User blog:CartoonFan14/My NSL Rewrite Checklist

That episode, the king of sequel/continuation/re-write fanfictions. Some succeed with the general audience, some go down in infamy as horrendously bad, and some just kinda fall in into obscurity. After much thought, I decided I'd take a crack at this, and went with re-writing the episode, because that's the one where less can go wrong/there's less problems to face. So today I'm going to make a checklist of things I'm going to try to accomplish when I re-write No Such Luck.

=What I'm Going For==


 * Focus more on Lincoln being bad luck: 2 instances aren't enough to justify the way the family acted in the episode, like I said in my Cliché Clash involving this episode, showing the family act like this because of the power of rumors is smart, but what I left out is that there should be a balance between "Don't Trust Him, He's Bad Luck" and actual instances where he is bad luck. Not to mention that the writing also came at the cost of stupid intolerable characters. What I'm going for here is to focus on Lincoln taking his lie farther than he did in the episode, to attempt at justifying what happens to him later a lot more reeasonable.


 * Shift Some of the Blame off of Lynn: Yes Lynn started it all, but the other 11 family members could have just ignored her, my goal isn't for someone other than Lynn to start it, but some of the other family members will have a little more involvement on letting it get to the point that it did.


 * Get Rid of all the stupidity in the story: The episode has so many fair questions asked at it, and the answer really boils down to, "I didn't think of that". I just want to have a story that makes sense, doesn't have any plot holes, and a story where I don't have to reply to a comment with "I didn't think of that."

Concerns/Worries
And now on to what I'm worried about, what caused me to debate remaking the episode, of course, if this checklist was for a sequel, the list would be a hell of a lot longer, but since I'm going with a re-write, there's a lot less I worry about.


 * Lincoln Himself: With a sequel, you face making the rest of the Loud Family unlikeable and horribly out of character, with a re-write, I face making Lincoln unlikeable. In order to make Lincoln more deserving of getting kicked out, I'm going to take his lie and do more with it than just him breaking the golf clubs, and I just want to try and keep it from going too far.


 * Doing enough to make it different: I don't want mine to follow the No Such Luck story formula, I don't want mine to be predicted from beginning to end before you even read the darn story. I don't want this to turn out as, just another No Such Luck story from a No Such Luck hater. I want to make sure that any effort that goes into making this re-write isn't all for nothing. However I believe that me having Lincoln still kicked out of the house is something that a lot of these other fanfiction writers making fics in response to the episode wouldn't do, so at least I have that.

So those are the marks I want to hit and the things I'd like to avoid, if I succeed, great! If not, not so great, but feel free to share any constructive criticisms you end up having with the story. I can't give you a surfire date anytime soon, but the story will hopefully be out before the month ends. That's all for now, and even though you are probably tired of hearing about NSL fanfictions, thank you for taking the time to read this blog.