Heavenly Life

by Clubhouse Treats

In the series finale of "Thank You, Heavenly," Buster and RK try to organize an RV trip around the country during summer vacation, but Wade's acceptance to FDA VIII and Jaylynn's desire to go to Palestine could end up complicating things.

3. What's Next? VII

Written 7/26/20-7/27/20; 8/6/20

7/26/20

-This is usually the part where I talk about what I plan on doing for the next season, but since the series is over, things are going to be different this time. I'll be talking about what I plan on doing in general as a writer.

-Right now, I'm not working on anything. I don't plan to start writing again until sometime next month. I also don't plan on leaving FanFiction, at least not yet. I joined this site ten years ago and the anniversary just passed last week. I was going to put something out to commemorate the day, but it didn't work out.

-In terms of my future writing projects, I do have some work lined up. Two years ago in college, I wrote my very first official script. It was a Family Guy spec script called "Peter's Legacy." Ever since I finished the episode, I wanted to post it on this website but I was never able to do it. I got really close last summer, but that was when I was struggling to write anything. This summer, I definitely want to give it another shot. The biggest story I ever put out on FanFiction was Family Guy vs. American Dad, so hopefully, this one will get a decent reaction. I want to change some of the jokes and dialogue, but most of the work is already done. With any luck, I'll be able to post it by the end of August.

-When I joined FanFiction, I immediately started writing wrestling stories. I would write about pay-per-views and come up with the buildup for each featured match, then write out the match. I spent a long time working on them, but once I became serious about Thank You, Heavenly, I abandoned them. My last official wrestling story was Backlash 2000, which came out seven years ago. Oddly enough, I feel like some of my wrestling stories aged better than the early Thank You, Heavenly episodes. I know they were going for different things, but even when I was younger, it's like I knew what I wanted them to be.

-I never really finished the wrestling stories properly. When I was younger, I had material going all the way up to 2006. I still remember most of it, but at this point, it would take more time and dedication than I'm willing to give. I tried writing WrestleMania 22 back in 2014, but that story will most likely never get finished. What I want to do is pick up where I left off with Backlash 2000. I want to continue from there and write the rest of the 2000 pay-per-views, then the first part of 2001 leading up to WrestleMania X-Seven, which would be the last story. I already know which matches I'm doing for each PPV, so at this point, it's just a matter of writing everything.

-Weeks ago, I was thinking that if I write early and often, I would be able to release a new story each month to line up with that month. So, No Mercy 2000 and Cyber Sunday 2000 would come out in October, Survivor Series 2000 in November, Armageddon 2000 in December. But it's not worth committing to that kind of schedule right now. I'll write at my own pace and see what happens later.

-Last October, when I was explaining what happened with season eight, I mentioned that there was a Thank You, Heavenly-related project I was thinking about working on after the series ended. I didn't want to say anything else at the time because I wasn't sure how much I wanted to do it, if at all. Months later, I can tell you that I don't want to do it. Not to say I'll never do it because I might want to in the future, but right now, I'm not interested.

-The project was called Thank You, Heavenly Rewind. It was going to be a spin-off of the original series. With this one, I was going to take older episodes and rewrite them for the current time period. It would be just like what I did with "The RK Feline Fiasco Remix." I would rewrite episodes that I thought had a lot of potential but don't read as well now because my writing was less polished at the time, like "Sparky's Big Hit" or "Illuminati's for Idiots." I would also rewrite episodes that didn't hit the mark completely like "The Trouble with Militants," or episodes that just didn't make any sense like "KG Learns How to Use the DVR." I was going to approach the show the same way I did with the original, but it was going to have a midseason premiere of January 2021 and end in May 2021. I was going to choose at least 16 episodes to rewrite.

-I decided to put Rewind on the shelf for a couple reasons. One, I kept changing my mind about whether or not I wanted to do the show. It was almost like I was trying to convince myself to do it, and if I was really committed to it, I wouldn't keep going back and forth on it. I came up with the idea back in November 2018, during the seventh season. At the time, I thought it was a really interesting idea, but now, I'm on the fence about it.

-Two, I wanted to make Rewind to help me cope with no longer having Thank You, Heavenly. I did the show for eight years and built up a routine. A year ago, I was afraid of losing that routine and having nothing good to replace it. Now, I don't feel like I have to replace it. While I'm still afraid of not writing as much without the show, I don't think following it up with a sequel is the answer. It just comes off like I'll miss the routine and the consistent writing, but not the show. I can write other things to take care of that, not Thank You, Heavenly: Part II.

7/27/20

-Three, I feel like I don't have enough motivation to do Rewind. It's not the kind of thing that feels like something I have to make right now. "Peter's Legacy" is something I've wanted to release for at least a year now. I never gave the wrestling stories a proper ending, and spent years not working on them. Rewind is just updating and improving older episodes, and that's something I can do later on, when I care enough to and I've been away from Thank You, Heavenly long enough to go for it.

8/6/20

-Even though I'm not interested in Rewind anymore, I thought about writing Backstage Passes for the episodes I skipped over in seasons six and seven. In season six, I was just lazy and didn't want to write about those particular episodes. In season seven, I was struggling to think about what to write for those episodes, so I decided to skip them. However, I want to see if I can give it more of a legitimate shot this time. I know "The RK Feline Fiasco Remix" deserves one at least.