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#76 2012-02-18 03:14:34

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Wickimen wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

I hate it when people are like, way too descriptive.

You can't write good action like that IMO.
It's like in the middle of a death defying duel between two characters and the author goes "his long slick hair patted against his face as he held his intensive glare, forever yearning to be victor. The wind patted him softly like the hands of someone proud. And then he sliced the dude open lol"

You can if you're good at it
You can't be UNDERdescriptive either, like, "Then he lunged and slice open his enemy, allowing in a single movement for all his internal organs to spill out. THE END."

He gazed intensely at his opponent, nervous, poised.
The final battle.
Wind scraped at his face and he tried not to show his anxiety. His long, slick hair tumbled in the gale, cooling perspiration beading on his exposed neck.

He lunged.

Time seemed to freeze. The figure parried. Too late. With a sickening, almost gentle click his sword sliced open his stomach.

The figure hung there, his face half-turning to face him. Then he fell, mouth still curved as if in shock.


Is this good then, soupoftomato?

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#77 2012-02-18 10:25:18

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Eh I don't know.

That scene probably just isn't the type of book I would read.

I tend to read humorous fantasy/sci-fi though.

EDIT: Look at your general Star Wars published book for the type of nondescript luminous character being described by big words I hate.

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#78 2012-02-18 11:18:17

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Alternatives wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

Correct spelling is essentail

Essential is spelt wrong.

I like how everyone notices this, but not the other stuff
It's a joke people  tongue


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#79 2012-02-18 11:48:54

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Wickimen wrote:

Actually terribo fanfics are more like this

[insert terrible opening such as] Hi my name is Annalissa Rosalina Castleway [or some other ridiculously pompous/long name] but you can call me Lissy because I hate being called the samething [insert some spelling phails] as my mom who is also Annalissa Rosalina [subtlety fail]. I have golden white hair, dyed purple at the tips, that fans out behind me in the wind and bright emerald green eyes with little flecks of golden blue in them [or some other ridiculously described and horribly irrealistic personal appearance]. Today I was wearing [randomly switch past/present/future tense] a rose pink t-shirt with silvery stripes and dark blue skinny jeans I purchased at Hollister [stupid description of popular clothes]. My family is poor and we don’t have alot [spelling phail] of money [unrelated statement that makes no sense with the previously described kind of clothes the character is wearing, and is also an infodump], because we are a big family there’s [grammer failing] Bennie, Jack, Greg, Sue [everyone else has very short un-thought-out names, grammer failing].

OMG DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY IMMORTAL IS
the beginnning is almost exactly like that, though I don't recommend you read it because it's R rated and the spelling/grammar (it's a Harry Potter "fanfic", and a few times she spells "Lupin" "lumpkin") will make you vomit your brain out your ears and if you read it out loud your large intestine will reach up and strangle you in an attempt to save the world. In other words, it's like Vogon poetry. Also it's "goff" not "prepy" like in your example.

example wrote:

Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don't know who she is get da **** out of here!). I'm not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he's a major ******* hottie. I'm a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I'm also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I'm in the seventh year (I'm seventeen). I'm a goth (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about.

The beginning is better because supposedly her friend Raven helped proofread it. I'm still not sure if this is a troll or not, if it is it's an amazing one.

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#80 2012-02-18 11:50:04

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

luiysia wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

Actually terribo fanfics are more like this

[insert terrible opening such as] Hi my name is Annalissa Rosalina Castleway [or some other ridiculously pompous/long name] but you can call me Lissy because I hate being called the samething [insert some spelling phails] as my mom who is also Annalissa Rosalina [subtlety fail]. I have golden white hair, dyed purple at the tips, that fans out behind me in the wind and bright emerald green eyes with little flecks of golden blue in them [or some other ridiculously described and horribly irrealistic personal appearance]. Today I was wearing [randomly switch past/present/future tense] a rose pink t-shirt with silvery stripes and dark blue skinny jeans I purchased at Hollister [stupid description of popular clothes]. My family is poor and we don’t have alot [spelling phail] of money [unrelated statement that makes no sense with the previously described kind of clothes the character is wearing, and is also an infodump], because we are a big family there’s [grammer failing] Bennie, Jack, Greg, Sue [everyone else has very short un-thought-out names, grammer failing].

OMG DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY IMMORTAL IS
the beginnning is almost exactly like that, though I don't recommend you read it because it's R rated and the spelling/grammar (it's a Harry Potter "fanfic", and a few times she spells "Lupin" "lumpkin") will make you vomit your brain out your ears and if you read it out loud your large intestine will reach up and strangle you in an attempt to save the world. In other words, it's like Vogon poetry.

Haha yep, intentional
I did read it actually
I lost a good deal of soul that day

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#81 2012-02-18 11:55:08

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Wickimen wrote:

luiysia wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

Actually terribo fanfics are more like this

[insert terrible opening such as] Hi my name is Annalissa Rosalina Castleway [or some other ridiculously pompous/long name] but you can call me Lissy because I hate being called the samething [insert some spelling phails] etc.....

