| | I have decided to try a little... experiment. As you all (all who? No one reads this...) know, I have a pen name on ff.net. Under it, I post my stories that I've actually worked on, edited and feel are pretty decent. The only exception to this is my first piece, but hey, everyone's first story sucks, right? I was only in middle school or something anyways...
But the point is, My Lunarmercury stories are ones I actually think about. Planning actually goes into them, as does effort. I feel they're more or less respectable (especially my Planet Ladder one. It's the first long, serious story under that category! Awesome! Now if only Planet Ladder would become popular...)
Most of the stories under my main fandom (Yuu Yuu Hakusho) are not respectable in the least. They're error laden monstrosities, and almost all of them are Mary-Sues. Unfortunately, almost all of them have massive, unprecedented amounts of reviews -- positive reviews, at that. It's pathetic and disheartening.
I think I'm going to write one of them.
It won't be grammatically incorrect, nor will it have incorrect spelling. I simply can't bring myself to butcher English the way some of these girls do; it makes me want to cry and then gouge my eyes out with a rusty spork (especially since I'm almost positive I'm going to major in English in college, as well as something else related to writing... probably creative writing, but it depends on what college I'm going to attend).
Now, this story will not be under my Lunarmercury pen name. I'm going to make a new one (something Hiei related, probably -- that's the general trend in those types of writers). The general story idea I already have. It's an idea from middle school, which should tell you how horrible it is. This girl that I'll make into the main character could be de-Sueified very easily. In fact, I'm going to have to add things to make her a Sue. I'm also going to pair her with Hiei, because that's one of the main things Mary-Sue authors do. I am doing this to see how many more reviews I get for a terrible, unoriginal fic like that than I do for my fics that I toil over in an attempt at creativity and originality. This fic will have it all: cliches, purple prose for the Sue and no one else, trite and unrealistic romance, OOCness and more. It's guaranteed to be horrible. At the very last chapter (in which the Mary-Sue dies, by the way, and everyone is devastated by her death even though they shouldn't be), it'll do an abrupt about face: I'll do decent description, lose the cliches and have Hiei pair up with Kurama. My author's note will explain that this was an experiment, that I consider this fic and all the Mary-Sue fics awful, and that I'll allow a few weeks for feedback, then delete the fic. At that point, my profile will consist of one word: PWND. It'll be fun. It'll probably make me cry, too; I'm bound to get a fair amount of reviews that I don't deserve. Or maybe I'll get the exact same amount. That would be kind of funny.
Also, I plan on having this xanga as the homepage in my new profile. If anyone discovers that it's all a big joke to me, I wonder how they'll react? Better, I wonder how everyone will react when my lovely, het, Hiei/OC romance becomes Boy-Love Kurama/Hiei? Oh, I hope it'll be fun...
Let's see how this works out.
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