Away on the wind~
The first, or maybe the third, would be easiest to focus on, I think.
Also: Just a hint. I'm probably the only person here who didn't think tl;dr.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!
He Who Sleeps
How... Did you read this so fast!?
Enemy's Gate is Down.
Away on the wind~
It's called a massive read speed of about 600wpm.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!
I didn't read all of them, but I'm betting they can all work. My tip on which to do is "do whichever you're most passionate about," because you will be more motivated as a result.
Rather, my tip is that you try to finish a work. The only way to truly get a sense of what needs to be done for a story's components to function symbiotically upon writing (in other words your skill at brainstorming and outlining) is by writing.
Basically, what happened with me was as I kept finishing written works I became more and more skeptical of ideas' potential and saw more flaws ahead of time such as "why would he do that?" and "why would the audience care about this character?" As such, the number of ideas I considered to be good diminished greatly and I was left with just one to three good ideas at a time. I also began to view one-sentence ideas like "a robot-mummy hellbent on destroying the world" as being worthless until someone expands on it by answering questions like "who's the lead protagonist?" "why do we care about him and thus want him to succeed?" "how does he solve the problem or what leads to his downfall?" and so on.
I squeeze gats.
What colbertimposter said. Only working experience will tell you what ideas are right for what stories. There are always more ideas running through most people's heads than they can properly use. Idea triage is just part of the fun. I'd recommend recording notes on your best ideas in a notebook or file and then getting back to your work-in-progress so you're not constantly jumping to a new project before finishing the old one.
As for the second problem, I'm not sure. We write what we think is cool. And not everyone's going to like it. Can't do anything about that aside from doing the best work that you can do at the moment. If you're worried about preventing your work from becoming self-indulgent, I don't have any advice for you, sorry. Maybe that's another thing experience teaches, or not. I guess if deploying your full list of cool things hurts the story somehow, like introducing elements that don't match the tone or theme of the story, or solely relying on the Ruleof Cool to see you through, then yeah, that might not end well.
edited 4th Jan '11 12:56:16 AM by MildGuy
I want to be a writer, maybe even a manga artist just so I can have flexibility in how I want to tell my stories, narrative is very important to me.
But I have 2 problems, 1, is that I have "alot" of ideas and working on one idea excludes me from working on others, so like a bunch of hooligans rushing through one door very little gets done aside from brainstorming and sketching out characters and plots.
Partially solved by a deliberate invoking of the Moorcrock Effect, "Okay, what if I made EACH story a segment of the same universe and then make an epic myth arc at the very end where it all comes together to end the story?" in a massive cross over, good to have an end goal right?
My second problem, is that I'm one of those overly enthusiastic otaku's who sees a cool thing and then decides that I must have that cool thing, to the point that as one person uncharitably put it:
"I just think, knowing you, and knowing everything I've read about this so far, that this is going to be a laundry list of "wouldn't it be cool" Blayne moments. Which is great, sitting around with friends, or whatever. If you put it all in an novel, you're going to be disappointed when people hate it."
Uncharitably because I am skeptical I'ld be so blind to have say... a Russian girl esper with a katana in an otherwise serious alternate history scifi war novel set in the future but I suspect that things I would consider innoculous may or may not appear that way to an outsider and snowball over time.
Story Idea That I Intend to be a Trilogy: [This idea is first because it is the only exception, it is the only one that won't be intentionally made to fit in the same canon as the others below except for maybe a cameo to confuse the fans and make them pointlessly argue over it on the forums.]
Working title: Ishmael War Trilogy; Scifi, Alt Hist, WWIII It is the year 2098 and on June 9th 2087 (100 years after I was born actually, hey write what you know) an old Soviet Cruiser from the Soviet Army Space Corps that was about to be decommissioned and scrapped is because of lax security hijacked by a disgruntled Naval Intelligence officer Radoslav Ramius and does a Kamikaze run on the heart of NATO, the United States of America, our protagonist, Ishmael Rozhdestvenski and an Operative of the Bureau of Internal Security (something like a KGB political Commissar meets Commando, like Ciaphas Cain) who was tracking down the conspiracy could only manage to change the course of the ship so it hit Ohio instead, killing 30 million Americans in an instant.
