User blog:Jkl9817/On the subject of TDSA

So, as you know, I've been meaning to start posting Total Drama Socially Awkward, my reasonably anticipated OC competition story whose premise and cast have been known to the wiki for a good while (a year or so) without so much as an introduction chapter having been actually published. The reason for that is that I intended to get a good advance on the chapters before I began to post anything, to make sure there would be no momentum-destroying hiatuses.

Problem is, I have been writing for quite some time and have only just finished chapter 4, and, at the rate things are going, it's quite possible that this story ends up with 30+ chapters, meaning that it would take me a very long time to even reach midpoint. So, given that I have been holding that page for over a year and that has got to be against the rules, and also given that a good amount of anticipation has been built around it recently, what with the Wiki Awards nods and the completion of the character pages (Godfrida is supposed to not have a profile pic, FYI), I decided to begin posting chapters.

Before I do, though, I thought I should offer a feel pointers which I feel are important if you intend to read this story:
 * First of all, I am terminating the guessing contests. I'm really sorry to disappoint everyone who participated, but they are just not artistically consistent with the story; to keep them up would be sort of hypocritical. I hope you can understand. In any case, thanks to everyone who took a guess in any of them.
 * I have noticed that some people are nervous about the R rating. Like I said in the story's talk page, it is mostly a precaution, because I'm not completely sure just how heavy it will get. I do know for sure that there will be enough instances of violence and adult themes to warrant a PG-13 at the very least, and, while I'm trying to avoid swearing-for-the-sake-of-swearing, I am not holding back on curse words either. So if that sounds too intimidating, you might want to skip this story altogether. It's not like TDSA is going to be a big foul-mouthed S&M orgy, but it also won't be exactly lightweight. There are two psychos and one sociopath in the cast, after all.
 * As you may have noticed from the two items above, this will be, all in all, a very odd competition story, mainly because I am not placing too much focus on the "competition" part. It's mostly going to be told from the perspective of the contestants themselves rather than as "episode descriptions" (so to speak), which means some narrative sections may or may not be insufferably dull, depending on your fondness for the characters. That also means the chapters will be rather long, and not particularly heavy on dialogue, with a few exceptions. So, again, it's probably not going to be to everyone's taste.

I think that's it. Oh, in case you haven't heard of TDSA yet or are not familiar with the premise, it's this: 24 socially awkward people of varying ages and nationalities are pitted against each other in an enormous cave 500 feet underground, in a new reality show idealized and executive-produced (but not hosted; the hostess is an extremely sweet Asian entertainer who used to be a porn star) by Chris McLean himself. I hope that captures your interest; in any case, be aware that something like three people nominated it for Best Story Premise at the Wiki Awards, so I guess I'm onto something?

To make sure I have time to write every chapter before it's time to publish it, the chapters will be posted on the first Saturday of each month, beginning on January 4, which will be TDSA's official release date! *blows party horn* So thank you in advance to everybody who intends to read it, and, well, I hope you like it.

''Post-scriptum fun fact: did you know party horns are called "mother-in-law's tongues" in Brazil? (Please don't make the whole comments section about that.)''