i feel like this is something that's been long overdue to be honest, but never once said or mentioned. in january, it will soon be 5 years since i joined wattpad. i actually stumbled upon it while looking for anime fan fictions to read and that's how i entered its amazing world.
everyone wrote stories on here. everyone did. everyone could. no matter their native language, their grammar, their story titles, their covers or their unusual plots. wattpad was a safe space for everyone to write and share their stories. in return, they'd get readers who would comment on their works. all of the comments were good ones, the kind that praised the author, but there were also constructive criticism ones, which shaped the writer and helped them improve.
i decided to make my own profile. writing was something i really loved doing in my native language at the time, so might as well give it a try in english, since it would help me improve my language skills. i remember making my profile and straight up writing my own anime fan fiction. i had no idea how the website worked at the time. i wasn't familiar with its mechanics, but somehow i made it work. i actually can't remember the title of my first fan fic, but i do remember that it was a naruto fan fic. i think the love interest was sasuke, because a friend of mine at the time had a pretty big crush on him. i didn't have a cover, nor had i written a proper summary or inserted any tags for the matter, but i didn't care. i straight up got to writing. i didn't have a plot, i hadn't planned out my characters, i hadn't mind mapped the story. . .all i had done, was get straight to it. i remember writing and writing and writing, only for the first few chapters to disappear lol. that was disappointing tbh and i was way too lazy to rewrite them again, so the book basically started with sasuke and naruto fighting and naruto going all tailed beast mode and sasuke going all curse mark mode.
yup.
the main character's name was alex evans. like out of all the names i could have picked-
anyway, alex turned out to be my dream ego at the time, except that she just lived in the naruto universe with all the other ninjas and such. i think she was a bit of a mary sue tbh, because she was good at taijutsu and had her own kekkai genkai which was kind of similar to sharingan, but was something else entirely at the same time. i think at some point i even gave her a curse mark and was planning to give her a tailed beast.
where was i even going with this? i have no idea to be honest.
people somehow loved it and found it hilarious that i wrote that kakashi got stabbed in his tummy, instead of his abdomen/stomach area. i was happy to see that people were enjoying it, it was nice to read the comments and respond. but what i enjoyed more was how i still kept going for myself, because i wanted to write and because i was writing what i wanted to write.
i continued writing other fan fictions as well. from what i can remember, a diabolik lovers one, where the main character was sisters with yui. well, tbh this one had a good plot. again, didn't really plan just straight up started writing with no care whatsoever. i had no idea where the story was going, but i did like the occasional appearance of this lady in my main character's dreams and how she always warned her about things.
i think my following one was another sasuke fan fiction, except it was high school themed? why? again, do not know.
i feel like this one had its funny moments. i remember gathering the characters for a party and they were playing spin the bottle or something and naruto spins it, but it lands on him and the window and ino's like spin it again and naruto's like: nO, the bottle has SPOKEN. i am KISSING that moon!
lol
either way, afterwards, i started working on my first naruto ff once again and started editing and planning a bit. i had such big plans for that story and i remember incorporating so many words i had recently learned at the time and feeling proud of myself haha. i worked hard on the cover and finally gave alex a faceclaim. well, eventually, i think i deleted the story after a bit, even though it was doing pretty good as a book. i actually had so many other fan fics in my drafts which i was planning on writing, but none of them got to see the light of day hahaha. i gradually deleted the rest of the books and started writing my first kpop related one.
