Lady Dae Writes

This is a simple post. I updates the Seal of Oblivion for anyone who's interested.

Okay so I finally finished revamping my first story and since I want to give it a test run, I'll put up a chapter week or every two weeks to see what you guys think. It's done this time, except for some extra proofreading I need to do and that's where you all will help me. Point out typos, continuity problems and the like. But other than those little things, the loose are ends tied, extra words gone, the whole nine yards clocking in at 68,300 words. Not bad. But I'll let you decided. I'm putting it up in... oh about the next five minutes and then we'll see what happens. What's it about? You know that idea in the post right below this one? Yeah. That's the one. It's about a girl who controls the forces of nature and has to use her powers to stop the dark mistresses of a tyrant from shattering the seal of oblivion and releasing him from his seven thousand year old prison. It's a lot more complex than that of course, but it finally worked itself out for me, after I cut 18k words from the original draft. Wow. Anywho, TTFN. Give me ten minutes....

So as a writer, I'm always looking for inspiration and as I was looking through some of the fanfiction.net archives (don't act like you don't read it), I was wondering what makes a person write a story or what should anyway. Typically on fanfiction.net, the authors see an idea and want to try it with their favorite character in their favorite archive. Personally, it does work that way with me. If it doesn't have demons or the mention of the Shikon jewel and Kikyo coming back from the dead, it's not and Inuyasha fic, but that's beside the point. The point is that these writers are writing an idea they haven't seen in the archive. In other words, they write the story they want to read.

That's the reason I started writing in fact and found out I had a knack for it. I wanted to read a story, couldn't find it and decided to write it. When I say this, it doesn't mean throw all your favorite cliches in a story. That's not a good thing. But what it does mean is that if you want to read a story about a girl who controls the forces of nature and has to stop the dark mistresses of a tyrant from helping him escaping his seven-thousand year old prison in oblivion (That's my story and I will sue if I find out you stole it), write about it. The point is, if you want to write don't start with what others want to read. Figure out what story you want to read, never found, and wanted to write. You may just be meant to write that story.