This time it’s very different. I chose a very different technique to write it with.
When I was first reading the book which is when I was like10 or 11 , I had this story in my head. This story about this girl called Korris. I wanted her to be perfect, perfect at everything which is what I want to do in life (FIONA THE RULER OF THE WORLD). I wanted her to have everything to do with all my favourite characters and all have a story with them. Which both of these factors make it kind of Mary Sue. I also put a lot of me into the character for example my hair and my appearance and a lot of my personality but of course I exaggerate them to make it better. Which makes it even more Mary Sue. But think about it I thought of this story when I was like 11. I kind of detest Mary Sue (no offence) stories because I didn’t like the way everything happened it all seemed too unrealistic and too immature.
At first I wrote this Korris story on a little notebook of mine, I would write 3 pages a day. I wrote it out of the POV of Katniss and it was life after the rebellion and it was a version with Finnick still alive. After a few years I’ve read other books obsessed with other things and then one day a random person (back then it was random, never thought we would have a bond so deep or have a relationship so strong) came up to me and started to talk about The Hunger Games because I’ve read it before. Well at that moment in time I wasn’t so obsessed with THG but she was, she was absolutely obsessed. She was the one that turned me into 贴吧 made me read the whole series again, she was the one that made how madly obsessed I’m today. It has taken a big part of my life. She is the one that I have to thank the most.
I saw so many fan-fiction that people wrote that I started to become jealous and started to have the desire to post something I’ve wrote which is The Sapphire Blue Fish (Korris story). And it turns out it’s really easy to loose a notebook in 2 years time (the gap between the first read and the second) so I started to write on the computer and I wrote the first chapter and it seemed good but very Mary Sue. And I detest Mary Sue (no offence) so I changed it up a bit. I wrote it and it was fun so I continued on writing it. Over the time as my age grow older I found this story immature and because of my mistake that I did not do a secondary check after I wrote it so there’s a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes. The first few chapters I typed it out on my phone so there’s even more mistakes than usual. But because of my commitment to it I never stopped writing and I also had a beautiful plan for Korris and I want her to achieve it. This story is also my very first long term English / Chinese long writing.
Over this summer I reread the book again and Korris was still there but I also saw Payton. Payton was at first just a character I made up in one of the recruiting stories. This character I made it less Mary Sue. It’s less like me, I’ve always thought that people in District 9 had dark chestnut/maroon/brown hair and eyes. Then because I would love to link Korris and Payton’s story together I have to make them less alike. So in addition Payton could not have my chestnut/maroon/brown hair, but because Korris have turquoise eyes so Payton could have my brown eyes. Brown eyes at first I thought was a bit plain but I thought of Payton and my goal was to make her story more mature so it’s not about looks (cause that’s just so Mary Sue) it’s about her density. I also made Payton have short straightish curly hair (cause for one I want to cut my hair this winter because I’ve had long hair my whole life) so she could be less like me and I also made her a blonde and have streaks of brown hair so it’s not too plain that she could be anyone replaceable.(and for two I’ve had chestnut/maroon/brown my whole life and I’ve met more than one person coming up to me asking if it’s dyed because unlike a lot of girls when they dyed their hair to different colours and wore makeup, I only hurt my hair once which is when I permanently straightened my hair because I’ve had my hair curly for my whole life.)
And then to the names and the character and personality some of the characters have.
While I was writing this story I was reading John Green’s Paper Towns (let me go off tracks with John Green for a bit, here’s a quote from my English teacher “I love, I love the way John Green writes his books, I love the way he uses his words. He’s the kind of writer that makes you want to read the book again because he’s a writer with such voice.” ) so I put a lot of Margo in Payton (because you are what you read!!) and a lot of Q into Cullen. The name Cullen well that’s a long story. I’ve read Harry Potter when I was 5 and I didn’t stop until I was 8. And I picked up the Harry Potter books this summer again and I have to tell you I fell and I really fell. (Ronmione is just so my biggest ship ever) So I was watching 99seconds thing on youtube and there’s the name Cullen in it and it felt like a very District 9 name and so I used it. The name Payton came from Asa’s ex-girlfriend. Patrick is my father’s name and till now I could not stop hating him or loving him. Marisol was from ‘Devious Maids’ and all the other characters was from the recruiting I did, I changed a few things about the name and the personalities thought, but it’s all minor.
To my character’s personalities, Payton was cold and she didn’t believe in why she should be alive, somewhat like Johanna Mason. She will be the typical type of person who would regret and miss the things after they’re gone. Payton starting with a “P” I wanted to gave her the darkness of Pluto, the god of death. She doesn’t understand why she needed to live. She doesn’t care if she dies or lives, not that she doesn’t cares she’s just still on her way of figuring out something. She does not really understand emotions, why somebody would like somebody, she understands hatred and disgust, she knows the worst of men and thinks the worse of men. Then there’s sunstrider an absolute mystery to her until the end, she believed he was al good, there was no evil thoughts in him. She also has minor O.C.D. she believes everything has it’s place, not value.
