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avaunt In reply to ??? [2010-07-28 08:04:08 +0000 UTC]

Of course. I'm so glad I could help you.

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avaunt In reply to mramarella [2010-05-10 23:03:06 +0000 UTC]

No problem. I'm glad you think so.

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avaunt In reply to Iwrin [2009-04-30 06:37:05 +0000 UTC]

<333 Of course! I'm really glad it helped.
Thank you so much for the fav!

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avaunt In reply to Gothicanime20 [2009-03-01 21:15:15 +0000 UTC]

I agree. I feel they're much more authentic. But it really depends on the book, the ending needs to be authentic.

<3 Thank you so much!

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-02-14 04:17:54 +0000 UTC]

What specifically are you having problems with? Plot outline, characters, dialogue?
Something else?
Basically, the middle is something you have to figure out for yourself, but it helps if you do an outline and fill in as you go. Think about what you want to do with the story. I hope that helps? I mean, the middle is the part you have to figure out a way to convey change in your character, so you have to consider all the steps they have to take in between to get from beginning to end. Have you tried doing a diagram?
I'm not really sure what you want me to help you with. Generally 'the middle' is pretty vague, so if you have specifics I can help more.

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-02-17 18:24:06 +0000 UTC]

Sorry! It's just that every time I try to write a story, I can write the beginning (like the first 3 chapters or something), and I know how I want it to end, but my mind just always goes blank when I try to fill in the middle...

I guess I can try to figure it out myself. You've already helped me a lot with your tutorial! ^_^

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-02-18 02:28:56 +0000 UTC]

Actually, you're asking a really good question, I just have to sort out how I go through my process - or a process that would help you. I think it's really relevant and I didn't even realize I hadn't covered middles in my tutorial, so I think I'll add another section.

I'd suggest plotting an event timeline that helps you get from beginning to end and then working in the other plot elements to help you, such as symbols, dialogue, themes, and imagery. The trick is to work these in and find ways to connect your events.
I don't usually go blank on a story . . . but I have to stop at a certain point sometimes because I feel the story's going in the wrong direction. In those times I just stay away from the story until I'm inspired by something. Usually watching a good movie or show, reading a good book, or thinking things through while I draw helps me. I think you just need to try to push through it and keep writing, even if you don't know what to do with it. You can always go back and revise it. Sometimes you just have to keep going, even if you don't know what you're doing. Having specific points that you need to cover, a simplification or summary of your story, might help you as you try to link the points together. I'll give you an example of what I mean:

Say I'm writing a story about a girl named Tabitha who develops mind reading ability but loses the ability to feel her own emotions and instead feels the emotions of the people who she reads around her. My intent with this story is to present the importance of the individual and emotion, and I want Tabitha to spiral downwards and to lose her ability to be able to develop her own emotions and, eventually, to lose her ability to empathize with others because she doesn't understand emotions anymore and only can rip them from other people. So, while the story progresses, she changes from a girl who tries to please everyone into a cold, calculating machine only interested in logical solutions. She's not going to be selfish, but she only sees the rational and logical, and never the human or emotional cost, the subtleties that allow us compassion.

Now, in order to demonstrate this change, I need to have other people she interacts with throughout the story. I like writing love stories because they add an element of emotion and reality that I, at least, find hard to attain in other stories. So, I'm adding in a fiance named Peter. He's five years older than her and they met in college. She's a college senior and he works for a law firm. He's finding that he's not happy with his job choice, and therefore feels lost, upset, and trapped. Tabitha cares for him a lot, and she's been his emotional support. Tabitha herself wants to pursue a career in fashion and is a very emphatic and sensitive person. She always senses when something's wrong, but because she wants to help solve problems, sometimes she ignores that the person might not want her help. She also has a best friend, Kara, who she's known since high school. Kara's similar to her, but doesn't usually like to interfere in people's problems. I want her to ultimately be the one to confront Tabitha, simply to demonstrate the amount Tabitha's changed. Peter will be less in tune to it and will think she's just getting sick of him and withdraw. Peter's going to be fun, but ultimately pretty dependent on Tabitha to understand him emotionally, since he only sees the rational side of things. Peter will be forced to understand his emotional side and learn to deal with his own problems as Tabitha becomes unable to do so. This will drive them apart, and in the end I want Tabitha to be completely unable to realize what she's lost when he leaves except from the logical benefits of having him with her (i.e. money, human interaction, sex, etc.).

