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superpokemon67 said:
Ok, thanks. Maybe I won't even need a prologue :p. Either way it will probably be a while before I get anything up, with VGC Nationals coming up and the fact that I'm a very slow writer.
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Nationals is going to be a very slow week for basically the entirety of Pokebeach. Also, don't feel pressured to write by any means just to impress a fanbase.

There is one option you could do, which is what I've done: write the entire story ahead of time, and then post each chapter on a regular basis. That way you never need to worry about getting writer's block when posting each thing since all the writer's block will have been taken care of long beforehand.

Not everyone does that, though - I think I'm the only person here who has actually done that.
 
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Ever since last week, I've been debating to myself of whether I'll be working on my two fanfics, the Skyrim one and the Shark Wars one. I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to stop them since my plot for those two seems to have gone rusty over the months. Sorry for everyone that enjoyed them and were hoping for the next installment but that's that. However, I've decided to write an entirely new story, this time it's based around my all-time favorite anime, Zoids.

Now, since the story I'm going to write is based around this anime of mechanic animals, I guessed that the description of each Zoid that you will encounter must be extremely detailed. Now I'm asking all of you, how do you exactly go around describing these mechas in great detail? I want the reader to fully imagine what they look like but one of the main hurdles I need to overcome is description writing. How do you want me to describe them?
 
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You could make a general comparison of a Zoid to the animal it's based on and then work the robotic description from there. Their complex designs are part of why I'm not a Zoids fan (that, and they're too much like Transformers for my liking, which I was never a huge fan of either)...
 
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Deus: Nightmare Autarch said:
Nationals is going to be a very slow week for basically the entirety of Pokebeach. Also, don't feel pressured to write by any means just to impress a fanbase.

There is one option you could do, which is what I've done: write the entire story ahead of time, and then post each chapter on a regular basis. That way you never need to worry about getting writer's block when posting each thing since all the writer's block will have been taken care of long beforehand.

Not everyone does that, though - I think I'm the only person here who has actually done that.
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I was actually debating doing just that. And I don't feel pressured. This is something I just decided to do for fun, and if there's any pressure, it's the pressure I've put on myself to get it done in the next 20 years. I think I'm good XD.
 
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Well, I post things by installations to get feedback and edit the story as I go along based on the feedback. x3
 
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Would it be a bad idea if I were to start a contest involving this to see who could write the best bad crossover idea given by the generator?
 
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Cinesra said:
Would it be a bad idea if I were to start a contest involving this to see who could write the best bad crossover idea given by the generator?
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That would be awesome. Something that should be really crappy turned good. I like it.
 
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Cinesra said:
Would it be a bad idea if I were to start a contest involving this to see who could write the best bad crossover idea given by the generator?
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I'd rather you not. I have my hands full with the two contests I'm running, and no offense, but it just sounds stupid. I'm trying to promote good writings, not this stuff.
 
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I meant run one of my own; I didn't want to trouble you with it. But, being stupid_was_the_point. It's kind of supposed to be campy and dumb, but in a good way.
 
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Fine then. If you can organize it well, go for it. I'm just responsible for keeping tabs on everything that happens in the Writer's Corner and that goes for contests especially, which is why I'd rather not have more than a few going on at any given time.
 
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I'm currently debating whether or not to make a fic here...it's about someone who ends up in the mystical realm of Limbo
 
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Equinox said:
I'm currently debating whether or not to make a fic here...it's about someone who ends up in the mystical realm of Limbo
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Depends. Do you want to or not?
 
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Equinox said:
Mmhmm, but I'm not exactly a good story writer.
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Just try your best. Improvement comes when you actually start writing it.
 
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Deus: Nightmare Autarch said:
According to who?
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Dark Giratina said:
Just try your best. Improvement comes when you actually start writing it.
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Ehh, myself. I know improvement is only possible for something when you do it, and i don't have self-doubt, it's just that I have no clue how to format my posts (I did read the guidelines for successful writing) and, it's still a bit murky of water to me. If you wouldn't mind DNA, would you come on PB chat and help me? One more question: Are prologues also 1000 words?
 
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I'm making a mid-sized story and I was thinking.
What would be an appropriate time limit for a character to do something, like a fetch quest.
I was thinking 3 days, but it seems too short of a deadline.

The heroine has to prove her innocence of stealing something from the queen.
 
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Wizard said:
I'm making a mid-sized story and I was thinking.
What would be an appropriate time limit for a character to do something, like a fetch quest.
I was thinking 3 days, but it seems too short of a deadline.

The heroine has to prove her innocence of stealing something from the queen.
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That depends on the setting. If it's a vast kingdom or something like in contemporary fantasies (like in Eragon, for instance), the fetch quest could take weeks or months. If not, it could be faster.
 
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I never saw Eragon. (I guessing it's a fetch quest too.)
The area she's searching spans ten small cities. So I was thinking 10 to 12 days.
 
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Wizard said:
I never saw Eragon. (I guessing it's a fetch quest too.)
The area she's searching spans ten small cities. So I was thinking 10 to 12 days.
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Basically put, the main character had to travel a vast kingdom avoiding a malevolent king in order to realize his destiny as a Dragon Rider. The book and movie were long as a result. If your setting is small like you say, anything between ten to fifteen days would be a workable and believable timescale.
 
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