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What is your story-writing history?



1. An indirect start



Starting around 1996, I had a dream**. This dream was what started it all. Though it has almost nothing to do with writing stories, I consider it the "fatherhood" dream for my script-writing. It was based on a dream I had during those times. In this dream, I was on a log raft [old fashioned, ain't it?] driftin' down a river through many states. Even to this day, I can still recall this dream quite well, nearly 8 years later! This was the time I was in the worst times of my life, my horrifying 5th grade year***.

A year later, during 1997, I wrote my first ever story that wasn't assigned in school [in those early years, a long story would be about a paragraph or two]. Though simple, it was 16 pages long, longer than most any other student would write. It was titled, "The Story of the Wonderful Adventure". I don't have a copy of this 16-page story and I've lost it about 6 years ago or so.

2. The Wonderful Adventure series



I then don't remember what motivated myself to rewrite a much longer version of this same story. Whatever my motivation was, I rewrote "The Story of the Wonderful Adventure" to have 80 pages [precisely 79 pages, including the very few images I had scattered around]. I do have an intention of posting this very first script, though it may sound boring and parts of this old script have been used in my future stories.

Since I wrote the 79-page script, I decided to write a sequel to this script. The sequel was 81 pages long, not much of a difference. The idea from this story came from watching a TV show that had something to do with the monsoons around India. Basically retaining the original format and design, the script had little improvement. The full title of the second episode is "The Story of the Wonderful Adventure II: The Mega Flood".

At some point during 1998, I started to type out my written versions. Using MSWorks, on Windows 3.1 [boy, you don't see that operation system anymore!], I typed my first ever script. It was the largest document I've ever typed. Since it was typed, it, I believe, has been printed out. A mere 45 pages wasn't much. With the font style I've got with "The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters", 45 pages would equal about 20 to 30 [I'd have to look at it [in which I still have the exact, original file today, in 2004].

During my 9th grade year in 1999, I've got three new tools to use for my story. The first was my mind game†. The second was my Status System‡, and the third was my weird dreams I often get that I find interesting. My mind game, then, was very simple, weak, and barely anything worthwhile. However, since I've used it quite extensively since I got it, my ability of using my mind game as a tool for story writing has grown a lot. During those days, the Status System was very confusing, with lots of undefined units and meaningless values. Today, my Status System is simple enough that I'm actually able to get formulas based on metric measurements and the Status System's values. Today, my weird dreams provide a great chunk of ideas for my stories to come as you may have seen in the mysterious dreams section of my site. I've got numerous cases of bizarre dreams and more are being added quite rapidly.

Two other episodes of "The Story of the Wonderful Adventure" were written after the first two were completed. Episode 3 featured a world-wide hunt for some baddies, and episode 4 featured two bad guys from Uranus and Neptune threatening the Earth. The second episode had about half the first act typed and was never continued, even to today. The third and fourth episodes were never completed in their writing, though they were both around page 113.

3. The big scripts



Episode 4 was the key to my next story. No, it's not episode 5 [10 episodes were actually planned [or at least their subtitles and main theme], however], it's what my base was for my first real script. Titled "The Rise of Atlantis", started during 1999, it set many records. The most obvious one was it's sheer length! 384 pages of writing composing of 17 acts and 84 scenes [or just shy of 5 scenes per act on average]. Another far less obvious one was the number of pages I wrote in one go without ever taking a break [excluding that to get a small drink [This was at night, when I wasn't allowed out of my room at the time.]]. I actually wrote 18 pages in one go! Though it seems impressive, I broke this record at a later date by more than 3 pages!

"The Rise of Atlantis" was based on the primary concept of what I had with episode 4 of "The Wonderful Adventure" series, or the "Wondad" series [pronounced as you would for the first syllables of wonderful and adventure; also "wuhn dad"] as I commonly call it. Wondad 4, as mentioned earlier, featured two aliens from Uranus and Neptune [one from each planet]. In "The Rise of Atlantis", this same concept was used but to a much greater degree and with a totally new design.

After completion, "The Rise of Atlantis" was typed, but only to act 9. The typing was never continued until a lot later.

I then got involved with writing another story. This story's title is currently kept secret as it will be used in the computer game I'm developing. Even what it's about is kept secret. Though, however, I can tell you that it, too, set new records. The first record was it's length. 400 pages of writing covering only 8 months with the last 200 covered in 2 months [due to some immense record setting I've done] and the first 100 covered in 1.5 months. The second record is my current record for the largest amount of writing in single go. A shocking 21.6 pages. Another, even more astonishing record was writing 1/8 of the story, 55 pages to be precise, in only 3 days. At this rate, I'd be right on the old record I had with writing "The Rise of Atlantis".

This was the last complete story I wrote. One story, something about a vacation to an underwater city only got 20 pages in, a second, though I know too little about it, got about 30 pages in, not even close to what the oldest of my Wondad series had for it's shortest.

4. My modern stories



From 2000 clear until 2002, there was virtually no progress in my story writing. I took out my copy of Wondad, my only typed story I had and tried to "modernize" it. Because the Status System used during those times was dull, incomprehensable, and meaningless, I sort of rewrote this to the way the Status System was in early 2002, which is basically the way it is now, only with 13 of the 18 stats [soon to be 17]. Through modernization, I got my interest back in writing stories again.

One key event with my story writing wasn't any of my ideas, instead, it was school. From all the hard ships of grades 2 through 9, I've got away from all the negative signs of the old way and got on with one-on-one teaching, with just myself and a teacher that I had a high compatibility with, a low A, or 937†† on a scale from 0 to 1000, I started liking school again and was able to concentrate much more easily. One of the courses was creative writing. This is why you see all those stories I've posted on my website. These stories [under the proper category] were part of this class. Not only did I just write stories, I've learned many editting techniques that I've either never learned well enough because I couldn't concentrate, or have nearly forgotten [except the basics]. Now that I have this knowledge [and applied it many times], my story writing has revived.

