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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 3, 2009 18:01:33 GMT -5
Anyways to introduce myself. I usually go by TK or Beta (don't ask what TK stands for(And don't even get me started on the meaning behind Beta 112)) The first thing that characterizes me is really my absolute love of all things gunpowder related. I positively love guns, but I also have a pretty fair knowledge of swordsmanship(Not chivalry, the cutting heads off bit).
Anyways, I listen to Classical music and metal. Yeah, I know. Anyways, I live out in the middle of nowhere (to my left: field and a hardwood forest. To my right: Fields and hedge rows. Behind me: field. In front of me: pine forest) So I still operate on a 56k modem.
I love to argue, positively adore it, and have a pretty violent personality, though I still retain a large amount of self-control. Also don't mistake me for some babbling redneck, I am a writer, several novels in the works. And an all around smart guy, I know one thing about everything, and my fav subjects are fringe science and history.
Anyway, that's basically all I can come up with for now.
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Post by Animebella on Mar 3, 2009 18:14:22 GMT -5
Le gasp!!! You write!!! Amazing!!! Me as well... I have one book sort of.. well see it's there.. I have yet to pick it up, I have another we are making through one of our roleplays.. and a third that is but an idea.. two started off as dreams to say the least. Must be awonder why I love to roleplay so much, being able to express myself in ways I wouldn't normally, It's really perfect for the brain! All of these situations your placed in and you get to make the outcome. ^^ But i'm rambling..
You sound like a wonderful type of guy, one whose into a lot of things that normally wouldn't go together, but thats what makes us all unique ^^
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 3, 2009 18:22:11 GMT -5
I have four in the works, well technically more than that, but I only count the ones over 20 pages. Anyway, my god-child is something called Segments of a War, which I hope to pay for college with. Either that or I'm throwing on a uniform and headin' off to the ME.
Yeah, I like a lot of things, it kinda hit me one day when I was watching some Tivoed Bleach and cleaning my shotgun. So what kind of writing do you do?
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Post by Animebella on Mar 3, 2009 19:29:41 GMT -5
Awww you can't give up that easily, I bet anything that whatever you write will be wonderful. ^^ Now do you type them or write them down on paper? I think the main one for me.. is a bit over 60 pages.. though I'm not sure.. I have most of it written down then I type it. So some of it has yet to be typed.
Odly enough the main one, has to do with fantasy.. vampires and such.. but it's interesting.. it came from a dream.. but I think part of it was from reading the Twilight series.. and yet mine's different and all. I love the vampires heck I roleplay them all the time. Interesting creatures they are.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 4, 2009 2:07:14 GMT -5
Yeah I have one fantasy-ish work, Balkuff, but that novel is more about the developing of the main character than anything else. That one is about 30 pages. My main work is in it's eighties. I do type all of mine, I have handwriting that's just terrible.
Besides my main one there's one about mercenaries and their marvelously violent adventures, with some crazy ideas on the way(Genetically engineered dogs and pilots with multiple personalities). And then my main work already has it's own prequel/sequel. She's based in modern times, though it has a much more unique political structure and it's main footing is on the ICP/NHE 'conflict'. But I'm rambling sooo...
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Post by Animebella on Mar 4, 2009 10:51:42 GMT -5
Wow, you sound more organized than myself, you must really love to write then. Being so passionate about one matter or another just helps make everything come together so much more quickly. I admire that, I wish I had the will to write more even though I love it so much.. i'm sort of stuck on my main one right now, trying to find the best thing for the next part.
Now let me ask you this.. i've asked a few people about it before.. when you write, do you write out or type out (whichever) an outline? Or do you just write and then connect it all together?
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 4, 2009 15:26:58 GMT -5
Well I have a very good memory, so most of the plot's stored inside my head. I really have very few notes, and they generally consist of people's names. I have a lot of trouble with naming people and then remembering the names.
What I generally do is have a general path of whats going to happen laid out, and then I fill in the blanks and intermissions with stuff that seems to fit the moment. Actually most of my plots I worked from the climax or ending back, knowing exactly how it ends before I name the first chapter.
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Post by Animebella on Mar 4, 2009 17:06:58 GMT -5
Ah that of which I lack myself. Indeed I wish to have a better memory but instead I have notes here and there.. I suppose it helps when I get an idea or what not, but its sort of annoying. Because if you were to see my few notebooks I have them in its all jumbled, a few pages here, a new chapter the next page.. yeah.. ^^ Names are an issue for me as well.. but like anime I go online to name sites and piece a few together to make theperfect names, then write then down and mark down info about them.
