Promo: Watch For This Name

So here’s the thing. I have a friend who writes. I’ve mentioned him before, but now I feel the need to do a super promo. He is technically on WordPress, but he hasn’t posted in months. But here’s some things about him.

His name is David Brennan. He didn’t start writing until a few months ago. The most experience he had with world-building beforehand was some roleplaying we did back in the day. But now he has decided to go big or go home, and is working on a novel. A NOVEL. Who on earth decides their first venture into writing must be a novel? Brennan, apparently.

Anyway, he in his very first adventure in writing, is one of the best people starting out that I have ever seen. He made a story that I seriously enjoyed reading just by the first chapter of the book. He still has some grammar issues to work out, but it can be overlooked. After all, he’s trying to be a storyteller, not a linguist. And, you know, it’s the first draft.

He is an excellent battle writer so far. This may be due to a lot of anime watching. He seems to write PTSD super well. I don’t know why this is really but I can’t say it’s a bad thing.

In conclusion, although he doesn’t have his own social network thing yet… watch for this name. And watch for the book “Blood Diamond”. That is its current title.

Gabriel out.

Applauding Fan Fiction

This blog is a bit revealing. I’ll admit something. When I first started out on WordPress and Tumblr, I didn’t have a very good view of fan fictions. This is strange looking back on it now, because I used to read Star Wars books all the time. Specifically, I read non-canon Star Wars books. And yes, for some reason, I decided that fan-fictions we’re of a lower grade than every other fiction. I am no idea why this was. I can guess it may have had something to do with the usage of other people’s characters. But that view has drastically changed.

As a matter of fact, I applaud fan fiction writers now. You guys are amazing. The ability to take another person’s character from long ago and put them into another story that was not made by the writer is mind blowing. It means you understood those characters and world so well that you can essentially become the writer of that book reincarnate. That is insane. I have no idea how you do that. I don’t even know if I could do that. Because basically, that means I have to get inside the head of the writer of the book. I have to know what they were thinking with that character, or at least have a general idea. The general idea is not as hard, but writing that character in all their complexity is. That’s the key to making a good fan fiction… you keep that character in character. That is hard. That is very hard, and I applaud you for it if you can do it.

In fact, I came to find out that CS Lewis, one of my favorite authors of all time, applauded fan fictions. He even challenged people to write Narnia fanfiction, Which I haven’t seen done yet. Maybe I’ll do it at some point, who knows. So here’s to you, fan-fic writers! You guys continue stories that we always wish were continued, and you do it amazingly.

As little shout out to a friend, there is a fan fiction writer on WordPress. His name is Ben Ditmars, and he recently did some Harry Potter fan fiction, But took in away most people have not. He’s also very talented poet who has actually published a book of his poetry, so you should all look him up.