User blog:Owenguy101/5 Year Wikiversary Special! + Future Plans

The milestone has been achieved! As of today I have been a user on the Total Drama Fanfiction wiki for a total of five years. I’ve definitely come a long way since I first joined the wiki. When I first joined I was just a curious preteen that found this site and decided to write short stories to it. Five years later I am a young adult having written a main series consisting of five stories and have been promoted to admin status. When I first did writing, I was very lazy doing chapters that only consisted of at least a paragraph which got longer and longer for each chapter. Yeah, I sucked at writing back then. Also a lot of stories I had planned ended up getting scrapped. By 2010 I finally came up with a concept for an ongoing series starting with Total Drama Oweguy. It was followed by a sequel called Total Drama Tourism that was basically just a rehashed Total Drama World Tour. These two stories are not that great in my opinion and I just ignore them to the more superior sequels. 2011 was when I came up with the story that soon became a huge success on the wiki. Total Drama Sci-Fi Action was the third in my ongoing series and thanks to some lessons from English class and some creative imagination for the sci-fi genre, I managed to surpass my two previous stories, come up with a great story, and change up the Total Drama finale a little using a multipart finale rather than a simple episode. These were followed by two other stories done similarly which I though weren’t as good at this one but still very impressive. The fifth story, Total Drama Vegas City, was the first of all my stories to win featured story which I was very proud to see one of my stories receive. Total Drama Sci-Fi Action would later win this award a few months later so I’m glad that it got that recognition as well because it should’ve won that a long time ago.

As an artist, I have improved a lot too. When I first joined the wiki, I mostly just did recolors and then I proceeded to do drawings in paint which were very crappy. After getting tips from the legendary Sprinklemist I managed to get better with my paint drawings and got really good with my character models as well as able to do scene pics from my stories. I used this type of drawing style from my third story Total Drama Sci-Fi Action to my fifth story Total Drama Vegas City. In between those three stories I got better on drawing on paint able to make my drawings much larger allowing for some of the details such as faces to not be so thick and cluttered. After that, I got Windows 7 and Paint got hard to use so I switched character designs from Paint to Adobe Photoshop. Since Photoshop is a lot more advanced, I took my time with designing newer characters. Rather than designing a character on Paint, I instead sketched it out on paper and scanned it to a computer to be colored in Photoshop. It was quiet time consuming but I was able to do it. I did a bunch of characters in Photoshop but unfortunately the story I had them planned suffered from writers block and a bunch of them got scrapped. I also did characters for other characters in the same process but unfortunately the story the users had planned for those characters got scrapped. Despite these, Photoshop would still be the main art program I would use for future drawings.

Now to finish off this anniversary blog post, I want to mention some of my future plans. First off, I’ve got sad news for some of my readers. I’ve been thinking about it lately and now I’ve made a decision. I am going to retire from writing Total Drama Fanfictions so that means any TD fanfics I had planned or in the process of writing are going to be scrapped / cancelled. The reasons for this decision are that first, I’ve had huge writers block for my planned TD stories and second, I’m not into Total Drama as I once was. Also, I’m currently in my senior year at high school and soon will be heading off into college by next fall so I’m not going to have time to finish off a major story like these. Now just because I’m saying I’m going to retire from doing TD fanfics doesn’t mean I’m leaving the wiki. I’ll still be on the help out anyone who’s having trouble and I might still do short little things once in a while. Anything that has a bunch of chapters I will not be doing. Hopefully you respect my decision and understand why. School and work is more important for me as of right now.

In other news, I’m also planning out some bigger stuff outside of the wiki. First, I’m planning on finding a place to put some of my non Total Drama artwork onto a site, either on a blog, Deviantart, or Tumblr. If you have any good suggestions, let me know in the comments. Some other stuff I plan on doing is comics and short animations. Hopefully I can figure out how to do the latter soon because I want to show people what I want and like to do. As for writing, I plan on doing some stories for other franchises other than Total Drama, I want to experiment on doing a fanfiction for another series. Sonic the Hedgehog has always been a series I wanted to try and do a story for so maybe I can do a story for that. Whatever I have planned, I’ll make sure it’s good.

So that’s that. Five years is a big accomplishment and I’ve made sure I’ve had fun doing it. I’m still doing to do more later this year but nothing too major because like I said, I’d want to focus on school and getting into college than write a Total Drama themed story. And once I’ve got a bunch of more artwork posted somewhere, I’ll inform you because I think you’ll like them. One last thing I want to mention are some wikia users who have been good friends. Some of those are Reddude, Bruno, Toad, Ben, Fanny, and Jordan. If I didn’t mention your name, don’t get mad. Oh what the hey, you’re all good users. Anyway, thanks for all the support over these last five years, I’ve definitely become a strong person with writing and drawing and I hope to continue that later on. Oweguy out!