I Would Rather Imagine

For over six years, I've been writing what comes to my mind. For those years, I've been making my imagination my projects. All those things have been typed up on my laptops. I started writing shortly before taking off for college.

When I was a teenager, I didn't even know the term fanfiction, and one of two stories I wrote during my first year in Toronto was to be continuation for the adventures of my favourite young dragon even though I refused to call it a fanfiction. I called it "The Age of Spyro: Two-Face Dragon". I intended to make my own series of stories. I still keep my notes on the characters, the roles, and the synopses. I put in my own take on the history of Spyro's family along with a bit of history on the Dark Master. The first problem it has is that it's pretty short. It might be eighty pages on Microsoft Word, or less. The twist about the characters I introduce is sort of tacked-on. Maybe I thought too much about the synopsis to give it detail. I typed that story up, starting days after my eighteenth birthday and ending on the night of Christmas Eve, 2011. I posted it chapter by chapter here on dA over Sept 2012.
The other story I was writing was about my very own vigilante. From that character, I may have started a cliché among the rest of mine. Again, the first thing I don't like is that it's too short, just shy of a hundred pages. I intended to make it a series of six books, but the plots that I considered may have been more ridiculous than the last. As thrilled as I was that I reached the end when I hoped to, I knew I needed editing. I finished that story on the night of Halloween 2011.

Even though I started the second installment to my series on my vigilante, I ended up scrapping what I had typed. I got sidetracked. Prompted by that of another user here, who became one of my best friends online, I wrote my own fanfiction of "Wolf's Rain". I was hooked on that anime, and ended up writing a follow-up to the anime. I had it revolve around a character of my own that's as human as any of us, and he develops a bond with Kiba. It may be a little short to a novel, but I put in a lot of detail, a lot happening. Surprisingly, I started it in March and finished June 2012.
There were two other stories that I posted on here. First was a crossover fanfiction of "Wolf's Rain" and "Yu-Gi-Oh!", but it was pretty cheesy. It was short-lived, and I just lost interest. The other was my first time writing gay male romance. It has a rather thin plot now that I think about. Plus, based on the featured content, I was like a fighting game newbie button mashing. I typed that over the summer and finished the first week of November 2012.
Over the course of all this and others to follow, I was regularly going to the Starbucks of the Chapters at the Bayview Mall, where I was handwriting whilst listening to music. I had a routine. It was built on an idea to follow the story that My Chemical Romance had. I wanted to follow up on the deaths of the Killjoys and have someone cripple the corporation that they fight. It then became my own thing. The plot is that in the future, all culture is gone because of dictatorship and there's no style for anyone anymore. A wanderer without memory of his past decides that he wants to finish what he started six years ago and kill the Prime Minister. Along the way, he gains diverse allies, those characters based on likings of people I came across on YouTube. I called it "The Creative Tale of Ink Claw The Faceless". It's sci-fi fantasy, featuring laser guns and two people having supernatural powers. I wrote that over Saturdays and special days from July 2012 to October 2013.

Another story to come to me was another crossover. It may have been a piece of cake, but I was in complete freeflow, just like my story about my fugitive. I incorporated the songs from the CD Nightwish: Imaginaerum, and tried to call out what happens when someone dies while that no one inside a story never ages; an infinite loop as it were. I started that on November 2012 and finished the last week of April 2013.
At the same time, I tried writing another story that would be on my own website, inspired from the first painting on dA to speak to me. Unfortunately, I came down with major writer's block and the process froze, until I picked up on it after I finished my fugitive's story. I'm ashamed to say, it's set in Northern Africa, and I ended up making everyone European. I knew no African names then, and it didn't occur to me to just make up everyone's names.
Over 2013, I tried another drama, revolving around two pairs of siblings, but it got nowhere past two chapters as I got sidetracked again. After creating a character for role-playing and a contest, being in it for the points, I ended up writing my own "Guardians of Ga' Hoole" fanfiction. I liked what I did, even though the plot kept changing. I made my fanfiction into a trilogy of novellas, revolving around the owl character that I created, and I like to think that I made him unique from the other owl characters. I started the first in summer 2013 and finished the third in October 2014.

Then, there came the first novel that I posted on here. "War of Chaos". Again, I hoped for a unique take. I consider it a novel based on the word count. It was my own dragon story; elemental dragons with a straight-forward plot. I hoped to make it stand out by making the dragon representing darkness the protagonist. I did a bit of research prior to the beginning. I introduced quite a few great characters, but my downfall is that they may have been wasted, more so with having no intention to write a follow-up. I started it October 2014 and finished September 2015.
Very slowly, I progressed on a story of my wolf anti-hero. I wanted to give him a story leading to joining a clan even though he's anti-social unlike the rest. This all started when winning the character in a random selection contest, and I wanted to finally do something with him. My mind may have been in a dark place, given the events.

After re-writing a short story posted in January 2014, I restarted my story about my vigilante from scratch, ignoring the synopsis that I'd written. There were a few significant changes, but my character was a little more dimensional and gave him more development along with development on his enemies. Though it is repetitive, I'm glad that I went with my routine, trying to give it more drama. I once hoped to make my own unconventional superhero movie, but I thought, "Superheroes start from somewhere" So, I went with writing books. This was to be created from merging Batman and the Terminator. I started it October 2015 and, just as I hoped to, finished on my birthday, which was this year.

Why am I saying all this? Vanity. And I'd rather say in a message, what I thought of the holiday this year. Now then, if you're still with me, I have a feature. Enjoy the selection: