What made you start writing in general? Especially with the 48 Group? And if you want to, I guess share the time when you first started writing and if still writing, how you got to this point. (Kind of like a little timeline to you first writing till certain points.) The lengthier it is, the more we get to know about you and that creative mind, haha~ :cathappy
Hmm, this is kind of an interesting question, so if you don't mind, I will also partake in this discussion.
Well, I remember that I started when I was around grade school. I first wrote about anime series and I wasn't literally that good with English and I got a lot of harsh criticism, which of course wasn't that well received as a kid since I was still not that aware of the harshness and all. Don't get me wrong, but I don't write in script form even during as a kid. I tried to imitate the novel style of writing, but never the less, you know about the grammar and spellings, even a kid has a limited knowledge...and I think I was around 7 years old then... After that, I kind of got...well, you can say scared of criticism since I did got some at a young age and never an encouragement, I stopped writing until I became a high schooler and I started to try to get over that fear of criticism, besides, I remember that wasn't that particularly into writing, but I was more of an artsy person, so I focused more on drawing than writing around that time that I stopped writing.
Oh right, when I was a kid, I was really into anime and manga, and I've already know about yuri and yaoi around 9-10 years old, so....I guess it I went on the tide and let it flow in because I wasn't particularly against that theme, honestly, I find it interesting with all the taboo, drama, angst and conflicts, and it was very much intriguing already to read a story or a manga about it.
I started to do role playing in a forum back around 2008 I think. It was fun and most of the people I had been were really nice and encouraged me, telling me how good my grammar and word usages are and it made me happy and a bit more confident in myself, but I still didn't want to try to write any stories again at that time so I just continued RPing for as long as I could. I then stopped at 2009 and instead became a reader. During my free days and on vacation, I would read fanfics and novels and I ended up finishing around 400 stories (fanfics and novels) in 2 and a half months, I'm not trying to boast, but I set up that range to challenge myself. It was fun too. Plus all the stories were good and that was when I realized what genres I liked best, because of all the stories I read.
At 2010 I became particularly appealed to SNSD or Girl's Generation and I became a member at SSF where I started as a reader then a writer. I wrote there until 2011 before I became busy, but during the length of my stay there, I became both a reader and writer, commenting and also pointing out things here and there for other writers and I got along well with some of the writers there. I also learned more about writing styles and variation of plots and the range of maturity in the plot from all the various stories in that forum, but as I said, I became busy with school so I stopped writing. I was still a reader and I read a lot, even about 48 group fanfics and during my vacation, I became appealed and really inspired to also write and contribute to the 48 community, so I wrote fanfics here too. I particularly focused on writing fics for Majisuka Gakuen because that series drew me near to 48 group more and I liked Black Gekikara's fic too and was inspired to write BlackGeki fics, but I also had a penchant for YukiRena at that time and I had a lot of plots to write about them (even until now I do, and sometimes I'm itching to write, but....well....
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Anyhow, it all went on, I tried writing even though I'm busy, and I have to admit, it was really refreshing to switch from being a student, to an artist, to a writer every now and then. It made me feel like I was being productive and I also got a lot of encouragements here, but some issues here and there and life is interfering too so I went hiatus here.
I forgot to add this, after I went hiatus here, I had my own wordpress and wrote for a while, but then I also went...well busy at some point and then I took the whole wordpress down. Then I became infatuated with Love Live! that I started to write again and place fanfics in the place that gave me so much criticism, fanfiction.net, mah, even right now I still receive criticisms, not like I'm perfect with my way of writing, since I am not much of a grammar nazi and I don't have a proofreader, I don't really care now, as long as people can read it more clearly than what I wrote when I was a kid. Believe me, I cringed when I read what I wrote when I was a kid and I'm a bit embarrassed to actually read it myself...
I also stopped writing for fanfiction.net now and focused more on my careers as a student, also, I have to focus on drawing and becoming a better artist, I'll probably have a comeback someday and incorporate writing and art and make it all into a manga/doujinshi when I get even better. I'm really planning on it so I'm aspiring to do my best in my course right now. Fortunately I'm passing all my classes and I'm at my 2nd year and there's still more to go for me, but if ever the time comes when I have more time, I might have a quick comeback as a writer again, I don't know where, I might comeback here or in fanfiction.net, I don't know yet, but I will when the time is right.
Currently there's about.....10+ stories that I never released here in AKB Fanfic thread and I'm still interested in writing, sometimes I do write, just paragraphs, sometimes leaving it unfinished and all.... X))
Pretty much my whole background in writing. But you know, those reflection papers and report papers that the school and teachers gives, they were really helpful to me because they made me open up to my thoughts and imagination. It really helped me to try and convey what I have in mind. Plus all those animes and mangas that I've seen, they did well in expanding my imagination in a way.
I also find that my grades in English was more than enough to encourage me to try and write again, plus all those hard work in constructing sentences, essays, paragraphs and shit in school payed off well.
I find myself being thankful to my younger self for being brave enough to try and write at the age of 7 because if she didn't, I wouldn't be a writer, I would be struggling how to write a report paper, much less a thesis paper and I'd probably going all woe-is-me on all my English subjects. So yeah, I'm thankful for that curious young me.
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