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Welcome to my world.
He's going to be the death of my hard drive. Every time I see a picture of him, I just have to save it. But not his actor, nor of Rorschach. It has to be movie version.

It's a weakness I have for red-headed, blue eyed, wounded men. XD

There is nothing wrong with it either.[/truth]

I have a question for yous:-

When you write something for the first time (slash, action, romance etc), how do you go about doing it? Do you spend a lot of time researching the subject, how other writers handle it, or do you just dive right in and give it a go?
Depends on what it is. For instance, when I started writing slash, I just leaped (that just sounds wrong =x) right in and wrote my first story. I never did much research on it, just reading various other slash fics and continuing to write my own. Over time, I got better at them. And watch gay porn. >3

On the flip side, for my fic that takes place in Japan, I've done, and am still doing, research on the Japanese culture and language, and the city the story takes place in, plus whatever else I may need. It takes a long time to actually write this fic, because I want to make sure that it's all correct, so I'm always double-checking myself.

So for me, it depends on the subject.
 

.Ozymandias

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He's going to be the death of my hard drive. Every time I see a picture of him, I just have to save it. But not his actor, nor of Rorschach. It has to be movie version.

It's a weakness I have for red-headed, blue eyed, wounded men. XD

There is nothing wrong with it either.[/truth]

I have the exact same problem, except with Ozymandias. Though I'd take Matthew Goode pictures just as much as Adrian/Ozy pictures.
 

Mira

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Kind of random question, but...
What kind of technology do you think that they'd have in the 1800's? Around the time where there would be trains but (probably) no electricity? Or do you think they would have electricity at that point?
*is confused*
 

JX Valentine

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When you write something for the first time (slash, action, romance etc), how do you go about doing it? Do you spend a lot of time researching the subject, how other writers handle it, or do you just dive right in and give it a go?

Also depends. Usually, I spend a lot of time playing with the idea, researching stuff if I need to know something for the sake of realism (or because it's science-fiction), and studying how other authors do it. But if I have an idea of what I'm doing already and don't need that extra research, I dive in.

What kind of technology do you think that they'd have in the 1800's? Around the time where there would be trains but (probably) no electricity? Or do you think they would have electricity at that point?

If you're thinking an American-esque or European-esque setting (i.e., you're taking the Pokémon world and transplanting it into 1800's Europe or US), then you're probably looking at the early nineteenth century. Steam-powered trains became a mainstream mode of transportation around 1820 to 1830, and the telegraph (the mode of communication most associated with trains -- which, yes, uses electricity) came shortly thereafter. At the exact same time as the opening of the first steam-powered passenger train line, however, scientists were already experimenting with electricity to the point that an electric motor was actually invented in the 1820's (by Michael Faraday), although I'm not entirely sure if this was actually used outside the laboratory.

For the most part, in the early 1800's of American history, you're talking about very limited electrical technology. (At least, compared to the late 1800's, where electricity became so much of a marvel that people started using it everywhere as a sort of side-show attraction.) For the home, that means manual power, and for certain larger machines, you might have steam. But even then, that depends on where in the US you're looking at. In rural areas (that includes the western frontier), larger machines aside from maybe trains were a bit of a marvel for obvious reasons. In cities... probably not so much.

My advice to you, though, is to look up the kinds of devices you're trying to use or the kinds you don't think exist via Google before saying outright they do or don't. You'll be surprised by how much history about anything has been recorded on the internet, and you'll probably be even more surprised by what was actually invented and in mainstream use early on.
 

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When you write something for the first time (slash, action, romance etc), how do you go about doing it? Do you spend a lot of time researching the subject, how other writers handle it, or do you just dive right in and give it a go?
I would usually check out how other writers do it and do a bit of research. For NE, I watched the news on some police cases and also would ask my dad a lot about the police process. Heck, I even ask him how serve some injuries can be since I had planned for some characters to get hurt.
 

txteclipse

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Speaking of technology, I'd like to ask your opinions about a certain thing I'm thinking of doing in the Eon Chronicles.

Spoiler:
 

Venia Silente

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When you write something for the first time (slash, action, romance etc), how do you go about doing it? Do you spend a lot of time researching the subject, how other writers handle it, or do you just dive right in and give it a go?
I spend some time researching. Maybe too much. Depending on how close I am to the experience (like, zero in romance or +inf in suspense), I then try to give it a try hands-on, without thinking it too much, simply letting my writing be.

Then I shun myself and begin to rewrite stuff... :D

As for txteclipse's question...

