Project Eden's Gate

The Strange History of Eden's Gate: Part I - A Universe is Born

Well all stories have a beginning. So here's the beginning of how this project first began.

Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to be a writer. I'd write lots of ideas that never really got written out into actual stories. I've had a few stories that have since been lost to time and now exist only in my memories.

So now fast forward to... oh... let's say five years ago. I was still writing during my teen years, but never really wrote anything that amounted to much. Then I finally got internet access in my house. Then... I discovered... fan fiction. True, nine times out of ten the stuff floating around on the Net is mediocre to foul. However, I did manage to find a few stories that really were worth reading and that got me to thinking about writing fan fiction too.

Most writers would cringe and yell at me at this point. However, let's get a couple things established. For the most part, during this period of my life, I felt kind of creatively drained to an extent. Secondly, thinking up stories about anime that I love really stimulated my brain a lot. If anything the only reason why I even got around to creating Eden's Gate was because I was dabbling in fan fiction (as you will soon see.) If I ever do become a famous writer, let me say that I'm not going to be someone who will be a hypocrite and say that "I don't approve of fan fiction" since I have written fan fiction. I have admitted that most of the stuff you find really isn't very good. If anything, I consider fan fiction another avenue of practicing the craft of writing. I think that any opportunity to write is still good. Writers become really excellent writers from two ways: constantly writing and constantly editting. I don't pretend to be an excellent writer. This is merely one writer's observations of how it all works out. So let's get back to the original point of this entry.

I was heavily involved with fan fiction writing within a year after getting internet access. I moved into Gundam Wing fandom and wrote fan fiction there. It was during the later period that I was actively writing in that fandom that I developed an interesting idea for an Alternate Universe (AU) story. I began writing down my ideas and put it aside since I was in the middle of another story, which I must note is still incomplete after two years and I haven't finished. The concept was that the women in Gundam Wing didn't get much "screen time" in stories, though it has changed. I thought it would be interesting to do a series where the female characters have more leading roles as the "heroes" of the story.

As I progressively thought more and more about this story, I was also reading more and more manga since the last year or so was when manga was really exploding in the States. It occurred to me that the nature of this story would really suit well as a manga. Of course this is where we lead into part 2 of this History. ^^

posted by Elizabeth @ 4:38 PM