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insaneladybugThe more time goes by, the more it sinks in that Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy. I can only hope that they won't go the way of Borders, but filing for Chapter 11 is time to worry. Chapter 7 would be time to grieve. If we actually lose Toys R Us, oh gosh. Heck, I cried to lose our K-Marts. To lose Toys R Us, oh brother, would there be waterworks. Waaaah, I don't want it to go.... I hope I'll be able to get some things there in the next couple of months. Maybe their performance during this holiday season will help determine what happens next.
I ended up looking at most of my Pokemon fics. They are ... very bad. Most of them are even worse than I thought. Definitely before I was told my stories were like scripts. Worse, the multi-chapter one made no sense, with Giovanni being behind the attempt to kill James. However, I seemed to realize that that made no sense, because in the follow-up I started and didn't finish, I said that another Giovanni turned up and said he was the real one and the one who'd tried to kill James was a fake.
And actually, that story had potential. I liked my ideas, even the Giovanni one if we go with the idea that it was a fake Giovanni. Honestly, I could totally overhaul that story and make it bigger and better. I am seriously considering trying it if watching the episodes seems to give me a good handle on the characters again. Maybe the fake one was trying to kill James both because he felt he was inefficient and because James saw something or heard something that could someday make him realize the guy was a fraud. And I did have a couple of dialogue gems that I would want to keep, probably word for word, in a new version. My favorite bit was after James fought the fake Giovanni to rescue Jessie and is laying hurt. Jessie runs to him and he says, "You're the girl from the cafe...." She says, "You don't remember who I am, do you?" And he says, "Yes, I do ... Jessie...." Then he passes out and there's a bit of hurt/comfort.
Next question would be whether to keep the old version up and have the new one so people could compare, or delete the old version and put up the new one in its place. The only other time I overhauled a fic so much I really needed a new file, I deleted the old fic altogether. From FF.net, that is. I'm pretty sure I still have the original file.
Meanwhile, Electric Soul is coming along very well and I am very pleased! It feels so good to finally be writing it.
I ended up looking at most of my Pokemon fics. They are ... very bad. Most of them are even worse than I thought. Definitely before I was told my stories were like scripts. Worse, the multi-chapter one made no sense, with Giovanni being behind the attempt to kill James. However, I seemed to realize that that made no sense, because in the follow-up I started and didn't finish, I said that another Giovanni turned up and said he was the real one and the one who'd tried to kill James was a fake.
And actually, that story had potential. I liked my ideas, even the Giovanni one if we go with the idea that it was a fake Giovanni. Honestly, I could totally overhaul that story and make it bigger and better. I am seriously considering trying it if watching the episodes seems to give me a good handle on the characters again. Maybe the fake one was trying to kill James both because he felt he was inefficient and because James saw something or heard something that could someday make him realize the guy was a fraud. And I did have a couple of dialogue gems that I would want to keep, probably word for word, in a new version. My favorite bit was after James fought the fake Giovanni to rescue Jessie and is laying hurt. Jessie runs to him and he says, "You're the girl from the cafe...." She says, "You don't remember who I am, do you?" And he says, "Yes, I do ... Jessie...." Then he passes out and there's a bit of hurt/comfort.
Next question would be whether to keep the old version up and have the new one so people could compare, or delete the old version and put up the new one in its place. The only other time I overhauled a fic so much I really needed a new file, I deleted the old fic altogether. From FF.net, that is. I'm pretty sure I still have the original file.
Meanwhile, Electric Soul is coming along very well and I am very pleased! It feels so good to finally be writing it.
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Date: 2017-09-21 10:46 pm (UTC)Aww, yes, looking back on old fics can be... an experience, to say the least, especially when they are that old. It was going through that myself with my older YGO fics the one time that made me realize why Sean preferred the Groovebarbers version of "My Home" to the Rockapella version--that he would, naturally, have improved his voice over all those years!
But ooh, the idea of a fake Giovanni is intriguing! And gah, poor James, and Jessie finding him! If you do ever decide to do that fic and go that route, Giovanni canonically has a son, Silver--Silver hasn't shown up in the anime aside for a brief cameo, but that's more than enough for the fandom to agree that anime!Giovanni is a father and could be useful as a "spot the impostor" moment.
And yup, overhauling a fic is one of the big things keeping me from revitalizing the YGO fic...
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Date: 2017-09-21 11:26 pm (UTC)Indeed. Definitely understandable to prefer the later version. Although I will probably always prefer the Rockapella version due to the other singers, LOL. The GrooveBarbers guys sing great, but I never fangirled over them or grew up with them.
Yeah, the hurt/comfort scene was quite poignant. And thanks! That would definitely be a good idea. I also debate if the fic should end similarly to the original or if they should actually have to find the real Giovanni and rescue him....
Totally understandable.
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Date: 2017-09-22 01:48 am (UTC)Ooh, that would be intriguing if they have to rescue the real Giovanni!
Yep.
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Date: 2017-09-22 02:42 am (UTC)That really would be intriguing! If I do write the fic, I might just have to see how it goes. Rescuing him might be anti-climatic unless I change things so that the fake one is going to kill the real one and that's when James has the battle with him, but I really like the way the original fic has it, that the fake one is trying to kill Jessie instead.
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Date: 2017-09-23 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
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