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JWRosser

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I began writing one a couple of years ago that was essentially a novelised version of my Guild Wars experiences (relating to different Guilds etc) because it was a hell of a lot like a bloody soap opera or something! Of course, it had more depth, and turned into a fantasy novel. However about half way through I decided I dislike the genre and I haven't done anything to it for about a year. Might go back to it soon...add some stuff...maybe...
 

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Charisma said:
Yeah, it's a guilty pleasure. Somehow 95% of them are about Teen McAverage saving the world while in high school and being oblivious to all the shipping around him. All in Japan of course. Finding the few interesting titles is fun tho and even if you find something that quickly degrades into utter mainstream shit like Naruto or Bleach, you can still learn from mistakes. And then start hiding the fact you ever searched for the subs on Google.
Full Metal Alchemist was a nice refreshing manganime with scientific magic in a Western world of alchemy. Also stood out for me because it's one of the few anime in which females have actually substance.

For me, NGE got more interesting the more I looked up about it and its author who had a real breakdown while writing the stuff. At the time I first picked it up, I was in a phase of depression myself, so it was easier to identify with the main character for me.
NGE got a rewrite recently and I think the last movies that are going to cover the retelling of the story will come out next year or so. Some people call it "NGE meets Gurren Lagann" because NGE was practically the black counterpart to Gurren Lagann; the latter was pretty much just pure action and hot blood... until the ending... damn... almost got me.
Anyway, if you plan on watching NGE, prepare to get polarized. Some worship it, some loathe it. Personally, I liked it a great deal because I found a lot of myself in different characters, which I think is also sorta the point of the whole thing.

And yes, I've seen avatar, pretty story and strong characters. I wonder how the next season with a new main character can keep up. I heard it was in the making, but that's about it.

I know what you mean about him being not that interesting. It's a weird disease that seems to spread in works where the villain is generally the most interesting character. Maybe it's because he's too average, maybe it's because he doesn't have a characteristic strong point unlike Talitha or Lilly. I hope I can get his character down once I don't have to think of him as two separate souls influencing each other a bit and I have to take in mind the 15-year-old me that's supposed to be the author of the Golden and Silver Age parts, and afterwards come up with a unique personality I can work with better.
At least that's the procrastinator inside me hopes to achieve eventually.

While talking about Lilly's origin I didn't touch her personality at all. Duh.
Lilly as her concept is now is shy on the outside and when meeting new people, but once she trusts you (which isn't that hard), she's actually pretty cheerful. However, she's also a hard worker as long as work isn't all about boring routines. She's a child at heart and still has to discover a big world she missed during her enslavement, which can make her social interaction adorkable. While she doesn't have any magical powers, she quickly makes herself useful by studying non-magical technology, which becomes vital for maintaining Kharseth's implants and arm and eye prosthesis. Her greatest fear is to be left alone in the world without anyone that could support or guide her.
In a way, she's the inversion of Talitha who keeps a solid, cheerful personality on the outside, but becomes insecure and shy when she's supposed to actually trust people, which is a lot harder for her.
I hope you have a bit of a better view of her.

An author is anyone who creates a fantasy world. Anyone who writes a story, imagines a character, draws a picture that tells a story. They're not special beings. You're an author. I am an author. We create realities we cannot touch, our fantasy is somebody else's reality and vice-versa.

An author avatar is simply the embodiment of an author in a different world. For example if I wrote about me suddenly being sucked into a magical world and slaying a dragon and saving the world, the hero of that story would be an author avatar with me as the base of the character.

The Order of Silvernight or just Silvernight for short is the place where people from other worlds are gathering. It was founded by the Traumkrieger who practically make up the government that also has democratic structures. Unlike most politicians in our world however, the Traumkrieger enjoy a great level of trust and respect among the people and have a very big acceptance. Why exactly they're able to solve so many problems in Silvernight is part of the reveal what they're actually doing, but that's another topic. Remind me to talk about that.

I think all three protagonists would be embarrassed to a degree when seeing the wet dream, maybe Talitha less so considering lots of different persons end up on her operating table and biologists in general will have seen a lot of flesh in their life. Lilly would probably be slighted amused and Kharseth would shake his head and feel pretty uncomfortable not only taking in mind part of his old soul was a 15-y-o teenager rather shy with romance and considering he's the only male of the trio he'll probably think Talitha and Lilly will now generalize male dreams or at least pick on him and ask him if he ever dreams of that. Like I said, he likes to think about a lot of stuff rather than saying it.

