Fanfiction
Welcome to the fanfiction section. For those of you don’t know, fanfiction simply means fiction written based not on your own world or characters, but on someone elses. When someone who loves Harry Potter writes a story about it, or him, or just anything based in that particular universe, that’s fanfiction. Obviously it can never be sold. It is purely a labor of love. I do not intend to spend very much longer in this field, for several reasons. One: it is cheating. No matter how good you are at integrating character traits, expanding world concepts and creating true to style plots, the fact remains that all of your accomplishments are built on someone elses. Sometimes standing on the shoulders of giants is just a way to avoid the fact that you are not very tall yourself. And the second is simply because I am no longer satisfied with what can be gained in this field. When I began, I thought that I didn’t need to make my career in writing: I could be satisfied with being able to write, and having readers to recognize and acknowledge what I did, which is indeed possible thanks to sites like Fanfiction.com. But the fact is that when I’d made this decision, I hadn’t written for quite a while – I’d put it aside to better learn the art of graphic design. Once I began, I was reminded of what writing really meant to me. So now, even as I write Fate Spiral Time, I am also beginning the work of building my own fantasy universe, which can be followed in the Fiction section. I have no intention, I hasten to reassure, of abandoning Fate Spiral Time. For one thing, it’s a bad habit. For another, it would be my first time successfully finishing a novel length work, so it’s a valuable experience regardless. But most of all, I will not abandon it because I don’t want to. I want to see it finished, want to write those last scenes, want to finish Einzbern and conclude Arturia’s fate once and for all. Just like you do.
However, that does not mean that this section is doomed to eventual stasis. I have wondered since I began to write in it what would come of trying to create a fanfiction site that collected only quality writing. There’ s a fair amount of it out there but it’s all buried amidst the debris of a thousand other, far less talented fan wannabe’s, most of which couldn’t get an D from an elementary school teacher for grammar use alone. In an ideal world, I would attempt this in the form of a fanfiction ezine, requiring all works to be submitted and reviewed. But it is not an ideal world, and I can’t dedicate the amount of time such a project could potentially require. What I can do, however, is to invite those quality authors I know myself to add their works here, and to continue to find and invite others. So I hope that not only should this section continue to grow, but that it might become a mecca and oasis for those who love the principle of fanfiction, but not most of what it has to offer.
And now, without further ado, the selection.
Anime/Manga
Movies