NATO launches an immediate counter attack and the war begins, a tale of conspiracy, betrayal underneath a speculative fiction space opera using the interplanetary war between 'Space NATO' and 'Space Warsaw Pact' forces as the backdrop exploring how a hard science fiction war where both sides have interplanatary vessels capable of traveling between space colonies (like the ones from Gundam), Mars or Earth within days would look like primarily through Ismael's eyes but also through a cast of characters on both sides of the war from different ranks and perspectives, like Harry Turtledove but epic.
Notes: I am heavily using Project Rho for information on using actual possible science for this. Notes2: Because I absolute hate the Tom Clancy Antagonist motions of "The Soviets are always the bad guy and start the war" and the utterly subtle as a dancing elephant way its pushed through this time the war starts because of a conspiracy involving mid level intelligence agents on both sides of the iron curtain who feel their respective gov'ts and people are losing their patriotism after so many years of peace and quickly losing their sense of purpose. Inspired a bit from General Shepard from Call of Duty and a bit from observation from disgruntled military analysts I've met online and was like "They could totally do this with a little pushing".
Story Ideas That I Intend to Write as Long Runners: 1. Working title... Uhm, I don't have one... odd. Let's call it the Levi Saga; Scifi, Urban Fantasy, Cosmic Horror, Horror, Shonen(?)
This is only one I've actually started on, mostly as a result of some daydreaming of "What if I ended up in a Forgotten Realms type of society and gave the Drow the Industrial Revolution? And then sent say, my daughter from there back to my home dimension a few years after I left?" So the story basically begins from there.
Gordon is your average high school student, has no powers and lives in a mundane world of nothing special or extraordinary happening, he's actually very normal and angsting over normal things, he just moved to the municipality of Rigaud (Quebec, Canada, write what you know! Guess where I live ;) ) because his parents wanted to open up an electronics and computer store there after inheriting some money, thus separating from all of his friends, from everything he knew and what his world was made up of "like that".
He made a friend, a weird scifi geek goth [i]thing[/i] who spouts babylon 5 quotes... Who he also can't really stand either but figures by hanging around someone like him he can be left alone, who would approach two people like them right?
In the 3 weeks before school starts he starts to slowly warm up to his surroundings, especially all of the trees and canadian nature in general, always having lived and never have left downtown Montreal before then he finds nature fascinating and reassuring.
At the start of the school year he and Alessandro Lucardo (hint, significant anagram in last name) are about to enter the classroom, Gordon is momentarily taken aback by some weird sense of deja vu but dismisses it and enters the room.
There sitting in the front is Levi, The Oujo and a bit of an airhead, Gordon is immediately smitten by her and she seems to take an immediate interest in him as well... (Un)Surprisingly his plan mentioned above backfires as it turns out Alessandro is friends with just about everybody and everybody also turns out to be just as weird only in different ways! Everyone then rings Gordon into their activities and socialness much to his ire.
[Levi is the above mentioned Dark Elf girl sent back as a child, (See Unusually Interesting Uninteresting Site, her ears are generally hidden by her hair and her eyes make her look Asian and her skin color, well, African Canadian so no one questions anything until later) she knows just about nothing as to what she is and I am playing with the idea of reconstructing Always Chaotic Evil.
Basically 'Drow' there is no real consensus in the source material if they are simply born evil or raised evil because of their Chronic Backstabber Disoder society, so what if they ARE always BORN evil, how would that develop in an otherwise loving foster family in a quiet idealic neighbourhood? This would be explored in the second novel.]
Then murders start happening... One after another.... Even worse, it's a groundhog day loop controlled by who they don't know, can Gordon and his new friends however reluctantly he made them break out and solve the case?
The first book of this introduces all of the characters and the loop begins and ends in it as its only an introduction into a larger broader story and verse' with the characters of that classroom all gaining powers and abilities from their adjacentness to Levi (The Drow sent back by her human father) and all end up having to continuously band together to fight off extradimensional eldritch abominations with things getting more insane bit by bit.
The what I consider to be the interesting bit is that it's a little bit of a round robbin, all of the characters personalities and what not are based off of my friends in real life and tailoring their abilities/weapons based on their preferences.
I also intend to use the Canadian Armed Forces as a recurring Mauve Shirt Bad Ass Army to help deal with the threats whenever they get too much to handle, part of my conception of the struggle between the Eldritch Abominations and my characters is a question of "Order" vs "Chaos" with Human weapons, Magic, Abilities, etc all being manifestations of "Order" and thus partly harmful to pure "Chaos" which is what the Abominations are composed of but because the material universe is partly chaotic it's not perfect so losses happen.
