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Re: The Epic Chronicles of Ikros
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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:34:34 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Kevin Wanner writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
> > >
> > > http://www.ozbricks.com/ikros
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> > > --Anthony
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> > Well well well if it isn't the end of somthing great. It's sad I liked
> > the story very well and I liked the ending but it was just that the end.
> > And now their is no more unknown about the story, which is what I don't
> > like. But there is no other way to do a story the end has to come.
>
> Yeah, Mookie hates that part too. She kept urging me to just leave the ending
> open so I could right another ten chapters. But hey, if you keep going, it
> just kinda ruins the whole story. I mean, look at things like the teen scream
> movies from the late eighties and beyond, and the Power Rangers, length just
> ruins the novelty of it all. (not that teen scream movies or the Power Rangers
Really It is definetly beter to end it then keep it ging and going.
> were really any good to begin with... ok, it was a bad example, sue me)
>
> > I am
> > working on a story my self but it is less then 1/3 finished and it is really
> > hard because it is inner-twined with four of my friends stories. Quite hard
> > to do some thing that is so tangaled and fused together yet is four separate
> > stories.
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> > --Kevin W. §
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> Yeah, writing a good, fully thought out and prepared story is a hard thing.
> It's definately not something to just write for the sake of writing. I
> preplanned my story long before I ever started writing it, and I stuck to the
> plan as best I could. When I thought things could improve, I altered the plan
> a little just for that. It's best to sit down and write an outline of events.
> Don't hide anything either, think of this first outline as a timeline, a list
> of events. If you want mystery in your story, next write a new outline, this
> time moving the events around, so that you have a list of events in the order
> they are revealed through the story. This way you can have things going on
> that the readers won't know about until the end or whenever.
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> If you ever find yourself having a hard time writing the beginning to the
> story, don't do it. Who says you can't start writing in the middle or the end?
> Truth be known I wrote the Battle at the Laquos River LONG before I wrote
> anything else. The only real problem with this is that you have to keep the
> later stuff hidden from your readers, unless you've decided to release it all
> at once.
>
> Anyway, I'm looking forward to your story, it sounds like quite an undertaking.
I'm not having to much truble wrighting the begining but I just don't have
much time because I am in school (my sophomer year in High School) I have
writen the first elevin chapters of book one (out of three) and its only
about 50 pages. I'm in the prosses of rewrighting it. Any how thanx for
your coments and for the Chronicales of Ikros.
--Kevin W. §
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