I'm not going to focus on symbols or motifs so much in this story, but they can always help to convey your point. I could indicate her change through her fashion or choices in decoration, for example. She could start out in haute couture and gradually become more focused on everyday wear, and her apartment could go from an extremely artsy place to a barren and functional living space. Recurring symbols could be things like color (to show emotions) or ravens (since ravens are perceived as cold birds this could be a sort of foreshadowing). Symbols should be subtle but add to the theme.

Now that I've established how I want her to change, I also want to establish what the inciting incident is that causes her to change. I decide that I want it to have a sort of symbolic meaning and to show the effect death has on us, so I have her parents die in a car crash. Now, I'm ready to do a plot outline.
First, I want a rough outline:
Setting: Show Tabitha's relationships with Peter and Kara. (Though I'll likely start with her ability to hear thoughs and present this, as well as her parent's death, in a flashback, it's a good idea to start in chronological order.)
Inciting incident: parent's death
(Here would be the place where I insert the events leading up to the climax and resolution, but I'm not sure yet what to put here, so I will focus on it later.)
Climax: Tabitha is completely unable to relate to Peter and Kara, Peter is an emotional mess and wants to leave her. Kara confronts her and tells her that 'she's changed' and etc. Tabitha can tell these events are coming because she can hear their thoughts, but she doesn't really care anymore. (Now that I've established this, I can determine that the plot of the story will examine her psyche as she develops into this cold person and will examine how her actions change in accordance to her knowledge of others thoughts around her and her simultaneous degradation of her emotions.)
Resolution: Peter leaves her and the law firm and moves to a different city to pursue his dream of being a mechanic, while Kara and Tabitha graduate. Kara leaves for New York to start an internship at a marketing company as a graphic designer and doesn't contact Tabitha again. Tabitha, who had a promising career in fashion setting up before her, has job offers revoked and is completely devoid of all emotion. She begins working for the government and she just predicts what criminals think. She has no life outside of her job, and she doesn't care. She's a machine. (I'm not entirely happy with this ending and may change it later, but it needs to be a definite negative ending.)

Now, I have to fill in the events that lead up to this. I slowly want Tabitha to change from a person who can sense what people feel into a person who knows what they're thinking. Simultaneously, she loses all compassion. I want to do another rough outline of the events, and I will focus on specifics later.

First, she will begin to hear fragments of thoughts and be fascinated, using this to help her to understand and help others.
Then, the thoughts become more pronounced and she finds that she begins to feel twinges of others emotions whenever she hears these thoughts.
Next, as these feelings and thoughts become more entangled, it becomes apparent that she's losing her ability to feel emotion. Someone will provoke her, likely Peter, so that she should become angry, and she's only mildly annoyed.
After that, she starts to become capable only of mild emotional responses and starts to, in an attempt to convey the emotion she deduces she should feel, steal other people's emotions from them. She can hear all the thoughts around her and can pinpoint tone and etc. from them. By now she's stopped attempting to help others and is only listening to others thoughts because of mild curiosity.
Finally, she loses all her emotion and, with it, her need to reassure and help others. She stops taking on emotions and only listens to thoughts because she can't turn them off and because it helps her to rationalize things.

This vague plot outline now should be developed so that specifics are known. I decide I will focus her change mostly in the other two main characters, Kara and Peter, and that she will gradually lose her desire to help others, progress to only caring about them, and finally care about no one at all.
So, I need to figure out specifics about the above plot line, asking myself questions such as 'how?' and 'why?' Things that need to be addressed and worked out, such as what Peter does that should upset her, should be considered in this stage. The main specific events need to be crafted and addressed. I'm kind of lazy right now, but if you need further help with that I can provide more example. =B

The final step is linking the events together through imagery, dialogue, and etc. You can also determine some minor events to help you. Basically, you need to break it down into an outline. This process is very analytical, but the creative part introduces itself as you write. I'm more of a person who likes to determine how to write as I go with a vague idea of where I want to go, but however you decide to write and whatever works for you is individual and right.

