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Looking for help on Fanfic and inspiration - xvdjdamienstryker - 07-17-2006 Hey-ya one and all. i'm was wondering if some of y'all can help a starting fanfic artist. i'm trying to get going on this piece of mine...but writer's block be slowing me down i need to get over these blocks in the way...here's what i have so far... For the Record: Digimon belongs to Bandai, Saban Entertainment, Sensation Animation, and Toei Company. Author - Wisemon - 07-18-2006 If you're merging all of the seasons' characters and you really plan to use them, why do you need original characters? You've got to go through the characterizations of over twenty characters already; why give yourself more work? - xvdjdamienstryker - 07-19-2006 Well actually..this is a world that is created by all the seasons, in a way that is s...but my idea focuses on my original character..trying to follow in the footsteps of the googleheads of the past....i'm trying to use the digivolution ideas of the seasons...and see if other new Digidestineds can be brought forth. - Nate Hunter - 07-20-2006 Good luck. Using OCs is hard enough in fanfiction when there are established characters already there. You get a few benefits in having only OCs, such as that the story (At least as we see it) is justifiably revolving around them, and you get the freedom to describe the characters you want to see. But you need to be careful or else this will just seem like a hodgepodge of ideas, and not put smoothly together. Think through the idea of HOW all these forms of digivolution are available in the same world, and WHY that is, too. Have a good reason or don't use it. Just my advice. - Nate Hunter - 07-27-2006 I'm not generally the type to double post in this fashion... I may have come off harsh above, and want to say it's a good concept, if you can pull it off properly. Perhaps each of the children uses a different type of evolution, and has a Digivice based on that. For example your leader may be the, or a, Hybrid evolver, using a D-Scan (D-Tector) and Digital Spirits to evolve, while a few backup fighters may use the D-Ark (D-Power) and cards, and gain Matrix (Biomerge) evolution. Then you may have a pair -- best friends or twins or something -- who have a Jogress (DNA) form -- or two that they can switch between based on needs (and thus on which one is providing the power boost in it). Think out your characters... and it's also a good idea to try indicating the difference between first person and third person content. After all, there's nothing wrong with using both, but most of your story will read better if it's in third person. Now for some comments on your story... This seems to be a journal story, which is something I've done before. However you tend to confuse tense as well, intermixing future, present and past as if there is no difference. You also seem to ramble. And you also use a lot of American slang for a character living in Osaka, Japan and moving to Tokyo. A bit of laid back presentation in the "translation" is all well and good, and even to be expected to indicate how casual or formal of a person these characters are, but they feel like Americans plopped down into Japan for the sake of it. A lot of reviewers would probably cry "Sue" here, as the story begins feeling within a few paragraphs as if it's a dream-fulfillment story. Please compare your opening with this, to see an example of how Taichi, a goggle-boy, would behave more in character: Lord Archive Wrote:Why do they insist on sending almost an entire school district to Instead you give us a first-person omniscient overview of what happened before (How does "Delita" know all of this?). My own version of Taichi, a bit less cynical than Archive's above, isn't that bad. He's speaking from what he's heard, not as facts: Nate Hunter Wrote:Funky things were happening on earth while my school took their annual camping field trip. We were supposed to be gone for the whole weekend, but when me and seven other kids got pulled away by a mysterious force, we didn't know quite how to respond. But give me just a minute here to backtrack, and introduce the eight of us. I present a unified voice for Taichi, and he's the one whose voice will tend to guide the reader through my story. I don't talk about what will come ahead in any detail, but introduces the characters as well as some particular names that I'll be using (Goggles and Paso), and justifies them. If you were doing one of these for season two, it's be like Daisuke recapping the whole events of season one -- it's not in character for him to know those things. So Why does YOUR "Delita Jinmay Yoshifuuku" have so much information about the wars? . . . To be continued tomorrow, but I need to get to sleep right now. |