A Word Aside 3 - What's Next?

First of all, it’s important to realise that what I plan to do and what I actually do are usually two very different things. It isn’t just because I take longer about doing things than I should and occasionally give up; I’m also subject to bouts of whimsy, which resolve themselves into impromptu stories I didn’t know I was going to make.

I do, however, have a rough game plan. OJ stories are pretty much front and centre at the moment; I intend to devote roughly equal time to both Suguriverse and QPverse stories, although the characters might mix around a little. For Suguriverse stories, I’d like to get some more Sugihime done, then maybe mess around with some of the characters I haven’t looked at yet – Saki, for example. I also might do some AU stuff with Sora not having fallen asleep after the war, getting to know characters from her own time. In terms of the QPverse, I’d like to do a Yuki story, and maybe a first person QP or Aru story since they’re mostly been third person before.

Outside of OJ stories, I’m also working on FFVII stories every so often. Usually I try to work on one in between finish an OJ story and starting the next; I have one in particular that I’d like to finish sooner or later, at which point I’ll probably edit it up and then import it to the blog as a definitive version. (I may do that for other ‘finished’ stories in my library, although that’s a very small list and I may be too lazy to do that).

I would, eventually, like to write some Touhou stories, but I’ve fallen out of touch with that series. It has a lot to explore, but it’s also been a long time since I read a touhou doujin or played a mainline Touhou game. If I did make up my mind to write a touhou story, it would probably be a multi-chapter story exploring Gensokyo and meeting the residents, through the eyes of a fan-character. (Usually I dislike making fan characters, but for something like an exploration story, where the aim is to capture some of the wonder of being in the setting and meeting the characters, it should be fine).

What else? Well, I’ll probably take down the attempt at an LP for Pokemon Reborn. I haven’t opened that game in maybe four months, and it was fairly work-heavy when I was doing it. Pokemon games have a lot of analysis to delve into, which is fine except for the fact that I’m not great at Pokemon. I would like to do a playthrough of some game or another, but that game was the wrong one to try it with, at the wrong time.

One thing I might do is reaction pieces to whatever anime I’m watching at the time. I don’t really like doing reviews, as I’ve mentioned, so the only way I could do opinion pieces is to do them in the moment, episode by episode. It may be a fun diversion. I might also start a reading list page, to archive what books I finish as time trickles by; I read a decent amount in my own time, so it wouldn’t be a completely barren exercise.

Last but not least, there’s always the chance that I might do an original story specifically for the blog. Usually I don’t like posting original fiction, but I’ll have tot get comfortable with it at some point, and it’ll be fun to create and design characters and settings (which you don’t, by and large, get to do very much with fanfics). That won’t be for a while, though. I might do the occasional character or setting design post, just walking through my thoughts as I’m putting things into place.

That should be all for now. Next time… Next time I guess I’ll do something I haven’t decided on yet? I’m subject to fits of whimsy, after all.