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[J/C AVA]

Y'know what? Screw it! Just screw it!

NEW PLAN: Without any pause, 2nd thoughts, reservations or any sort of CARE for "writing skil" or how the plot is going to play out, write a "rough draft" of the ENTIRE FIC from beginning to end, then once that's done, read it over and over and over again for editiing, spelling mistakes, choice of words, choice of songs, dialouge, scenes, etc until I'm at least throughly satisfied with the final product.

Maybe by first writing a basis for how it's all gonna go and work out, rather than expect writing perfection on the first try based on age and experience, then maybe I can have a much better idea of what the gang's gonna say, scenes, songs, words, etc.

Cause quite frankly, I've had just about up to here (raises hand high above head) with my idiotic expectations of perfection and worrying, whineing and complaining on why my writing is not this or that or why am I not a good enough writer at my age and all that junk!

I mean, seriously, THIS IS MY FIRST EVER FIC! I've been treating this story like an overexpecting bad father abusing his first kid for not being "perfect" right away. It's just so.. limiting and confining!

Not to mention it's making the fic less fun to make.

Bye, bye, Pedro the Impossible Perfectionist. See you in Alvakerky!

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

THAT'S the spirit, Pedro!!

[RocksmySocks]

Yay! Go for it, Pedro. You could do what I do to get my novels written! Just aim for word counts, and don't aim for proper grammar and decent writing until after the first draft has been completed. Plenty of time to go back after and fix that when a draft is DONE. It's such a freeing feeling.

[J/C AVA]

Well, "Valkyrie Missle" is out.. for now. "Life In Technicolor" will be the opening theme of the fic and I'll possibly use "Life In Technicolor II" sometime later.

For the moment, I'm keeping Chapter 1 as it is cause I think it's an awesome introduction to Jimmy's "Betty-thing" and provides a insight into what might happen later on. However, Chapter 2 is gonna change a bit. I decided that Green Day's "American Idiot" isn't gonna be a good enough "rebelling" song without it coming off "Anti-American", so instead I'm gonna substitute it for a more recent song by Green Day called "Know Your Enemy". I've already made some start into either fitting the song into the whole "TV" thing originally or make a whole new segment all together. The Jimmy/Cindy scene afterwards might stay at least until I decide to move it to the more climatic parts of Phase One. Either way it's gonna be awesome.

Part 3 is gonna stay, but I'm thinking of making some changes to Part 4, "Girl Talk", at least in the conversation between Cindy and Libby. Part 5's end is gonna change considerably as of recently I've gotten a "E.T./Superman: Last Son of Krypton"-like idea involving the Original Character in the "Comet". Parts after that might go through some considerable changes as I feel they're gonna make the story more consice and choesive.

As far as those go, that's all I've got for now. Still no new original chapters have been written yet but we'll see where that goes.

And remember, I've decided to make this "rough draft" with the intension of not aiming "too high" yet and allowing myself to make mistakes first before fixing them rather than the other way around, which sadly involved a "angry/jeliousy" feeling which limited my writting and sense of self-improvment considerably. This takes a load amount of pressure off of me expecting this fic to be "perfect" writing and is actually making this fic more fun to write without such single-minded expectations or worry about why this or that. It's really going good now.

Stay tuned for more info and hopefully more chapters to come.

[J/C AVA]

I've already started on writng a new version of the ending of Part 5: The Comet.

[J/C AVA]

Y'know what's annoying? When you're so excited to continue writng a new piece but a random combination of time, family and lack of a stable attention span stops you from doing it.

It's still going good, though.

[J/C AVA]

I'm feeling rather... moved, inspired even.

Comet is definitely NOT the same story as it was just 2/3 years ago. It's definitely come a very long way and still has a long ways to go. Heck I haven't even written Phase 2 yet and just the ideas coming from this is just.. I can't even describe it.

Stories are about the human experience, the good side and the bad, the triumph and the tragedy, the life and the passing of all people and things, and the authors are the overseers of that. I find myself no different.

But with this story, at least for the very first time for me, it's just become so much more than just something to amuze myself with. It's become this epic, emotional, yearning story that, with the music, has really made this story span the stars and into the struggles, tragedies and immense emotional obstacles that not only we as IDOJers at our "coming of age" are facing - adulthood - but every coming of age kid out there - from the girl wishing for the unity of her family, to the lover yearning to see her one true love, etc - metaphorically speaking of course.

I think the more I think about it, the more it's probably about my reaction of reading, seeing people, kids of my age go through - dysfunctional familes, drunken friends, lovers yearning to see each other, seeing a loved one - person or animal - pass away, etc. It's a time where the horrors of the world finally get to us and we're forced to confront it head on and overcome.

And yet, despite these dense, morbid subjects, there juxtaposes this spiritual "high", this sense of elevation from the darkness of this world and flying high into the next - whichever it may be - where there are no earthly limitations, no sorrow or pain. It has this sense of "The entire existence of evil in the universe is soul destroying, but we will make it and we can do it. We can aillivate ourselves out of ourselves to see the universe from above and find that true love prevails against ANYTHING that evil might throw at us.

Kinda hard to see this coming from a guy whose unofficially gained a "negative" reputation for being.. well.. er.. negative. But I'm genuinely not always a negative person. Sometimes I can have optimistic yet crazy ideas such as these.

I dunno. Must be the "Bono" in me who thinks he can save the world from evil and I'm not even out of college yet.

Even more funny, all this is gonna happen to the very characters that this forum and we as fans have come to know and love: Jimmy, Cindy, Sheen, Libby and Carl. A universal encompassing idea such as aformed mentioned with "goofy" characters such as these almost seems rather paradoxical but when I look at the plot and how this is gonna go down, I just can't help but feel this feeling - I can't even describe. Heck this is even my first EVER JN fic in general (besides Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Cindy) and yet this idea has come out. Normal writers don't get epic ideas on their first stories! What IS this madness?!?

Reguardless of how this fic will change over the course of me making it, I can safely say that, guys, you WILL cry reading it. Cause in the end, Comet is not techecally "my" story, but it's YOUR story. It's a story for not only IDOJ but for any person coming of age in this insane world. It's here to offer those to escape their problems and find shealter from the cold, cruel world. Really, this fic is all about being sympathetic and sensitive to personal issues yet in a metaphorical way.

And gosh darn it, no matter HOW LONG or HARD it takes, I'm gonna finish writting this story! And I'm gonna HAVE FUN WHILE DOING IT!!!

[okmeamithinknow]

When do you actually plan to start posting the story instead of just talking about it in great length?

~Crys~

[J/C AVA]

Well, currently I've decided to cut it back and make it in "rough draft" form - meaning that I plan to write the entire fic from beginning to end. That way I can have a better idea of what to edit, rearrange, fix grammer, the like each time I go back to edit the whole thing.

This has actually gone through alot of incarnations and versions since I first posted it on IDOJ in December of 2008. The current version of the fic is here.

And so far I'm really liking this new approach to the story - laying everything out in a rough form before re-reading it again to check for mistakes, add, take out things, etc until it's the best story it can possibly be, rather than sitting there waiting til no end for "inspiration" to strike me or til I "feel like writing" it. That approach, as I've found out, is very limiting for me and now I feel I'm much more comfortable with this new way of writing it.

As I see it now, I don't think I'll post anything new until Phase 1 is done. Of course, if you clicked the link then some parts, if not all, will be changed from how you see them now.