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In a way, I have no idea where the inspiration for this story came from other than nostalgia. I was listening to some music from Super Mario 64, and my mind just took off on its own road. I just started writing without any particular goal, and managed to accomplish two things for the first time: writing something short (), and writing something the moment I thought about it. I'm honestly very pleased that I overcame these two hurdles to write this. I hope you'll check it out, and I also hope that you'll enjoy it. Flying Alone
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My NaNoWriMo word count for today is 3,421 words. For those who are interested, that's the entire first chapter and the title of the second chapter, so I'm making progress, which is always a good thing for NaNoWriMo. Anyone else have any NaNo word count updates? Not that I am trying to compare myself to anybody, but I'm interested in seeing how others have progressed on the first day. -TNTOS-
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Tomorrow is not only the first day of November, but is also the beginning of National Novel Writing Month! I've been looking forward to this ever since September, really, though I still feel unprepared for some reason despite my 127 pages of world building notes, character bios, etc. that I have saved on my computer. Maybe that's just pre-NaNo nerves or something *shurg*. Anyway, I'm thinking of updating my blog every day next month with my current word count, right up until I reach 50k, maybe even higher than that if I've my math right, to perhaps at least 60k if I don't have any interruptions (I know I'm tempting Fate, but Fate's a nice guy sometimes and he's promised to leave me [mostly] alone next month XD). Definitely going to be interesting nonetheless, however. And no, I don't think I'll be discussing the story itself next month, either, as I don't really want anyone to steal my ideas 'cause I do plan to publish it someday. I know that you guys probably wouldn't take my ideas without asking, but better to be safe than sorry, eh? -TNTOS-
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Write a short story, make it seem interesting and slightly confusing, and then end it with a twist ending that makes little sense (bonus points if its in first person!). Then people will start posting just to ask what it all means or what really happened. Did it with my own short story, "Paranoia," (link in one of my content blocks) and it got the most replies of any of my short stories ever because of it. I've only ever tried this with short stories, as I doubt it would work as effectively in epics or comedies, though it possibly could if you are a good enough writer, I don't know. True, it may seem a little unorthodox or whatever the word you may use to describe it and I don't recommend doing it for every story you write unless that is your style. But it works if you want replies and don't care what they say. Whether you wish to do it is up to you, however. -TNTOS-
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Go Team 4! -Nuju Metru
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It's been a long-awaited plan of mine to go back and touch up my only existing epic, Search and Destroy. Finally, I've found the time to start making revisions. If you've read any of my work other than S&D, then you shouldn't expect much from it. The writing quality is much lower, and I've since adopted a higher standard in what I want to have posted here on BZP. As such, I'm going back and revising much of the epic, making some relatively big changes to the style of narration and description, hopefully to bump up the quality a notch. No changes to the plot will be made. The revised Chapter 1 has been posted in the epic's topic. If you haven't read it before, now would probably be a good time to start. I'll keep you updated as each chapter is revised. When I'm done revising them all, maybe I'll finally be able to post the last chapter. *lol*
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20.731707317073170731707317073171% of all active comedies are ask comedies.
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Your motivation has worked. (That, and I had extended time on the computer today -- and a non-school day to boot. ) Chapter 18 is posted! The battle has begun! *is sitting in a bomb shelter, in case I get a bad reaction from Japoro about it*
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I'm going alright with the next LST chapter, but I'm not spending as much time on it as I oughta be. If you guys have any motivational words, bribes, or just go and kick my butt about working more diligently on it (and on my homework and school newspaper too, while you're at it ), that'd be awesome.
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So, I've been thinking lately about BZPower's writing scene. Many people say that their writings are ignored and that authors on BZP don't get the attention they deserve. As examples of BZP's great writers they say GaliGee, Bonesii, Spirit, and xccj. I, however, feel like they leave perhaps the most vibrant part of writing out of the equation. RPGs. Let's face it. More people play RPGs than regularly write and read epics. They are a large and integral part of the community. But why are people such as Koname, Celeste, Robo, and Dr. Bionicle left out of the spectrum of great BZP authors? In fact, I think the only GM that is widely respected among the Library Denizens is Beliwa. So, my question to you is this. Are GMs authors, just of a different writing style? Does the name Kumata Nuva deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Takuta-Nui? Are RPGs truly a form of writing? And which, authors or GMs, are the true "best writers" on BZPower?
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So, the votes are finally in, and it turns out that Exo-Fat, SPIRIT, and Tifosi 92 have won! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad that I didn't win third place at least, but that's life. You can't win everything, and there's always gonna be a bigger fish than you. Congrats winners, and great contest to everyone else that entered!
