2006-01-07, 02:35 | Link #61 | |
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Really? I was all kind of giddy when I saw this thread for the first time. At last, a place where I could share my work, original or not...*cries in happiness* Also, I'm feeling giddy now since I just finished the long overdue 7th chapter of the Destiny Variance Factors. I'll revise it and post it by Sunday! Last edited by Knightmare213; 2006-01-07 at 03:12. |
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2006-01-07, 04:03 | Link #63 | |
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Sorry about it but its just that I've been wanting to continue my old fan fiction I started November on 04' (at least I planned out the plot on November) and there are about ninteen chapters to go. If you want to read Warp's first, go right ahead. I'm sure you won't catch up to the latest chapter soon because... First Chapter (plot creation took about half an year or so) : 6323 words Second Chapter (three months after first) : 5648 words Third Chapter (a week after) : 6077 words Fourth Chapter (weekly) : 7097 words Fifth Chapter (weekly) : 5430 words Sixth Chapter (weekly) : 8248 words <--This one almost put on a hospital bed because I didn't either eat or sleep much until I finished it. Seventh Chapter (pre-editing) 7598 words Now if that doesn't make you hesitate how much you would have to read, I don't know what will. And its more likely for the word counts will rise after the revision is over. Also, for every chapter I wrote, the word count must be above than 5000 words and below 8500 words. I also had set up a policy to produce chapter per week but I won't be able to do that anymore since I might be off to university on September and I'll be doing a monthly update. Also, the project I'm working on will probably the longest. The Destiny Variant Factors is the first book of four, each book consisting of twenty-six chapters. Estimated time for me to finish all of it will take at least two to three years or even more. There is a low chance that I'll ever give up on this and not finish it. |
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2006-01-07, 04:57 | Link #64 | |
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2006-01-07, 05:32 | Link #65 | |
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fanfics. Anyway,I will continue to hunt.I have a few other fics in mind but I don't remember their titles.
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2006-01-07, 10:23 | Link #66 | |
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Close-minded? No...not really...I've read some good fanfiction...then again, that has been like 4 works out of the many thousands up on ffnet in which the authors just try to create the characters into mary sues/gary stus or make their OC become this incredible part of the main characters' story. It's laughable, actually. |
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2006-01-07, 13:53 | Link #67 | |
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No, that's what I'm doing! Last thing I would try to do is to make someone not read my fic purposefully. Also, I had no reason why I posted my word counts for each of my chapter. It was 4 O'clock in the morning in Toronto and I had just finished the 7th chapter. Even though I was dead tired, I wanted to make one last post before I went to bed. Also, I will take care of myself. I'm sort of obsessed with writing because the fic has some potential to be a good one. Also, I think I've mentioned this before, I already have another original novel in the works. |
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2006-01-07, 20:47 | Link #68 | |
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Oh, yes, and one last thing. Point out your highly exclusive collection of "good" fanfics for our criticism/critique, if you feel proud enough of them to talk about them in such glowing terms. Go on. Last edited by WarpObscura; 2006-01-08 at 09:44. |
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2006-01-09, 22:12 | Link #69 | |
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Did this thread die quickly... Anyway, let me do a Bump Up My Post thing with this question for the other fanfiction writers. After I revised my story for grammar errors among other stuff, I also changed the summary a bit as well. I also explained the possible parings since I came to a conclusion that most of the readers at FF.Net are appealed by character parings. So, I changed it like this: Original Character (Erick Bauer's the name) x Flay = OCxF Kira x Flay = K x F Lacus x Kira = L x K So according to you, Alexis, does that mean that the character who are mentioned first are going to try to be with the second character mentioned after the first character? Please explain! |
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2006-01-09, 23:37 | Link #70 |
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I`m not usually a fan of fan fiction, but I did create a series once just for myself, I guess I`ll share some outlining of it (it never was finished).
