Sooo...

Just a quick note in here, to say that I'm particularly fond of this blog.
Certainly the most enjoyable part of this course.
I'm uncertain as to how the rest of the briefs went(especially my LOL as website), but, I am proud of this. :)

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SEVEN
義郎
Yoshirou

11:53PM
Tuesday


They’re all gone.
18 storeys up.
Not so far.
The last few days had opened his eyes to it all, watching the life being sucked from his friends. Watching them disintegrate into the footpath.
He felt nothing.
They weren’t friends. There are no friends. Only him.
Alone.
As he jumped he knew nobody would catch him. Stop him.
And nobody would notice.

SIX
典子
Noriko

11:53PM
Tuesday

This is it.
There is nothing to return to. There is no connection to anyone.
The burden of worrying began to disappear from Noriko’s eyes as her charring skin softly started to blow away in the cold, gentle breeze.
Only here was I ever alone.

FIVE
義郎
Yoshirou

5:13AM
Monday


Where the fuck are they?
Yoshi was drunk. His night was terrible from the beginning.
Lack of success in finding a girl had left him frustrated. Fighting in bars had left him bruised, and too many “my rounds” had left him broke.
Maybe it was time to go home
Home would never be where the heart was.
The human heart, in fact anything resembling humanity, was dead. Just lies and promises. Meaningless words to comfort enemies.
There is no home.

FOUR
典子
Noriko

5:32PM
Tuesday

It’s all coming back to me, Noriko thought to herself.
The bullying at school.
Children were the cruelest beings.
The same feelings returned. That bitter loneliness. It was no different to before.

THREE
義郎
Yoshirou

1:16PM
Monday

The city had an empty feeling to it.
Yoshi, Shouhei, Daichi and Kenta were in their usual spot, waiting for the Universities to break for lunch, but there wasn’t even a person in sight. “Time flies when you’re having fun I guess” Yoshi mumbled to himself, “but is it a holiday today?”
The city had lost it’s color, it’s excitement. Even his friends had an unhealthy glow about them. He felt like an outsider to his friends today. Like a strange inner dialogue only they could hear was being transmitted.
I need some cigarettes he thought to himself.

TWO
典子
Noriko

2:32AM
Monday

Noriko couldn’t sleep.
The flicker of the reception-less TV made her apartment glow a dizzying, sickly blue color and filled the room with static, but she dared not switch it off, she needed it’s distracting, hypnotic comfort.
Insomnia had hindered the ability for her to think clearly, but at this stage, she knew the city was empty.
Making her way home the last few days, she had noticed, more and more doors were taped up. A warning.
That face. That horrible face. Those black soulless eyes, raping her very being, and discarding it like broken pieces of glass.

ONE
義郎
Yoshirou

4:53PM
Tuesday

Loneliness.
As the rain falls steadily onto the empty street, Yoshi makes his way past the park he used to hang out in, drinking cheap convenience store whiskey and watching girls nervously walk past.
A shadow of it’s former self, the beauty of the trees recently stripped of their vibrant autumn color, stains of the deceased, burnt into the ground like road lines. Yoshi knew these marks too well. He saw it happen.
But he couldn’t hear their voiceless cries.

Here's a little piece of "music" to accompany my fan fiction.

I suggest listening to this while you're reading it. :)

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SEVEN

義郎
Yoshirou

11:53PM
Tuesday


They’re all gone.
18 storeys up.
Not so far.
The last few days had opened his eyes to it all, watching the life being sucked from his friends. Watching them disintegrate into the footpath.
He felt nothing.
They weren’t friends. There are no friends. Only him.
Alone.
As he jumped he knew nobody would catch him. Stop him.
And nobody would notice.

SIX

典子
Noriko

11:53PM
Tuesday

This is it.
There is nothing to return to. There is no connection to anyone.
The burden of worrying began to disappear from Noriko’s eyes as her charring skin softly started to blow away in the cold, gentle breeze.
Only here was I ever alone.

FIVE

義郎
Yoshirou

5:13AM
Monday


Where the fuck are they?
Yoshi was drunk. His night was terrible from the beginning.
Lack of success in finding a girl had left him frustrated. Fighting in bars had left him bruised, and too many “my rounds” had left him broke.
Maybe it was time to go home
Home would never be where the heart was.
The human heart, in fact anything resembling humanity, was dead. Just lies and promises. Meaningless words to comfort enemies.
There is no home.