Cullen was a playboy in Payton’s mind, he has his signature smile that I based on my crush Campbell. He always had a smile like that even when situation is dead serious he can always make it seem like it’s nothing, nothing to worry about. When doing a group project if he’s in my team I am always calm because I know he will get the job done. He can do anything he wants because he believes in himself and is a doer. But like all the others he doesn’t notice me. Alright back to Cullen, as the story continues on you will find that he isn’t the demon, the playboy or the annoying selfish boy from District 9 who only wants to live which was what Payton always thought of him, in fact he is the sun strider, he is the light for Payton even though she wasn’t aware of the fact that he was lighting her world up. It’s not that Payton doesn’t see him, it’s just that she doesn’t believe that anyone will like her. And different from Payton he understands love, he knows what it takes to warm Payton up and one of the reasons for that is the similarity of the experience the two had. He was really confused about his feeling towards her at first; he disliked her, he liked her?
The things that I added onto the recruited characters.
District 1, Alina Zowe, this is her application down below.
I went to Iceland in the summer of 2014 and I love the way people dressed there so most of the clothing are from Icelandic cultures. Most of the memories of Payton’s childhood are in Winter because a lot of her childhood life is locked in a haze, dark and cold.
The rabbit Sammi is one of the only thing that matters to Payton deep down, it was the only thing close to her soul. Sammi was first going to be Annie because Annie is one of my best friends and she loves rabbits/bunnies. The rabbit’s image was based on Banana and Caramel two of her rabbits. I didn’t go for the name Annie because she was already in the Hunger Games book and even though it’s normal to have a duplication of names, I decided to make things easy. Then I considered the name Luna, also one of my best friends, the one who always knew when I was angry or unhappy, knew what is the best words or ways to comfort me, to make me feel better. Another reason I considered my friend’s name was because of Luna in HP, she wore carrot earnings the actress made herself, and carrot, rabbit. I considered for a while but it just didn’t sound right so I went with Sammi which sounded right, she is one of my best friends as well, I cannot forget the first walk of us alone around field together, it is most definitely the most outstanding memory of mine with her. She is really important me even if she doesn’t know it, I am always afraid she would walk away from me, from the group suddenly. I hope that never happens and I hope we are forever.
As you can see, friendship means a lot to me.
Michael is one of the most arrogant people I have ever met in my studying years so he became one of my least favourite characters under my pen.
TBC
When I was first reading the book which is when I was like10 or 11 , I had this story in my head. This story about this girl called Korris. I wanted her to be perfect, perfect at everything which is what I want to do in life (FIONA THE RULER OF THE WORLD). I wanted her to have everything to do with all my favourite characters and all have a story with them. Which both of these factors make it kind of Mary Sue. I also put a lot of me into the character for example my hair and my appearance and a lot of my personality but of course I exaggerate them to make it better. Which makes it even more Mary Sue. But think about it I thought of this story when I was like 11. I kind of detest Mary Sue (no offence) stories because I didn’t like the way everything happened it all seemed too unrealistic and too immature.
At first I wrote this Korris story on a little notebook of mine, I would write 3 pages a day. I wrote it out of the POV of Katniss and it was life after the rebellion and it was a version with Finnick still alive. After a few years I’ve read other books obsessed with other things and then one day a random person (back then it was random, never thought we would have a bond so deep or have a relationship so strong) came up to me and started to talk about The Hunger Games because I’ve read it before. Well at that moment in time I wasn’t so obsessed with THG but she was, she was absolutely obsessed. She was the one that turned me into 贴吧 made me read the whole series again, she was the one that made how madly obsessed I’m today. It has taken a big part of my life. She is the one that I have to thank the most.
I saw so many fan-fiction that people wrote that I started to become jealous and started to have the desire to post something I’ve wrote which is The Sapphire Blue Fish (Korris story). And it turns out it’s really easy to loose a notebook in 2 years time (the gap between the first read and the second) so I started to write on the computer and I wrote the first chapter and it seemed good but very Mary Sue. And I detest Mary Sue (no offence) so I changed it up a bit. I wrote it and it was fun so I continued on writing it. Over the time as my age grow older I found this story immature and because of my mistake that I did not do a secondary check after I wrote it so there’s a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes. The first few chapters I typed it out on my phone so there’s even more mistakes than usual. But because of my commitment to it I never stopped writing and I also had a beautiful plan for Korris and I want her to achieve it. This story is also my very first long term English / Chinese long writing.
