"Hooked On Destiny Fanfiction"
is taking a hiatus.
This site needs such a revamp. I'm coming up with new story ideas and I'm toying with the idea of just writing plain Nsync stories. Frankly, I'm absolutely SICK of all the teenybopper fanfiction out there. I realize that a lot of Nsync's fanbase is made up of "teenyboppers", but come on. I hate going into a story and only reading a few sentences before realizing they're all the same.
"Justin/JC/Lance/Joey/Chris and I were meant to be together just because we happened to bump into each other at the exact same moment in the supermarket in Orlando. Although (insert Nsync member here; most likely Justin/JC) loved to sing, he realized his devotion towards me and we got married and lived happily ever after!"
Gag me with a spoon.
When you write, you're supposed to express yourself. Your writing defines the type of person you are from your penmanship, to your grammar, to the way the story turns out. When everyone writes the same thing in the same manner, it's not fun anymore. It's frustrating to see that people can't break from the barriers and take a few risks in their writing.
I'm taking this break to dig a little deeper into fanfiction. The one thing that appealed to me about fanfiction in the first place was that it was so different and exciting. I mean, here I was, writing a story about something I didn't really have a clue about: pop-stardom and the music industry. But people allowed me to express how I perceived things and they embraced it whole-heartedly.
But the tricky thing about writing fanfiction is that it doesn't give you a lot of story ideas. You either stick to the same-old, same-old and be branded as "following the crowd" or write something completely different that no one has ever seen before and either be branded as "genius!" or "God, she's weird."
It's a cutthroat business, but I love every minute of it. Until now. I look over my older pieces of writing and am completely embarrassed by what I wrote. I'm not the same person I was 3 months, 2 weeks, even a day ago. I'm changing all the time and I feel that over time my fiction should evolve with the person that I'm becoming. So I'm taking down the old stories and starting fresh. I'm coming up with ideas and they need to be a little bit more worked out before I actually post them up for everyone to criticize. You have to realize that when I put stuff on this site, I'm not only putting up a story, I'm putting up a piece of my soul. Just something to think about.
