June 8, 2008
A while back... a about a year and a half ago as it is, I stopped writing fanfiction. I did however, keep up my writing in general, and have (hopefully) grown a bit as writer since that time. In any event, I was in one of my more nostalgic moods the other day, and I decided to come back to this site, and re-read some of my old work. I wasn't too impressed with the quality of what I found. However, it did manage to impress upon me just how far I've come since then, so I decided to start writing fanfiction again. And so, I exported all my old story files and deleted all my old stories available to the public, and have been editing, rewriting, and formulating new ideas for about... forty-five minutes now. And now, I am ready to re-post this first piece, which is further detailed a little bit in the following paragraph.
One of the stories I had back then was actually a collection of short One Piece stories, titled "Tales of Strawhats," and the following here is one of the later ones I wrote as part of that. It's part poem, part rant, part story, but all it truly is is a bit of Usopp romanticisim. I hope you enjoy reading it as much I enjoyed writing it, for why else should I bother? Oh, and please, feel free to review when you're done. Constructive criticisim is and always will be appreciated.
By the way, apologies to anyone who was bored and/or irritated with my little rant here, I always feel the need to fill the space before the story with something meaningful, to myself if no one else.
Piece One: I am a Liar
I am a liar.
I lie because my lies are better then my reality.
In my reality I am weak.
In my reality I am scared.
My lies make me strong.
My lies make me brave.
The lies I tell are my fantasies.
The lies I tell are my dreams.
People see through my lies.
People tell me to go back to my reality.
What do they know of courage?
What do they know, those people with power?
They are not brave, for they have nothing to fear.
They may never see the world as it is reflected in my eyes.
I will show them that world of lies.
I will make my lies my reality.
I will never stop lieing.
I am a liar.
I am a dreamer.
I will never change.
Well... that's all for now, I might post another one or two in a bit, depending on my mood. In all likelyhood though, I won't get to post another one until this weekend. The demands of life command us far more then we could ever suspect.
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
-Samuel Butler