I've been writing for over six years now. I started back when I was in early
high school, and I'm currently attending college at Ball State. I was never
really good at grammar or writing, scholastic-wise. So I focus more on plot,
rather than grammar rules.
This story was written about 1999, back when Zelda fan fiction was at its prime.
(I'm not saying that stories were better, they were just more plentiful and
there were about 10x the amount of Zelda fan fiction sites than there are today)
The first time I wrote it, we (me and my sister) only had Notepad on our
computer. Thus any errors would not be caught and it would take forever just to
spell check it by hand.
This was the second fan fic I ever published. My first was "The One Wish
Giver" (which I'll attempt to revamp after completing the next part of the
current mind-fuck: "Poes and Roes") It was written to make fun of how
little children are told about "you-know-what" as well as throwing
Link into a bizarre situation. What makes the story more ironic is the fact that
all the taboo body parts like penis or vagina are never once said. One thing
nobody ever caught on was the title. It was a play on words to the movie Monty
Python's The Meaning of Life.
Anyway, I hold this story very close to my heart. Back then, it was considered
controversial because it was the only story on Zelda fanfiction.net to come
close to light hentai(. Needless to say, a lot of sites wouldn't even put it up
unless I edited it. If I didn't edit it, they did it themselves. This wasn't the
only time were I had trouble putting up a story. Caucasian Elves Don't Speak had
one chapter where I made fun of Tingle as being gay, and got quite a backlash. I
was a little annoyed considering that Comedy Central airs this stuff all the
time.
I'm a little saddened about the upcoming Zelda game shown at E3 2004. Its not
that it looks bad; it just means I can't write Link-the-naïve-teenager-
who-grew-up-too-soon type of stories without referring back to the N64 days.
Those are fun. Link is a real fun character to write about, if you accept him as
a child in an adult body. But that's just my opinion.
After about five years, the story finally gets a nice make over. Sure it's been
rewritten before, but that was to just get rid of typos (remember, I originally
wrote this on Notepad). I've included the true versions of the Gerudo, Young
Malon, and Sheik parts. Again, these parts were severely altered due to the
first round of readers protesting at how raw they were. But then again, I
strapped a PG rating on it the first time so :p. Only the Gerudo part was cut
out because it felt like extra baggage to the story. Now that I look at it, I
really wished I never cut it out because it ends the story with a beautiful
message.
Next, much like the transition from N64 to Gamecube, I gave the story a
graphical update. The writing has more description and at some parts, better
dialogue with easier transitions, and wider atmosphere. Some parts I left alone
because they are just too classical to mess around with.
The Legend of Zelda: The Miracle of Life v2.0
Originally
Written: 1999
