesome, incidentally. Written entirely in first-person, as I wanted to try it out for various reasons. So far, the limitations of information you can provide readers via first person are sometimes enchanting, and sometimes vexing for me.