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I have been using a dress-up doll program to convert a written story into a visual slideshow, so check out GAWDAM Force Chapters 1-5 (100MB of images). Made in Gacha Club by Lunime because I can't draw. Content warning: everyone swears like sailors. It is a parody, but I like to think that I wrote it well enough that you don't need to know the source material to enjoy it.

Let's make this a generic "what are you working on?" thread. Post any incomplete project that you think someone might be interested in seeing.

I still have one chapter to finish in my Wolf Children fanfiction. I have a tendency to procrastinate, though last month was especially busy for me since I had to deal with moving. What's currently done is posted on fanfiction.net and I plan to have it on DeviantArt not only when it's fully complete, but also when the cover art I asked to be done for it is also done.

I want to make hatsune miku and Teto in MUGEN

Something I have not been working on in a while: my Smash Brothers parody where the reason for having fighters from different video games is that they are from different dimensions and can travel back and forth between them and bring their new friends along for different adventures. I hit writer's block in the middle of what should be the last episode and have not gotten back to it.

I thought I had lost a year's worth of writing after my laptop died and my backup HD died before I could get the files off of it. Fortunately, I found another copy so I'll share a few things.

Here is a list of which of the Brawl characters made it into the story and how much they were altered:

And here are a few snippets of story:

• Things are not what they seem to be… in a castle
• Things are not what they seem to be… in a burger joint
• Our space marine goes home, our Mary Sue goes apartment hunting with an idiot, and a fighter's unassuming wife reveals her power
• Trekkies pay a surprise visit
• Jill takes a giant robot for a joy ride
• Who do you hire to fight an alien invasion? Everybody!

I forgot that I had made character cards for GAWDAM Force. You can read these for brief descriptions of the characters:

• Station Zero: The antagonists
  
• Earth (1/3): Ifu Palace co-conspirators and Earth Forces Command
  
• Earth (2/3): Area 52 and EDF White Flag
  
• Earth (3/3): EDF Archenemy and Others

To review what I haven't done, I updated my Fanfic Audit spreadsheet. I can count:

• 10 completed short stories (Dungeon Splurge, two Fearless Fosdick stories, Ghostf*ckers, Harry Stoner Online, Jack's New Slogan, Magical Girl Recruiters, Reverse Isekai, The Bad Bad Guy, The Holey Company)
• 4 completed long stories (Crash season 1, Gawdam Force, Odyssia, Young Killers)
• 17 ideas barely started (below 10k of text)
• 18 others incomplete (10k or more written)

That is a rather pitiful record. I get an idea and can't go anywhere with it. I want to finish Crash season 2 and get back to working on Stingray, Faraway Fantasy, or the Villanos Wacky Races fanfic.

… and instead of those options, I worked on my Star Trek fanfic. It is only half-finished, which is a great improvement over yesterday.

My Star Trek fanfic is finished, kind of. It is 45,000 words, 115 pages of a quite rough draft where recurring characters are not named until the end of the last chapter (if at all), ships are missing officers that should be there, a major subplot that was supposed to be core to the story didn't happen as I wanted it to. So it still needs work, but at least it has been written through to a conclusion.

I like this page.

I have done nothing with Gawdam or Crash since starting this thread, so no updates there.

And now for something completely different: a few new scenes added to another fanfic before writer's block hit again.

Since starting this thread a month ago I have brought a second unfinished project to a complete but rough first draft. It still needs work, but The Rally at Alejandro's Butte aka Dr, Flug Drives A Race Car is story-complete at just under 30,000 words of which 14,500 were added over the past week and last weekend. Before this month I had brought only four projects of this size to this level of completion, ever. This is the shortest of them.

I don't know how long this forum post will be visible, but my fanfiction is finally complete. It has been nearly ten months since I started writing it; even though I had the story all planned out before starting it, it was hard writing out every single piece of dialogue and narration. Here it is in its entirety, but make sure you read the preceding short story first since it follows directly with that.

