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Presenting, my first Naruto fanfiction: Some Days You Feel Like A Nut, Some Days You Don’t

To be honest I think it has some composition problems and I should probably go through at least another three drafts, but I'm tired and it's getting late, and I am satisfied with it for now.

For those who have been following my family robbery saga...

turn to the center of page 3B of the San Jose Mercury News, Saturday. And I know only about 3 of you live around here besides me, but if you do then you'll see the short article.

The two people who robbed my grandmother was a person who worked for her, Ruby, and Ruby's son's girlfriend. She's only 18. That's a year younger than me.

uses and frustrations of trying to get feedback that actually informs you of a reader's response:

I finally got a few reviews for my recent Naruto one-shot, and subsequently was thinking about writing fanfic and the conflict between what I want to say, and what the readers hear.

Does anyone else ever get the urge, I ask, to simply sit down and write a point by point description of every theme or thematic aspect of hints of possible themes within your story, to explain every bit of symbolism and minute point of parallels and character analogies and basically do a reverse analyzation of your own stuff?

And then to present this fact sheet to a reader and say "Hey, did you get all of this stuff out of my fic? How much did you pick up on, and which parts went completely over your head?"

I get the urge to ask that all the time. Because even though I start a story with just an idea of a scene or a bit of dialogue, by the time I'm done I always know exactly what I'm trying to show/achieve with a fic. And I tend to recognize in my own writing many layers, even if they only exist in my perception and because of my amateurish writing aren't properly conveyed in the story itself, or even if they only mean something significant to me, and not anyone else. But typically, by the time I'm done with something I can analyze my own stuff as much as I'd analyze a Buffy episode or a classic novel. My stuff is nowhere near as good or as deep as either of those two catagories, but I do try very hard to convey themes on more than one level in fanfiction, even if it's only obvious to me and not to any readers. Even if I don't succeed, I try to give everything a point or a purpose in my stories, so that I can look back and think "I used this symbol because I wanted to show that this character was such and such." Some people do that very unconsciously in their writing, from what I've heard people say. For me, it starts out unconscious but by the time I'm through it's all very conscious and meticulously thought over.

As late, I also tend to analyze other people's fanfiction to as much depth as I'd give my own in writing it. A lot of fanfic doesn't have that far down deep to go, and some of it has noewhere at all, but a lot of the good ones do have a lot more symbols and purposes than I'd first realized.

So I guess my thoughts to LJ writers are these... do you guys also ever feel this way, or approach writing this way? Do you ever want to tell a reader everything you thought you were trying to say with a fic, and then ask them

"Is that what you thought when you read it? Was it even close?"

That's the kind of feedback that I could really make use of.

I called it, checkmate, 50+ moves ahead

( Naruto episode 33 squealing and future predictions of granduer )

This show is making with some big revelations a lot sooner than I expected it to. Which only makes it better, for not holding out like we'd expect. The way they're delt with in the storyline too... ::squeals:: It's GREAT! I can tell, already, that this show will never burn out on me like DBZ, the only other fighting anime I've watched a lot of. No, this show is not going to screw over my fan heart. And you know why? Because the same guy who wrote the manga to begin with will be writing it when it ends. No switching to co-producers or trading the best writers to the spin-off or cancelling it just when they the characters propose marriage and get blown up, or anything like that. In fact, the only thing that could kill this show is if the manga creator died all of a sudden. And from this site interview I read, he's relatively young yet. Hoh-yeah.

I thought it was going to be cool when we eventually get to see Demon!InuYasha and Sesshoumarrou duke it out once and for all on Rumiko Takahashi's IY. That's nothing compared to where Naruto is eventually going to go when Naruto and Sasuke finally go at it, a few seasons into the future. It's going to be sick.