2. Ouroboros Cyrcle*; Urban Fantasy, Very Shonen
Julius is having a bad day.
Julius since he was a child could always see spirits, his family thought or rather explained them away as delusions, certainly a result of the brain damage he received as a child in a terrorist attack he was caught in as a child, visiting Prince Edward Island with his parents... But they died in the explosion.
Now he is an adult, graduated from University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science but times are tough and he can't get a job so taking advice from his forum penpal from Japan he enrolled into the JET program.
The Spirits in Canada had generally been friendly, they're scariness wore off as he grew older and fear turned into annoyance as they wouldn't leave him alone, they included all sorts of things like local inuit folktale spirit guides and the like.
He was barely an hour off the plane in Japan walking through a park before he was attacked by some kind of giant centipede thing!
With no one able to see or interact with it all he could do was [i]run[/i] no idea whats happening or why or what to do, it could touch him, it could hurt him and was clearly trying to eat him, the spirits back home never dared.
Running for his life he runts into a girl walking down some temple steps wearing a miko costume, surprised and visibly angry she's about to give the foreigner a piece of her mind (or rather is in the middle of doing so) ignoring his desperate attempts to get up to run when she notices the giant centipede monster.
She pulls out her Bokken (as she was in a hurry to kendo practice) and injures it, to the foreigners slackjawed amazement and it starts to run off she pulls up the funny man and forces him to follow her as she chases it, intent on finishing it off.
It then opens a portal and they come crashing through.
They appear in another world, they soon find the centipede and question it and then the girl finishes it off, they are amazed for a few minutes at the ghibli hills terrain but start getting worried... How would they get home?
Startled as Julius had forgotten all about it starts deeply considering what to do... How to get home... How to get home... How to open a portal... And then voila! The portal reopens, surprised but relieved they rush their way back through in a slightly different location than before.
They part ways without exchanging names leaving Julius confused and baffled at the whole thing but does a little experiment, discovers that he can now open said portal at will now and tests it out going in and out, opening and closing.
Satisfied, he returns home and prepares for his first day at work tomorrow, later arriving in class to his complete and utter shock he sees the girl he ran into in the front row! Talk about contrived coincidences! He doesn't believe it, quickly he glances down at his desk to the attendance sheet and mumbles through the kanji in his head... Hik... Hikari... Fuji...Wara...
Wacky Hijinks Ensue.
I'm still toying with the idea of making the Other Universe for this story like a photo negative representation of wherever they were on Earth when they went, with a dark monochrome sky, with people and creatures distinguished with pastel colours and sorta post apocolyptic but not quite and other things but I'll leave that for later.
What matters it that Julius, a foreign exchange english teacher in Japan with the help of a girl and her sister end up exploring and adventuring in an "Other" world, but, do so exploring and deconstructing (and then reconstructing) video game tropes, for example in the "Other" world they gain something like a character class and gain power(s) through more or less the same way a jrpg or crpg character would, by completing 'quests' and killing things. The girl, Hikari went in with a Bokken but was a Miko as her family tradition, so she becomes like a sword-saint cleric multiclass kind of thing, her sister is a bookworm and a fan of dragonlance and is anemic so she becomes a wizard. Julius the next major trip in brings airsoft stuff so he becomes what I'm going to name a "Gunsmith" pistoleer kind of archetype but can use whatever he brings and the world gives him unlimited ammo, so airsoft AK 47 becomes a very nice thing to have!
3. Senatus Populusque Tyrannum (The Senate and the People of Tyranny); High Fantasy, D&D, War
On the world of Tagnik Zur there used to be Dragons, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Dragons who through tens of thousands of years of civilization brought upon their own downfall when their wars, so destructive forced them to capture and enslave humanoids from other worlds to fight for them, as a desperate measure when one of the number, one of the Dragon Emperor's, had magically created his own race of foot soldiers who could seemingly replicate themselves endlessly (through normal breeding, the rate of reproduction of humanoid dragons cross mixed with Mammal dna makes Dragon reproduction seem glacial) and once armed with draconic magic and dragon forged weapons were a potent force that could seemingly absorb endless casualties.
So the others grew desperate, crafted massive superportals to breach the aether and reached out to other worlds and stole their peoples to fight for them, and fight and die they did, eventually these creatures came to see the dragons as gods and through prayer granted the Dragons even greater magical powers, through their feudal system 99% of this power went to the Emperors who ascended to godhood themselves, high enough to lord it over the mortals of their world but not high enough, they restrained themselves as to not anger their own Gods, the Progenitors of Dragonkind, Bahamut and Tiamat.
