Sirrocco Wrote:It's cool. I find myself enticed. Mind you, I find myself enticed because somewhere in the back of my head there's a tag on the One Hundred Days fic reading "Wow. That one was cool."Heh. I'm glad someone else remembers the story fondly!
Mind you, I'm one of those people who's reasonably likely to actually go back and read it again, if you really are putting out a sequel.
Necratoid Wrote:Okay,I tried a couple times to get an "in character" recap written, but I just couldn't make it work. At least with my skills as rusty as they are, it wasn't interesting to write or read, and there were a lot of problems trying to frame it correctly - there wasn't any single character (or character group) that didn't know and needed to know everything I wanted to be sure the reader knew. So I started outlining, and started having one scene of Jiraiya and Tsunade talking, and then Akatsuki discussing, and then Orochimaru and Kabuto, and probably Naruto and some of the other Leaf characters... Pretty soon I was looking at a whole lot of recap to get through before the actual story could start. Once I started trying to come up with other stuff to keep the scenes from just being a bunch of talking heads, it started looking more like a whole chapter. Since the sequel starts close to a year after OHD finished, this all wound up having to be in a prologue almost totally disconnected from the actual story... and I figured that if even the author was finding it boring, there wasn't any way I was going to be able to make it interesting to the reader.
I do remember One Hundred Days, kinda sorta. So I did get something
out of the recap. The thing the recap is missing is context... I'd like
to see it framed in a way that its a (OHDs) internal canon recap or
with hosts or something. More sensibly the first type. If you could
phrase it as either a mission briefing for some involved character being
brought up to speed or something like that it would work better for
me. I'll probably end up rereading it now anyway. The current formatt
is a whimsical info dump... which fails to meantion the reason it was
called OHDs... the whole Sakura and Naruto remeet after a hundred days
of training or something like that.
I don't know, maybe I'll give it another shot, because if I can pull it off it would be better than this. (And thanks for pointing out the lack of mention of the meaning of the title, which I should definitely work into there somewhere.)
Aaron Nowack