Awesome fanfics there, RingtailedFox.

thanks! i'm glad you like 'em! i know i won't be on par with the likes of Dan Drazen or bookshire draftwood for a long time (if ever), but i do use those two writers as inspiration.

I'm going to be blunt bud, you're not setting yourself up for success here. I don't know who this draftwood person is so I'll reserve comment but Drazen is not a person to idolize or try to emulate. Using an existing idea and modifying it to include a few snippets of your own ideas is merely a way for budding authors to play with ideas, practice their word weaving, and above all it's a starting point. Drazen is a fine example how NOT to become a good author.

I'll elaborate with an analogy. Becoming an author solely to write "fanfiction" is akin to becoming an artist solely to recolor other artists works, maybe add a fifth arm or third willy if you're of the furry persuasion.

I say this not to mock or belittle you, but to enlighten; enlighten you to broaden your boundaries and loft your goals. You don't want to write the best story about the sonic franchise, you want to write the best story, about the best characters, in the best places, with the best interactions and personalities. That is to say, the best original idea ever. Ask yourself this, when your idea dons the glow from the all powerful idiot box to the faces of wide-eyed youths the world over? Do you want them to see a washed up cartoon character with a decade long line of crappy games spindashing across the screen? Or a character YOU created that they've never SEEN before, in places they've never seen before, with stories not full of cliche good versus evil but whatever story YOU want to tell. That was a rhetorical question of course, but reminding other future Wizards of the Word of the "The Path" as I choose to designate it is simply a burden I've chosen to take apon myself.

Ah but I'm ignoring the question at hand, I'm prone to doing so to satisfy my own quips with the modern world and it's grevious flaws so forgive my rambling.

Your website has a fine skeleton on which to lay the structure for your tales, you may have spread it too large for your initial launch, hence the empty tabs. Or prehaps launched too early, that is to say before the information for the other tabs was written.

The story itself I won't dwell on as you stated it was simply a retelling of a cartoon show. The content itself is not bad for someone starting out, there's some variation in dialogue description which is something most new authors forget. Very little detail on the scenery though, but thats normal I still have to go back and add there later when it get focused on telling the story. The paragraph breaks seem a little awkward but against thats purely gramatical. Anything else will have to wait till you actually start YOUR story.

~Rico

Bookshire Draftwood was a big name - albeit somewhat on the wane - in the fanfic community back in 1998, when I first got online (self-inserted himself as the resident doctor in Knothole, in the form of a raccoon) - although I always found him a tad overhyped, personally. As with Drazen, they were solid enough as fanfics, but I couldn't see where being professional quality writing or even just exceptional enough in their field to be lauded came in.

Otherwise... What Rick said. I've never written fanfic, because whilst the ideas're in my head, so're my own characters and my own style, and that's what I want to put my time in, develop and use. Fanfic and Mary-Sues're often an author's baby-steps in writing whilst they figure their style out - find your own voice, and then see where it takes you. If it's back here, that's fine, but don't restrict yourself...

Ah the self insert, probably the best way to practice writing character interaction when you you're still fleshing out your first character. Did it for a few years myself. I think I do sort of recall that name now.

*insert lecture on the Mary Sue slippery slope here*

~Rico

Meh, I prefer rping to Fanfiction (I never could get creative at writing for more than 10 minutes at a time, then *poof* creativity is gone), simply because it allows me to guage reactions from many possible scenarios that I wouldn't think of by myself. But this is Carnivle Island, not the roleplaying forum, but whatever suits you. I have recceeded into poetry, considering how long my creativity lasts and all, and by the time its used up, I have a poem done. ^_^

If you're refering to RPing as in pass-a-long story things then those are good for writing too. You can see how people would react to a character's personality, or handle a situation, etc. Without the bias of trying to think of it from solely your prespective.

~Rico

If you're refering to RPing as in pass-a-long story things then those are good for writing too. You can see how people would react to a character's personality, or handle a situation, etc. Without the bias of trying to think of it from solely your prespective.

~Rico

That's some good advice there, R!

Thanks for the input, guys!

answer-time:

i don't write only fanfics... i also write open-letters to Canadian Parliament about issues that affect my area, so.. i'm not an author just for fanfics...
i admit that i need great improvement in several areas (such as paragraph formatting).
I'll admit, i thought dan drazen was an alright artist...

my website is a little bare becuase it suffered from "launching too early". i had inspiration and creativity going at the time, and rather than wait and risk getting creative block, i decided to launch right away and add to it as i go. This fanfic was just a project between me and a friend that we did in our spare time over the past couple years. sure, i'd love to do my own unique stories with my own characters and settings, but i fear i may not be imaginative enough for it... i sometimes get writers' block where inspiration and creativity leave me for a while...

thanks for the kind words, guys... as for rico... that name's a blast form the past! havent' seen you around since my days in TeamArtail (2000-2003)!

I'd love to write a novel, a great one at that, but I wouldn't want to be famous off of it, call me crazy. Why? I don't want to bastardize it with all the sequels and bullcrap that come with fame as a writer. Not to mention, I think there's a quote somewhere, if someone can find it that would be awesome; that when a person writes for fame, it is no longer art.

Something to that extent... anyway that's my thoughts on the subject, I don't want to be famous off my works... o.o