Eventually the Puppet King of the Dracos (the magically created race, think of them as Expies of Dragonlance Draconians) rebelled against his God's demanding freedom for his people! Freedom to forge their own destiny to stop pointlessly dying for beings who couldn't care less.
His rebellion was nearly successful... Thousands rebelled and took up arms against the Gods, armed with dragon slaying halberds they acquired mounts of lowly War Dragons (I have 3 races of Dragons, High Dragons, War Dragons and Mage Dragons) sympathetic to their cause fought the war to the very strongholds of their gods.
And then King of the Dracos, Lord Tyrannus was slain, stabbed in the back by his close friend and advisor, the Necromancer Prodicius who hungered for the ability to cast spells "That Transcend 9th Circle Spells" (Epic Magic, which can only be unlocked with permission from the gods).
In his death, from the very instant that his death hit home, the whole Draco Nation mourned, their grief deep to the bone, but this moment of profound loss fueled Tyrannus's own ascension, and not content with the level his former gods held went higher and brought upon the wrath of Bahamut and Tiamut upon their children.
Bahamut and Tiamat arrived and punished the dragon race, gave them a choice, Leave Forever and remain Gods or stay and be forever stripped of it.
About 95% of the Dragon race left that day, Tyrannus himself was both punished and rewarded, he could remain a God, but he would forever stay on that world and lowered to a god of lesser rank and forever unable to interfere in the world for there were other races now and they deserved a chance to make their own living and having only one god favoring one race would unbalance the world.
Fast forward a thousand years the Dracos, now Tyrannians in honor of their legendary King, have founded after centuries of migration their own nation, the City and Republic of Tyrannum, for how there could ever be a King as Great as The Lord? Blasphemy! So the people choose their representatives who handle the issues of day to day government, in a body called the Senate led by an half elected half approved by the Senete Chancellor who acts as a permament "Regent" to the empty Throne...
This story is a war series following the career of [s]Captai-[/s]Lt. Drake (Demoted From The Call) who fights the many many many enemies of the Republic as an officer in charge of an ad hoc bunch of misfits and crazies who goes on to win ever larger battles for ever increasing stakes and soon he will hold the fate of the Republic and then the world itself in his hands/claws.
Very much a large homage to The Doom Brigade from Dragonlance by Tracy Hicman and Margarette Weis and partly out of a frustration out of a lack of due diligence in writing sequels, so this idea started as fanfiction and then I was like "Wait, what if I changed a few things so there wouldn't be infringement and then just make my own story and publish it?"
Notable for my desire to balance Crapsack world with World half Empty with some War40k influences, essentially the "East" of this world looks like an inverted Europe (you'll see in the link below, imagine Russia in the West instead the East with China further to the west and you got it) with the Europe part being in the "Middle Ages" period with high birthrate among humans, low lifespawns, constant wars and struggle, famines, plagues, chaos all around... Except in one place, the Republic.
The Republic is like a beacon of civilization, a shining torch in the dark, Humans in there live long life spans, a whole 70 years with the lucky rich ones! A strong military defends the border settlements from raiders and vikings, public bathes and the aquaduct provide fresh drinking water and hygene, public schools provide education and the elections while favoring the rich and connected are based on "One Man, One Vote" and anyone with enough support can become a Senator.
Basically I took Rome, removed Slavery and polished it down so it more resembles the modern United States and is more "theme park" Rome really, even to the point I have them use Canadian army ranks (author appeal).
But there's a downside, the Republic practices apatheid towards Humans, "The Tyrian Burdon" so to speak, Humans cannot vote, they have SOME rights but only very basic ones and dissent and demonstrations or protests are crushed with ruthless force, humans live in ghettos, cannot serve in the military unless they're a Israelite* and pretty much denied any significant participation in the Republic despite a good number of humans would be willing to do so and be loyal, afterall it sucks living as a dirt farmer in a mud house in Middle Aged poverty.
So damned if you live outside the borders and damned if you live inside, the idea here to make it grey and gray morality whenever the subject turns to Humans and their treatment with no clear answer and forces Drake who slowly gains political importance will soon inherit "The Human Question" and will have to grapple with it and how to handle it.