As I write character-based stories, this discusses from a character point of view, but you can also write from a plot-based view. This just means you lay out the events you want to occur and you focus more on the events than the character. It's stylistically different, but basically the process is the same - it's just HOW you approach the story.
Also, consider writing in different ways. It's harder for me to write a story in the form of a novel, but I find it really simple to write dialogue based stories, such as what would be done in comics. Here, you can skim over the details of the setting and instead focus on character development, plot elements, developing your story, and dialogue. I don't suggest writing this way all the time, as it doesn't help to develop writing style and imagery, as well as other important elements in the story, but sometimes it's easier to find a way to write that's different. There are other types of writing you can try as well, just keep your eyes open and experiment.

Um . . . so hopefully all that text helped? xD

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-02-18 03:03:50 +0000 UTC]

Yes! It helped a lot! Thank you! ^_^ I like to draw comics too, but mostly manga (Japanese comics).

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-02-18 07:18:44 +0000 UTC]

=B I used to do manga, but my style turned into whatever it is now . . . xD

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-03-25 23:34:00 +0000 UTC]

I really like it and I've thought up a fanfic, but everytime I start on one (or at least get one really thought up), I say "What's the point? It's not mine." But I know that if I write fanfiction, then some of my own ideas will come to me for original stories and it could help me with my writing.

I was taking Creative Writing in school, but we had just finished poetry, then I had to drop the class to switch to Resource English4 so I could pass it and graduate, so I never actually got to the writing part of the class...

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-03-26 19:11:01 +0000 UTC]

Just do it. Any type of writing is fine, so long as you enjoy it. Someday you for sure will get to write your own pieces, but its okay to have stepping stones. Not everyone is an idea factory right off the bat. (That sounded really cheesy. xD)
Well, I took a creative writing course a few years ago, and they didn't cover much in the way of teaching me how to write that I couldn't've gotten somewhere else (advanced English classes have helped me way more); however, it did provide some valuable insight into how to submit original works to editors. Mostly, they just told us that persistence is key, and some technical stuff to include in our submission. To improve as a writer, though, you have to write and ask for heavy critiques. There's always at least five mistakes in a rough draft, and at least three in a second revision, and if no one can find them, then they aren't looking.

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-03-30 19:52:33 +0000 UTC]

Wow. You must've been writing a long time to know all that! I found a website that might help me, so I'm going to try to start on another Gargoyles fanfic.

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-04-01 04:26:32 +0000 UTC]

Well . . . most of my life. xD I can't say I'm a professional, though. I'm still 18, so . . . <<;
Good. I really hope it goes well. The best thing you can do is to keep writing what you like.

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-04-01 15:08:35 +0000 UTC]

I need to start on it soon...I've written my characters' background and I already know where and when it's going to take place. I've got the beginning and the end already though up, but I'm stuck with the middle again...I don't know how to write a climax (or even think up one). And other dA members are really wanting me to start on this fanfic and I don't want to disappoint them. Do you have any tutorials for writing the middle of stories/climax's? Or can you make any? Please?

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-04-15 00:42:12 +0000 UTC]

Um, I'd really suggest doing a chart before you start writing. You probably already have a climax and don't even realize it, to tell the truth.
What's your storyline?

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-04-15 01:08:36 +0000 UTC]

Well, I've already started writing the story (I've tried to plan it out first).

Chapter 1 was pretty challenging, but fun to write, but when I got to chapter 2, I kept coming up with blocks. I managed to get passed them though. I wrote chapter 2 like I wanted, but I noticed that one part of it seemed like it would fit better earlier in the chapter, so I had to copy & paste it and edit it, etc. I even wrote some stuff I wasn't planning on writing, they just came to me (like a character my main character, Mink, running into another fey, who's in his human form.) I wasn't planning on him showing up until about chapters 4 or 5. So, I decided to make it just a random encounter and have the readers try to guess if he's going to appear again or not, and if he's going to be important or not.

