Thanks. It's simple, really. Just take everything that's happened between you and Beth, and everything you wish had happened, and chop it into bits. Add some favorite spots from other people's stories. Take a theme from someplace and start pasting the bits into that framework. Fill in the gaps with pathos, bathos, or whatever strikes your fancy. Voilá! A story! It's your story, yet it's not exactly the story of you.
In Sozont #13, the paw shaking from hunger (but not the nudity) comes from the first date in my second courtship with Wifey. I have no idea where the "talk to your food before you eat it" stuff comes from, but it keeps showing up.
Yeah, a lot of the stuff on my website is like that. The first few sentences are very good, then it veers suddenly into much lower-quality writing, then peters out without ever having gone anywhere. I guess it takes a few tries to find a theme you can actually work with. The first 4-5 episodes of Sozont were parodies, which is a form I find very easy to work with; apparently that created enough of a base so I can now build the rest of the story on that foundation, although it gives Sozont a bit of a split personality. Or maybe he's "growing up".
My works are generally of the parody or fan-fic variety...something I'm trying to get away from. I think my problem is that I tend to fuel my writing with whatever emotion I'm feeling at the time, giving me a very short window to complete it in.
Offend or not if that's where your story leads you go with it. Especially when writing for the web it is more important to be true to yourself then to try and shoehorn a story into a particular audience. You don't have to please an editor here, only yourself.
Well, I *do* have to please Wifey, who wants more Martha Stewart and less Spike in the story.
People keep telling me it's "well-written", but no one will comment on the fact that each episode tries to be offensive in a different way (helpfully labelled for your reading ease).
Fuck, it's a "heroic troll" story, for chrissakes! It's an abomination upon everything that's just and good about Furry. But no one will stand up and say they don't like the thing. I've added an anonymous poll to make complaining about it easier.
I've always thought of Sozont as a story that I'm telling to ALFers. I hope Skytech likes the two lines I lifted from his posts and stuffed into my text.
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Date: 2004-07-23 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-24 10:31 am (UTC)In Sozont #13, the paw shaking from hunger (but not the nudity) comes from the first date in my second courtship with Wifey. I have no idea where the "talk to your food before you eat it" stuff comes from, but it keeps showing up.
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Date: 2004-07-24 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-25 05:12 pm (UTC)Yeah, a lot of the stuff on my website is like that. The first few sentences are very good, then it veers suddenly into much lower-quality writing, then peters out without ever having gone anywhere. I guess it takes a few tries to find a theme you can actually work with. The first 4-5 episodes of Sozont were parodies, which is a form I find very easy to work with; apparently that created enough of a base so I can now build the rest of the story on that foundation, although it gives Sozont a bit of a split personality. Or maybe he's "growing up".
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Date: 2004-07-25 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-24 06:37 am (UTC)no subject
People keep telling me it's "well-written", but no one will comment on the fact that each episode tries to be offensive in a different way (helpfully labelled for your reading ease).
Fuck, it's a "heroic troll" story, for chrissakes! It's an abomination upon everything that's just and good about Furry. But no one will stand up and say they don't like the thing. I've added an anonymous poll to make complaining about it easier.
I've always thought of Sozont as a story that I'm telling to ALFers. I hope Skytech likes the two lines I lifted from his posts and stuffed into my text.