[*In this world, some people were probably wondering did they ever steal humans from Earth? The Answer is yes, including Jewish people from different time periods, I am treading this line carefully, very carefully and discuss it deeply with my Orthodox friends. But basically the Jewish People at first served with some reluctance the Dragons under the same rational judea may have served the Romans, protection for service with them becoming proficient and much feared and respected warriors (Bad Ass Israeli) but when the Dragons demanded worship from them the New Israelites having been the only Humans who maintained their unique ethnocultural and religious identity refused entirely and were exiled and forced into a migration and diaspora on this world too.
Eventually they meet up with the migrating Tyrians and help each other out and similar to how modern Israelies befriended the Druze the Tyrians grew to respect and befriended the Israelites and considered them distinct and separate from the rest of humanity who they feared and hated for fighting against them during their rebellion despite being in the same boat.
(Humans were usually always jealous of the special treatment Dracos/Tyrians recieved so when the chance came to take their place they took it gleefully)
So when the Tyrians founded the Republic they parted ways with the New Israelites who went to found a new Israel but some stayed and were the only humans explicitly given equal rights to Tyrians.]
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(Not allowed hotlinked images, but it's from tinypic, so there's the link as I don't know how to upload it to tvtropes)
I toyed with the idea of making this a webcomic and may still do so, oh and beware Oots-Style art ;)
4. Salazar; High Fantasy; Politics; War; Seinen
This is pretty much why I first came up with the idea of merging all my ideas together, as I wanted to make a story about a Dark Elf 'Wizard who Becomes a God Succeeds But Becomes a Eldritch Star God' where he's from a vaguely Chinese Fantasy counterpart culture and his early life is that of a mountain hermit wizard who comes down to help a Warlord become Emperor of Kathay.
But I also really wanted to work on by Draconian-Expy story...
So wait, I have a map, and I have a region where China could go... Why not merge them!?
So voila, this takes place about 300 years in the past of SPQT and deals with how Kathay/Han/Zhou/Whatevs (Instanbul Not Constantinople!) got united as one nation under one Emperor at the sametime as how Raenir got to become an all powerful mage, quite-o-bit of crossover material as he has to struggle against rival wizards from the Republic later on.
And then when Raenir "Succeeds" is when he starts becoming an influence in all of my other stories, a multi story Big Bad or a very sinister meddling influence in EACH of my above stories except the WWIII one, and at some point characters from all of them get together to stop him, or try to, I haven't decided yet if they succeed (and this ultimately becomes Lovecraft Lite or fail; Cosmic Horror).
[Basically Raenir when he first succeeds is stopped and imprisoned in an interdimensional fortress at the border of reality, he uses his significant power to "poke" other worlds to find one where he can enter, regain his strength and then burn reality to cinders and the stories are basically the characters slowly coming to realize this threat and working to stop it.]
Story That I Intend As a One Off But Fits With The Above. Haven't got a name for it, but Psychological Horror, maybe a tongue in cheek working title of "Unlucky Star" ;)
Basically I was reading tvtropes one morning (technically ALL night AND morning) when I discovered that there's apparantly a Lucky Star Darkfic about the firdge horror ramifications of what would happen when they graduated and ended up separating when going to college, etc and this inspired me.
So the premise is that you have four friends who are attending different colleges who were childhood friends, all nerdy in different degrees and yes they are meant to be homages/lucky star expies, but I want to make money so, yeah.
One of them, the youngest has a foreigner as an English teacher (as she didn't want to be scared of them anymore and not being able to understand them) who has the quaint little hobby of doing sketches when hes teaching the class, not actually using it to teach or anything just when he sits down and has a moment.
She looks at it and sees what looks like an elf, posed in such a way to look introspective and stoic, interested she asks about it. He says he hasn't been able to get the imagery out of his head and has been as a hobby drawing manga and one day intends to publish; she does as well and they start to become friends in a Finding Forrester kind of relationship with her the apprentice and supprting each other's goals inbetween teaching and her putting her life and her friends back together and solving their problems with him becoming a kind of 'glue' to bring them back together.
[There's this book by a Japanese author that had a similar premise actually up to this point (in the loosest possible definition of the term, it was about 4 male friends who were fascinated with death and were stalking an old guy waiting for him to die only for him to catch them and he ended up becoming a cranky mentor figure to them but when he died they all drifted apart, so this is kinda like the opposite of that, sorta...)