The idea of diving into people's dreams could be an interesting idea, but dreams are so instable their temporary worlds are of no concern to the Traumkrieger. They only become a problem if they don't properly materialize or are destroyed, but of course there's still lots of different stories that are practically realizations of dreams, so the pool story could actually happen, just not in a dream, but in an outlived fantasy. I don't exactly see many tasks for the three tho. Lilly's a sniper and mechanic, Talitha's a medic and a magician and Kharseth is all about fighting anyway (maybe that makes him boring, too. I've thought about making every Traumkrieger force to contribute to society and he becomes part of the department of "blightweavers" that do research on diseases, how to create, fight and control them, which could make for a more dynamic exchange with Talitha who would be more interested in cures for her own studies - but I thought work might distract the story too much and make it look like the characters settle down in the Silvernight and forget about the siege at Apotropé).

I like the idea of the office. I could actually see a problematic dream that simply won't end, thus the Traumkrieger have to take action. The dream takes place in an office, but there's only a single person there - the avatar of the dreamer, "author avatar" wouldn't exactly fit as there's not really an author who writes the story, rather than the subconsciousness being responsible for the dream. That person keeps doing tasks like it's a normal day or maybe to make it a bit freakier and more dream-like something like copying an empty page and then ordering the blank copies, putting them on different desks, then starts copying another empty page, etc. Turns out the dream is actually about a person afraid of reality who only feels safe when they have a simple task to do and otherwise they lose guidance in the world. Lilly for example could sympathize with her while Kharseth gets the info that the silvercord has been tracked down to a person that lies in a coma, hence the long dream. Eventually they're able to end the dream one way or another and are forgotten as the dream is deleted again - no evidence of the Traumkrieger, but the dream finally disintegrates and the person wakes up from the coma.
Something like that, you get the idea.

You sure have a thing for sexual-themed dreams tho, lol. The majority of my dreams are simply gory nightmares. Like unborn-eating-their-way-out-of-the-wombs-gory. It would put Kharseth in the most difficult situation I believe as Lilly is too childish to make a very big deal out of it, Talitha is too mature and Kharseth still has part of a young teenager in his personality. Not sure if I should simply outgrow it or leave it in as one of his squishy traits.

I'll see how much I can bring poorly written stories and dreams into the mix, thanks for the inspiration, would certainly be a change of pace. I'll just have to keep thinking of excuses to go there, haha.
"Something went wrong. FIX IT."
"okay. ADVENTURE!"
Sounds like a plan.

Yyyyes, when I look through her gallery [http://shampie.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured--2] I start wondering myself, but on the other hand she knows more about romance/romantic subplots than me. I think if I wrote it now it would be incredibly stiff and I'd have no idea how to start or develop it. Doesn't translate to "thus I'll let it be" since I see it as a challenge. I'll have to keep thinking of a way that's easy to weave in and neither becomes a tumor [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RomanticPlotTumor?from=Main.RomanceTumor] nor a little unimported extra and never goes anywhere. It'll certainly be interesting to try to broaden the genre however. Now I'm excited about somehow starting it again, lol, let's see what I'll dream about again.

Thanks for clearing up those things about your characters. I'm interested about the Power of Friendship, haha. Awaiting your chappy.

Time for me to go to sleep. Cya.
 

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Well, I did come up with two original characters that I try to use in rps. They're two brothers living in Mexico who were born with special powers and later learn martial arts from a (gay) couple living in the area.

The older brother, Antonio is an often angry silent type who speaks through action rather than words. As such he was born with pyrokinetic powers and uses Muay Thai and Krabi Krabong. He works as a psychiatrist in the house he shares with his brother and has a hobby in motor mechanics. He also hates lowriders

The younger brother is a Escotto who's born with cryokinetic powers and learns Shaolin Gong-fu. He's very hyperactive and carefree. He loves pranks, older women and collecting booze for fights (Uses Shaoling Drunken Fist) and skateboarding. Surprisingly though, he works as a Spanish teacher at the local school
 

Mr.PlanetEater

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I've written though not completed several stories over the years, but their two in particular that I'm really freaking proud of and will definitely be writing and finishing..

So without further ado I give you the two stories;

The Adventure of Senor Peppy-Whilst the title sounds retarded, the premise imo is actually quite good. It's an ultra-violent, ultra-over the top, and ultra-arty book that essentially is supposed to be what a B movie, or Tarentino flick would be in book form. It's set in an alt. Mexico that's actually really successful, but is under a diplomatic siege from a smaller albeit more powerful set of countries set in what would be the Western U.S. called the New Mexico Alliance; Simply put, our hero Senor Peppy holds the title of Senor which is the highest rank within the Mexico Police Department. He's attacked in a small bar outside of Tijuana that causes him to look like he attacked without being provoked an N.M.A member. When he returns to Mexico City he's promptly fired and dishonored and dumped in a small town in the middle of nowhere called Agua.

