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Post by T. Costa on Jun 2, 2008 21:11:37 GMT
Oooh, thanks. I'm sure I'd have caught the Trod versus Tread thing in my read-through, and if not, Cally would have on the beta. But! Less work for us now that you've pointed it out. XD *changes it*
When I was writing that Aurikku fic that Sylla inspired me into, my tenses kept changing. It was really annoying. Third-first-third-first. I knew then that I needed a nap. Hah.
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Post by fearandloathing on Jun 3, 2008 16:45:07 GMT
Yeah, tenses are so annoying past/present/1st/3rd/ohnooodeargod, especially when I've been in a stint of one-shots-that-fit present well, and try to turn towards something long that should be past -_- Then there's the whole problem of narratives, and having trains of thought in 3rd person and oh god I'm just going to stop now What was the Aurikku idea Sylla inspired you into? (Convicted Aurikku fiend present and accounted for )
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Post by Pen Against Sword on Jun 3, 2008 17:20:28 GMT
I've been thinking about writing a medium length one-shot about Vincent going off his rocker once all the other members of AVALANCHE are dead, but really, he decides to go crazy. Like, he has nothing better to do, so he just sort of lets the state of his mind deteriorate. I want it to be darkly humorous, while sad at the same time.
I really like getting inside Vincent's head, and I forgot exactly how much until I spat out Guilt by Association all in one day. Writing Yuffie is awesome and all, but if I do it for too long consistently, I need a break or her personality starts to wear on me. It's strange, really, but I almost have to be the characters when I write them.
As for stories that are eating my brain: My Kingdom Hearts story, The Need to Know is beating me down, guys. Mengde and I had a two-and-a-half hour phone conversation the other night, JUST so we could fill in plotholes and decide what the ultimate conflict of the story is. And have I mentioned that writing Kingdom Hearts Yuffie is hard to do after writing FFVII Yuffie so much? I have to remember that her past has nothing to do with FFVII canon, and I am always afraid that in exercising my authorial powers and mixing their canon a little that I'll go too far and confuse the purely KH readers.
For example, I added in Yuffie's All Creation attack on a whim, but then I had to add some sort of explanation for it that actually fit in KH canon. This story is a real workout in my "bending existing canon to my will" skills. I'm trying to give Yuffie and Axel a relationship that fits with the timeline and makes sense, considering they never actually met in the game.
Here's something that maybe y'all can answer for me: how the HECK do the people in KH-verse know what a ninja is? Yuffie still calls herself "the Great Ninja Yuffie" even though she comes from a world where she and Leon and Cid and Aerith and Cloud and Tifa all lived together and shared a childhood or whatever. WTF.
I've hit a bit of a snag as well--I can't remember why I originally named the story "The Need to Know." I sort of remember, but then I smack my past self and go, "What the heck, you idiot, that's not even a good reason! Now how am I supposed to work this into the story!" I sort of want to change the name of it, but for seven chapters and a year tomorrow, it's been "The Need to Know." I have no idea how I meant for that title to relate to the story at all! I'm at a loss here!
Wow, I just babbled about my own work for a zillion words. I really need to shut up.
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Post by Sylla on Jun 3, 2008 17:28:19 GMT
Well, considering this thread was created for us to babble on about our own stuff (narcissicm yay), I don't think you need to shut up just yet. J/k.
Also, gods tenses. Why the heck is it that the majority of oneshots fit the present tense so. Damn. Well?! Then I get really used to writing in present tense and when I try to go back to past tense, I keep switching back. This has happened before - I was trying to write a Trinity Blood oneshot (which will probably never see the light of day) in past tense, and then I realized every other paragraph was in present tense. Lolwhut?
