Short Story = 12 Chapters
So I'm fixated on My Otome, right? I get this way. I'm a fucking fandom magpie. I see something shiny and new and I get fixated and I want to write fanfic for it and I'm in this mode for My Otome and thus I decide I shall write fanfic for Haruka and Yukino who are my favorite characters/couple on the show. I don't purposefully tend to pick smaller ships but it usually ends up that the ships I like aren't the hugely popular ones. I mean, I love Shizuru/Natsuki but dude, they have hella fanfic, they don't need more from me. Haruka and Yukino though? They deserve fic.
Anyway! I decide I want to actually start/finish the story in a timely manner so it will be short. My idea? Simple, just to write how they first met and ended up on the path of becoming an Otome and the President of their home country of Aries along with the development of their friendship turned romance. Also to explore how Haruka became such a popular figure in Aries and a well known Otome. I want to write a one shot but somehow I end up with a plot for a fanfic lasting twelve chapters with each chapter being fairly lengthy since at least a year will pass between each one. I'm basically writing them from ages seven/nine at the start to ages twenty two/twenty four when it ends.
I wonder though if twenty four is freakishly young even for this magical girl universe to have Yukino end up as a President of the country. I do have her as a child prodigy who skips all these grades and she was already a Jr. Senator when she runs for office to help it make it seem more feasible but still, it seems really young. Huh. I don't want to make the story longer though! Yeesh. lol.
My point though? Even my one shots are long. Why can't I write a short fic? I don't have complicated plots! What the hell? I don't understand how I became such a rambling whore in my writing. It's like I'm incapable of just writing something short and simple. No, it has to go on for at least ten chapters. lol. Since I have the story plotted out from start to finish so I'll probably start writing it tomorrow.
Anyway! I decide I want to actually start/finish the story in a timely manner so it will be short. My idea? Simple, just to write how they first met and ended up on the path of becoming an Otome and the President of their home country of Aries along with the development of their friendship turned romance. Also to explore how Haruka became such a popular figure in Aries and a well known Otome. I want to write a one shot but somehow I end up with a plot for a fanfic lasting twelve chapters with each chapter being fairly lengthy since at least a year will pass between each one. I'm basically writing them from ages seven/nine at the start to ages twenty two/twenty four when it ends.
I wonder though if twenty four is freakishly young even for this magical girl universe to have Yukino end up as a President of the country. I do have her as a child prodigy who skips all these grades and she was already a Jr. Senator when she runs for office to help it make it seem more feasible but still, it seems really young. Huh. I don't want to make the story longer though! Yeesh. lol.
My point though? Even my one shots are long. Why can't I write a short fic? I don't have complicated plots! What the hell? I don't understand how I became such a rambling whore in my writing. It's like I'm incapable of just writing something short and simple. No, it has to go on for at least ten chapters. lol. Since I have the story plotted out from start to finish so I'll probably start writing it tomorrow.