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Dec. 9th, 2005 02:03 amRecently I've posting fanfic again on the Terinu forum. It's been fun, and I'll admit I enjoy the egoboo. Folks there like what I write, and they say so, even if it's just "Oh, that's cool." But recently my latest story has been getting even better comments.
(roughly paraphrasing here.)
Chapter Five: "No! She can't really be dead!" [1]
Chapter Eight: (concerning the bad guy's motives for conquering the Earth) "Y'know, he's actually got a good point."
Man, when a writer can make the readers agree with the villian's point of view that is golden.
[1] The nice thing was, this was concerning an original character, not one of Peta's, whom readers would automatically be sympathetic to.
Edit: And now Peta did an illustration based on the latest scene. Happy, happy, joy, joy!!! Link: http://www.terinu.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=568
(roughly paraphrasing here.)
Chapter Five: "No! She can't really be dead!" [1]
Chapter Eight: (concerning the bad guy's motives for conquering the Earth) "Y'know, he's actually got a good point."
Man, when a writer can make the readers agree with the villian's point of view that is golden.
[1] The nice thing was, this was concerning an original character, not one of Peta's, whom readers would automatically be sympathetic to.
Edit: And now Peta did an illustration based on the latest scene. Happy, happy, joy, joy!!! Link: http://www.terinu.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=568
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Date: 2005-12-10 11:45 am (UTC)Seriously I am really enjoying this. Though you KILLED RACHAEL!!! I thought I'd better add that. Though it's great when something like that happens. It gives the reader that slightly unstable feeling that it's not going to be a predictable plot line and anything can happen.
And I LOVE how you portrayed the Gene Mage, both in his attitude towards Mark and his affection for the little pink haired ferin. It is exactly how I picture him to be.
I'm glad you liked the pic. It was one of those things that i just had to draw.
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Date: 2005-12-11 08:30 am (UTC)And I'm glad you like the way I'm doing the Gene Mage. Of the two Varn we've seen, he's at least a bit more sympathetic than Dream Stalker (though he did in fact order Gisko to ambush and kill all of those pirates.) I fear his grandfatherly image is going to be a little bit tattered in the next few chapters though.
Heh.
My one regret about this sotry is I can't figure a place to shoehorn in an appearance by Samaneus from "Origin of the Species."