03-05-2003, 09:28 AM | #81 |
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Have been working on this fantasy series for like over 5 years now and well its coming along. So much happens and just hope I can finish the books one day. Aye, just as I dont turn out like Jordan and writes book after book. Ok just one more, I p¨romise
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03-05-2003, 11:35 AM | #82 | |
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03-05-2003, 06:04 PM | #83 |
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Ouch, that sounds bad. I don't even have a copy on a floppy. I'd beter go and change that.
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03-05-2003, 07:30 PM | #84 |
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Its more likely to get destroyed if the only place you have it is on a floppy. It's bad.
Yeah. Save your stuff in several places. Several folders even! Can I stress this enough? -Tari
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03-05-2003, 11:16 PM | #85 |
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I once had a story saved on a floppy. I printed out a copy, then realized all the changes I needed to make. Unfortunately, my computer broke down, so I had to use a different one. Unfortunately, that computer wouldn't read the floppy. So, I had to retype the entire story from the copy I printed and add changes as I went along. It was a total pain in the backside.
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03-06-2003, 01:48 AM | #86 |
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How long of a story was it?
I have my book saved on two computers, and I update the one I'm not writing in . . . every one or two months . I really should do it more . I expect all of us have lost emails, PMs or posts through computer freeze ups, glitches or simple mistakes. One of the woes of computers . |
03-06-2003, 03:49 AM | #87 |
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I prefer to keep all my notes n' stuff in one of my 5-6 notebooks. *hugs notebook* My friends.....But I need to go back and redo my whole storyline, and I don't want to tear out those pages or anything, but I also don't want to get confused and use old notes.
I'm working on a fanfic of one of Frodo's nightmares after the Ring was destroyed, but before the Gray Havens right now. I keep that in my notebook too.
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03-06-2003, 05:49 AM | #88 |
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Computers are easy because you can make many changes in your text without making all those blots and mess you have when you amend a text on paper. But sometimes I find it easier to write on paper. I'ts messier, but it's more tangable. I have various stories in various stages of completion either on computer or on paper or on both. Anyone who would want to reconstruct those stories when I'm dead, is in for a job from hell.
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03-06-2003, 12:57 PM | #89 |
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Well currently I'm writing my own take on the Arhturian Legends, an otriginal series which vaguely ties in at the end with the Arthurian series, and one novel with my little brother based on the Legend of Zelda video game series.
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03-08-2003, 12:57 AM | #91 |
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I have a bunch of ideas written on paper in a box in one of the cabinets of what used to be my desk. When I did The Uirlon Cord's plot, it was originally likely to be about 100 pages, but now it looks to me as if it'll end up more around the 600 page number. I have The Uirlon Cord's plot saved in original form, but you know what, it was a really good plot even from the start. I don't have many changes in what I have there, though I have huge changes in terms of adding things in.
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03-08-2003, 07:20 PM | #92 |
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I've changed my signature. What do you think?
Computers are great for writing with. Much easier to change things, try different sentence structure. Wow, if Tolkien had had a word processor, I wonder whether he'd have written even more. Longhand is so time consuming. |
03-08-2003, 11:00 PM | #93 |
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Writing is a great pasttime. Yeah, its sad that its so time consuming. Plots and character development are very important and sometimes the problem is you start a story and you have a plot in your mind, so you write down, say, the first chapter, but then 6 months later you start the second... and you don't know what to do for a plot.
Yeah, I am going to have a helluva lotta fun rip-tearing through some of my fic's. All help appreciated. =D I have some Si-Fi stories in my head, and stories from school; nothing that I am too particularly proud of. Most of my stories are in dire need of editing. *Sigh* Just another thing to do, huh?
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03-09-2003, 12:37 AM | #94 |
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I remember several years ago I used to get on and just write every day. I wouldn't think about it, or look it over. Just write. Then one day I pulled it up and started reading it. And that went out the window. The Moral: Wot? Since when does every story have to have a moral?!?!? O, all right.. I can't write worth squat without being careful about it. Takes planning etc. for me. Anyway, that one would have needed radical revisions, on account of changes made to my world.
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03-09-2003, 04:17 AM | #95 |
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With The Uirlon Cord, I didn't have all the history made up beforehand either. I had some of the earliest creation done and some of the more recent events. The fifteen years before The Uirlon Cord takes place I had quite a bit written to. Now I have all that history done, but I really should have started on it earlier.
Most of the changes in a written work of mine take place in the plot creation stage. That's where I come up with ideas, turn them over and throw them out. Very few are actually kept; generally actually none of them are. Usually the plot idea comes in a sort of a flash; I just write it out and it comes as I write it. Focusing upon what's logical to have happen generally helps me quite a bit in terms of plot creation. Just looking for what would make sense for them to do is really helpful, and then if you want something else to happen you can throw in a circumstance- possibly a circumstance that opens up another plot thread. Looking at what's logical for people to do in situations like this really is helpful. Unfortunately, though I believe that I can come up with very good plots (Says this extremely modestly ), I think that this might lead to something of a weakness in my writing. Sometimes my plot just seems to me a bit too plot driven and it doesn't always seem to me that I'm focused enough on the characters and their development. I hope that that's not the case and that the characters are all good, but I'm less confident of them then I am of my plots by quite a bit. Entlover, I like your signature . Computers definitely do help things also; it has been a few years since I wrote a story by hand. And that was out of necessity- I couldn't be on the computer. |
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The stories still need to be edited, beta'd (I also have a tendency to rewrite portions or forget stupid things, I'm only human) and depending on where I am putting them once they are finished (usually my website) so they need to be coded appropreately. Even if I don't write a chapter, writing is time-consuming. There's a lot to be done, stories to be typed, edited, coded. Sometimes I even beta. I guess what you want me to say is "Its not really time-consuming its just that I'm not too smart---or maybe its procrastination-- and it takes me forever" -Tari
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03-09-2003, 10:47 AM | #98 |
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I usually write the history of my worlds before I do anything else. The problem with that is, I tend to get carried away, and get so caught up in the history I forget to write the original story, or wind up writing it as part of the history, which makes it too dry (it sounds like a textbook!)
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03-10-2003, 02:09 AM | #99 |
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History is the backbone of any story or RPG in the fantasy realm, I think. Most stories center upon their history and I love to work mine out .
(Sighs) Tari, I purposely tried to make that post as tactful as I could- I didn't want to be misinterpreted. I don't want you to say yuou're not smart or you're proctrastinating or contradict yourself; I was just curious about your meaning and offering a possible way to improve. |
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I completely agree. History before all else!
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