Also, Costa, that excerpt is made of win. Link us when it's finished! =D
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Post by T. Costa on Jun 3, 2008 21:17:13 GMT
What was the Aurikku idea Sylla inspired you into? (Convicted Aurikku fiend present and accounted for ) I lined to it in the "getting feedback" thread so Sylla could find it. It's in there, it's called "Feels Like Home." There's some things I could probably do to fix it but I'm actually quite proud of it, for a oneshot. Pen - Have you ever read any of the fics where the FF7 cast is in the KH world but remembers Gaia, or came from Gaia and is losing their memories, et cetera? If it's done properly it's amazing. The girl I beta-read for dabbles in that area and honestly, it's awe-inspiring. I'm not super into Kingdom Hearts, but reading some of those fics makes me wanna go replay it (I never even got into the first one properly, and the second one I have no access to). Sylla - I expect it'll be a while. I have a whole bunch of ideas for what I want to write but I really have to be in a specific mood to write to that story, and it's a mood that only comes once a month. If you know what I mean. -.-
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Post by fearandloathing on Jun 4, 2008 9:49:20 GMT
Haha, I get that big-time (in not being able to write unless I'm in a particular mood) Pen, that Vincent story sounds awesome! I would be so interested in reading something like that (would you set it after DoC as well? Maybe then you could even have Chaos leaving as like a de-stabilizing factor). I have a few drabbly Vincent ideas I half think about writing, one is just one of those descriptive explorative things that doesn't exactly respect the laws of sensible cannon but at the same time it could happen, which is 'Vincent is a sex fiend!' in the most literal sense without those creepy overdrives (Hellmasker freaks me out ). So yeah, Vincent/sex fiend, which would be all embarassing people through inn walls like WHENEVER they stop anywhere, and I'd probably steer away from a whole 'I am looking for LUCRETIA in them' towards more of a '30 years is a LONG time, okay?!' sorta thing Idea two is a tamer one-shot that would just be an old ex-girlfriend of Vincents encountering him in Kalm, and she's all grown up and middle-aged and married with children, and Vincent's just stuck and she's all 'well I never, Vincent Valentine *chuckles like an old lady*
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Post by Pen Against Sword on Jun 4, 2008 15:50:50 GMT
To Costa: As a matter of fact, I have, and I have read one of her stories. I believe it was a three-shot. Oh, darn it, what was her name? I favorited it, I know, because it was heart-wrenchingly good. And I am on the edge of my seat waiting for Nagia's Burnt Offerings to update.
The Need to Know was originally going to be some crazy thing where Yuffie DID remember her time in FFVII canon and everyone else did too, and while she was there, she was in love with Reno and they had a relationship, etc. Well, she goes on to see Axel and all kinds of stuff goes down and I can't tell you the rest because even though all that is changed, the basic plot premise is the same. However, I changed all of that because it would've made the plot waaaay too complicated, and I decided I liked Axel as Axel, and not Reno's Nobody, as I had intended. So I left him as himself, and I put myself to the new and entirely different challenge of making a romance between them fit the canon and writing Yuffie so that she had no inkling of any past on Gaia.
Hard stuff, but I know once I get through with this, I'll be very pleased with myself. A Fine Line is the longest thing I have written and completed, to this date, and The Need to Know promises to be about twenty thousand to thirty thousand words longer.
Hmmm, actually, fear, that has given me an even BETTER idea. I can have Vincent internally complaining that it's harder to go crazy if there are no demons in his head pestering him and giving him split personalities.
-sigh- Just when a guy wants to go crazy, his chances get slim.
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Post by T. Costa on Jun 4, 2008 18:20:52 GMT
Pen - That would be Pretend, by La Editor. I STILL cannot believe she is only 14. Amazing stuff. I do have to say that I imagined a scene kind of like in Mostly Harmless, wherein Arthur Dent goes "Today, I shall go insane." Only, of course, I imagined Vincent doing it. Except that everyone would be dead so he wouldn't have a Ford Prefect to stomp up and go "I tried that once. It's not as fun as you'd think."
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Post by fearandloathing on Jun 10, 2008 21:55:28 GMT
Today I won a small victory of realizing that a writer for the Gakuen Alice fandom with a fic that has way too many reviews for its worth (and I mean that in the nicest possible way) actually asked me to write something for them a while back I'm considering getting on with it, as it'll make me feel like a big fish in a little pond to be able to have been comissioned to write an idea from a popular writer from the fandom (though its more bloody boring PWP -_-) (Douglas Adams FTW btw Tash ) But then again I lost all motivation upon discovering that my perverted-stories have finally been submmitted to a C2... of trash I read something that sounded okay, but then nearly barfed on the screen because I really couldn't belive the writer was being serious. I worry somtimes, I really do Starting on chapter four of the new baby, full of dream-sequences and hiding under beds so far (one of the side effects of the characters becoming linked is shared dreams/nightmares and it being almost impossible to sleep when they are seperated by too large a distance.)
