I thought this "blog" deserved a preface to set the tone of what I hope to achieve. For a long time I've made up stories in my head, some were original, and some were extension of existing settings and universes. I spent the time to create elaborate scenarios in my mind, but no time to preserve them or write them down, allowing them to become lost to time. Ok, I don't have any illusions that anything I conjure up will ever be culturally significant, but I do feel some disappointment at the thought of an idea that is not expressed or realized.
The idea behind this is to treat it less like a blog and more like an anthology of short stories, with perhaps the occasional comment. It will become a catch-all for not just my ideas, but for fully explored stories. Think of them as episodes of a TV series, which makes perfect sense since many will no doubt be based on existing TV shows and movies, hence the "Fanfic" implication in the name of the blog. I'm not super happy about the name, but I had to settle on something and move on.
fan·fic [fan-fik]
noun Informal.
1. fiction written by fans of a TV series, movie, etc., using existing characters and situations to develop new plots.
2. a work of fiction in this genre.
Who knows, maybe it will attract the attention of somebody from a network, studio, or publisher (probably because they mistyped something in Google), and be interested in hiring me as a writer...or it may languish as do several of my other blogging attempts. Wish me luck.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
- William Shakespeare, King Richard II
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