Ahhh wow, now that is an interesting way to do things. But knowing the outcome before hand must help instead of blindly pushing through it all.. it would probably explain wny I can't figure everything out. I try to bulk it all up with lots of details to gain more pages or what not.. how do you set yours up on a computer? With margins like a book would be? Or do you just type it in a normal format? (man i'm so nosey.. I appologize, its just rare to be able to get some help with my own writting to better myself. If I'm annoying just tell me really..)
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 4, 2009 17:23:28 GMT -5
No your not annoying, though not a lot of people are this curious about the way I write. As for how I set up my writing, I usually go with 12 font new times roman and 1 in. margins, SOW is formatted wired, with short chapters called parts, and overall sections (Ex: Escalation, Execution) that last about 15 'parts'.
As for how I get my names I usually blurr words together to get a exotic and interesting name that's also a pun. Like Balkuff (Black Wolf).
And knowing the ending really helps clear things up, and makes it really, umm, foreshadowey. It also helps with the development of the climax and falling action, knowing that I have an exact place to go to. Though I suppose my style takes away from some of the surprise, because you kinda get a feel for what way the peices are going to fall.
Also, most of my endings consist of everyone else, save for the final victor, dieing. Brief lives seem so much more meaningful...
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Post by Animebella on Mar 4, 2009 17:46:47 GMT -5
Really? Well I guess it's just the way I like to do things, getting info on how everyone does something and merging them all together to find a way that suits me best. I bet your writing is awesome though, I bought a book a while back that explained how one writer did her book, the formats and all of it, but I guess as far as the chapters go everyone is different. Merging names together, that's soo cool. Plus it's unique.
Yes, I suppose I should come to a final conclusion, the story is going along well, a whole bad guy hero sort of thing, with a few twists and turns. But even watching as it pieces together, i can usually tell where one story is going, mainly in manga because most of it is through the same lines and all, but even so there is always the surprise factor that puts the readers on edge.
Ahh so the hero dies in the end.. I think your right, more or less the surrounding characters look over what had happened as the mourn the death of the hero. But even so it could still be a "happy" ending if you will. If not it sort of leaves it off as if more will happen.. a cliff hanger, hate those, but it keeps them coming back for more.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 4, 2009 18:21:58 GMT -5
Well yes, manga's are so wildly predictable. Especially those Shoujo one's right.
Anyway, I actually kill everyone but the hero, or depending on your view-point everyone but the villain. I don't do a good vs evil theme that often, I usually let the reader choose. Usually it consists of one outright good guy, with good intentions, but not always 'good' actions and outcomes. And another who is outwardly evil, but on a personal level isn't truly evil, just a guy looking to promote the welfare of himself and his friends. I like showing the difference between the self-righteous and human-nature.
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Post by Animebella on Mar 4, 2009 18:28:16 GMT -5
... hee he... the few kind, the wide aray that happen to be my favorites, love stories, truely predictable but even yet they always have a way to stick out.
Ah very nice then, I suppose it is better if the reader gets to choose, much like the biger named books out there now everyone has a side to choose, much like Twilight, more or less vampire verses werewolf and all. That sounds like a series I had just finished though.. I don't know if you have heard of it but it was an awesome series, much like what you seem to be writing yourself. It's called the Alex Rider series, theres... 6 or 7 books in the entire series, and with each one he's a spy and he sent in to all different places, death beds if you will.. and yet he always finds a way to prevail.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 5, 2009 15:48:16 GMT -5
heh, not a fan of Twilight, too self-righteous from what I've heard. But I think I've heard of Alex Rider, but never really looked into it. However I don't really have a wide genre of novels I read, it's usually solely Sci-fi. My favorite author is Iain M. Banks, he writes a sort of series of novels based in this society called the culture. But his stories never get old because he uses a new cast every time, only keeping the Cultures various political systems and societies in place.
But anyway he writes some other novels that aren't necessarily sci-fi too.
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Post by Animebella on Mar 5, 2009 18:13:52 GMT -5
Lol yes I know the feeling, it's one of the better ones I have read, along with the HP series. But aside from tons of manga I like a variety.. The Moderator Series was another of my personal favs, ghosties, spirits and such ^^ Hmmm sounds interesting. I'll have to look into his works, I'm always looking for more books to read.. sort of a book fetish ^^ lol more of a fantasy, romance, comedy.. everything really.
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Post by Beta 112 on Mar 5, 2009 18:23:20 GMT -5
Well Iain Banks usually throws in some sort of mosh pit somewhere. But other than endless mangas also and Iain banks, I still read Eoin Colfer from my childhood days, and I did read HP. Umm, also a bunch of other sci fi novels. But basically that's it.
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