Not much to say besides the fact that my name "GL" refers to "Gold Leader". Don't let the Star Wars reference fool you; it's not the center of my life or any such nonesense like that. I happen to be a guy and I'm 15, big deal; age has nothing on common sense.

In any case, I've been writing for awhile now, but I haven't been getting the kind of development I was expecting. For one, my work is barely ever seen, and when it is it's critiqued on a bias, meaning that the reviews have no merit. Also, much to my dismay, I jump interests rapidly, meaning I've never even finished a single writing project. I've gotten far, but never far enough.

I've had the eeking sensation that my writing has no feeling to it. I know that it's usually militant, but whever I read my material and compare it with somebody else's I can't help but see a lacking. So, I want your reviews of my work to be as critical as humanly possible. Don't give me "Oh it was good, but it wasn't too good." I want you to tell me exactly what I'm doing wrong.

On Fanfiction

Fanfiction is something of an enigma... Is it legitimate? Is it worthwhile? Does it mean anything? Does it always have to involve some kind of sexual pairings?

Well, answers here are basically yes, yes, yes, and absolutely not; to center the entire genre on something that... how should I say... "questionable" is one of the worst aspects about the whole setup.

I believe that fanfiction can be as good as any other kind of fiction and, depending on the author, it can rise to the level of the original work and maybe even surpass it. Now, it can't really do this if canon characters are reused every single time, and the same situations repeated with the same results, so with my works I've decided to do something a bit different: tell an original tale based on that story, or at least re-tell the entire story in an entirely different light and with more emphasis on what the original work left out.

Ironically, you see novels based on games and movies sitting around at stores all the time. I figure, hell, why can't my writing be good enough to get up to that status? So that's what I've been trying to do.

Fanfiction Projects:

Doom: Bravo - My longest living yet inevitably unsuccessful fanfic, Bravo documents the struggle of Bravo Team in the game Doom 3. In that game, the player only catches brief glimpses of the team, so my aim was to fill in the gaps. I cleared up some of the pointless game mechanics (like adding nightvision into the marine helmets) and made references to actual scares in the game, just give the reader a feeling of nostalgia if they ever played it before. Doom: Bravo was intended as a fanfiction novel, being of full length, meaning in upwards of 24 chapters. Unfortunately, when I reached chapter 12, I lost inspiration to complete the project (which was also aided by a sudden story gap I ran into, that being "Ok, what happened between this and that?" I couldn't come up with anything). The writing is flawed, as I'm aware, in that there is no new paragraph/tab for dialogue. Despite these shortcomings, it still stands as one of the most successful pieces I've ever done, so I'm still putting it up for review.

Genre: Sci-fi/Horror

Rating: Mature (heavy coarse language, violence, gratuitous blood and gore, satanic references)

Chapters: 11 (Final)

Links:

http:///img70/7386/doombravocovercompletejm0.png - Cover Art

Starfox: Revisited - Following in the footsteps of being a fanfiction novel, the premise is that I'd be taking the game "Starfox 64" into a realm of complete seriousness and reality. Thus things were being changed left and right in order to make it more realistic (planet alignment, character actions/reactions, the Arwing isn't an invincible ship, etc.) Also, I was deliberately trying to avoid the fact that the main characters are animals as much as possible. The reason is twofold: Nintendo originally made them animals to place them in a "kiddy" environment and I also despise the game's affiliation with being "for furries". Not that I have anything particular against them, but I'm sick of this link which popular consent says is bad, so I'm circumventing the whole ordeal by eliminating that part entirely. Starfox: Revisited is about a small mercenary unit called Starfox that gets pulled into the Lylat War, and I intended to make it a war. War is gritty. War is real. This is what Starfox is when you minus the cheeky little quips. Unfortunately, like Bravo, this failed as well. Ironic, no? Or rather pathetic? Either or I suppose.

Genre: Sci-fi/Adventure

Rating: Teen (light amounts of coarse language, violence)

Chapters: 7 (Final)

Links:

http:///img70/723/sfrevisitedcoverartfullcx5.png - Cover Art

http:///img70/9639/lylatsystemlayoutfz4.png - Map of the Lylat System