Three years pass, and Senior Peppy is confronted with a new more technologically advanced Mexcio that's been taken over by the N.M.A who's also conducting side experiments with various towns in Mexico. Seeking revenge as well as answers, he ventures forth into the brave new world. But there is more then one person out to kill Peppy, when the agent whom was presumed dead turns out to be the worst terrorist Mexico had ever seen known as El Evilo.



My next little preview comes from a Book I'm either calling either 'Run' or 'Wasteland'
Pretty much the premise is, theirs an area simply known as the 'Desert' which in real life would encompass- California, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. (It actually is these states) which was created after a mysterious apocalypse that the reader is only vague hints as to what it was.. A group of Couriers known as Desert Runners or 'Runners' are situated in the middle of California, and deliver all sorts of packages up and down the Desert to various people. One day the office gets the order for a package to be delivered to Camp Green which is located by what in real life would be the Green River in Utah.

Normally this would be no problem, but this package comes with specific orders to be assigned to one Runner and one Runner alone. Our protagonist simply named David takes up the task. But before he sets out he learns that he'll have to go through what's known as the Hot Zone which is a zone that on a map of the real world drawing a line on the center of Nevada and Arizona, and one in the center of Utah and New Mexico is the area in between.

The Hot Zone is filled with the most dangerous wasteland critters, but also has Two faction actively waging a massive and bloody war causing nearly all Runners or even caravans to set foot in the Hot zone to try and cross to be killed. Eventually David is wrapped up in both Factions and is still unaware that the package he's to deliver could either equate to the end of the peoples liberty or the end of the peoples existence.

It's suppose to be a thriller, and action type novel with interesting characters and a good look at the extremes of various things in society especially the question of How much liberty can we give up in the name of security, or how much security can we loose in the name of liberty?

Feel free to tell me what you think/if you're interested in hearing more! :D
 

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I had an idea for a superhero story, and I tried wrote the first two 'chapters'. Unfortunately, my dialogue feels kind of forced at times. I don't know, I've had people say I do dialogue fine, so maybe it's just me. But to the synopses:

The hero's name is Eidolon, and as those of you with a thesauras might have figured out, he's a ghost. In life, he was Joshua Jordan (Because all superhero's need both their names to start with the same letter). He was quite happy, and literally just married to the girl of his dreams. Before catching their flight to their honeymoon, Josh stops at a bank to withdraw some cash but is shot and killed during a bank robbery. He comes back as a ghost, and after a while realizes he can control his solidity. (He can isolate body parts as well, such as making his hand solid while leaving the rest of himself intangible) Now calling himself Eidolon, he decides to take revenge on the bank robbers and gets caught up in a paranormal world takeover plot.

It's still a huge work in progress though. I want to have other ghosts for him to interact with, but I'm having trouble deciding if I should make it just a few ghosts, or make it some Harry Potter-esque secret society. And don't even get me started on coming up with a costume that doesn't either rip off Batman or Moon Knight. But I feel good about the basic premise.
 

HT_Black

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When I was younger and more inexperienced than I am now-- ten, to be precise--I set out with intentions of writing an elaborate fantasy epic that satirized modern-day Western culture and lambasted the genre as a whole. Additionally, it would serve as both a parody of several modern deplorable-and-inexplicably-popular fantasies and a test of my creative writing abilities.

I'm sure I would've succeeded had I not gone absolutely wacky somewhere down the line: I'm not quite sure what happened next, but here I am years later with a ruthless mockery of America today, fantasy today, and many other things (today). It revolves around a nebish self-loathing teenage misanthrope's journey through a fictional world that is inspired by equal parts feudal Japan, Victorian England, Arabian Nights, ancient Greece, and the Italian Renaissance. Accompanying said teenager-- an albino by the name of Aogen--are his adoptive father/mentor, a brutal sociopathic hit man, and a naive falconer who can talk to animals.
During said travels, through no fault of his own, he winds up saddled with a disjointed series of spectacularly destructive (and nearly uncontrollable) supernatural abilities. Shortly after, what started as a quest to repair a broken cane erupts into a chaotic odyssey of politics, violence, and magic. As Aogen struggles to keep himself and his...acquaintances alive, he comes face-to-face with werewolves, assassins, warlocks, werewolves, dragons (and other monsters), demons, gods, and unrequiated sexual attraction.

