User blog:KnucklesFanGremlin/Something I've realized about my writing...

If I have really flexible characters that can really be put into any situation, I can never keep the story consistent. Yet if I have characters that are made for one thing, the story can keep going on normally.

For example, I wrote this one pretty dark and serious Pokemon fanfiction a while ago. It actually had a pretty good and long run until I ran into writer's block, but the only reason I was able to keep it going so long was because of the characters. Those characters were meant for solely that setting in that story, and nothing else.

Then I look at my Sonic characters, which are extremely flexible and can be put into any sort of situation. Whether it be falling into Oz or being put into cartoon form, almost every situation could work for them. And for some reason, that normally causes my story structures to fall apart and I can't write any chapters that actually follow up with each other.

Now, I did have this same problem just a few years ago, only they were the really early versions of my Pokemon fanfiction characters. Since those characters were a little more flexible at the time, I had trouble writing a flowing story, so I just resorted to writing short stories about their memories, their future, or other moments in their life. These little stories occurred at random, and there was no plot to connect each story. They were just their own solo thing with the same characters.

So that leads me to the conclusion that I will NOT be writing a full-out fanfiction with my Sonic characters, but I still will write about them in short and random parts. Basically every "chapter" is like a filler episode, only it's not trying to be funny all the time (looking at you, Naruto). So one I've written one or two short stories, I'll post the page for it up here.

And because nothing's consistent... yeah, you guys can have your characters in a few chapters maybe. But for the first few chapters, they might just get a cameo appearance.