My Villanos fanfic.is a rough draft, so I have started improving it. This is how the changes look:

page 1

another page

My first drafts are often a series of "he said, she said" bulletpoints, something simple to get my ideas written down before I forget them. I need to go back to give the text some flow, add adverbs and try to get at least some of the 6 Ws in there.

Here is another example of a change from "bulletpoint" "he-said", "he-said", "he-said" text to a more detailed second draft.

The bulletpoint text is readable, compact, gets the point across. You can guess the characters' motivations, intentions, and tone of voice. The problem is that you have to guess their motivations, intentions, and tone of voice because I did not write them in. While I the writer know all of that stuff and have it in mind as I read the story, you do not. So hopefully the second version is better for the average reader.

Happy weekend. Let's bump my own thread to pretend that we have some activity.

The Villanos car race fanfic is mostly done. The last thing to do is give names to two side characters who appear often.

I have started on another Villanos fanfic, aiming for it to be episode-length rather than movie-length. The story is: a guy from the Black Cat pet supply company gets the wrong directions and starts working for Black Hat. He uses his knowledge of animal care to help defeat several cat-themed heroes before anyone figures out the mistake. I had this idea years ago but could never push it forward.

Fanfic complete: Meet the New Guy

One of my unfinished ideas is to make a stage play out of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. For this, I used my usual writing method: Splurge out my ideas into a text file before I forget them, hit writer's block, give up, get distracted by something else, abandon the project. Coming back to the project today, I used a spreadsheet to arrange the story segments. This lets me see, visually, where the gaps in the story are. When does this scene that happens later happen? When is later? Let's put it here. The third, fourth, and fifth columns started out empty but now have enough ideas in them to tell me where and what to write, and where the gaps in the story are. If your writing project is a mess of scattered thoughts, I recommend using this technique to structure it.

Bumping my vanity thread. Am I actually working on anything? Not a whole lot, finished a short Trigun fanfic but otherwise haven't done much.

That SWR fanfic: I have half-written some of those missing segments but I don't think I finished any of them.

Found while ooking through old files, I'll share old plans for a Stein's Gate fanfic that were never developed and probably never will be.

I haven't gotten back to working on Clash yet but I decided to add the Season 2 characters to the big "Personality" attribute chart. It is now a bigger mess and harder to read, and I have barely started. Compare to the Season 1 chart. Two changes: the fighters are grouped underneath their managers, and the "Attached To" column helps explains the relationships.

The "bookie ratings" of fighters sorted as a power ranking

Since you don't know these characters, here is a list of who they are based on.

And since why not, go read a chunk of the story.

I plugged a few more characters into the big chart. This screenshot includes the stats columns: STR, DEX, etc.

How does Metal Knight win with stats so low? Powers. He hits you with his floating guitar over and over again, and you can't dodge it. It is hard to beat that. Most don't. And if you can get his guitar away from him, he can do the same thing to you with anything else he finds in the arena.

Repeating the color codes so you don't have to go and open the other file that had this info:

• pink are tournament fighters, dark pink are disqualified
  
• orange are referees (dark orange are temps, most are returning retired fighters),
  
• dark red is retired,
  
• yellow are "local notables" including a former fighter on break and a couple of failed tryouts,
  
• green are noncombatants who have a significant role (mostly managers).

If anyone wants to know "who the hell is …?", I'll post their character sheet and maybe a chunk of storyline that they are involved in.

This might be the last thread bump. That burst of inspiration from two months ago has vanished, and I can't explain it. It was nice while it lasted. So I've been rereading my stories to hope that it sparks something in my imagination, and it doesn't. Working on that chart isn't actually doing anything. There is no purpose in adding the idiot office intern and the idioter coffee cart worker to the tournament fighter stats chart other than being autistic and bored enough to do it. It does put my characters in mind so I hope that I might develop new stories for them, but I haven't.

Hopefully one of you has something to show off.