Here's the links to my first two chapters:
Chapter1: [link]
Chapter2: [link]

I have the ending sort-of planned, and I have an idea for the climax, but it seems so obvious. It's like a 'damsel in distress' type of thing where Mink gets kidnapped by Demona and Richard Backlot and Puck has to save her. There are so many fanfiction like that, I just wish I could've come up with something more creative...

Here's what I've copied & pasted from my Word documents (the plot notes and stuff):

Plot:
>>uck wants his powers back
>>Owen calls for a meeting with Oberon
>>Oberon tells him that he’s going to be holding another gathering (to introduce his niece) and he tells Puck that he can attend that, but only to Jest for him. And if he does it well enough, he can have his powers back.
>>uck doesn’t want to Jest (because that’s the lowest status anyone can have on Avalon), but he agrees to it anyway because he desperately wants his powers back.
>>Oberon temporarily gives him his powers back and he turns into Puck
>>They arrive at Avalon just in time for the Gathering
>>Oberon introduces Mink and Puck falls in love with her (LaFS)
>>uck Jests the best he can (he tries to show off for Mink mostly)
>>He causes a lot of laughs and everyone’s having a good time
>>He does it so well that Oberon gives him his magic back (although, he still can’t come back to Avalon whenever he wants)
>>Before he leaves to the mortal world, he finds Mink and kisses her (and he puts a flower in her hair at the same time)
>>He leaves and Mink blushes (she doesn’t know who he is, but she’s in love with him)
>>Titania sees the whole scene and notices that the red string of fate is tied to both of their fingers (only she and the weird sisters can see the fate strings)
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##Mink tries to find Puck, but she doesn’t know what he looks like in his human form
##She walks into the Erie Building looking for a job (she heard from Titania that Puck works there as a human, but she still doesn’t know what he looks like in his human form)
##Owen is the one that hires her (he sees right through her because she didn’t know that she had to hide her eyes [contacts; glasses]) He hires her right away (he just skims over her resume.) This surprises her because she thought that when humans looked for jobs, they were supposed to be interviewed.

Emotional Tone:
>>Mostly happy, some kawaii (because of Mink), some fluff, some sadness/angst (because of their separation when Puck leaves Avalon and when Mink gets kidnapped and he powers are drained)

Other:
>>Xanatos allows Mink to move in with them (because she doesn’t have a place to stay in the mortal world and because Owen told Xanatos who she really was and why he wanted her to live there)

Distressing/unusual/difficult events in my own life that I might be able to use in the fic:
>>Not being understood by parents
>>She’s afraid of being rejected because she was in love before and she was rejected by that person

[Note: I WOULD copy & paste my 'Developing Mink' section, but it keeps pasting weird...]

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Chapter ideas so far:

>>It’s pouring down raining
>>Owen is sitting in his office frustrated
>>He looks out the window and finally gets up and walks to the mirror
>>He chants the spell and summons Oberon
>>uck meets Mink and falls in love with her
>>uck jests for Oberon and Titania
>>He gets his powers back, but gets sent back to the mortal world
>>Mink wonders who he is and notices that her heart rate is faster

Chapter2:
>>Starts on Avalon
>>Mink gets Titania to tell her where Puck is
>>Titania tells her that Puck is working in Manhattan for a famous human
>>Mink leaves to find Puck
>>Scene switches to Xanatos and Owen
>>Xanatos asks Owen what was on his mind lately (because he always seems to be in another world), but Owen quickly replies that there was nothing wrong and that he will never let anything get in the way of his work.
>>Owen thinks back to Mink’s shocked face when he kissed her as Puck
>>She meets Mercury in his human form in Mexico
>>She disguises herself as a human and teleports into an empty motel room
>>She tries to figure out how to use the TV
>>She figures it out, turns it on, and searches for anyone that could be famous
>>First, she sees someone named “Richard Backlot” on the news (a lot) and figures he must be famous
>>She goes out to search for him
>>Chapter End