Merging time periods is usually fine when one does their homework and tries to preserve the "naturality" of the chronological period after all. That's the entire base of steampunk. With regards to electricity, anything that has do to with Direct Current is something that could have been come up with, had the storage technology been available before. In the case of the Pokémon world, this "technology" is simply available in a different manner. As long as the people of that world did the adequate research, it should be fine. I do not see any problem with telegraph systems, speaker/megaphone systems, nor with conductive surfaces for house heating if you get to need that.

Just take into consideration how much "expensive", and therefore how easily available to the common folk, would that impmementation of technology be. Not only in regards of the number of Pokémon you'll need to feed an intercity emergency telegraph system (to put something up), but also wheteher your world's Pokémon and PETA-equivalent would allow for them to be used this way.

The idea of security devices sounds interesting... what things are you thinking of?
 

txteclipse

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Just take into consideration how much "expensive", and therefore how easily available to the common folk, would that impmementation of technology be. Not only in regards of the number of Pokémon you'll need to feed an intercity emergency telegraph system (to put something up), but also wheteher your world's Pokémon and PETA-equivalent would allow for them to be used this way.

The idea of security devices sounds interesting... what things are you thinking of?

Spoiler:
 

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If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?

Just made the topic up. For me, I'd dump mostly everything, except Neo, Sarina, most of the other characters, and other areas that I made. I'd add in a soundtrack from Pokemon, Mario, and Tales of Symphonia. Also, I'd give them all weapons like swords.
 

JX Valentine

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If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?

No. Both Midsummer Knights and Anima Ex Machina are written with their genres in mind to begin with. As in, Midsummer Knights is written as if I was imagining it to be a cyberpunk anime (a la Serial Experiments Lain), while AEM is explicitly a homage to science fiction anime and film.

In other words, I wouldn't change a thing aside from what I would do in rewrites (e.g., more action and slightly less politics for MKD) because they're already written like TV series or movies anyway.
 

txteclipse

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As in, Midsummer Knights is written as if I was imagining it to be a cyberpunk anime (a la Serial Experiments Lain)
Yay, someone else has seen it! :D Ahem. I did not know that MKD is cyberpunk. I must now read it.

If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?

I doubt it? There's a lot of crucial non-verbal communication in the E.C., however, so it might be slightly difficult to make into a movie. Mastermind would be narrated throughout, which could be weird.
 

JX Valentine

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Yay, someone else has seen it! :D

Oh yes. XD I was a huge fan of it in high school. Sort of dropped out of it, though, although I still love its mind****-ness.

Ahem. I did not know that MKD is cyberpunk. I must now read it.

Yeah, but admittedly, I didn't capitalize on it as much as I should have. XD; If you can think of Verona City as being the same kind of city you find in Blade Runner, then it's slightly more understandable.
 

.Ozymandias

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If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?

I don't think I would; it would have to be a very dry spell for A Darker Day to be made into a series, but I'd like to keep everything in as it is.


*heads back out to try and write some more*
 

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Man, it's been dead in here lately... Why is everyone so quiet?! Maybe it has to do with it being near the end of the school year for many; I'm done with classes now and just have three exams next week and that's all. Yay for summer! Plenty of time to both play video games and write, well, so long as I don't get a job. <_<

If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?
Nothing major. As with Valentine, I pretty much write as if TFC and TRINITY are actually animes. Specifically, I aim for TFC to be your standard televised episodic anime, with it even having typical elements of anime such as the whole saving the world plot... TRINITY is designed to be more of a miniseries or movie (a long one), with the same sort of style of Ghost in the Shell.

The things I'd change would probably be minor details, mostly in the settings and how things look. One example that stands out are the instant runes in TFC that are formed when magic (Source energy) is used. I had to design them so that I can easily describe them in writing and so their complexity can't be anywhere near the level of, say, the one shown on that TV Tropes page. In a visual medium, they'd probably be redesigned again (I've already redesigned them between the rewrite and the new version as they were just TOO simplistic before) to be more complex, fancier, and overall cooler.

*Is a proud proponent of the rule of cool*

Somewhat related to this, I'm listening to this awesome song that I found from an EVE Online trailer video (the song's called Beauty Never Fades by Junkie XL, from the not-so-smartly named trailer EVE Never Fades) that I think just goes perfectly with TRINITY. I can just see the images in my head as if it were the anime or whatever I wish it was, introducing all the main characters—Tashima, Havoc, Zeta, Zack, Jet, and the other people who I still haven't thought up names for since they're not explicitly main characters—with lots of action and guns blazing and Vespers/Valkyrie fighters flying overhead to combat Cypher's Fighter Drones while on the streets of Helios the resistance movement is fighting against Scout, Assault, and Hunter Drones...