But then they start getting visions, weird stuff starts happening, reality just slowly starts to stop making sense as if Studio Shaft got permission from God to rewrite reality! Eventually they discover that the paintings and drawings of that Elf their sensei has been drawing is "Alive" and looking right at them...
That Elf is the above Raenir Salazar seeking to use this world as an exit, and if he does it will end and what follows is a bone chilling psychological horror adventure into the paranormal and their own psyches with them trying to stop this somehow having to relive their worst fears, their worst memories, having their minds broken again and again from psychological torture the closer they get to stopping him as the Elf Star God is angry and will not be foiled this time.
Story That May Be a One Shot Or May Be a Mini Series I Don't Know: Septum; High Fantasy, Adventure, Shonen?
Basically this takes place in same subsetting and period as SPQT, Septum is a member of the for lack of a better name right now Inquisition, he hunts down rogue mages who are traitors to the Republic (as magic is heavily regulated), he has a magic shotgun and a magic revolver that are specially designed for fighting mages, constructs and demons, despite coming from an ancient line of mages he is actually the last of his line (his clan decimated in the ancient past for reasons unknown and slowly dying out) and has zero skill in magic, he can skillfully use basic simply rituals and magic items and understands magic theory but is otherwise incapable of using magic itself directly.
This makes him a perfect agent as most tend to get corrupted from temptation and he thus becomes the only one 'They' can trust on important assignments, he's a [s]Draconian[/s] Tyrian who wears a bad ass trenchcoat and sunglasses as well (they're magical and can see past illusions, so it's justified and his coat holds his ammo!).
The story gets complicated when hes tracking down a conspiracy to open portals to the Nine Hells and suspects the School of Necromancy behind it all at the behest of his wise and kindly patron the Conjurator of the School of Conjuration and investigates the uncooperative and enigmatic school of necromancy.
In the end it turns out that the whole thing was an elaborate ploy to keep him out of the way with constant attempts to kill him as the Kidnly and Wise head of the School of Conjuration has unearthed one of the Super Portals used by the Ancient dragons (Continuality Nod!!!) and is going to use it to access the infinite ley energies of Hell/Abyss "Planes of the Ventral Position" natch, to conquer the world with his own army of fiends and then the multiverse!
The Necromantor, the head of the School of Necromancy who Septum discovered to be an Ancient Lich prior to this and was about to report it to the Conjurator arrives to stop the Conjurator who has betrayed every principle a mage holds dear.
The Archmage of Conjuration laughs, what can a mere Lich do to stop him? The Master of the Hells? The Lich reveals himself then to be not only a lich, but THE LICH, the first one, the one whose very act of betrayal of his dear friend made his name a taboo word and stripped from the Cosmos forever, his very name eliminated from existence and lives on in legacy as the etymology of where the word "Traitor" arrived from.
He got his magic, he got his power but the gods laughing, punished him ande lichified him, his soul was tied to his name and with his name eliminated from existence HE CAN NEVER EVER DIE and is doomed to walk the world an undead monstrosity until the end of time when the world is unmade.
Not only that, but he reveals that he is the reason why his clan was nearly exterminated for he is Septums direct ancestor, woah.
If I expand this story and continue writing it it would probably be something where Spetum dedicates himself to finding the Everchanging Book of Names so that he can finally lay his ancestor to rest while balancing his work in the Inquisition and his missions with the Necromantor slowly learning to rediscover his humanity providing insight and aid to his underlings while also the books would explore the nature of magic and the culture behind "Eastern" magic while "Salazar" explored "Western" magic.
So, wall of text later and I suspect everyone who started reading this is probably dead by now, thoughts and constructive criticism welcome, I am only vaguely aware of copywrite law and am fairly worried about losing my first rights for publishing even it is only summaries and ideas expressed here and reserve the right to later on eventually take this down if I get serious and my legal research shows that leaving this up for any reason may hurt me later, but I promise if that does happen I'll have my own forums by then.
Any input welcome, ideally this is better suited having multiple threads for it, and will probably get very confusing if people get interested in this and different people are discussing different things but then again it might be more much more annoying if I cluttered the forums with half a dozen pages so, compromises!
So thoughts? I am still grappling with which stories I'ld want to draw out and make my own manga out of as I'm slowly investing into learning how to draw or might commission people to draw for me, feed back on that front on which ones might work better initially as a visual medium welcome.
I need a blog 0.o
edited 31st Dec '10 4:14:45 AM by IRBlayne
Enemy's Gate is Down.