Monday, August 15, 2011

What's new in fic-land?

You may be thinking, "not much," if you've been watching my fic accounts and my site. That's not entirely accurate, though. Thanks to the revival of Thundercats on Cartoon Network (if you haven't watched the new series, you should check it out!) I've been back in Thundercats fandom mode lately. I've reviewed all of what I've written of Path Into the Darkness, and am determined to dust it off and spruce it up once more. I still feel very strongly about that story and the plotline, and I think once I can bring the last-touched-in-2003 writing up to my current standard, it'll be something I'm happy with and possibly finish! (But oh, the adverbs and epithets. I used to love them way too much. Forgive me, oh muse of writing, for I have sinned!)

As if to reinforce my resolve on this, my old notes resurfaced out of the blue (well, out of an old box, anyway) recently as well. I even found the fic-verse astrology-like system I devised for this universe back in the day. While some of it was outlined in the story, I had more detailed notes, specifying what birth hour most of the main characters were born on. Most of those were never mentioned in the fic because it wasn't relevant, but it was important to me as I write to keep it in the back of my head while doing so.

On a different note, my friend Snark showed me that my Darkwing Duck story Origins of the Friendly Four was recommended on TV Tropes. I'm so flattered when I find out stuff like this, and it makes me happy to know that people enjoy my work enough to recommend it. They do have a point about it looking like dead fic at this point, though. It has been some time since I updated it. I need to get back to that. It just wouldn't be fair to leave readers wondering what happened at Negaverse Elmo's version of "Clash Reunion" when Negaduck makes his first appearance!