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Why is it that even when I have all the time in the world to write and to draw, I just can't do it? > -Nuju Metru
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What am I worried about? Well, currently, I am planning and worldbuilding an original fiction series I call Two Worlds. Been putting a lot of effort and work into it, but I just came across something that may complicate things. In one of the many worlds that the story takes place in, the people of said world worship a god named Razac. Unfortunately, what I learned a few days ago was that a very similiar name, Ra'zac, is used in the Inheritance series of books. You see, I plan to publish Two Worlds eventually (after I have written it, of course) and Razac and the people who worship him will play a very insignificant role, but I'm worried of being accused of plagarism, although I can assure you that I thought of the name Razac far before I knew that the name Ra'zac even existed. Although I am hoping that no one will really notice or care, I can't help but feel a little worried that somebody might just get angry at me and accuse me of plagarism, even though I haven't stolen any names, at least intentionally, anyway. Does anyone know if it actually counts as plagarism or am I just getting worried for nothing? Would appreciate it if someone answered. If not, I may have to do the research myself, although I am pretty sure that it doesn't count as plargarism, as it isn't the exact same name, right? -TNTOS-
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I often find that when I start a new story, I have a hard time writing the beginning. Everything seems to go by painstakingly slow, like rusted gears in an old clock. Nothing seems interesting or fun or entertaining or whatever until I get past the first few paragraphs. Fortunately, I never give up, even if the beginning is boring, but I know that it will eventually pick up sometime and it always does. The beginning still isn't that good, but I can always edit or revise it later (which I do, of course). Now the middle of the story, that's almost always the easist part for me to write. Sometimes I get stuck in the mud, but it always interests me. Possibly because in the middle of the story I now know my characters, the location, plot, etc better than when I started, making it much easier to drive conflict between the characters and the enviornment and such because I know it so well and am familiar with it. I also tend to have an easier time writing a series with characters that I am familiar with, although even those can suffer from having hard to write beginnings as well. And then there comes a time when I have to end the story, which can also be hard, but in a different way than beginnings. While my beginnings tend to start out slower, my endings tend to keep trying to go on because I start to unconsciously add more and more stuff to the ending that just seems plain unnecessary to me at the time but at the same time I realize if I delete it that it the ending will just feel rushed and badly written. This doesn't affect me as much with short stories, but with epics/novels this can annoy me. Ironically, later on, when I am in the editing stage, the endings turn out much better than I thought at the time (although of course I still edit it because no ending is perfect the first time written). However, I have discovered that when I go ahead and rewrite a story for its second draft, its beginning and endings tend to be much more natural and interesting for me, probably because I know where I want the story to go and so it gives me the will to continue writing and I know when to naturally end it. I have been using this technique - writing the first draft from scratch, then deleting it and rewriting it in its second draft - for my yet-to-be-posted Glatorian Chronicles #4: The Fallen Warrior and An Unlikely Alliance, the latter of which I am still in the process of rewriting, and it has worked incredibly well. Methinks this will be my main technique when editing short stories and epics from now on, mostly because I enjoy rewriting my stories a lot. So, to my fellow writers out there, I pose these questions to you: 1) What's easiest for you to write: Beginnings, middles, or endings? 1a) Why is the one you chose easiet to write? 2) What's the hardest part for you to write: Beginnings, middles, or endings? 2a) Why is the one you chose hardest to write? Hopefully your answers will generate some interesting comments in the comments section below . -TNTOS-
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I'm encountering writers block. Hoo-rah. -Nuju Metru
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Whenever I write the dialogue of characters in my stories, I don't usually worry about grammar. I mean, yeah, most of them speak pretty good and are understandable to the average reader, but if I happen to see a grammar mistake I usually overlook it because in my opinion, character dialogue doesn't necessarily have to have perfect grammar, since few people in real life speak perfect grammar and since good fiction emulates real life, I let my characters speak in bad grammar sometimes, if necessary. Of course, I understand the difference between real life and fiction. In fiction, you want to be clear, precise, and you can achieve that through editing and revising. You can't usually do that in real life unless you're preparing a speech, so it makes sense that a lot of people would only speak average level grammar than perfect grammar. Most of the time, when my characters speak bad grammar, it is sort of a mistake, but I rarely change it unless it doesn't make sense and would confuse the reader. So whenever I review fanfiction, unless it is totally incomprehensible and I can't figure out what they're saying, I rarely bother to critique the grammar in character dialogue (although if I see very bad grammar in a paragraph outside of dialogue I will point it out and tell you what was wrong with it and how to improve it). Some people may disagree with me, of course, and they have every right to do that. But I find that this is a pretty subjective idea and one that people rarely discuss unless it is about the different words and speech patterns that characters and people use when having speaking sometimes. -TNTOS-
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GC#4: The Fallen Warrior will be posted as a two or three chapter epic soon. The reason for this is because I tried to post it as a short story earlier today, but when I actually did post it, about half of it was missing because it was too long (20,000 words long, to be exact) and I deleted it all and reported the topic for closure. I'm still counting it as a GC, but it will simply have chapters instead of being one big story. -TNTOS-
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Have words in them. ~AW
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Shhh! It's coming! ZOMG! It came!
