Long Silence

I have not posted anything here in a while so I thought I should at least say why.

I have completely lost my motivation to write.

When I first started writing fan fiction over a year ago it was a project to improve my writing speed and skill. While I have always done reasonably well with writing I had never been particularly verbose or descriptive with it and I needed both of these things to produce a research report of high enough quality to complete my masters degree.

I succeeded in my goal of improving my writing skills and completing my degree. I have however largely come to the realization that I have failed as a writer in creating a story that grabs the readers attention and keeps their interest.

What is worse, judging by the reader response, I feel my efforts to understand the characters that I borrowed and keep them in character or show a logical motivation and progression to changing their behavior has been a complete waste of time as very few people besides me seem to care about this.

I have come to a realization that to get lots of interest in fan fiction and crossovers involving Ranma as the main character you need two things:

1) an automatically super Ranma (who cares how he got that way, or he does not act a thing like the actual character) capable of solving all the problems of another anime world.

2) lots of action (don't worry if the activity has nothing to do with the world Ranma is entering, or Ranma)

The short version of all this is writing is no longer fun for me, and has not been for some time.

Signing Off
Teturo