sdeaf -> RE: The Dark Forest- comment thread (Sixteen Chapters) (8/27/2009 13:38:49)
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I'm very grateful that you consider me a good writer, and that means alot to me. I'm also glad that you're reading this and (mostly) enjoying it. That being said, I'll now answer you as best I am able. 1. Yea, yea, I know. I've known about my problem since chapter one, and I think that I've began to fix it, well, the paragraphs part at least. I dunno' if I'll ever get over having long fights, but I do try to do so. And about the stereotpyicallness of the first chapter, well, true...Definitely true, but at that time, I'm still trying to introduce characters, so if I err on the side of a typical storyline, then I suppose I'll have to try to fix it later. 2. Yea, that's true. The thing is, though, John isn't exactly the hero type. He knows what vampires do, and he knows that he cannot really win the fight on his own without some sort of a special tactic. He knows that his best chance lies in fighting alongside the drakel, but he also respects the drakel's wishes. I know that this does not sound like someone who just lost his sister, but he's been losing people for a long time, and as much as he'd like to, I think he still has alot of self-preservation. Regardless of all this, though, I think you're right... It is weird. You're second answer, though, is easily answered. Mike's just a killer, or at least, a would-be killer. You know, those guys who think it'd be awesome to kill someone, so they stalk someone, figure them out, befriend them, and then leave them in the woods with their throat slit? I'm sure you realize that there are alot of people who kill for no reason, and he's one of them. So she has no need to be special, she's just a woman who he thinks he can safely kill, and she only becomes special after the event. Having innocence taken is quite a traumatic experience. So this one, at least, was basically just a misunderstanding. He's not like an emmissary sent to kill her from the future because she'll be queen or whatever, just an aspiring serial killer. 3. I have never claimed this to be a Fan Fiction. In fact, the work I am doing is not a fan fiction. The world I have created. Though it does borrow several names... Maybe four in total (Safiria, The King, E, and Darkovia) the story I'm creating is original. Look at it this way. Say I said that John was in the forest... I dunno', Uh... I'm no good with names... Valvidia or something. If you replace every reference to the forest Darkovia as the forest Valvidia and Safiria as the Vampire Matriarch (The King can stay the King, 'cuz that's a really general term) and E with Edward. Those are the only real references to AdventureQuest that I have in there, and if I take all of them out I have my own world. I place my own rules, such as spells, which you'll see are not actual "AQ" spells, weapons, which are also not cannon, and even history (You'll see this if you read to chapter..9 I think). I'm not confined by "canon" since this is not a fan fiction, it's merely a story that happens to contain some of the same characters of another, and you can say that my view of it is based on technicalities, but Fiction is all in the mind, anywho. As to publishing, I doubt I ever will, but if I ever did I'd probably just change the names of a few thing, and I'd be fine. Also, the superiority of a type of fiction is all in the mind. People can say that Fan fiction is inferior because all of the "Work" is done for the authors and all they have to do is place the characters in different positions and guess how they'd react. But the truth is that no type of fiction is less than any other, it's only in the mind. Only when you allow yourself to be inferior will you be inferior. Oh boy, see? I think I'm just longwinded by nature ^^. I can't even spend less than a page talking to you :). Okay, well, in closing, you're right about alot of things, and I'll work on it... Thanks again for reading the first two chapters, and I'm glad that you'll keep reading. I don't get many new faces X). I hope you enjoy it, and I'm looking forward to hearing from you again. P.S. Guh, and now I have to proofread this entire thing.
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