It's hard being one of the first

[heavenly_pearl]

When I first decided to try writing a Someday's Dreamers fic, I was under the impression that it would be pretty easy. I mean, the series is fairly straight forward and easy-to-understand, and most of the characters aren't terribly deep (it was only a twelve episode series, after all), though they are interesting. It's not like Sailor Moon, where there are complicated plots and equally complicated characters. Writing a good Someday's Dreamers should have been a simple affair, right?

Wrong.

Well, that's not entirely true. I am almost finished with the story. Ten pages are already written, and I'm not expecting there to be much more. Probably twenty at the most. I'm expecting to be done by the end of next week, if not earlier. The problem is that the story is so. incredibly. boring. Seriously, it reads like a children's book, and I'm not talking about Harry Potter. More like Sweet Valley Twins and The Babysitter's Club. Or actually maybe a fairy tale like Cinderella. Now that I think about it, I can actually see some similarities between the two, especially since Yume (with some help from Kera and Runa) is, for all intents and purposes, playing Milinda's fairy godmother for her first date with Oyamada-sensei.

Oh, why did I pick the WAFF-y idea? I could have had some delicious angst with the Angela/Inoue idea or maybe even something with Oyamada-sensei and his tragic past with Takako or Kera's life as an orphan, but I just had to go with the sweet romance. I don't like writing fluff; I have no idea why I thought it would be easy to write a good fluffy fic. (It's definitely easy to write fluff, just not interesting fluff.)

It also doesn't help that, as one of the first to start writing in the fandom, I don't have many other stories to compare with mine. I have no idea if I'm writing Milinda right... Actually, I'm almost certain that I'm writing her OOC. Milinda is vivacious and almost always speaks her mind; she probably wouldn't be so hesitant to tell Oyamada-sensei how she really feels about him. (Heck, when she introduces herself to Yume, she calls herself his girlfriend (which she isn't, at least in the anime. In the manga, they had a child together, conceived during a one-night stand), and she's the only one who calls him Masami-chan.) But then again, she has been in love with him for almost a decade. That's a long time to wait for a person, and I don't think it would be easy for anybody to confess their love after so long. What if the other person doesn't return your feelings? Then you would have wasted ten years of your life for nothing. That's a rather scary thing to face.

I don't know...

I need to get back to work now. Enough procrastinating. ^_^   

Edit: Okay, just one little quiz before signing off...

Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz.

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

Fear my Goth-ness! :-D

I have to agree on Someday's Dreamers being hard to write. The more I stared at it, the more I got to thinking that it was going to defeat me in spite of my best efforts. I mean, I am not exactly a WAFF-y writer, and it would be next to impossible to pull anything epic out of a canon that prides itself on its smallness and mildness. If you can finish that story, best of luck to you, I am no match for the fandom.

[heavenly-pearl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wouldn't say it would be impossible to write an epic Someday's Dreamers fic, but you would probably have to create a lot of original characters to do so. Perhaps a Hitler-like person who wants to rid the world of mages? Or a super-powerful mage who decides to use his magic for criminal purposes? But with just Yume and the gang...not very likely.

It's strange, but even though I don't consider it a particularly romantic show, I think it's probably best suited for romance fics. What's really great about it is that there aren't that many true (as in they're actually together) canon couples other than Angela/Inoue and Takako(deceased)/Oyamada, so you could theoretically pair anybody together. (You could even break Angela and Inoue up if you wanted. It's not like they're destined to be together.) Oyamada/Milinda, Oyamada/Yume, Yume/Zennosuke, Yume/Kera, Kera/Milinda, Kera/Oyamada, Angela/Yume, Angela/Ginpun, Angela/Furusaki, Inoue/Angela, Inoue/Yume, Inoue/Milinda, Ginpun/Oyamada, Runa/that mage in her class... Some are stranger than others, but I could see them all happening under the right circumstances. It's like an alternate pairings fan's paradise!

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

On an entirely different topic, I have no clue why, but I can't read a damn thing in your journal without using my mouse to highlight everything. Your background appears to not exist for me. :P

[heavenly-pearl.livejournal.com]

Weird.