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Very Late Update [July 2022] by Bartan
It's been a while since one of these update journals, the last one being for... Technically October 2020, which was kind of a bittersweet announcement >>;;
Anyway, things have been getting better since. There was a lot of work for the move and getting things set up in the new house. It feels much better to be back 'home' where I was born, to the point where it's almost perfect for me here. Summers are just a little warm, but nothing like the humid swamp of the last house I was living in (not including the apartment).
I mention this, because... The house is big, and that means there's a lot of work to be done in terms of maintenance. Mostly cleaning, lawn mowing/shovelling snow and such. So that's why my writing has taken a little bit more of a back seat; I'm the one pushing myself to do these things, usually solo. Mix that with doing my aunt's lawn (though being paid to do so), exercise/self improvement, and people wanting to talk, it makes for quite the tired bear.
But I wanted to reduce the amount I spent towards writing for years now, because... Well, it's been nearly 9 years since I started, and I can't say it has been 'successful' judging by the numbers. My luck for getting seen/noticed has never been that good, so this is a pretty typical result.
It doesn't seem like I've written a lot in this past year, but it's more that I didn't post a lot and have a few projects in the works. I've done a few gifts for friends and one-shots, but never really got the 'go ahead' to post them (though I didn't ask either). I guess to me it doesn't feel like a lot, but I've been wanting to promote my older works for a while now. Hence the Novel Cards you've been seeing lately.
I've been wanting to try more 'community/watcher' based content for my fans. Requests don't really turn out well enough, imo, mostly due to the amount of time it takes to get to know a character. Be it an OC or one from a show; which I will feel like I need to watch the entire thing to really get the full understanding of said character. And if you know me IRL is that I don't do tv/movies well.
That's where the tag related 'contests' came in; it was something people could kind of work on together and it did play with my strengths. But I feel like people are getting sick of them, so maybe I should stop trying those. The participation turnout has been kinda bad.
To be honest, I'm not really sure what else to do. I've got a few ideas/stories in the works (which I'll make a list in a bit) but I'm not really confident that people are going to find them interesting. Drunken Lullabies work well for FA, but nowhere else, and well... They're just silly little scenes- I can't even call them stories, honestly.
Oh, and don't suggest "write for yourself". Doing the Novel Cards proves to me that I do have Enough for myself to enjoy for probably the next ten years or so.
For now, here's some suggestions of things in the works:
Afterlife Act 5 - Technically not started, but plans are for it to be done by the end of next year. Hopefully complete for my 10 year anniversary... I can't say it'll be worth the hype >>;
Come With Me To The Otherside Act 2 - A novel that's kinda gone the way of Memory's Fragment: no interest from anyone basically means "you're wasting your time, bear" to me. I did start this, but... I feel like I'm wasting my time.
Party Monster - Remember that copper dragon from the Hung Up/Unreal series? Yeah, it is her backstory and how she became ruler of her lands. This is supposed to be a longer one, my guess is possibly 3 acts long. I'm hoping to get the first act done by the end of this year, but no promises.
Side Story One-Shots? - Drunken Lullabies? All For You (Second Person View)? Anyone interested in things like these? If so, what kinks? There's a decent list I won't touch, but the worst that will happen is that I'll kindly decline.
Is there anything else people are interested in seeing/reading? Or is writing a dead media at this point, and I should be focusing on something else like 3D modelling and maybe 2D animations? I can't say I'm very confident in my ability to do them, but I am curious about your thoughts.
Your four-eared fluffy,
~Bartan
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I totally understand your first paragraph, especially if you have a hard time remembering your own ideas/separating them from the ideas of others. It's not a problem I have, but I definitely see your POV. Doing other characters from a popular franchise is just... Holy fish, so much work. It's also a lot more pressure to 'get it right' because I swear it's so easy to get wrong. Even the smallest little sentence I'll question "Would they say something like this? Would they do this action?". My AWSW series was a tad easier because I just got done playing through the game and grasping their characters really well, but that takes a lot of time. Currently, I'm actually trying another very short piece that may/may not be posted and I'm running into these same issues: worrying about what they would do, what they would say, if it makes sense in context/period in their lives... Oi...