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Warning: This post is going to be extremely positive and you may disagree with me on some points. If so, please take note that this is all pretty much my personal taste and you may have different tastes, though if you have anything interesting to add you may do so in the comments . Anyway, back to the action: I like stories that have mysteries at the center of them or at least play a big part in the grand scheme of things. I like it when the author plants clues, hints, and red herrings, making us think and try to put it all together and see if we're right at the end. I like the whole mysterious feel that most mysteries give stories. It makes it feel epic, which is good, especially if it is a fantasy or sci-fi story. I'm not necessarily talking about whodunnit mysteries, though those can be good as well, in a different sort of way. I'm talking about the kind of mysteries in BIONICLE, for example, or in Harry Potter or Kingdom Hearts, sometimes even Heroes as well. The kind of mystery where it seems like someone or something is doing something or is about to do something, but no one knows what is going on, except for usually the villains or some third party group that sees itself above the others. Like, let's take the Plan from BIONICLE, for example. It was a mystery for a while. Like, we didn't know what Teridax was up to, what he was actually planning to do (though we could guess), what the exact details were, etc. And when we found out what it really was, it made the whole thing worth it, in my opinion. Not that I approve of what Teridax did, but I felt that Greg did a job hinting at it and stuff. Of course, there are other BIONICLE mysteries, but that's the one that sticks out to me at the moment. I like it when the characters run across some mysterious ruin or dead body or some strange inscription that makes no sense until much later. I like it because not only do we get to see the characters think and ponder about it (something I enjoy as long as it is in moderation) but it gives us something to theorize and think about, giving the story a whole new level of depth in my opinion. Of course, mysteries can be done badly, or the revelation is very underwhelming. I can't think of any specific example, but if you keep hinting at something big and mysterious, having black-hooded figures appearing and giving cryptic messages, and then make the final revelation something like, "Bill ate the final cookie last Tuesday!" it'll make the readers (at least me) feel very disappointed unless you're doing a comedy. But in general, most of the mysteries I've seen are very well done or are worth all of the speculating that I or the fans did. In fact, I like mysteries so much that I try to make sure that most of my longer stories (and even some short stories) have at least one central mystery that the characters try to solve, even if they didn't know about or even care about it at first. It also helps when the author gives hints and clues outside the story in interviews and Q&A sessions with fans. Especially if they don't answer directly, which is why I enjoy the OGD a lot. 'Course I don't ask Greg a lot of questions, but I enjoy reading his answers to other peoples' questions just the same. And I just love when we finally see the pay off and it's something I didn't expect at all, yet if you look back and pay close attention to the story, you'll actually see that the revelation is perfectly logical, which just makes it even better. That's really awesome. I really think it is. "Two Worlds," my original fiction series I plan to write some day, will of course have several mysteries. Not going to actually talk about them (I want to keep most of TW a secret) but I can already think of several that will hopefully make people speculate and theorize, which is something that I enjoy doing. As you can no doubt tell, I like BIONICLE, Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, and Heroes, particularly KH at the moment. -TNTOS-
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First, I post a MOC, then an Short Story? What's wrong with me? -Nuju Metru
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My latest epic, The BIONICLE Story Team has been updated. The new chapter can be seen here. Please read and review!
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Again, I'm inspired to write, but can't think of any subject matter that really appeals to me for a quick piece, which I wanna write tonight, if possible, before I lose the vibe and regain stupid my writers block. Ideas? -Nuju Metru
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I'm a Co-Curator for the Comedies Critics Club, and I'm blogging now to tell y'all that we're in need of some good, skilled Critics to help review all the comedies that get requested by authors... If anyone is interested, you can PM me! -Nuju Metru
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See here. -Nuju Metru