Basically it`s an AU based on the UC setting. Being a newtype was considered a disease. The effects of activated newtype powers caused the body to decay faster (thus peoples hair and the such would turn gray, etc). Basically if you saw a kid with streaked white hair, he would be "infected" per say. Of course, it`S not really a disease, but then I`d be spoiling stuff. It got it`s name because it was thought to be the next evolution of man, until they found that people "died" sooner than the usual human. There is a civil war between the colonies, the Earth and Moon (seperate governments) are staying out of it (for the time being). Sides 1-4 vs. Sides 5-8. They are each on the other side of the Earth except for Side 2, which is sort of in the middle edging towards the 1-4 half of the colonies. The war is basically over the existance of "newtypes" in the colonies, seeing how they think it`s a contagious disease (outbreaks are increasing). Sides 5-8 want the newtypes to be exterminated or moved out of the colonies, while Side 1-4 says it`S not fair, you see where this leads to....There has only been one out break of violence during the time but that changes when Sides 5-8 attack Side 2... The main character is a delinquent 17 year old kid, who jumps in a mobile suit (not a Gundam) to go look for his friends during the confusion of the attack of Side (Side 2). He takes out some other mobile suits, clumsily and/or luckily (he doesn`t just become an ace in other words). He finds them, but then he feels a bunch of pressure and the colony starts to fall apart. With the danger a battle ship of the Sides 1-4 escape and they hop aboard during the colony breakage. With pursuers and the main character being one of the few to be able to pilot a mobile suit, he is put to the test against the enemies attacks... The Gundam doesn`t appear until later in the show, the first pilot of it gets killed and then it is handed to the main character. There are losts of mysterious things about it, because it reacts to the main characters newtype prowess (which he discovers he is infected later in the show), and it`s later revealed in the second series (The whole story is three series). There`s more to the story, but it`s really long and I don`t wanna type all of it. Basically all the mysterious stuff is revealed later, and the main character goes nuts after the first series. It`s not a happy story, but the ending does leave a bit of hope. The biggest surprises are in part two though. That`S all for now, I might post some more stuff on it later though... |
2006-01-10, 00:01 | Link #71 | |
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As for my cardinal rule being followed, well...couldn't find examples of that (if someone puts up a guide on writing fanfiction, I don't know what to say), but I did find some mary sue litmus tests along the way. As I said, I don't care much for fanfiction at all. It takes absolutely no skill whatsoever to build upon a character that whoever created the original storyline has built sympathy for anyway. Even the slightest stories, such as the one in soulcalibur 2, are enough for all of the hard work to be done by somebody else. It's the worldbuilding and getting people to believe that your characters are "real" ala show human traits enough to be believable. If you're going to write about K x L, they're already there for you. They've already been developed. I mean consider this: people were proclaiming how great my Soul Calibur (xover with war3 was, gogo Illidan) story was, and yet, when I tried original writing after that, I fell flat on my ass and had to rewrite the chapters of my original work. Unless somebody is absolutely AMAZING as a fanfiction writer, they will NOT hold my respect. Especially now that I have the eye of a writing critic and look for things like infodumps, unnatural dialogue, show--don't tells, overuse of adverbs (or use in general, except as dialogue modifiers), etc... Most fan writing REALLY starts to suck after you become half-decent at original writing. It's like being amazed with higher-end mathematics and how fascinating it all seems, with all of these new theorems, higher-dimensional methods of problem solving, and all of that, until you get there and it just becomes as simple as the old stuff and it's not this "great place in the clouds" anymore. This is why the wise are cynical. What little kids stare at wide-eyed in their innocence, someone else says "been there, done that...not that great," It's like saying "I can't wait to grow up" when you're little, then you grow up, get a car, work like a dog, have no free time, realize just how silly little kids are, and your life sorta takes a downturn. Same deal with fanfiction. You think it's cool, but from my standpoint, it's skilless amateur dawdling. Want to read respectable writing? Go to the bookstore. |
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2006-01-10, 00:14 | Link #72 | |
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2006-01-10, 00:18 | Link #73 |
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There is also the issue of the writers who write for an established franchise and that sort of thing. If you have read Timothy Zahn's (or any of the other SWEU authors) Star Wars work, would you still call him a "loser" or whatever-you-want just because he builds onto an established universe? Fan fiction is just a "lower level" (Forbid that I actually have to use such terms) of this sort of thing.
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2006-01-10, 00:55 | Link #74 |
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Fan fiction is hardly any ideas. Fan fiction is practicing applying icing on a cake. When you don't have the luxury of an existing idea and an existing fanbase, it is FAR more difficult. Writers that write for an established franchise? Debatable...after all, they are not creating their own fanbase, but jumping on a bandwagon to have a head start. But most of the time, those writers are creating their own characters. In a way, it's a huge double standard because they profit from the sale of another person's idea, but oh well...I don't have too much respect for Star Wars authors either...every author essentially has their own ideas, and you can call none canon, so I don't even bother with Star Wars authors...to me, it is glorified fanfiction.
