06-26-2012, 01:29 PM
(06-18-2012, 01:00 AM)Rosencrantz Wrote: It's still kind of nice to see someone making a story like this and not totally flip out because people are expressing their dislike for it. It's pretty refreshing, and I can tell you're a pretty likeable guy just because of this c:
Though, sadly, fanfics are pretty much the lowest forms of creative writing. Then you put this in a script style, which is extremely hard to do effectively despite looking so simple.
TO BE COMPLETELY FAIR, THOUGH, I shouldn't tell you to stop writing fanfiction altogether; in fact, writing fanfiction is actually a really good way to develop really important creative skills that you would need in real-world scenarios, since you're essentially making paracosms. However, you would probably be better off creating more original tales with original settings, original characters, and various other original things that would really help you flex your mind more. Fanfictions admittedly have constraints for you to work around, and being able to work around constraints is a really important ability to possess, though doing more original works will help you develop your own constraints - and therefore teach yourself to predict constraints through defining what you think SHOULD be constraints (also important in real life).
It just wouldn't be too good to try and present them in a serious manner, though, since people tend to not take them seriously
What's up Rosencrantz? Okay your next:
Where to begin? First I'd like to thank you for your words of encouragement. So far you were the first person to step up and actually try to help and offer advice for my work; instead of just telling me I suck and offering no valid reasoning. Thank you.
Um you are right. It's been very difficult for me to put this into a script form. I had to do many writes and rewrites before finding a decent flow. At one time I had 5 journals of the same story written several different ways. It's been close to 12 years before I even decided to put my work on the internet; you guys being my first choice because I just love this site! You guys are the first to see my work from various journals now converted into a single piece of work. Hoo-ray for you!!!
I agree with you about being original. I just didn't think my original works were good enough yet to share and so I wanted something already established to share first to see how it goes over. Though not as good as I had hoped; I still will share with you all my original pieces of work since you all seem to want to see them so badly.
Okay as far as being too serious. I tend to be very serious about things I'm passoniate about. Like I said I love Nintendo's characters and want to do them right. It's very important to me. They've helped make me who I am today in many ways and have brought countless years of entertainment and perhaps even knowledge. As a gamer I feel I owe those characters; at least their creators, whom we can never truly pay back. But hey at least we can try by writing crappy fanfictions about them and posting it all over tsr Right? lol.
Anyway even though I take this stuff seriously it's only because of passion; and because while there are a million of these types stories they are all comedies and meant to be stupid. I love comedy as much as the next guy, but can't we have at least one or two serious, well-thought out, well planned, intelligent, decent stories? That's where I come in. Same with flash movies. Great animation. Sucky plots. Why can't you have both elements with a few comedic moments to keep things light-hearted? Maybe I should inject more humor, I dunno. Sorry I rambled... 
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