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Also bad: chapters that are five paragraphs long, with author's notes that say, "sorry I took six months to write this."
The only thing I can figure is that these people are trying to write without ever having read first.
Quote:Speaking as one of those writers who releases something once every year and a half if I'm especially productive - though I'm more likelt to write a 105k chapter than a 5k one, because I never shut up - all I can say is that if anything I care about the story TOO MUCH, not the other way around. I probably scrap four paragraphs for every one that I keep, because they don't have the magic - I've written and dismissed about a half dozen different versions of the next scene in Bubblegum Disaster, and just can't carry it off... Last time that happened I ended up skipping it, but this isn't something I can do that with because it affects how the whole Sexaroid thing will work out and I can't get something that feels right. This makes it difficult to build any real momentum let alone maintain it, and hence the last chapter release was 6-23-2003. To put it another way... I have eight parts, from 40-100k, and have been working on the project in one form or another for ten years yesterday - Feb 22, 1994 was the day I discovered Twisted Path in the morning, finished it by the evening, and excreted a never-to-be released BGC SI with what would become Guardian 215 before going to bed the next morning. That version had essentially the same relationship with Priss but was essentially Marvel's Venom symbiote with the serial numbers filed off, and no adequate explanation for why it could operate solo as a humanoid, nor why it was my SI avatar. The beginning montage for Disaster 1 is not quite a cut and paste, but is a reconstruction of the beginning of that story. You can see that this was a significant event in my timeline... ;?) There are influences from story ideas I thought of as far back as 1992 when I first got online, but nothing as recognisably the same as Niichigo and Cyberman Guardian. Basically, I took CG, erased the SI bits, added a frame under the nanite goo, and turned it loose with just the stock OS that was my internal foil originally - basically an anti-T1000 "Guardinator." (It doesn't feel pain, it doesn't get tired, and it absolutely will not stop until you're completely safe!)
No, to me it just means that they really don't care about the story that much - if they did, they'd either have written more of the story, or more explanation. And that's another sign of a bad fic - if the author doesn't care about it, why should I?
I keep wanting to have it interface with Sylvie after the DD battle (which will be absolutely nothing like the original, from beginning to end - and that's all I'm sayan right now) and get a personality imprint, but she's fought too hard to be her own person to be tied permanently to the wishes of a master like 215 is. I DON'T screw over characters that way, permanently denying their payoff just as it's within reach. That was what bothered me about the bodycount in the Genaros breakout, until I finally came up with a solution.
- CD, Ever noticed that 'solution' turns into something that's not a word, but looks really un-work-safe if you miss the first O?
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