Aria News · 3:37am Aug 18th, 2017
While I was reading through Aria, I noticed something a few chapters through. While I was mostly just doing the story for my friends, including one friend I made on this very site, there was something very important I wanted to achieve that I wasn't even remotely successful at: conveying my own thoughts and the experiences I've taken from being transgender. Aria fell apart and became a monotonous slice of life with some depressing themes.
The biggest thing I did wrong was made it overall light hearted. There was no way I could convey the theme in my intended way while keeping it largely upbeat. It just completely destroys any hope of the message going across. Sure, other transgender people know what I'm going for, but those who don't share in the experience don't really get the weight of the theme by reading my story. So what did I need to do to truly right my wrong? I needed to do a lot of learning about writing fiction.
I took a bit of a hiatus from writing Aria, and I was writing other things. I wrote most of a Fallout 4 fanfic, I responded to writing prompts, and I even began my own standalone fantasy novel. I have been studying a book I purchased at a con all about writing stories, and I now know what I did wrong in Aria.
The story lacks significant character development, focus on its theme, and introspection. My fanfiction loved and hated is fundamentally wrong in execution, and there is no hope for it to become a good story. My only chance is to scrap it and start over. For those of you that did enjoy Aria, don't worry, I'm not taking it down, I'm just canceling it. In its place, I'll be writing a deeper, darker story called "In My Head" which will feature the same cast of characters, but will tackle the issues it covers in a far more effective and acceptable way. Thank you for those who supported Aria through the course of its lifetime, but it's time for it to cease production so I can move on to a better project.