Chapter3:
>>Mink looks at a piece of paper; she hadn’t realized there were a lot of famous people in New York
>>The paper gives the address for the Erie Building
>>She walks up to it and walks in and a guard greets her
>>Her eyes glow and she tells the guard that she has an appointment with one of Xanatos’ employers to hire her as a secretary
>>The guard gets a glazed look in his eyes and slowly repeats her words and lets her by
>>She presses the button on the elevator to the floor that she needed
>>When she gets up there, Owen is waiting for her
>>They sense familiarity within each other and Owen (despite his promise to himself and Xanatos) digs into his magic to see who she is by looking into her eyes
##Xanatos allows Mink to move in with them

Chapter4:
>>Demona and Richard Backlot is plotting to kidnap Mink to lure Puck

Chapter5:
>>Mink’s bathing and Puck’s looking for her (he doesn’t know she’s taking a bath) and he accidently ‘ops’ in on her.
>>Marcus appears in the story a second time
>>Marcus reveals his fey form (Mercury) to Mink and Puck
>>uck becomes jealous of Marcus over the littlest things
>>uck’s showing his protective side more prominently

Chapter6:

Chapter7:

Chapter8:

Chapter9:
>>Mink’s kidnapped

Chapter10:
>>They get a lead as to where she is and Puck goes to find her

Chapter11:
>>She’s afraid of telling Puck that she’s in love with him because she’s been in love before and she’s been rejected.

Chapter12:
>>uck notices that Mink has a glow about her (it’s bluish)
>>He touches her and realizes that she’s pregnant
>>

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More details about the fic (some may be repeated, but I forgot about my other document and there's a lot of details in this on that isn't in the other one... ) :

>>uck meets a pink-headed girl at the Gathering (Mink)
>>The reason why he’s at another Gathering: Oberon’s giving him another chance to permanently regain his magic, but in order to do that, Puck must be Oberon’s Jester (he feels like he’s being degraded from a free Fey to a Jester), then he sees Mink and falls in loved with her (love at first sight)
>>Mink is 108 years old; she’s the king and queen’s niece; she’s at just the right age for finding a mate (Fey have to be at least 100 years old)
>>He jests, but only to show off in front of Mink (even though she doesn’t know who he is) and does it so well that he gets his powers back and he’s able to come back to Avalon.

>>He returns to the mortal world (reluctantly) because of the deal he had made with Xanatos 10 years ago (and because he was his best friend).

>>In Avalon, Mink asks around who the Jester was, and when she finally asks Titania, she finds out that his name’s Puck, he’s 1,578 years old, and he’s working as a human assistant in Manhattan in the mortal world.
>>Titania doesn’t tell her any more than this, so Mink decides that she’ll go to Manhattan herself and look for him.

>>Xanatos notices that Owen seems a bit more distant than usual and asks what’s wrong; Owen replies that nothing is wrong and that he’ll never let anything get in the way of his work.
>>A woman with red hair and blue eyes walks into the building looking for a job (this is Mink’s disguise; she’s already been looking for Puck for a month now). She looks at a picture she got from her mother (Titania’s sister) of Puck’s human disguise.

>>Owen looks at his schedule and notices that it was time to interview the new candidate (couldn’t think of a better word) for the position of secretary. He was getting so busy that even he needed a secretary!
>>He walks into the lobby and sees a woman with red hair and blue eyes sitting in the place where she had been directed to sit. He can’t explain why, but there’s a sense of familiarity about her. Especially the eyes, which she hadn’t even bothered to hide; which showed how often she ventured into the mortal world. (When I say “hide” I mean by wearing contacts or glasses that has a spell put over them, so no one else would notice that their eyes are different.)
>>He has a feeling who it is—Mink. Considering how young and inexperienced she is, of course only she would make an obvious mistake like this (and the fact that her hair’s red in her human form).

