Post by Xicrog on Oct 9, 2007 20:42:10 GMT -5
The thing with the unessecarily long title is a series of rants and essays on fanstories. Hopefully, you will find it helpful in writing. It's hosted on my LJ, but for now I'll copy-paste the entry on the Fan Project Four (that's the founders of this forum) here.
Since I cannot conclude anything to save my life, this will be a series of posts on Talesfangamestoryprojectthings. The first is- that’d be what you’re reading now- is on the Fan Project Four. The second is a piece on using source materials- that’d be the Tales series- properly, along with some general writing tips. The third…is a secret. It will no doubt be very exciting though. :3
Just so you know; this title is a take off Alas! A Blog, which I read religiously when I was but a wee bright-eyed feminist. I wasn’t always so spiteful, you know. However, despite some minor overarching themes of egalitarianism!yay!* in TaleTrin, TaleVal, and TaleBane, that is utterly irrelevant to this current subject. Okay, so that might be major overarching theme for TaleVal and TaleBane from what I’m predicting, but still…
I’m rambling again and no one has any idea what I’m going on about, me included. So, Talesfangamestoryprojectthings are somewhat of a fad on the Tales of Series Forum where I frequent. It’s basically playing game designer- you take the themes and such from Tales games and create your own original story. I counted nineteen alone in the ToSF, and there are two additional ones hosted on other websites. Admittedly, some are much more original than others, and these are usually the ones that don’t take too heavily from their source material. These are…the Fan Project Four.
*cue dramatic music*
The Fan Project Four dare to go where no Tales fan has gone before. Some of them, like me, tend to get lost along the way because I have a bad sense of direction and whenever someone tries to give me directions I zone out by about the fourth or so step and *brick’d*
Sorry. The FPF are Yoru, with Tales of the One Heart, Midna, with Tales of the Bane, Taslin, with Tales of Valor, and yours truly with the oft-mentioned Tales of the Trinity.
These are the paragraphs where I blurb about the other FPF. Okay, TaleHeart was not the first Talesfangamestoryprojectthing that I read (unfortunately) but it was the first one I ever really gave a darn about. With hilarious gender-inversals (the gentle healer with a dark secret is a guy and the good-natured but slightly dense swordsman is…a swordswoman actually), clever prose, witty dialogue, and brilliant characters, TaleHeart exemplifies everything a Talesfangamestoryprojectthing should be.
TaleVal (written by Taslin and Calyptos_Blade) to my knowledge, is among the first Talesfangamestoryprojectthings to be created. I swear I remember stumbling over a proto-version of it on another forum…Tas, if you’re reading this, am I right here? Back on subject, it appears to be gearing up for one of my favorite ethics-related plot lines- egalitarianism. Though it doesn’t have many chapters yet, those that are up are exceptionally well-written. Taslin and Blade do need some support to keep writing, which means I probably should be getting my reviewer boots on soon.
TaleBane is one of the only stories I’m actively reviewing right now. MF, despite her protests to the contrary, is an exceptional writer and has a great sense of humor. The plot twists are very well-executed, which is extremely important in anything related to Tales. Additionally, her extras- particularly the Gumi Segments and Bane Rangers- are epic win. I take that back, they’re not just epic win, they’re EPIC WIN!!!! Exactly like that, with the exclamation points and CAPS. YAY CAPS. I’ll stop now before I get carried away.
Uh, Tales of the Trinity. I’m writing it. What else am I supposed to say here? It was borne of a late night forum-ing when I was still a ToSF lurker, caffeine, a very old story called Roots to Branches (R2B celebrated its sixth anniversary recently), having to read Dante’s Inferno for junior lit, and the Wicked soundtrack. And anything that comes from that is going to be interesting to say the least. I'm surprised with how well it turned out considering.You’ll get hit over the head with the Dante-ian imagery bat later on, mostly concerning ten as the perfect number, and it’s called Tales of the Trinity. Right now, I’m too infatuated with the egalitarianism!yay! bat. ROFL@Geflings and your horridly unequal society. Which has a good reason behind the inequality. Which I am not beating into your heads at all with the egalitarianism!yay! bat.
…poor Janu. I just realized how neglected he’s being in terms of character development. When his “dad” shows up, he’ll start taking the spotlight. Har, quotation marks! See, it’s kind of like how Zealot is a “dog.” Or how Kaelin and company are “heroes.” Or how Emily’s mom is…whoops, I’ve said too much.
