SidewaysSquid

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[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh, that stinks. I'd love to be able to publish it somewhere I can get genuine feedback. I'm honing my writing skills again in preparation to pick up an old novel I wrote years ago.

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That's part of the reason I wrote mine with mostly original or remixed characters, so I could explore things Oda didn't while still playing in his world. There's a tremendous freedom and responsibility in fanfiction if you're trying to honor the original. If not for my kid acting as a sounding board, I would have quit long ago.

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I just published to AO3. I put up about a dozen chapters because the format is better if you upload the story arcs together. No feedback yet, but my kid likes it, which is great

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's much easier to write your own version of a copyrighted material than to creatively write on your own. My work is fanfiction based on someone else's ideas. Yours is all you and I envy that.

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

That's the secret

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm going to have my wife ask around. I don't do social media, but there's bound to be someone with a used laptop I can buy. Good idea!

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's what if style recreation of the entire East Blue arc of the Anime/Manga centered around original and remixed characters. It's involved a lot of creative content that I workshop with my kid after practice. It's really helped us to bond. Now, without the means to write down our ideas, it's difficult to keep the momentum going.

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It's the OS license that's the main problem.

[–] SidewaysSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I know I'm summoning a horde, but even a new HDD needs an OS and I'm not a Linux person. Not sure I can find the license for Windows 10, because this old brick won't take 11.

 

So, I've been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)

Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can't afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn't lose all my work.