FOUR

典子
Noriko

5:32PM
Tuesday

It’s all coming back to me, Noriko thought to herself.
The bullying at school.
Children were the cruelest beings.
The same feelings returned. That bitter loneliness. It was no different to before.

RE: draft

There are a still a couple more short chapters to be published. This(below) is what I have so far.

THREE

義郎
Yoshirou

1:16PM
Monday

The city had an empty feeling to it.
Yoshi, Shouhei, Daichi and Kenta were in their usual spot, waiting for the Universities to break for lunch, but there wasn’t even a person in sight. “Time flies when you’re having fun I guess” Yoshi mumbled to himself, “but is it a holiday today?”
The city had lost it’s color, it’s excitement. Even his friends had an unhealthy glow about them. He felt like an outsider to his friends today. Like a strange inner dialogue only they could hear was being transmitted.
I need some cigarettes he thought to himself.

TWO

典子
Noriko

2:32AM
Monday

Noriko couldn’t sleep.
The flicker of the reception-less TV made her apartment glow a dizzying, sickly blue color and filled the room with static, but she dared not switch it off, she needed it’s distracting, hypnotic comfort.
Insomnia had hindered the ability for her to think clearly, but at this stage, she knew the city was empty.
Making her way home the last few days, she had noticed, more and more doors were taped up. A warning.
That face. That horrible face. Those black soulless eyes, raping her very being, and discarding it like broken pieces of glass.

ONE

義郎
Yoshirou

4:53PM
Tuesday

Loneliness.
As the rain falls steadily onto the empty street, Yoshi makes his way past the park he used to hang out in, drinking cheap convenience store whiskey and watching girls nervously walk past.
A shadow of it’s former self, the beauty of the trees recently stripped of their vibrant autumn color, stains of the deceased, burnt into the ground like road lines. Yoshi knew these marks too well. He saw it happen.
But he couldn’t hear their voiceless cries.

More in regards to my fan-fiction.

Hello.
My fan fiction will probably be split between multiple posts.
It's a fractured storyline that jumps back and forth between characters and times over 2 days, so I think it will be good to post it as such.

Thoughts...

Main Characters:
Yoshirou 義郎 M
From Japanese 義 (yoshi) "righteous" and 郎 (rou) "son".
Delinquent.

Noriko 法子, 典子 F
From Japanese 法 (nori) "law, rule" or 典 (nori) "code, ceremony" combined with 子 (ko) "child".
Junior office worker.

Setting: Tokyo, Japan.

Duration: 2 days.

Feelings displayed within characters: Loneliness, depression, anxiety, fear.

Thinking to use aspects of their name meanings to reflect in other characters roles, but we’ll see.

Links to the topics for my fan-fiction

I'm going to loosely base my story on Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film "Kairo".
It features "forbidden rooms" which is the basis for this blog.
Here are some links to reviews etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairo_%28film%29

http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/kairo_pulse.htm

http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/kairo.htm

http://www.pulsefilm.com/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/

Links to fanfiction resources etc

Here a few things I have been looking at the last couple of days.
Hopefully one of these will be of some use to you.

Intiailly contemplating doing anime fan-fiction I came across this forum based site:

http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/featured.php

This one also had fairly good anime fanfiction.

http://www.fanfiction.net

Another forum, this time for horror:

http://www.horror-movies.ca/Forum/viewtopic.php?id=40

Another horror one:

http://halloween.suddenlaunch.com/index.cgi

And another:

http://www.michalak.org/fh/FanFiction.html

Tips for writing horror fiction:

http://horror.fictionfactor.com/

Horror fiction submissions:

http://www.fictionpress.com/fiction/Horror/

A lengthy explanation of sorts as to "What is horror fiction?" by the horror writers association:

http://www.horror.org/horror-is.htm

Crossover fanfic:

http://community.livejournal.com/crossoverfic/

Advice on writing better fan fiction:

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/writefanfic.htm

Nice little resource with links to fanfic sites and writers guilds of various genres:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/8584/genres/fanfic.html

An interesting point of view about fanfiction from a forum:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070712075043AAyvn7s