User blog:Sunshineandravioli/Sunshine Attempts to Get a Handle on Her Writing! (...For Something Like the Fourth Time This Year)

In case the title of this blog didn't make it evident enough, yes, I am attempting to get a handle on my writing (...for something like the fourth time this year). As my last atttempt at full-out weekly updates proved, to write chapters like mine in such a short amount of time is next to impossible, especially since I have such a tendency to get caught up in multiple commitments and lose time to write. So, I'm trying out a different approach.

First of all, I've cut down on the fanfics I'll be actively working on so as not to spread myself too thin. At the moment, I'll only be writing Total Sonic Island and LIFE AS AN EX-REALITY TV SHOW CONTESTANT, alongside my collab fics Total Wikia Elementary, When Reality Becomes Too Real..., and Total Wikia Pokémon. If Codaa and Spenny are ever up to it again, I'll also do the occasional work on Summer (though that would require Codaa's return to the wiki, of course). This means that Total Drama Couples and Total Drama Fame will continue to be on the backburner for now. I hope to bring back TDC someday, due to its unique concept, but in all honesty the future of Fame is iffy. I feel my writing and storytelling skills have improved a great amount since the conception of TDF, and continuing to write it would mean a massive amount of reworking, perhaps even rewriting the original chapters.

So, what do you guys think? Should I continue Fame? Absolutely! It deserves to be finished! No, it's not worth all that work. I don't have an opinion.

Now, you may be wondering, what does all this mean for the near future? First of all, TSI will not be updated for a pretty decent amount of time, perhaps months. Why? Because my plan for TSI is to write the chapters in advance for the next few months, so that eventually- probably in mid-spring or summer- I can post new chapters every week without the panicking and stress that comes with trying to pump out an entire chapter in less than seven days. That way, you'll get regular updates without Sunshine having another panic attack and spending months ignoring her fanfics in favor of drawing random Jak and Daxter characters with every spare moment she has! (True story, sadly. Now you know why the weekly updates plan failed. XDD) As for EX, since that story isn't quite as structured as my competition fics, I'll simply write chapters as I have inspiration and time. (I'm toying with an idea for chapter 6 at the moment, trying to combine repeated requests for a Heather chapter and one fan's proposal for more background info on Daisy and Emily.) Collab fanfictions will be written based on whether or not a submission by me is necessary.

Furthermore, I'm also working on three potential new fanfictions, two of which I mentioned in a recent blog, the other an older concept that I mentioned somewhere on here. The first, the TSI pseudo-sequel I mentioned in my anniversarry blog, will be posted if/when (hopefully when) TSI is completed. This will follow the same update pattern as its predecessor, with chapters being written far in advance and then posted weekly. I expect that this will be the first new fanfiction you guys see, considering I've already started on the first chapter. Another one that you'll probably be seeing sooner rather than later was initially concieved as a pseudo-sequel to TDF, but I figure with some minor reworking (including some minor edits to a couple characters, the addition of a new character or two, a couple plot changes, and the like) I can still write it. The final one was also mentioned in the anniversarry blog, but I've had some second thoughts about it, mainly because at least one plotline would deal with some more serious subject matter than the usual Sunshine fic. I may still write it, but for this reason I'll have to consider it more carefully.

So, there you have it! Hopefully, I'll be a little more successful this time in my quest for completed fanfics! :D

~Love and Ravioli, Sunshine ♥