>>All he says is “You’re hired” which surprises Mink. She asks him if he’s supposed to interview her, and he replies that he’s already looked over her resume and he thinks that she’s perfect for the job. He tells her that he feels that he doesn’t need to interview her.
>>They get up to leave and he asks her if she’s staying anywhere, which she answers no. He tells her that he can ask Xanatos if she could stay there at the Erie Building (like a live-in job). (While he’s saying this, he’s looking into her eyes and he sees Mink, so he’s definite that it’s her and he strokes the side of her face without thinking).
>>He realizes what he’s doing and quickly stops and turns around saying that he’ll talk the Xanatos and will be out as quickly as possible.

>>Owen’s heart is beating fast as he’s walking to Xanatos’ office. He just can’t believe he did that, especially in his Owen form! He’s never lost his Owen-mind-set before (unless he turned back into Puck)!

>>Meanwhile, Xanatos had seen everything on his security camera in his office. He knew something was going on with Owen, but Owen was too loyal to his job to tell Xanatos anything.

>>Owen knocks on the door to Xanatos’ office and Xanatos tells him to come in.
>>Owen tells him about the woman (he doesn’t tell her that she’s really Mink, even though Xanatos doesn’t know about her, he suspects something) and Xanatos tells him that she can live here.

>>Owen tells Mink and shows her to her room (which is right next to Owen’s)
>> (Mink’s “human name” is Dolores McFire)
>> (Mink is a pretty bad actor; which is ironic because fey are supposed to be good at acting.)
>>He asks her if there is anything else she needs and she says no (not at that moment)
>>Owen closes the door and decides not to reveal himself just yet (even though Mink already knows who he is.)

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Well, that's all I have! Sorry it's SO LONG!!!

~Orangen has also been beta-reading it for me and she's been trying to help me with my grammatical mistakes. I've also tried looking for more writing tutorials to help me more.

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-04-15 01:29:48 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, that is a lot. xD

Your climax would be them finding her, after that would be your falling action and resolution.

I think what's important to note is that there are only a certain number of storylines you can actually write (I think 17? I have to check. I have a book somewhere about it), so, while storyline is important, it's also important to note that there's only so much you can do. You have to work stylistically and etc. in order to overcome any resemblance your story might have to others, that's why character development and technique are so important. You can also weave in other storylines, or make a twist.
Let me see if I can find that book to see if I can find anything to help you. I'll look over your chapters, too, but I honestly think you have a pretty solid storyline. I wouldn't put a definite number of chapters in unless you've plotted it all out.

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-04-15 02:39:04 +0000 UTC]

I haven't completely decided about the chapters either. I might reduce them if I can't think of any fillers for them. That character that Mink ran into in Chapter 2 is actually a full grown man (who's as short as a kid), and he's supposed to appear later and Puck's supposed to become jealous of him because he starts starts flirting with her. (Puck also becomes a bit more protective of her).

I think this could be another storyline that I could put in the story. I don't want too many right now though...

Have you ever heard of the five languages of love? Well, my guidance couselor told me about it (and she told me there's a book on it and that it's in our school library, but I keep forgetting to check it out ), and I think it's so neat!

It's a book describing five different ways people show love! And everyone has a primary and a secondary 'love language', and I thought that would be a great thing to use in my story!

Puck seems to be the 'handy' type (where he shows his love for someone the most through touching), even in the actual Gargoyles TV series! (Well, he never touches anyone that way, but I noticed that even though he can use magic, he still likes using his hands. )

I think that Puck's secondary 'love language' would be 'words of encouragement'.

Mink's love languages are the opposites of Puck's (well, meaning that his second one is her first on and so on.) Sorry I'm talking too much! I just find this so interesting and I just want to find a way to include it into my story. (Although, I think it'll HAVE to be a more show than tell-thing. )

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avaunt In reply to SailorRocket [2009-04-30 06:43:42 +0000 UTC]

I'm going to admit here that I don't remember much of Gargoyles, so I'm not really up to date on the characters. xD
I can't find the book, by the way. )= It's lost somewhere and I honestly don't have a lot of time right now to do research (or sleep, even D, so if you want to look into that you'll have to do it on your own.
It's best to be as brief as possible. Just writing filler to write something there gets annoying. If you want to know why, read Anna Karenina. Oh my God. Good book, horrible read, never ends. xD I mean, you don't want to skimp on writing it all out, but you shouldn't just put in filler so that you have the right number of chapters. That frustrates the reader. Make it have a point.

