User blog:JERealize/Progress Bar: Issue 015

Hello. I'm JERealize, your latest Featured User... though I won't get to enjoy the rest of its month. Let me explain on this edition of Progress Bar.

Other Priorities
Remember yesterday, when after watching the premeire of World Tour in anticipaton of the first episode of Grojband (on Cartoon Network) that after seeing what a mess it was, I would abandon the wiki for good? Well, that was a jest... at least, compared to what I found out last night. But first, let me begin by saying...

"It was raining... and they went for a drive..."'

Not relateed to this session, but I get to be random. Guess where I got this line from. Anyway...

After seeing how much of a garbagefest Grojband was, I decided to "return" to the wiki (and to tell you the truth, I was upstaging the "leaving" gig just to get some time to finish a few episodes and unleash them in one burst). I returned to chat to say that, though I lost my taste for TD, I would still stick around, but...

I found out from my father than I would have a busy month, which involves 20 hours of each day of 5 of 6 of the days of my life this June (this is confusing, so take your time to wrap your head around this one) being automatically reserved: ten for sleeping, ten for mandatory businesses, and if I have other things to do that take up time within the first twenty hours, the other four hours will be for napping. This is unbearable, since this will take me off my six-day plan and keep me from thinking of any ideas until July. I'll never get time for myself, so I guess I won't get to see you until July. I'll have some days off, but they'll be few and far between, and they're probably to be best served in my own purposes. until July, I won't really be on. I could see some new blogs, but that's as far as I could go.

This is really hard on me, so I hope you can bare sticking around a while longer. There will be no Progress Bars until July, and no new story updates until then, either. I'll be a bit like Nduke was last month, not getting to enjoy the month in which he was Featured. To be honest, and to use the Tenth Doctor's last words,

"I don't want to go..."

Yep, this comment is related.

The truth is, though, that I'll be off for a while. I apologize deeply, but it's out of my control. But while you're here. here's a tidbit...

My Life As a Writer
I remember writing little comics back in 2002-03. By now, they make me sick. They were about me taking on a so-called witch, in most every installment. (It was called "The Witch of Central Valley".) The script was sloppy, the situations were often senseless, and including me as the main protagonist was a sign of an amateur writer. After Episode 9, most of the chapters were based off of the plots of television shows or other stories, and some parts of the comic were released in non-chronological order (like Chapter 9, Part 1, then Chapter 10, Part 1, then Chapter 6, Part 3, then Chapter 9, Part 2, and you get the picture). It was a mess, and I planned 50 story arcs and haven't gone further than Chapter 12, Part 1, where I left numerous chapters before it unfinished. (Plus I named some of the programs after myself, and since they were named after television programs, that calls for a big oy vey.) It is now abandoned, and I don't ever want to live through it again..

I also wrote ideas for another sequential story arc with me as the protagonist, but in prose. The first story was awful enough to stop before finishing. I planned on writing other stories shortly after that, and failed to finish, but one of the more notable projects of the 2000s decade was The War Amongst the States. It was to be a saga with multiple chapters in it that dictated the events of an E.T. assault that precedes the famed Council of the Law's takeover that results in a civil war that erupts into a world war, the further you progress into the story. It was supposed to be a collection of books totaling 200 chapters and covering a variety of plots, but then more ideas came and it swelled up to over 300 chapters. None of them were technically based off of any individual story, but they could have featured every TV Trope known to man, had it been carried out. (And I have never heard of TV Tropes back then.) The problem is, I gave up during the writing of Chapter 5 (which was about me running for, and winning, the Presidency, so it might have been the sign that things were better off not written). I should plan to revive bits and pieces of the story idea and call it "The War of Cinders", as I might have figured out how to make it better.

I joined the Hunger Games Wiki on March 2011, after spending a few months reading the book and waiting around until I've actually heard of this site, and some people were making blogs with stories in them. Stories about different Games with OCs. I joined in by attempting to make the biggest one of all: JER's Tournament. It was to be held in the 21st Century and feature 380 people as Tributes. However, I never had the frenzy to get past Day 2, and since some of the characters in the series were makeshift (someone told me to add Matt Smith and Karen Gillian before I knew who they were, and then discovered that I unwittingly killed them off in the Bloodbath), I fear that I would never finish it, though  I had a few ideas as to future plots in the story. Yes, I'm in it as a Tribute, but I was to not win it (spoiler), to be eliminated aroung 10th-15th place (spoiler), and to be resurrected to assault Yesare Dernes (the leader of the organization that founded the Games, and a spoiler) and again to help the winner turn herself into a nuke and detonate the facility, and Yesare as a consequence (massive spoiler, and Yesare was designed to manipulate the world around her, but she would barely fall).

I would later try my hand again with JER's Multiversal Games, featuring those from other universes (let's see... we have THG, Battle Royale, Harry Potter and Twilight, Detective Conan, Naruto, Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Phineas and Ferb, Sailor Moon, yadda yadda yadda, and a few originals.) There was a significantly smaller pool this time around (96 competitors), and here's the thing: I didn't know who more than half the competitors were, so I asked for links to their pages (which resulted in me getting a spoiler headache from doing the research, as I now know what Tuxedo Mask looks like without the mask), and I did get pretty far in, but not far enough, of course. I had a few plans as to what would happen in future plots, such as a battle between Sailor Moon and Dark Magician Girl, Ferb's alliance with Vi to bring together a group of intellectuals from across the multiverse to fight the Games and free its captives (in which they would ally with Dexter and the Test Sisters and engage in a subplot where they would fight a Mandark-Bling Bling Boy alliance), and the Games forcing an end at the final 6 (after a battle against the ringleader of the person trying to ruin the Games, who so happened to be me from an alternate universe where I'm a New Yorker extremist). Also, this is the first time I've heard of Total Drama. It was when TDR97 (I suppose) entered Duncan and Heather, and I killed them off early before noticing who they were. And now, we've come full-circle and cross-eyed...

Also, I do hope none of the THG wikians get a whiff of this, as this would severly affect them in ways unprecedented before... It's like finding out who River Song is. (Hint: The only water in the forest is the river.)

And now, I still have ideas for future stories, so if I decided to leave the wiki and go somewhere else, I'll try them out. I'll explain them another day, but first, let this month pass and let us move along.

Anything else?
I don't know. I'll post any extra additions here if I get the chance. With that, I say good night, and wish me luck.

Featured User, and just one month to go... (Talk | Blogs | Contributions) 15:46, June 11, 2013 (UTC)