New Story: The Poetic Fanfic Blog

Behold, our many readers! I've started writing a new story. It should be updating fairly sporadically, but the first chapter is up now and I have some of the second down.

Here is the link - The Poetic Fanfic Blog, by Quarter-Bl00d Prince

In the last year or so I've become immersed in the world of fanfic, and it's involved some interesting adventures. Now, I'm trying to move out of fanfic and write more original stories.

Don't get me wrong - I love the FF and I wouldn't be surprised if I end up always writing it. But I'm trying to get into original stories now. I like the freedom, and I want to get published so I've got to practice.

To ease the transition, and because I wanted to honour all the stuff I've learned and experienced in my fanfiction year, I thought I'd write an original fic about fanfic. So I had an idea today for a fake blog by a fanfic writer, about his daily life, and entirely in poetry.

It's basically going to be a series of poems about fanfic and mundane details of life, but there is an overall story arc than I got worked out.
Basically, he's a sad and puffed-up young man who's writing a blog in the form of a series of poems, in order to best his fanfic-writing rival and impress a girl author he likes.

Yes, parts of this are based on real life. After all, I do write a blog about fanfiction and a few people will recognise the origins of the rivalry story.

And of course, as the picture on this post suggests, there is another very heavy inspiration. In the first chapter I put in a couple of references to that other fake blog about a proud guy with a rival and a love interest, just to ackowledge that I realise the premise is very similar. I mean to distance it as much as possible though. Don't worry - I'll make it my own as it progresses.

Anyway I think I've garbled about my own story long enough now. I might start putting some fanfic reviews on this site - or a 'Buch Recommends' for fanfic I like. Or something.

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In fact let me balance out this big plug with some links to other and better stories that are actually fanfic, and that you should read instead of mine.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5028195/1/Harvest

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4006051/1/Staying_Behind

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5307018/1/One_stop_gone

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Now I'm signing off. Captain Hammer... threw a car... at my head.