I never heard of it before, actually, but now that I have it makes total sense. xD
Definitely try to work that in.

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SailorRocket In reply to avaunt [2009-04-30 14:19:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I figured out something I could use for fillers (and came up with two new characters). The new characters have a purpose though. Andromeda is supposed to be the one to talk sense into Mink, Mercury is supposed to be the one to cause Puck to become protective of Mink, and there's another OC I created who doesn't have a name yet. She's a 4-year-old that's supposed to draw them closer when they I have to take her in.

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avaunt In reply to znow-white [2008-07-10 08:36:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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znow-white In reply to avaunt [2008-07-10 09:11:53 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure

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avaunt In reply to Otacon144 [2008-07-09 00:28:41 +0000 UTC]

Of course. ^^ Thanks for the fav/adding to collection thing/whatever it's supposed to be called, now.

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avaunt In reply to scapegoat-comix [2008-06-21 10:54:01 +0000 UTC]

Of course. ;D
My mom used to tell me that one all the time (because she read humongous amounts of writing books in an attempt to start doing her own writing. I don't know. I was just like: LOL MOM I LEARN FROM TRIAL AND ERROR . . . OR NOT) so I'm glad it helped. They're also fantastic for getting ideas.
Which I think I said, but it's been almost a year since I wrote this, so yeah. =B

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scapegoat-comix In reply to scapegoat-comix [2008-06-20 18:08:46 +0000 UTC]

...which was in part 2. Why I am commenting here? Damn

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avaunt In reply to Gemini-Girl [2008-01-31 07:56:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the favs. >3
I'm glad you find it helpful. <33333

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Gemini-Girl In reply to avaunt [2008-01-31 21:15:33 +0000 UTC]

no problem~
It's very helpful indeed

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avaunt In reply to isalin [2008-01-12 04:09:21 +0000 UTC]

>3 Thank you.
OMG, I have done that so many times. xDD I used to get amazing plot ideas, but I can't go anywhere with them unless I like the characters. I don't know, it varies for people, but characters are really what make things happen in my stories. xP I guess it's just because I'm bored to death with plots and people have always been a lot more interesting to me, anyways.

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isalin In reply to avaunt [2008-01-12 09:53:25 +0000 UTC]

its ok
and yeh I get that sometimes as well, where if I dont like the characters I cant do anything with the story.

Good tips anyway

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avaunt In reply to marendins [2007-12-17 02:59:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I'm really happy it helped. That's exactly what it's supposed to do. ^^ Just write it all down and organize it step-by-step and eventually it will get to the point where you feel ready to get it all out there. <3

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marendins In reply to avaunt [2007-12-17 15:30:54 +0000 UTC]

Your words encourage me a lot, thanks ^^

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avaunt In reply to Aaron-Smiley [2007-10-30 01:01:43 +0000 UTC]

Part 2: [link]

I should put a link up. =B OHWELL

I'm glad to be so helpful! I'm always willing to give tips, critiques, or answer questions, so don't be afraid to ask. Hopefully you can get your project up and running.

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Aaron-Smiley In reply to avaunt [2007-10-30 04:20:05 +0000 UTC]

Careful. I might just take you up on that offer!

Thanks for the link! These tutorials have been great!

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avaunt In reply to Aaron-Smiley [2007-10-30 06:04:19 +0000 UTC]

xD That's fine. I go crazy when editing. As long as it's not 52 single-spaced pages of bleur. <<;

Of course. ^^ Thank you for reading and faving them!

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avaunt In reply to willax [2007-10-27 06:29:50 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad it was. >3 Thank you! <3
If you have any questions, just ask. Always happy to help.

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