I think I like it, all said and done.
 

Charisma

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Marik Bentusi said:
lol no ur mom
seems i don't have time right now to do a long response, as my roommate wrecked his car and i have to go pick him up.

but happily i did manage to get up my first chapter, so enjoy [http://davehollis.deviantart.com/art/Stover-and-Mett-185419329].
 

Brutal Peanut

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Recently, I created a little pudgy rabbit humanoid.

He's a bard, or, story-teller, who uses slight-of-hand and magic tricks to tell his stories.
His species live in burrows, but they also have sophisticated surveillance equipment made out of wood and mirrors, that helps them see outside for danger.

That's pretty much the only idea I have for him and his people, right now.

I then had a more modern one about a group of friends stuck in the beginnings of a zombie apocalypse, they also have a serial killer after them,......it's a comedy. =D
 

Charisma

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Marik Bentusi said:
DUDE POWERS ACTIVATE
oh yeah, i've also seen some of full metal alchemist, pretty neat anime, the thing i liked most was the little brother in the armor, that shit is sweet.

i've also heard about the new season of avatar and i am cumming myself waiting for it.

is it just me that insists on watching anime with subs even when quality dubs are available? it just doesn't feel right to me to not have to read subtitles. doesn't feel like anime. bleh.

i'm not sure if you CAN have an interesting hero and villain both. some works, like silence of the lambs, try to mix it up and have both, but the awesomeness quota is filled and then some by hyper badass hannibal, so no matter how cool starling tries to be, she can never really measure up. pretty targic actually, since in any other story she'd be awesome.

come to think of it, avatar does a decent job. azula is a solid primary antagonist, and even fairly interesting. believable personality, believable downfall, super scary.

just how bad was lilly's slavery? i think you mentioned that one of her owners was at least semi-decent to her, but what about the rest?

so what you've got is a threesome composed of a male whose personality is a little stock but has some interesting handicaps/strengths, a nurturing doctor female with a ton of inner turmoil and a very hard shell, and a female mechanics expert who's warmer and friendlier, a bright personality undimmed by some pretty tragic history. right?

do it

upon beginning to read your comments about dreamscapes and such, when i got to the office dream with the comatose person this song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZDnSvmv9J0] came up in my playlist. so that was a little fucking messed up.

i actually think you should be able to figure out a way to make dreams significant. okay, they're unstable, they're temporary, but for some reason they become very important, problematic, dangerous, something. i think it's worth it for the chance to use your world to explore the things people dream about. but maybe you don't, so it's all good.

i still think you should be very careful approaching your romance thing, if you even do it at all. UST is a pretty sweet tool to keep a lot of people interested (the mouthbreathing fangirl horde, mostly); i'm planning on wielding that tool myself, later on. but if i were you i wouldn't bring them together. romance is so hard to put in stuff without making it look shoehorned in.

oh ok, that wasn't long. leaves me more time to plan my rewrite, so that's good.

don't spend any unnecessary time pondering this, but if you already have any ideas about stuff i can put into a complete rebuilding of the story i'm all ears. advice is also valuable.

mkay that's all i guess.
 

RatRace123

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I've never written a short story, I go for big sprawling epics.
Unfortunately I'm also insanely bad with procastinating, so I haven't finished any of them.
 

Korten12

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The City:

So far its going good, I like the universe I created, and I plan for it to be long, possibly being more then one book, or certain amount of chapters that equals a book.



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The City is old, been around for thousands of years, so old in fact its real name has been lost to time. It expands over one continent and around mountains, so large in fact, wars have occurred in it and some people have never even known. There is a ruler, Mage Ulkalk, though it hard to maintain the city and most parts that are far from Upper District have formed their own governments. In the City, the majority is poor and the minority is either rich or mages, causing conflict and despair.

It takes months to cross the city and do so; no one ever leaves who doesn't live near the outer wall, the City is mostly isolated from the outside world due to its over growing size. All the continents outside of the City have been all destroyed. An Ancient war had ravaged the lands to the point of making them un-habitable, thus everyone who survived moved to the City. Making it the largest and last city in the world...

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I just finished chapter two, I would hope for more to see it, I posted on here.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.244126-The-City-Fantasy-Story-Chapter-Two-Out

Tell me there how you think. :D
 

Delock

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I love making up stories and characters (even if I'm trying to get personalities just right) and have way too many to count. Currently working on a sort of scifi/horror story these days as my main focus, though I've got a fantasy one I'm playing around with too.
 