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Post by T. Costa on Jun 11, 2008 4:11:49 GMT
(Douglas Adams FTW btw Tash ) I know a guy who ended his wedding speech with "So long, and thanks for all the fish." ftw indeed. XD
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Post by unwinding fantasy on Jun 11, 2008 10:41:13 GMT
Backtracking a little: Sylla, if you're a Labyrinth fan you really should check out the "Roommates" comics by AsheRhyder. Absolutely hilarious. They involve Jareth (obviously), Erik ( Phantom of the Opera), Norrington ( Pirates of the Caribbean) and Javert ( Les Mis) though Sarah does make an appearance or two. Actually, any fans of any of those characters will get a kick out of it. The first page is here. As for what I'm working on... I'm so far behind in beta-ing Tenacity it's not funny so I'm trying to get a good chunk of that sorted before I even think about looking at my own work. XD
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Post by Sylla on Jun 11, 2008 17:51:17 GMT
Backtracking a little: Sylla, if you're a Labyrinth fan you really should check out the "Roommates" comics by AsheRhyder. Been there, done that, would have gotten the Tshirt if there'd been one. I am soooo into that comic, seriously: it's hilarious. (Funny how Jareth gets owned all the time, since he's the only one with magical powers and is therefore the strongest of the guys.) And if you're interested, Wind, there's a companion comic drawn by Pika-la-Cynique called Girls Next Door which is just as funny and made of win. There's probably more Jareth/Sarah in there than is healthy. XD Anyhow. Current projects... training to hit 99,999 in FFX? Heheh, now that summer vacation's practically started, I have little urge to do much of anything - except the aforementioned Labyrinth stuffs. Although I am trying to get my butt in gear to write that FFX SI-type fic I mentioned aaaaaggees ago. =P
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Post by Aardy on Jun 12, 2008 10:22:34 GMT
OK, so my 'humour' (I'm using the term lightly because when I started it, my sole intention was for it to be serious) fic has started to turn black. Reno and a crooked cop are arguing in a car. The cop has a gun to his head. Reno takes his eyes of the road and accidentally hits something; the force of which causes the cop to accidentally fire his gun. Upon closer inspection they find that they have run over a little old lady, but it's not all Reno's fault... the cop's stray bullet found her head. They're not to know what killed her first, but throw her in the trunk of their car upon hearing nearby sirens. Reno soon checks her pockets to see if there is anything worth taking, finding nothing. Little does he know her handbag contains under a million gil in hard cash.
I thought it would be a nice twist and the old lady's significance will become more important throughout the story, but I'm having doubts about whether it's all in good taste... What do you guys think? I don't want to lose my reputation as a really Hoopy Frood.
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Post by unwinding fantasy on Jun 14, 2008 22:41:21 GMT
Been there, done that, would have gotten the Tshirt if there'd been one. I am soooo into that comic, seriously: it's hilarious. (Funny how Jareth gets owned all the time, since he's the only one with magical powers and is therefore the strongest of the guys.) I am still addicted to these comics. Looks like the guys are about to get sucked into the Wizard of Oz-verse soon. The crack, I love it. XD And Jareth may have shiny Goblin King powers but Erik is a volatile genius who could take the Punjab lasso to the best of them. There's no competing with his awesomeness. I killed myself laughing at the neck brace thing. XDDDDD My musical kick is expanding into fanfiction. I want to try slash. I want to try Hyde/Jekyll slash. So help me God, Hyde/Jekyll. Self, you are beyond redemption. *facepalm*
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Post by Sylla on Jun 15, 2008 19:15:33 GMT
And Jareth may have shiny Goblin King powers but Erik is a volatile genius who could take the Punjab lasso to the best of them. There's no competing with his awesomeness. Says the Phan. =P Glittery goblin magic trumps punjabbing any day. Fact. I killed myself laughing at the neck brace thing. XDDDDD Lawl yes. =P I especially liked the elevator one, and the Special. No prizes for guessing why. XD My musical kick is expanding into fanfiction. I want to try slash. I want to try Hyde/Jekyll slash. So help me God, Hyde/Jekyll. Self, you are beyond redemption. *facepalm* But they're... the same person, right? (What would that be? Extreme narcissism?) How would you try to make that work?
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