Christisright wrote:Crap! why ain't anyone replying! This is Good stuff people. Worthy of the Sci-Fi Genre.
USSRGirl wrote:... Perhaps it's the somewhat sickening aura of egotism that surrounds this thread, the numerous typos and/or broken sentences, and Witch Hunter Robin similarities that are turning people off?
Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Well let's see, you have a baby becoming magical sorceress who fight for justice, truth, hotcakes and cinnabuns and all that good jazz. Not only that but she seems to have some sort of "extra-special" ability that seems to be exclusive to her. You have some organization that's battling some other organization for who knows why, and you have this special girl becoming some leader that's going to bring peace and harmony and fuzzy feelings towards the land.
It's kind of overdone.
USSRGirl wrote:... Perhaps it's the somewhat sickening aura of egotism that surrounds this thread, the numerous typos and/or broken sentences, and Witch Hunter Robin similarities that are turning people off?
LadyRushia wrote:Hi ^_^
I think your idea is good; it's cliched, but it's good.
First, I'd like to start off with a question. Why do you capatalize almost every word in your sentences(ex: It's All Good In The Hood)?
Now for my thoughts. I understand that this is just a summary, but hopefully you'll find these tips helpful when you get to writing everything out.
The first thing that I think would really help you out is, as someone previously mentioned, the physical appearance of your work. Your post was a wall of text, and there's also that excessive capatalization thing that I mentioned before. It's fine if you want to type that way on regular posts and stuff, but for summaries and other creative work it would be best to only capatalize when necessary. I know this was also mentioned before, but make separate paragraphs. Your summary seems to cover many events in the story, and it would be a lot easier for people to understand it if each event had it's own little paragraph.
Next is spelling and grammar. Temmy mentioned this before and she's right. Spell-check is a great tool that makes the editing process much easier(though it doesn't catch *every* error, so you still have to be careful). Grammar can be difficult for a lot of people, especially the technical grammar(where to use commas, how and when to use semi-colons, etc.). As you keep writing, though, you eventually pick up on most of this and there are other people out there who can help you with grammar.
Now for the actual story. It's perfectly find to have a cliched story, BUT in order for it to become something unique, you need to add your own little twists, sub-plots, symbolism, etc. In fact, most if not all stories have a cliched skeleton, but because of all the extra details that the author added two stories that may have the same *very* basic plot idea will be completely different.
I've never seen Witch Hunter Robin, so I'm not sure how much you took/didn't take from this series, but judging by the other posts it appears that there are noticeable similarities(which is something you want to avoid as much as possible). If your story and an already published story has many close similarities, you could get in trouble for plagarism. It's okay to be inspired and to borrow things from the stories that inspire you(heck, *every* writer has to do that). What you do is you take so many elements from real life, books, manga, anime, T.V., movies, whatever and by the time you mix it all up you have something original. It's okay for a story to start out looking a lot like your inspirations, but as more details come to mind it should eventually be able to stand on its own as a unique piece.
One more thing; as a writer, you really want to be humble when you're presenting your work. No one can really "strut they're stuff" until they've sold a best-seller that millions of people have read(and there are a couple authors who have made it big yet have no "stuff" to "strut," if you know what I mean). If you have an atittude that's like, "My work is the best thing in the world and no one will ever beat me!" then you can put yourself in a not-so-desirable position. I know that you apologized earlier for coming across as big-headed, but the next time you show someone something that you've written, you must be *very* modest. As others have mentioned, that atittude drives people away. Just be more careful in the future and you'll be just fine
Writing is an art that takes practice, and the only way to improve is to listen to what other people say about your work and keep writing.
~Rushia
Thanks,Rushia. The Intro I just Posted is in what I call the Beta-stage. I The Final Intro and Story is better. I'm learning how to become a better writer On-Line.
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