Dawnathon
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I must have started writing somewhere around 2012. I had the pleasure of experiencing an 85mph car flip on the median of a highway, and I suddenly found I had a lot of free time and no car to actually go out and do much (it was a 100% car dependent place). I don't know what my first story was, because I started out writing theories and headcanons about some media I liked, which at some point started morphing into fanfics. It was a mess that nobody liked. I remember having an 18 hour writing session that was feverish and restless, and in hindsight it was complete garbage! Nobody liked it, not even me.
I started getting involved with small scale writing contests and collaborative fiction. I always kept thing to a very small scale. As long as one person appreciated it, that was enough. Plus, instant gratification when it's a circle of friends and "friends" as a quick, guaranteed audience. I wrote a lot. The one time I actually had a backup of all the works I wrote, it was over 1.5 million words. I don't know how much more got written after that, but it was still a lot. And now it's all gone. It's for the best. The group always said mine were the best and ask me for help with their own characters and stories. But they were hopelessly context sensitive. Nothing that you could collate into an actual novel without basically rewriting all of it. It's for the best. You willingly put all your stock into a disposible format, and it gets disposed at some point.
I've written a lot since then, but always local files for my eyes only. I found I really hated sharing anything with anyone. I then read a fictional story about a literal death of the author and the legacy they left behind online. I decided even if the stuff I've already written stays with me, I could still write something else to put it out there for someone to read, maybe someday.
It was a nice change of pace to abandon my usual habits. I usually love to leave many things unsaid for someone to have to piece together. I think that's the wrong approach for a web novel, so I'm trying to do the opposite and have a story with no subtlety at all. Even the title, The Voracious Shapeshifter and the City That Devours, is so heavy handed, it could bludgeon someone. I like it, it's a form of honesty. The fact that you can shorten it to VoraCity is a coincidence but I'll take it.
This is the one question i'll answer in isolation. It's something I really am eager about since I've always been a sensitive type, and I've had stories that made me giddy or outraged or teary-eyed. They're some of my favorite works of fiction, and sometimes even nonfiction. I want to pass those feelings and that passion on to others.
I started getting involved with small scale writing contests and collaborative fiction. I always kept thing to a very small scale. As long as one person appreciated it, that was enough. Plus, instant gratification when it's a circle of friends and "friends" as a quick, guaranteed audience. I wrote a lot. The one time I actually had a backup of all the works I wrote, it was over 1.5 million words. I don't know how much more got written after that, but it was still a lot. And now it's all gone. It's for the best. The group always said mine were the best and ask me for help with their own characters and stories. But they were hopelessly context sensitive. Nothing that you could collate into an actual novel without basically rewriting all of it. It's for the best. You willingly put all your stock into a disposible format, and it gets disposed at some point.
I've written a lot since then, but always local files for my eyes only. I found I really hated sharing anything with anyone. I then read a fictional story about a literal death of the author and the legacy they left behind online. I decided even if the stuff I've already written stays with me, I could still write something else to put it out there for someone to read, maybe someday.
It was a nice change of pace to abandon my usual habits. I usually love to leave many things unsaid for someone to have to piece together. I think that's the wrong approach for a web novel, so I'm trying to do the opposite and have a story with no subtlety at all. Even the title, The Voracious Shapeshifter and the City That Devours, is so heavy handed, it could bludgeon someone. I like it, it's a form of honesty. The fact that you can shorten it to VoraCity is a coincidence but I'll take it.
This is the one question i'll answer in isolation. It's something I really am eager about since I've always been a sensitive type, and I've had stories that made me giddy or outraged or teary-eyed. They're some of my favorite works of fiction, and sometimes even nonfiction. I want to pass those feelings and that passion on to others.