Korten12

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Is there any Story Groups? Were people post their own stories and discuss them?
 

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blue_guy said:
I prefer designing "worlds" to set stories in rather than actual stories. Generally they turn out exactly like a pre-existing universe though. Can't really be bothered to explain most of them though.
same here.

my imagination is too cracked out and a majority of things i think of to really out there or just plain wtf things.
 

Aleate

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Ha... Yeah, that ain't happening.
I will say I have written a few things though, but that's it.
 

Kuroneko97

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I actually have a few stories. One I'm focusing on is called Mysterious Magical Marumi. The plot focuses on a girl named Marumi Haroka, who is 11 and starting middle school. She was supposed to die in an accident, but a wizard named Kuruno Kaze uses magic to stop time and save her life. However, the magic has a side effect; whenever she overreacts emotionally to anything, her emotions cause magic to be cast. Kuruno right away falls in love with Marumi, but she doesn't return his feelings.

EXAMPLES:
Anger: Natural disasters
Sadness: Thunderstorms and a gloomy atmosphere
Tiredness: Surrounding people fall asleep

I have several other characters too:

Kuruna Kaze: Kuruno's fraternal twin sister
Maoru Tochi: A wizard that is called "Mad Hatter" for his hat
Areiru Kaze: Kuruno's eldest sister
Furuka Kaze: Kuruno's older sister
Rumi Kaze: Kuruno's younger brother
Seime Houka: A witch who is infatuated with Kuruno
Kimiru Harao: A vampire girl that is slightly Yuri
Nezuri Shipin: A half-incubus that's in love with Marumi
Isuma Shipin: Nezuri's half-succubus younger sister. Tries without success to control Kuruno
Tami Uruko: Marumi's human friend
Reyru Megeneki: Marumi's other human friend

I have 14 different stories. That's just one, and I've recently made a new one called The Dragon and Her Allies.
 

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ive got 2 stories ive been working on for quite a while, mostly just thoughts floating around in my head, but ive written/drawn some stuff down. of course, being the massive egotist that i am, i cant share the details of my masterpieces for fear of intellectual property theft; or that someone will call out that theyre crap. whatever...

one is sci-fi; humanity has assimilated with an alien society, theyre benevolent for the most part, but pretty much totalitarian..blah blah blah; characters.
theres a former black ops type soldier dude, but the black ops group has dissolved, and hes trying to retire. hes been in wars his entire life; was a child soldier in a backwater colony war, joined the military because he didnt know what else to do. got into some serious clandestine stuff, but just wants to live a normal, killing-free life now.

then theres a genius hacker/nerd chick who i tend to liken to the female version of sparks from enter the matrix..or an adult ed from cowboy bebop; just picture an eccentric computer nerd, then completely reverse that picture of a fat greasy man youve no doubt conjured into a fairly attractive young woman. im trying to work this character into not being just a nerd fantasy wife; really, shes more complex than that, honest. unlike a fantasy woman, she is very talkative (ZING!); tending to bluntly state whatever shes thinking, and as an added shtick, has what i call 'cyber kleptomania'; shes basically a digital pirate who obsessively illegally downloads and uploads stuff, often stuff she doesnt even care about. including minor sums of money from other peoples accounts.

lastly, as far as protagonists go, is an alien character; combine spock with a samurai and youve basically got him. he is around 700 years old; about the equivalent of 40 for his species. his race is famous in the galaxy for being able to use melee combat skills successfully in the modern war scape, through use of their natural talents; rock hard skin, keen eyesight, lightning reflexes, and fast working analytical minds. every member of the species has eidetic (photographic) memory; they are a very rigid and calculating race, and most outside their race have a hard time understanding them.

also theres another character i had to invent a word to describe. the word is 'omnipathic' ands thats the best i can do in one post.

and...im sure people are sick of my long-ass posts, so lets just say the 2nd is a medieval fantasty setting where mages have magical guns and other tech beyond the rest of the world, and there are some lovecraftian horrors somewhere in the story.
 

Wolfenbarg

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As a storywriter myself, a word of warning to all of you who are actually posting their ideas that they plan on trying to publish one day. Even if you are protected by copyright, that only protects the specific setting, characters, and story. Someone can create a copycat using your ideas and be free as a bird. If you wish to tell the world, go for it. Just keep in mind that unless you can protect your ideas, they're probably safer in your head.