As I said, it takes little to no skill to build upon an existing fanbase. Let me make an analogy here: fanfiction is like icing a cake. Writing in an established universe is baking a cake with a generic recipe, and writing wholly original is like making your own recipe. The only time I would ever condone "an established universe" writing is when that writing is the actual canon story behind something that otherwise contains little to no story (EG trading card games). Once a universe has a hardcore story, it's still glorified fanfiction. Respectable for writing it and getting it published--but nothing beyond that. |
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I guess all AUs and Star Wars books are crap then since they don`t have an original story. Thanks, I was lacking such useful information -_-;;; |
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2006-01-10, 06:57 | Link #76 | |
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The order of mentioning characters is so strict only when it comes to yaoi, for the sole reason, that if there's a M/F couples, it is quite clear who has which part, so to say. With yaoi however each of the partners being a male means that each one can be the seme (the top), so to avoid any confusion, it is commonly accepted to write the couples in the order seme x uke. And that is how they are written in Japan (as far as I know). When it comes to straight couples, it is still better to write the male first and the female second. The simple fact that an author has stated a couple, sugests that the relationship between the characters is/will be going further than friendship and into the realms of romantic involvement. However if one writes about a triangle one is to put the main interest for the character that has two options first, as for example Lacus x Kira x Fllay, would mean that this is a Kira x Lacus pairing with Fllay being in the way. In the center is the character that is one of his/her gender. If one is as bold as to write a threesome, then one puts it male x female x female or male x male x female, thus making it obvious that this is not a triangle, but a threesome.
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2006-01-10, 12:24 | Link #77 | |
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2006-01-11, 03:21 | Link #78 | |
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Even then I find it hypocritical that you enjoy watching Gundam even though it`s just the reuse of an old story over and ove and over again. Sure they all differ somewhat but they all revolve around the original. In other wards you`re saying that only the original Gundam is worthy of respect since the others just borrow off it`s fame? |
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GSD sequel fiction, opinion please.
This is just a intro and I did not want to put this on Fanfiction.net before hearing opinion and I thought this wouldn't get much response on fan creation section so I am gonna post it here. I would like a some kind of feedback I don't care whether it is positive or negative, negative it is better to me because I want to know the fault in my writing.
After fall of Durandall and Lacus Cylne became the leader of ZAFT, peace between Earth Alliance and ZAFT existed for five years but it was a fragile peace. EA was shamed by being defeated and most of the Alliance countries still hold grudge against Plant . With that Alliance gradually began to rebuilt their military force, however combined influence from Orb and Plant was keeping them from building a powerful military as a result Earth Alliance had only very limited army. Only thing that prevent the world from going to all out war was alliance between Orb and Plant, in reality this was only possible with the two leader Lacus Cylne and Cagailli Athha . People of Orb distrust Plant for attacking them during last war and Plant distrust Orb for joining the Alliance in the last war. One day unthinkable thing happened one of the meeting between Orb and Plant both Lacus and Cagalli was killed no one knew who did but with that world began to move toward to war again. Far away in Earth Alliance base at Alaska group of leaders of different country began to gather there. As all of them arrived they were escorted to a meeting room. As the leader opened the door the meeting room it was very bright with window where they could see the ocean outside. There was a men who already sitting his face was badly deformed from injuries. All the leaders began to seat. “ Now since we are all here let’s discuss the matter, with Lacus Cylne dead we could have our revenge “ said man with deformed fact, “ I don’t think people will support this war, I mean look at the casualty and economic damage from lost war and I don‘t think people want suffer more” “ True however with war there will be in increase in production of weapons and job will increase and economy will improve, you don’t think it could be worse then now could you?” said the man “ with Laucs gone people will support the war, people looked her as and hero who ended the war with her gone people don’t trust ZAFT and will hate them more then ever they hate the fact the coordinator who look down on them lives and now they control them ” “ All right but what about Orb they are another problem they are strong allies to ZAFT and they have strong military technology .” “ Don’t worry they will join us, Orb is small but strong country that is true but you made a mistake on one fact they hate both alliance and Plant for attacking them, however they will support us because we are on earth while plant is not, Plant will be a wrong choice as a ally we could provide resource while they can’t, we are able to attack them easily while ZAFT being in space can not attack them right away“ “ would they join either side?’ “ they will they learned their lesson from last two war they need to be allied with someone” “ But we can’t beat ZAFT they beat us twice before and they have gotten stronger while we have become weaker” “ True but I have a solution to that problem, if you look at these doucment” He began to send out the folders to each men, and as they received the document they were all in shock. “ This is…” “ Impressive aren’t they? Azrael and Djibril were sure crazy to come of with this idea but thanks to them we now have the power and” “ we could win ” “ exactly ” After the meeting was over all the leader left and the men with injured fact left and exit on other door. As he left the room someone was in front of him. “ Ah are you already done looking at the data? ” “ Yes, sir” “ What is your opinion on Kira Yamato “ “ He is impressive but my skill is still above him, and he has many weakness” “ Oh what would that be” “For one he doesn’t kill people. Second his mobile suits is strong but it focus on too much on long range beam type weapon. Finally he didn’t fight for five years” “ So you think you kill him” “Easily, because like you said I am the perfect soldier”
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You have an account at fanfiction.net? I do too, but mostly Beyblade fics and Yami No Matsuei fic, when I was young and innocent then, LOL. anyway, I think this is interesting. Who is the disfigured man? >
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