Welcome to the YA Indie Carnival, ya’ll!
This week’s topic is…
Blast from the Past!
We’re supposed to be sharing something that we wrote during high school. Honestly, I only ever wrote one story. One really, really bad short story about a murder, a crooked senator and the heroic FBI agent that exposes a dastardly plot to increase cocaine smuggling into the US. Yeah. (I was going through this phase where I was certain I wanted to join the FBI, thanks to my freshman year obsession with The Profiler and Julian McMahon) It was pretty bad, though I’m pretty sure my mom, bless her heart, has a copy of my story somewhere. I’m just not sure exactly where.
So… that’s not what I’ll be sharing with you today, instead I’ve got a chapter of fan fiction I wrote over a year ago.
Yes. Fan fiction.
The unimaginable horror.
It started off as a continuation of the Mortal Instruments series, picking up after City of Glass. At the time of writing this, I knew that Clare was working on on City of Fallen Angels, but I still gave Book Four, chapter one, a shot. I never really got past what you see below, so this is pretty much all I’ve written. Don’t judge too harshly, I’m not really a writer. And reading over it again, it’s kinda gory, a little violent, perhaps a tad cliche and I obviously have no idea how to properly format. So you’ve been warned.
I give you… angst.
*** All Characters, locations, names, etc. belong to Cassandra Clare.
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So… what’s so wrong with fanfiction?
I started a lot of stories back in highschool (I talk like it was ages ago, but really… just a handful of years!) but never finished anything. Then I moved on to fanfiction and… it started writing. I got the hang of plot planning, of characters (yes, I did include original ones… the horror, i know!), the discipline of actually sitting down and write…
I think it was a great experience, because I could play in the box and learn from it without messing the real ideas that could, potentially, see the light of day if only I could tell them right. While I’m not exactly a bestseller yet, the original stuff is coming now…
But enough about me!
About your City of Night? Heck, now I want to read the original that inspired it! How could you make me care about Jace, when I have no idea whatsoever about who he is?!?
Thanks for sharing!
Ron @ Stories of my life
I don’t think there’s personally anything wrong with fan fiction, it’s just the vibe I’ve gotten overall is that it has a more negative stigma attached to it.
The reasons I experimented with fan fiction are for the reasons you described. There were already characters and an entire universe all set up for me, and I could just play around… like training wheels on a bike
Anyway, thanks Ron for reading my silly prologue chapter, and you should definitely check out City of Bones, which is the first book in The Mortal Instruments.
That was great! I thought you said you didn’t write? Don’t make me rope you in to NaNo next year 😉
LOL… well I don’t make a habit of it anyway. NaNo sounds interesting, but I’m not sure I’m ready for it just yet… lol. Thanks for reading Heather!
Dani, you had me at Alicante-inspired landscapes. Your rich descriptions just sucked me in! Hurry up and finish this, will you? Don’t leave me hanging. I love it. You have the gift, my friend
Keep it up! And I’m definitely going to read City of Bones now. So much fun to read your prologue! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Laura!
You should definitely check out City of Bones if you get a chance. It’s the series that pulled me back into reading YA, and I just love it 
Oh wow… this is fantastic! You are really very talented. Do you have any books out? I’d seriously love to read them if you do?! And if you don’t… I agree with Heather, Nano!!!
Wow! Thank you Suzy! No…no books. I’m not sure I’m ready to make that leap from reader to writer quite yet, but I may give NaNo a try next year
Mom speaking. I do think I have a copy of your story somewhere. This might motivated me into finding it.
Fun, Dani! Well done–I think Cassandra Clare would be proud!