User blog:Niftyness/Atlas Mountains Pre-Game Blog

Hey. This is my first blog post, so I'm not entirely sure how to format this or what people use blog posts for, but I'll use 'em to post updates or further commentary in regards to my fanon season on here, Survivor: Atlas Mountains.



I just finished up all 18 character bios so I felt now was a good time to make this blog explaining my hopes and intent for writing the fanon. Atlas Mountains is a fanfic I've been planning since, like, June of last year. That means this season has been 10 months in the making...sorta, lol. I came up with all the characters and made my first boot order draft in August, thought about starting to put everything on here, then backed off when I had wayyyyy too much on my plate at the time. So I left the whole thing on hold and didn't come back to it until about last week or so, when I realized I had more time to fill and wanted to start hacking away at writing projects I've wanted to do for a while. This fanfic seemed like the easiest one to cross off the list first, so here we are now!

This fanfic is inspired by a Discord ORG I hosted back in January of last year. I had heavily researched the Atlas Mountains region and culture, much more than any normal ORG host would, and made it a mission to immerse my contestants as much as possible into the setting so that the location wasn't just to have a name for the season or a cool logo theme. The season turned out so much better than I anticipated and everyone appreciated the extra mile I went in to setting up an atmosphere. I went on to host more ORGs and set up an ORG production group that I've retired from, but that's besides the point.

The point is that, for this fanfiction, I intend to have a similar effect. I want to have interesting characters go into a unique environment, and for the location of the season to actually have some influence/impact on the atmosphere and the events in this story. I also wanna incorporate a few thematic layers to the story too, and this location felt like a good place to explore those themes. I won't outright state what they are, but I hope some of you guys pick up on them throughout the season.

One more hope I have for this season is to make almost every character enjoyable to read and delve into, from the first boot to the winner. This doesn't mean that everyone's going to be likable or go through a character arc, but it does mean that I want each character to touch on or add to the themes of the season in some way as well as giving most of them their own individual moments to shine. This'll probably be the hardest goal to achieve, but I'm willing to put in the work to make it happen.

And I'm hoping you put in the effort of reading it through when it comes out! Like I said, this is a project I've had in mind for a long while, and just like every writing project I tackle these days, I wouldn't be going through with it if I didn't feel like it would be fun and meaningful to write it. So I hope you find the same enjoyment in reading Atlas Mountains as I do in creating it.

I know, I know, high hopes and hype for a fanfiction, heh! But I think most of you can understand where I'm coming from. We're all writers here, and we should all be proud of the works we put out, even if they are fanfictions. Every story we create helps us become better authors.

Anyways...first episode coming out by April 28th. It may come out earlier depending on how fast I write. I've already got the whole episode skeletoned out, just gotta fill it in with the details. But until then, read the character bios! I strived to write as many as I could as if that person was going to be the main character of the season, so each bio will give you a decent basis for each character. Maybe let me know your thoughts about them or who you're rooting for pre-game, 'cause I'm sure we all feel the same way about getting feedback on our crafts.

See ya on April 28th or sooner with that first episode!

 Signing off, Nifty Nick