5. Rise of Atlantis reborn twice



Then, during Semptember or October of 2002, I was highly motivated to wondering what "The Rise of Atlantis" was all about. I got at it and started typing away. It was until March of 2003 that I finally finished it. This also included applying my newly learned editting skills. Though it was of no use, it was good practice as this old version, submitted to copyright and successfully registered, was glitched in many ways and of grade D. Here's a list on why:

  1. I forgot completely about time zones! If a character glides at 30,000 mph from Los Angeles to London, England, the time in LA would the same in London, though it should be advanced by about 8 hours. That is, if it was 8:00 AM in LA, it'd still be 8:00 AM in London, though the journey would only take a few minutes to accomplish. In reality, if it was 8:00 AM in LA, it should be about 4:00 PM in London.
  2. The story's plot was boring. There was little action [except act 9], but a fairly decent amount of humor. In general, the plot was grade F, a pure failure.
  3. The story was way too long. Who'd want to watch a movie that was 9 hours long? Though it seems odd, my estimation, using a rather simple procedure, was showing that length is not the name of the game. My old estimates using a method that is almost purely useless as I didn't have a source to go by. They were saying about 5 hours, a bit long, but barely acceptable.
  4. This story was written in the times in which I didn't have the high level of skill. Though it was editted, I didn't get much anywhere with it, except a bit of practice to raise my skill level‡†.


Because of these major flaws, I realized that I had a problem so great, I literally had to retype the story. So, taking out MSWorks word processor, I started with a blank document and rewrote the entire story. Here, I've set a record far bigger than any of my other records in several ways. There are also many other advantages over this rewritten version compared to the old one.

  1. Time zones have been included.
  2. Far more realistic timing thanks to two key formulas: the distance-acceleration formula [allows you to find the distance travelled given a constant acceleration], and the speed-distance formula [allows you to find the top speed achieved given a constant acceleration and a given distance].
  3. A bit less than half the length as the old version.
  4. Record set for the most typed pages in a given period of time. About 40 pages typed in only 3 days. Though it doesn't seem like a record, typed pages to written pages are typically of a 3:5 ratio [Using font-face Arial and font-size 12 with half inch margins on each side]. That is, 3 full typed pages is usually 5 full written pages. That means that this is about 70 written pages in those 3 days.
  5. New record for being the most motivated on accomplishing the task [I wonder what the horiscope was for that day.]. I've never been that motivated before, not even close!
  6. Far better plot and far better beginning than what I had before.
  7. More in-depth characters [this is still one of my weak points].
  8. Better descriptions in fewer words.
  9. All new design. Before, I only had the act and scene, with certain notes in brackets. Now, I have the act, scene, current time, and those same notes as footnotes at the bottom of the page [like you see on my website on just about any page, including this one].
  10. Record-setting focusability. While typing, because of the much better plot, I was able to stay so focused on typing that I nearly forgot where I even was and that I was in the world and situation in my story. I've never been that focused ever, in any story, on video games, and otherwise. It's an all-time record thats hard to beat!
  11. Great accomplishments that form a stamp on my story writing future.
  12. More detailed images and diagrams to assist [especially maps and how something works [like gliding]]
  13. A special section describing the characters in detail including special notes about them and their weird abilities.
  14. A section listing all repeated spell effects. Many spells, some used ten or more times in the script, all have the same effect.
  15. Complete list of footnotes.
  16. Image database. This is a collection of images, maps, and diagrams that assist the story.
  17. Editted more thoroughly than any other story: 9 rounds versus only 4 with my old version. I even came up with a new way to edit as, due to item numbers 5 and 10 in this list, I kept getting involved with my script forgetting about editting. I used the "edit to perfection" method. That is, I keep rereading a scene over and over again until the number of errors becomes absent or undetectable, but this was boring.


Lately, I've sort of thought about writing a sequel to my script, "The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters". This sequel's basic plot or plan is currently kept secret for likely another year to 16 months from now.

Please note: until copyright has been successful for my newest version of my script, likely to be completed in August or September of 2004*. Until then, the information about it is very limited.

To see what is currently available, click on any link below with "available" immediately after the link text. If you see "restricted", you can still view it, but a lot of information has been left out. If you see "unavailable", clicking that link will just give 404 errors. Once copyright has been successfully completed, many of these links will still take a bit of time to complete afterward. After the documents are written, all will be fully available, including the first Act as a preview of it!

Script-writing main page - fully available
My general story-writing history - fully available
This script's long history - restricted
Self-created storyboard - restricted to first act only
Preview of the first act - unavailable
Script summary - slightly restricted
My old version - restricted

Footnotes:
* This time frame is based on a previous successful registration. It took close to 9 months to complete. My new version was submitted around, I think, sometime around Christmas of 2003. Add 9 months, that's about August of 2004.
** This isn't my only wacky dream I've had. I've kept a small log on the weirdest and most bizarre of my dreams here.
*** My 5th grade year is explained in detail on section 7 here.
† My mind game is a futuristic-type video game I play in my mind. To learn all about it, Click here.
‡ The Status System was around before I even started writing scripts. To learn about it in general, click here, to read the summary of this long report, go here, and to learn about the history during this era marked, read sections 1 and 2 here.
†† Compatibility is generally how much you like something on a scale from 0 [absolutely not compatible with] and 1000 [absolutely compatible with]. To learn the full details, including the rankings chart, read section 2 here.
‡† Skill level is generally an ability's level. An ability's level is based on your experience using it. To learn more about ability skill levels, read sections 2 and 6 here.