Otaku Rants

"The name's Rushed, Too Rushed." "I'm One Shot, and get with the times old man."

(I drew that on the back of my phone, just saying)

Ok, no hate but, for me, rushed books are unreadable.

I understand of its just one arc in the story (like the war arc in Naruto) but if your book goes through the whole Naruto series in, like 10 chapters, u need to sloooooow down. Not calling any names but the Naruto book I based on mine is really rushed, I loved the idea, but the book was just completely unreadable for me. That's why I expanded on the idea. (Gave them credit tho)

I absolutely hate it when books have unique story lines, but have awful pacing. I'm trying not to generalize, but it's really common for me to find a rushed story with horrid grammar. Or just unnecessary expansion in sentences, for example saying "He ate pocky stick. Then right after he finished he went on the mission." Instead you could say "He ate the pocky stick quickly, eager to go on his mission." It kinda just flows more easily, ya know?

Anyway, I'm not to mad at this subject since I rarely come across it now. In FULL stories anyway... Cuz ooooh boy do I find horrible pacing in ONE SHOTS.

Yes I understand it's a one shot, but one shots can be longer than a normal chapter. I absolutely LOVE extremely long one shots, also, one shots don't need to be smutty or fluffy. It can just be a head canon you've been thinking of for a long time but it's just to small for a full on story.

One message to you people new to anything one shots, massive time skips are NOT NECESSARY. You can say they have a relationship already, or a friendship that they've been working on for years. You don't have to start at age 5 then ditch it, skipping the years to when they're 25 years.

Yes, I have basically no experience writing one shots, but I do have a story I wrote a few days, it's an original and it's pretty short. But yet, it shows how OC got to the place they were at, you could tell the story to a crowd and end it with a mic drop. OC may not have a name, or a clear future, but yet everyone I've showed it to says it's good, and one of my friends said that she felt attached to OC.

You don't need a explicit backstory, or a decided future, you can end the one shot with OC dying.

I don't really care how sad, how happy or dead your story ends on, if you can end it on a mic drop, it's good. If it has good pacing, and a good plot, it's good, I might read it. If it concerns my interests at the time.

If it's just a smut one shot, only with the smecks, I can't help u there kid. Ur on ur own. (Just remember, basically no one would do it with someone they just met, start it with an established relationship.)

Anyway, cuz I don't really want to publish my one shot I made, I'm posting it here. Less than 500 words, (plz read it, tell me it's good plz)

(Edit-) sorry, forgot to put my name

-Kakashi

(Untitled, original one shot)

I believe it's the end soon for me. For the end of my life, I can already tell is near.

The cold wind bit at my face, the sun covered with clouds, this wasn't the Christmas I was planing on. The snow grew to my knees, I was lost and there was no way to get home. But I need to hope, and keep going.

The thin forest trees did little to block the snow rushing towards my face, my head only covered with a winter hat I had bought from home.

I'm so cold, freezing cold. So cold.

My food was little, only about a week's left, my water I would have to get from the snow that fell from the sky to my feet, since the ones that sat in my backpack had frozen up. But shelter was my worst problem I faced.

My tent from home would not do during these windy, cold nights. It would do little to keep the cold out, and the warmth in. The cold, biting wind would not be escaped.

I would have never been prepared for this. Even as I live in the North of the United States, the winters of Greenland were only for the ones who knew how to survive it. Anyone else would have a hard time, I assure you.

My choice to come here and camp out was regretted as soon as the problem of my situation had began. Oh why, why did I even decide to come here?

My adventuress side was excited to come here, but that couldn't be all, perhaps it was to tell myself that I could survive these harsh, cold winters where the population was scarce. Just to boost the confidence that I held so dearly. Or for the knowledge I would acquire during this trip. To help me live better on other trips to the Arctic Circle. I'm not to sure, but I know that I regret the choice, either way.

I've made the wrong choice, and I can't go back and change it. I'll never be able to change my fate, once it was happened. My hands numb from the cold, my gloves did not keep my hands warm, definitely not.

I'm going to die...

I, I'm, I'm going to DIE, and I can't do anything about it!! My choices are what brought me here, but my choices will do only little in the case I'm at right now. But, I just can't let this happen.

No, of course not, I must live.

The blood that runs through my veins say I'm alive, so I can't just give up now! I must survive till I am found, I must!

I won't, let, myself, DIE!

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