Over this summer I reread the book again and Korris was still there but I also saw Payton. Payton was at first just a character I made up in one of the recruiting stories. This character I made it less Mary Sue. It’s less like me, I’ve always thought that people in District 9 had dark chestnut/maroon/brown hair and eyes. Then because I would love to link Korris and Payton’s story together I have to make them less alike. So in addition Payton could not have my chestnut/maroon/brown hair, but because Korris have turquoise eyes so Payton could have my brown eyes. Brown eyes at first I thought was a bit plain but I thought of Payton and my goal was to make her story more mature so it’s not about looks (cause that’s just so Mary Sue) it’s about her density. I also made Payton have short straightish curly hair (cause for one I want to cut my hair this winter because I’ve had long hair my whole life) so she could be less like me and I also made her a blonde and have streaks of brown hair so it’s not too plain that she could be anyone replaceable.(and for two I’ve had chestnut/maroon/brown my whole life and I’ve met more than one person coming up to me asking if it’s dyed because unlike a lot of girls when they dyed their hair to different colours and wore makeup, I only hurt my hair once which is when I permanently straightened my hair because I’ve had my hair curly for my whole life.)
And then to the names and the character and personality some of the characters have.
While I was writing this story I was reading John Green’s Paper Towns (let me go off tracks with John Green for a bit, here’s a quote from my English teacher “I love, I love the way John Green writes his books, I love the way he uses his words. He’s the kind of writer that makes you want to read the book again because he’s a writer with such voice.” ) so I put a lot of Margo in Payton (because you are what you read!!) and a lot of Q into Cullen. The name Cullen well that’s a long story. I’ve read Harry Potter when I was 5 and I didn’t stop until I was 8. And I picked up the Harry Potter books this summer again and I have to tell you I fell and I really fell. (Ronmione is just so my biggest ship ever) So I was watching 99seconds thing on youtube and there’s the name Cullen in it and it felt like a very District 9 name and so I used it. The name Payton came from Asa’s ex-girlfriend. Patrick is my father’s name and till now I could not stop hating him or loving him. Marisol was from ‘Devious Maids’ and all the other characters was from the recruiting I did, I changed a few things about the name and the personalities thought, but it’s all minor.
To my character’s personalities, Payton was cold and she didn’t believe in why she should be alive, somewhat like Johanna Mason. She will be the typical type of person who would regret and miss the things after they’re gone. Payton starting with a “P” I wanted to gave her the darkness of Pluto, the god of death. She doesn’t understand why she needed to live. She doesn’t care if she dies or lives, not that she doesn’t cares she’s just still on her way of figuring out something. She does not really understand emotions, why somebody would like somebody, she understands hatred and disgust, she knows the worst of men and thinks the worse of men. Then there’s sunstrider an absolute mystery to her until the end, she believed he was al good, there was no evil thoughts in him. She also has minor O.C.D. she believes everything has it’s place, not value.
Cullen was a playboy in Payton’s mind, he has his signature smile that I based on my crush Campbell. He always had a smile like that even when situation is dead serious he can always make it seem like it’s nothing, nothing to worry about. When doing a group project if he’s in my team I am always calm because I know he will get the job done. He can do anything he wants because he believes in himself and is a doer. But like all the others he doesn’t notice me. Alright back to Cullen, as the story continues on you will find that he isn’t the demon, the playboy or the annoying selfish boy from District 9 who only wants to live which was what Payton always thought of him, in fact he is the sun strider, he is the light for Payton even though she wasn’t aware of the fact that he was lighting her world up. It’s not that Payton doesn’t see him, it’s just that she doesn’t believe that anyone will like her. And different from Payton he understands love, he knows what it takes to warm Payton up and one of the reasons for that is the similarity of the experience the two had. He was really confused about his feeling towards her at first; he disliked her, he liked her?
The things that I added onto the recruited characters.
District 1, Alina Zowe, this is her application down below.
I went to Iceland in the summer of 2014 and I love the way people dressed there so most of the clothing are from Icelandic cultures. Most of the memories of Payton’s childhood are in Winter because a lot of her childhood life is locked in a haze, dark and cold.
The rabbit Sammi is one of the only thing that matters to Payton deep down, it was the only thing close to her soul. Sammi was first going to be Annie because Annie is one of my best friends and she loves rabbits/bunnies. The rabbit’s image was based on Banana and Caramel two of her rabbits. I didn’t go for the name Annie because she was already in the Hunger Games book and even though it’s normal to have a duplication of names, I decided to make things easy. Then I considered the name Luna, also one of my best friends, the one who always knew when I was angry or unhappy, knew what is the best words or ways to comfort me, to make me feel better. Another reason I considered my friend’s name was because of Luna in HP, she wore carrot earnings the actress made herself, and carrot, rabbit. I considered for a while but it just didn’t sound right so I went with Sammi which sounded right, she is one of my best friends as well, I cannot forget the first walk of us alone around field together, it is most definitely the most outstanding memory of mine with her. She is really important me even if she doesn’t know it, I am always afraid she would walk away from me, from the group suddenly. I hope that never happens and I hope we are forever.
As you can see, friendship means a lot to me.
Michael is one of the most arrogant people I have ever met in my studying years so he became one of my least favourite characters under my pen.
TBC
