purple_drake said:
May I ask the motivation for this question? XD
Well, I wanted to create a more or less nonstandard question where I would have to make the author double take in order to answer it. It seems like it worked for some while making others somewhat giddy.
bobandbill said:
Yeah - can understand the enthusiasm for topic-making and all, but not all of use have time to answer everything at once/procastinate that much.
Eh heh heh. Yeah, sorry about that again, but at least people are answering them on their own will and making decently sized posts because of it, right? ^_^'
bobandbill said:
But welcome anyways, SlowCrow. As for how long between topics... about a day between each one is what I'd say is fine, more or less - there's no exact hard line with it though, just a guideline so people don't die.
It's always good to be welcomed; especially since I haven't really been welcomed to anything on these boards, kaw! <:V
As for the recommended subject length, wouldn't that mean that we would have to get some new questions after today to replace the subject-fest that was here? On second thought, we would have to wait for the procrastinators and people who're busy to give their input before the next subject since there are SOOOOO many questions (I mean, we almost lost one due to shock! :O).
bobandbill said:
Updated your deadline, SlowCrow - you're already close to it as well, so... hurry up! >
And I suspect that a flurry of index fingers will descend on me at midday Friday to poke me to finish that rough draft; hopefully, it'll pressure me enough to write it. XP
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And seeing how I posed all of these questions onto you guys, it's only fair that I answer them myself (and I'm copying Diddy because it looks neater that way).
What kind of experience do you go through when reading an older work of yours? Do you cringe, raise your eyebrows in your past wittiness, start rewriting the mistakes, etc? Is there any excitement or amusement that you find while doing so?
Although my reaction varies from work to work, but cringing, however, is always present when I’m reading through works that I’ve done long ago.
When I’m reading through some of the newer scripted works I still have laying around, I tend to scrunch my eyebrows in confusion over the word usage and grammatical errors I find, but raise them in equal but slightly more awestruck confusion when I can see some actual
humor. If I don’t put it away due to the sheer cringing, I’ll get to the unfinished section of the scripted work and actually ask myself something to the effect of: “Why didn’t I write more of this? It still manages to be somewhat
gripping through all of its flaws!”
As for the older scripted works, I tend to overlook the word usage and grammatical errors that I would moan over in later works merely due to the fact that the characters in those works have even more defined personalities than
any of my newer works; it’s something that bothers me each time I read them. Other than the characters, however, those old scripted works don’t have anything that hasn’t been done better with the newer scripts.
When talking about my fic, Bug III, however, things get rather cringy. Since it’s actually my first work that I have actually intended for others to see, I take every error in execution in logic, emotion, or general organization a lot harder than I would if they were in my scripts. I could hardly look at a good three-quarters of the fic without cringing to the extent of closing out the document. I actually stopped writing Bug III a short while after posting it on the Fan Fic boards here (you could still find its dead corpse with a simple search) after a set od reviews by Dragonfree really made me think about the quality of my work. I initially stopped to reflect, but that time turned into days, weeks, months, and is quickly approaching
years due to the fact that I could hardly look at the fic without cringing to the Close button. Like my oldest script works, however, Bug III has the faintest sense of interestingness that makes me wonder why I haven’t finished yet, which is why I’m looking to rewrite it. Now the problem is gaining the confidence in skill to
make it work. @_@
When you wrote your first fic, how long did it take you to actually home in on what you really wanted to do with the plot/climax?
As of now, I hardly know how Bug III will really
end, let alone the climax. I have a faint idea in my head of what I want to do with it, but I want to see how far I could get with my characters before I could see how far I can go with the plot and it’s mysteries.
What type of scenes you would consider your weak point? Your strong point? Is there a scene you really want to pull off in the future?
From what I wrote with Bug III and some hindsight, I could tell that I could do some decent, fast-paced action scenes if I honestly tried to.
As for my weak points, that would be anything I haven’t tried yet (which would range from angst to romance) , but I
know it’s anything that involves my characters becoming emotional and/or endangered, as I do not have a grip on portraying emotions correctly yet. I also have problems with describing scenery effectively, as well as logical errors.
A scene I
really want to do would be a flat out
heartwrenching scene that would make the reader cry every time he/she thinks about it. I would like to do a scene like that either near the end or sprinkled throughout Bug III if I really could. The exact reason why is simply because emotion is something I have trouble with, and achieving such a scene to an extreme success such as that would prove that I have mastered it and could pretty much conquer any other aspect of writing that I so choose.
How much focus does food get in your fics? Is it briefly passed over, melts into the background, or is it non-existent? Is there a scene in your fic that relies on food's presence in order to move the plot further?
Well, this happens during the bulk of the first section of what’s written in Bug III, so I’ll say it. A student who’s trapped in a burning building uses a bag of leftover potato chips (or crisps as you guys in the U.K and Australia would refer to them as) to get a Charmeleon to guide him out of the school; as for what happens next is a spoiler.
Other than that, food hasn’t been mentioned at all in Bug III, which is something I’ll have to fix… >_>
Do you take a moment in your fic to propose your own explanation on how the Pokémon world's technology works? How is it done? Do you do it often? How much in detail do you go into it?
I can’t really answer this question, but I would like to be able to soon in the future of my fic. As for what I’d
like to get into are Pokémon attacks, typings, and TMs & HMs as well as some of the items and berries. I don’t expect to really dive into it right away (or even one chapter), but I’ll probably have to explain them over a period of time.
And why not tackle the other handful of topics while I’m at it?
In your Pokémon fics, do you guys really bother trying to give x trainer's Pokémon respective personalities? And if yes, is it really that important to your writing?
Personalities aren’t something I just
know I simply do not excel at, but I intend to make (most) of the Pokémon have some sort of personality without actually needing to speak. The fact that some Pokémon have distinct personalities and others not is something that’ll play a significant roll in the fic; I just to need to know
exactly how, is all. @_@
How DO you come up with the various OCs in your fic, if any?
All of my characters are OCs, and they all tend to be random civilians who are pulled into a conflict that is AGES old due to the fact that I add a little more depth to them as I try to write them. Most of the time I didn’t even intend to add those characters in the first place, but they somehow manage to conveniently fit the need and I just use them since they’re already there!
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And before I go, I would like to ask if the ONLY thing we do in this club is answer questions and promptly leave, because it would be an awful waste of a whole
club rather than a discussion topic. <_>
I guess that wraps up this post. I'll be working on the prologue in the meantime...
-____________________- Kaw.