Ronin’s Anime Chronicles (Temporary WP Blog)

With FanFiction.Net back online two days ago after I posted that last entry, it’s back to writing again.

Speaking of which, I’ve been getting reviews about my story. Most of them are at most constructive, pointing out the errors I’ve made, such as sentence construction, grammar, and a few story details which I’ve missed since writing and revising them. I think it’s safe to say that the path to a fanfiction writer, particularly about a famous anime series like Love Hina, is a long winding road. You have to consider a lot of things when writing these types of stories, such as character development, scene description, story sequence, timeline alignment, and a lot of other things that are worth mentioning here and here. Credit for these sources go to Alicia Blade and Lady Starra of First Love Fics

I think that, as of this writing, I may have been guilty of not reading these sources when I started that Love Hina fic. Guess it’s time I put it on another hiatus, and this time it’s indefinite. Until I can get the story to flow smoothly and exactly that way I wanted it, I’ll be creating, editing, and revising the fics until I can get the satisfied result. Then I have to post them at irregular intervals.

Today, I’ve received a sermon from my mom, saying that I spend too much time surfing the Internet, downloading music, and other online stuff that I do which doesn’t help at anything to my studies. Speaking of which, I almost neglected studying for our Finals next month, and I still feel a bit uneasy. Seeing all the difficult tests and quizzes that I managed to pass for the past 2 months or so, I fear that the upcoming finals will be the hardest test that I will take. Ergo, I would be spending less time online and more time working for my status as a sophomore college student.

To my online friends: Sorry, but I have to shift my focus back to my schoolwork, and have to put all my online publications on hiatus until I can surpass my average marks at our Uni, and make my parents proud of me again.

Right now, I’m lecturing myself on how to establish my priorities in life. I feel the need to do that, since I’m the one who supposedly in control of what I do in my life.

Lately, my studying trend seems to be wavering today, more on the down side perhaps. My focus starts to astray from my main goal, which is to be able to survive the University standards, and prevent being expelled.

I don’t understand anymore. Lately, there are only tidbits of the lessons I learned from Univiersity still retain inside my head. What is this? Is this what it means to forget? Is this what it means to become a slacker? A flunk?

No, I musn’t stray. I must put all my focus on studying, and not on other things. I must forget my other life, as a fanfiction writer, a net surfer, an anime fanatic. I must remember that I’m still a student, a university student who wishes to finish his education so that he now live at peace from all the hardwork experienced while being a learner. For now, I must abandon my other life.

And so, this change of focus continues as a struggle inside of me, between my life on the Net and my life on the Earth…