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i have no excuse for my looooong delayed third chapter. quite frankly, i had an idea but it seemed to peter out and now i'm not sure what to do.
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It happens to all of us. (I've been stalled on a sidestory to my fanfic "A Certain Distance" for a while - I know that Urd and Shampoo get to "save the world" from Saffron, since the story diverged from canon before Ranma went to Phoenix Mountain, but I'm having trouble figuring out how...)
[Urd and Shampoo? excessive and unneccessary violence, probably.]
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the main problem, i think, is that i don't really have my themes in place or what role our hero doug should play.
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As I recall, Lina, Gourry, and Doug were just about to enter a major population centre - that's a perfect place for Doug to "play tourist". If you write out a few scenes of where he goes, what he sees, and who he meets, one of them is likely to spark at least a sub-plot that you can resolve while figuring out where the main plot goes next. You can throw away or use the other scenes, as you wish. That should get you past your current writer's block...
-Rob Kelk
[Well, that was how the first chapter ended. The second chapter, which is in the fanfic squared part of the website, shows doug in the town of striderton (yeah, yeah . . . i *know*) in the aftermath of a monster attack.
you know, reading back on the two chapters, i can see things that i liked and things that i disliked.
from chapter one: I liked the introduction of doug to lina and gourry, how she's incredibly patronising to him and how he just ignores her questions. the thing that i dislike is, you know, word choices (i mean, ingeniousness? damn, what was i thinking?) and the fact that doug suddenly has a red sweater from somewhere.
I think i did a pretty good job with chapter two, despite not really knowing where it was going. Kira (who is actually a canon character; i'm trying to keep non-canon characters out) was a cute bundle of cuteness. Umm . . . oh! the dream sequence, i'm especially proud of that. and the introduction of amelia and the ending. Things i'm not happy about: the star wars reference i made. yuck. bleh. i'm so sorry.
So anyway . . . hey, do any of you care if I make some specutions and ask for advice on a public forum for this story? Like, not just themes and whatnot but plot points?
Like: the next chapter, when i get to write it, has to do with the quest for doug's bike.
-murmur
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i have no excuse for my looooong delayed third chapter. quite frankly, i had an idea but it seemed to peter out and now i'm not sure what to do.
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It happens to all of us. (I've been stalled on a sidestory to my fanfic "A Certain Distance" for a while - I know that Urd and Shampoo get to "save the world" from Saffron, since the story diverged from canon before Ranma went to Phoenix Mountain, but I'm having trouble figuring out how...)
[Urd and Shampoo? excessive and unneccessary violence, probably.]
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the main problem, i think, is that i don't really have my themes in place or what role our hero doug should play.
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As I recall, Lina, Gourry, and Doug were just about to enter a major population centre - that's a perfect place for Doug to "play tourist". If you write out a few scenes of where he goes, what he sees, and who he meets, one of them is likely to spark at least a sub-plot that you can resolve while figuring out where the main plot goes next. You can throw away or use the other scenes, as you wish. That should get you past your current writer's block...
-Rob Kelk
[Well, that was how the first chapter ended. The second chapter, which is in the fanfic squared part of the website, shows doug in the town of striderton (yeah, yeah . . . i *know*) in the aftermath of a monster attack.
you know, reading back on the two chapters, i can see things that i liked and things that i disliked.
from chapter one: I liked the introduction of doug to lina and gourry, how she's incredibly patronising to him and how he just ignores her questions. the thing that i dislike is, you know, word choices (i mean, ingeniousness? damn, what was i thinking?) and the fact that doug suddenly has a red sweater from somewhere.
I think i did a pretty good job with chapter two, despite not really knowing where it was going. Kira (who is actually a canon character; i'm trying to keep non-canon characters out) was a cute bundle of cuteness. Umm . . . oh! the dream sequence, i'm especially proud of that. and the introduction of amelia and the ending. Things i'm not happy about: the star wars reference i made. yuck. bleh. i'm so sorry.
So anyway . . . hey, do any of you care if I make some specutions and ask for advice on a public forum for this story? Like, not just themes and whatnot but plot points?
Like: the next chapter, when i get to write it, has to do with the quest for doug's bike.
-murmur