As for AWSW in general; I... This is going to sound so dumb and cheesy, but I actually grew to like my own fanfiction that I made over the game- and it's nothing to do with the sex (I honestly felt like there was too much of it, but you gotta keep horny fans satisfied somehow. I legit just skip most of the sessions when I read through Somewhere Out There). And I've gotten so used to my own version of the characters that when it was announced AWSW"2" was coming out... I wasn't really that interested in it. Especially considering the true ending of the game (no spoilers here) was going. So it's highly unlikely I'll play it at this point, but who knows. Maybe if they do something that actually intrigues me (like not playing as a human) but I honestly can't see that.
Still, I hope you're doing well, mate~
And cherish the days you have with your parents while you can, it's inevitable that they will pass on, so don't make the same mistake I did: thinking that there'll be "another year left".-
Yeah, even if we live states apart, it's always good to keep up to date of what's going on, what's coming next, all of that goody stuff. As for me, it's more of keeping up the personalities and trying to figure out how to transition and change it. That's why as for me when it comes to the anthro Pocket Monsters and Fakemon, including monsters in general, they tend to be, Loosely based on the franchise itself. It's more of I like the character and the way they look rather than the stats, battle strategies, all of the RPG nonsense that I don't really care about. And while I don't play video games too often, there are a few I do come back to here and there, and it never gets old.
I only do Not Safe For Work stories as a way for me to help with masturbation and such. While writing does well alone, me learning how to draw, not just write, does help a lot be able to translate my writings into images, something not many writers would be talented to do. But, much like writing, it takes a VERY long time to get it perfect and satisfied with it, same with writing if I feel it was worth it or satisfied with my writing. While I'm still in pre-production mode for quite some time, I know in my head there will be a day, time, and month where I'm finally done with the bios, and can move on into making stories with the bios already done.
And yeah, I might as well while it lasts. I still dream of a time machine to go back one more time before I pass on this planet. Instead of governments having to worry about funding mass control and brains, why not expand into outer space and create colonies on the moon and mars instead....Oh well, only time will tell. And for those who still think the earth is flat, I'll say this. Unless half of the population is in outer space and takes photographs away from the planet earth, we will never know if it's spherical or flat, even with images generated by satellites.
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I think it's also that I'm starting to get this feeling where I may not want to read an entire novel of someone else's writing, when I myself am the one writing my own stories and have my own quirks, funs, characters, etc. of my own. Trying to do a character from a well known franchise too is extremely difficult. So for me that's why I keep the character as an image reference, but everything else is made by me and me alone. I don't bother trying to do other people's OCs because I will never get their personality and sarcasm right. Especially humor and personalities that I don't like, not worth it.
It's funny considering having to lose your mom and have to live on your own. I cannot think about that without some sort of trauma in my life, not being able to see my mom ever again. That's scary. But hopefully, with the big space and being able to own your childhood house seems like a dream come true, only I would do back in my birth town of Ridgefield. But again, I'm not sure. And I don't like south jersey either because of too much rain and storms. That's just me.
Going back to the stories, I don't know if it's the title of the stories or something about the way it's written, but, I have moved on from Angels with scaly wings, and while I do remember them, it's been 5 years since the game came out, and I really hoped for a sequel back then where we see the characters flushed out more. But because there's a lot of male characters compared to females, that's what kind of turned me off from the series itself. But the game had good dialogue and the final ending was very surprising. To this day I still think about that scenario of the 2070s 2080s when our humanity has succumbed to war, and scientists have built a big wall of a certain nice community, while everything else outside of it burns like hell. It's the type of what the future may look like when I'm old that always intrigues me. I'm still thinking about 2030 if the things I think about would come true, who knows.
Anyway, I'll let you get back to what you're doing. Hopefully you're doing fine out there and if needed to, take breaks from storywriting and find some down time if necessary.