OMG DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY IMMORTAL IS
the beginnning is almost exactly like that, though I don't recommend you read it because it's R rated and the spelling/grammar (it's a Harry Potter "fanfic", and a few times she spells "Lupin" "lumpkin") will make you vomit your brain out your ears and if you read it out loud your large intestine will reach up and strangle you in an attempt to save the world. In other words, it's like Vogon poetry.

Haha yep, intentional
I did read it actually
I lost a good deal of soul that day

Did you get to the part where the hacker wrote a chapter? That was the only part that actually made any sort of sense, which is horribly depressing.


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#82 2012-02-18 11:56:42

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

luiysia wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

luiysia wrote:


OMG DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY IMMORTAL IS
the beginnning is almost exactly like that, though I don't recommend you read it because it's R rated and the spelling/grammar (it's a Harry Potter "fanfic", and a few times she spells "Lupin" "lumpkin") will make you vomit your brain out your ears and if you read it out loud your large intestine will reach up and strangle you in an attempt to save the world. In other words, it's like Vogon poetry.

Haha yep, intentional
I did read it actually
I lost a good deal of soul that day

Did you get to the part where the hacker wrote a chapter? That was the only part that actually made any sort of sense, which is horribly depressing.

I only read the first four chapters
I looked through fanfic.net for the rest but couldn't find it
I wasn't looking very hard either, because I wasn't sure if morbid curiosity was enough to keep reading it


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#83 2012-02-18 14:25:12

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The rule of chapters one, two, three, dosen't depend on your PC. The size in fact is three thirds smaller, the PC makes it big and taller. Remember the maths, for it's a PC page per 2.

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#84 2012-02-18 14:34:54

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

I tried to write a fanfic- it came out horrible. I think that maybe that might be the path for all fanfics


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#85 2012-02-18 14:45:07

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Wickimen wrote:

luiysia wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

Haha yep, intentional
I did read it actually
I lost a good deal of soul that day

Did you get to the part where the hacker wrote a chapter? That was the only part that actually made any sort of sense, which is horribly depressing.

I only read the first four chapters
I looked through fanfic.net for the rest but couldn't find it
I wasn't looking very hard either, because I wasn't sure if morbid curiosity was enough to keep reading it

I started reading it.

"I gave preps a vulgar gesture"
"Draco is hot"

Isn't Draco a "prep"?
That's definitely not the biggest problem with it, but it's one of the most obvious contradictions to itself (aside from the ever changing main characters name)

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#86 2012-02-18 15:00:08

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I was ready to kill myself if there were more than 10 chapters of that garbage.

There was like 45. -_-

Eh, I won't kill myself.


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#87 2012-02-18 15:51:09

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Fanfics are usually terrible.


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#88 2012-02-18 15:57:32

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Why do I feel like I've just reached the sarcasm isle of the Scratch grocery store?

Banana? Check.
Veggie? Check.
Soup? Check.
Wicki? Check.
aaaaand...
Alternatives.


Now where's 777?

Eeyup. I do believe I have.

Edit: oops, and GLaDoS.

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#89 2012-02-18 16:23:10

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Luke121 wrote:

Why do I feel like I've just reached the sarcasm isle of the Scratch grocery store?

Banana? Check.
Veggie? Check.
Soup? Check.
Wicki? Check.
aaaaand...
Alternatives.


Now where's 777?

Eeyup. I do believe I have.

Edit: oops, and GLaDoS.

:')

You will see us in most, as we tend to be some of the most active in this area, it seems.

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#90 2012-02-18 16:24:47

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

I'm 50% off


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#91 2012-02-18 17:07:38

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^^I'm 75% off but only if you have the coupon


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#92 2012-02-18 18:09:27

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

By the way, all aspiring authors over the age of 16 should read Chpt. 40 of My Immortal because it's the only one that makes any sort of sense (it's the one that a hacker/troll wrote).

Also HAHA SHE SPELLED IT MCGOOGLE

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#93 2012-02-18 18:11:18

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

im trying to make a game and i dont know how to put diffrent levels in there how would i do that ?

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#94 2012-02-18 18:13:17

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

little5 wrote:

im trying to make a game and i dont know how to put diffrent levels in there how would i do that ?

Welcome to Scratch
If you need help please don't post in any old topic, ask your question in the All About Scratch category


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#95 2012-02-18 19:35:13

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

My friend the other day asked me what the worst fanfiction on the internet was

time to send him My Immortal


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#96 2012-02-18 19:55:31

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Send me the link to the whole thing if you find it


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#97 2012-02-18 23:31:45

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Doesn't everyone just love fanfics?


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#98 2012-02-19 15:00:22

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Wickimen wrote:

Send me the link to the whole thing if you find it

I know where it is, it's on fanfiction.net. I'll post the link, you'll have to take the spaces out of it. It has a lot of bad words and is DEFINITELY R-RATED. YOUR BRAIN WILL MELT FROM THE AWFUL ADULT PARTS.
Link removed by moderator - please don't link to material that isn't appropriate for all-ages

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#99 2012-02-19 18:04:12

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Re: Aspiring Authors- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Wickimen wrote:

Send me the link to the whole thing if you find it

all you have to do is google it.  tongue


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