Megatron wrote:
BloodLord/BeeAre-I tend to stick with script form, cause like BA said, it's easier to follow. Secondly it helps me understand who's speaking, and it doesn't scrunch up lines mesilly.
So this is meant to be cheap and easy fiction, not meant to actually be finished so much as you inducing catharsis, expelling a huge ball of feelings from yourself.
Why post it here, then? It would do you more good to privately get the story out on your computer.
The only reason you need to be here is for the public discussion and deconstruction of your ideas, for your benefit. Thus the criticism to not do things the easy way.
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Irish Blood-I doubt I'm the best out there...I just use basic ideas from games, and/or tv shows to give my story life. In other words, I just have a pretty vivid imagination.
Your imagination is not being demonstrated as very vivid if all you are doing is drawing single movements from the world around you, put into a script--I'm more interested in seeing your imagination in a story through a solid method of employment of literary technique.
It may seem like I'm asking a lot here, but it really isn't. I don't want you to be scared off from trying something that is at once challenging and new, so let me assure you: it's a first step to write things in a cohesive narrative.
Don't worry about the lines stringing together. You can structure a narrative similarly to a script, and in fact, on these forums, that's not a bad thing.
Notice the way I am writing my sections on this forum: paragraphs are divided into topics by a few taps of the enter button, so you can easily move from area of discussion to area of discussion--apply this to dialogue as well, and you have a decent narrative format for this board.
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I also believe in the old saying "You can't please everyone all the time, you can only please some of the people, some of the time." I respect the opinions of others, and I'm sure BL and BA have seen better fanfics/fanscripts out there.
This is so unhealthy to use as your starting maxim. Assume instead that everyone will approach your story neutrally, with an intent to discover you in that writing without bias. NATURALLY this is not strictly going to be the case, but any replies you would be interested in, it WOULD BE.
We're critiquing you for your benefit, because we want to see you do something with all of your ideas. It doesn't matter that we might have seen something we think is better somewhere else (and I really can't say I have seen any specific fan SCRIPT that was simply better, the script format is defeatist when not being applied to a medium, that's the real crux of this criticism).
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Unfortunely this is really the best that I can do. Like I said I'm not entirely great at writing stuff, so I just stick with script formats.
It is NOT the best you can do. You're better than that, damnit. You try harder to get that vivid imagination you've got written down. STUDY IT. SEE THE TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED. USE THEM! It will make EVERYONE better.
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I'm just suffering a bit of writers block at the moment. :P
Might be because using a script format derides you of any sense of movement in the story and literally stops you dead every time someone SAYS something. This is practical when applying the technical precision of lines to a format where they need to be seperated for using those lines with the rest of the project you are applying the story, but not for JUST a story.
Script format is quite possibly one of the major factors in you having writer's block, I'd wager.
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