God, I've got my vision for TRINITY so fleshed out now that I even finally have a feel for what the city, Helios, looks like. I've got all the different classes of drones, Cypher's shock troopers, down (Scout, heavy scout, assault, heavy assault, hunter, fighter, heavy fighter, advanced fighter, and operator) as well as their manned counterparts used by the good guys (The Vesper T-83, which I've changed from what was seen in Waves; Vesper T-91; and the experimental pair of Valkyries). I've got the specifics of the titular TRINITY and it's cousin CELL down, including why they're so important. Almost every minor details as well as most of the major ones have been fleshed out; I've even gone so far to reconsider the inclusion of one element, ARMS (basically mecha), that while cool I just couldn't figure out how to incorporate well (I want the focus to largely be on the individual people and introducing these war machines, even if they are cool, would draw a lot of that focus away. Also, I would need some way to counter them which would just lead to something bigger and even less personal. Either that or magic.)

Yet despite this, I've been largely focusing on TFC lately... It's seriously been almost five months since I last updated TRINITY, in part due to me pushing out THREE chapters of the TFC rewrite in that time, as well as heavily devoting time to the fourth. I wanted to finish part 1 of the TFC rewrite before switching back to TRINITY for perhaps a two chapter block, but...this is just taking so long. Chapter 4 is almost done but I just feel like I'm neglecting a story which, while it still needs time to come into its own as I figure out what my strong suits are, has the potential to be as glorious as I see it in my head. Unfortunately, I know no one else will ever be able to see my exact vision of TRINITY...
 

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If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?
NE is intended to be more like a suspense/mystery anime with a lot of police elements, like the anime Death Note. I wouldn't change anything much, except maybe chapters 14 and 19 as those two have have the worst pacing problems.

Speaking of series, NE is going to end this Saturday, folks. :O
 
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:O Holy crip, Bay. I remember reading chapters of that while skipping classes in college.

If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?
Loyalty would seriously have to be expanded somehow, since it's a rather short fic with rather short chapters. On the other hand, Lucidity would have to be either split in half, or shortened down considerably.

My Digimon fic fits in perfectly with the series.

My OSC fics, well, I'll just let Card do that work. *whips Card*

... Wait. >_<
 

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If your fanfiction would become a series or movie, would you change something?

Hmm...might have to change it a bit, but not too much as many, many of the scenes I imagine actually acted out and all. Might be too long for a movie though, my main fic - if anything it'd have more of a chance to be made into some weird hybrid of a visual story/game or something like that, given that it is based on Colosseum...

And my one one-shot...well, might need some adjusting I suppose, and wouldn't be a series-long thing, or a movie either, methinks. XD
 
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Just want to say, Shrike, that that's really kinda epic about TRINITY, Shrike. I was like that before with my Pokemon fics. At least one version of my first Pokemon fic, which is now titled Loyalty, but was entitled at the time... Er, well, I don't really remember what it was titled at the time because it was before Long Twilight Struggle but after Legend of a Champion.

I would be able to listen to Pokemon music, mostly the Japanese music, and imagine my characters in various scenes. Everything played out as an episodic anime, much like the Pokemon one off which it was based. It was a good way to see my fic, because I could actually see it.

These days, I barely write. I don't even look forward to it right now, but I wish I did. I still want to write, since I continue to write and rewrite scenes in my mind that I wish I could write, but when I think of what I have to get through to write those scenes, like the scenes I don't really want to write because they're boring, I just kind of lose the will to live write.

It's right up there with why I really haven't been spamming up the FFL and keeping some semblance of activity here. Concerns about real life have been on the forefront of my mind, and are where most of my energy goes to resolve.

My name is the Great Astinus, and I have verbal diarrhea. And I want to write slash hurt/comfort fics.

I'm going to go poke at Lucidity for a bit and hope that my muse's horoscope comes true, because he's about to get his butt whooped for being lazy.

...

Yes, I have a muse.

He's a Leo, by the way, if anyone was wondering.
 

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Fffff. Here I am, sitting at my PC with a word document open, two months, one week, one day, five hours, and twenty-nine minutes after my last chapter release. I've finished one page of the next installment.

I used to write a chapter every day. What the frell happened.

Maybe if we collaborate, we could all write one fanfic at an acceptable rate.
 
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