NEKUTSU-POSUTO: Source materials and derivation- how not to overuse Tales precedents! Writing characters that are somewhat interesting and not blatantly a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu. A general DO NOT WANT list of things. Please take with a grain of salt. Kindly avoid dumping the whole shaker though, that is bad luck...
I said I'd edit it for lack of lucidity, but I never did. D:
Since I cannot conclude anything to save my life, this will be a series of posts on Talesfangamestoryprojectthings. The first is- that’d be what you’re reading now- is on the Fan Project Four. The second is a piece on using source materials- that’d be the Tales series- properly, along with some general writing tips. The third…is a secret. It will no doubt be very exciting though. :3
Just so you know; this title is a take off Alas! A Blog, which I read religiously when I was but a wee bright-eyed feminist. I wasn’t always so spiteful, you know. However, despite some minor overarching themes of egalitarianism!yay!* in TaleTrin, TaleVal, and TaleBane, that is utterly irrelevant to this current subject. Okay, so that might be major overarching theme for TaleVal and TaleBane from what I’m predicting, but still…
I’m rambling again and no one has any idea what I’m going on about, me included. So, Talesfangamestoryprojectthings are somewhat of a fad on the Tales of Series Forum where I frequent. It’s basically playing game designer- you take the themes and such from Tales games and create your own original story. I counted nineteen alone in the ToSF, and there are two additional ones hosted on other websites. Admittedly, some are much more original than others, and these are usually the ones that don’t take too heavily from their source material. These are…the Fan Project Four.
*cue dramatic music*
The Fan Project Four dare to go where no Tales fan has gone before. Some of them, like me, tend to get lost along the way because I have a bad sense of direction and whenever someone tries to give me directions I zone out by about the fourth or so step and *brick’d*
Sorry. The FPF are Yoru, with Tales of the One Heart, Midna, with Tales of the Bane, Taslin, with Tales of Valor, and yours truly with the oft-mentioned Tales of the Trinity.
These are the paragraphs where I blurb about the other FPF. Okay, TaleHeart was not the first Talesfangamestoryprojectthing that I read (unfortunately) but it was the first one I ever really gave a darn about. With hilarious gender-inversals (the gentle healer with a dark secret is a guy and the good-natured but slightly dense swordsman is…a swordswoman actually), clever prose, witty dialogue, and brilliant characters, TaleHeart exemplifies everything a Talesfangamestoryprojectthing should be.
TaleVal (written by Taslin and Calyptos_Blade) to my knowledge, is among the first Talesfangamestoryprojectthings to be created. I swear I remember stumbling over a proto-version of it on another forum…Tas, if you’re reading this, am I right here? Back on subject, it appears to be gearing up for one of my favorite ethics-related plot lines- egalitarianism. Though it doesn’t have many chapters yet, those that are up are exceptionally well-written. Taslin and Blade do need some support to keep writing, which means I probably should be getting my reviewer boots on soon.
TaleBane is one of the only stories I’m actively reviewing right now. MF, despite her protests to the contrary, is an exceptional writer and has a great sense of humor. The plot twists are very well-executed, which is extremely important in anything related to Tales. Additionally, her extras- particularly the Gumi Segments and Bane Rangers- are epic win. I take that back, they’re not just epic win, they’re EPIC WIN!!!! Exactly like that, with the exclamation points and CAPS. YAY CAPS. I’ll stop now before I get carried away.
Uh, Tales of the Trinity. I’m writing it. What else am I supposed to say here? It was borne of a late night forum-ing when I was still a ToSF lurker, caffeine, a very old story called Roots to Branches (R2B celebrated its sixth anniversary recently), having to read Dante’s Inferno for junior lit, and the Wicked soundtrack. And anything that comes from that is going to be interesting to say the least. I'm surprised with how well it turned out considering.You’ll get hit over the head with the Dante-ian imagery bat later on, mostly concerning ten as the perfect number, and it’s called Tales of the Trinity. Right now, I’m too infatuated with the egalitarianism!yay! bat. ROFL@Geflings and your horridly unequal society. Which has a good reason behind the inequality. Which I am not beating into your heads at all with the egalitarianism!yay! bat.
…poor Janu. I just realized how neglected he’s being in terms of character development. When his “dad” shows up, he’ll start taking the spotlight. Har, quotation marks! See, it’s kind of like how Zealot is a “dog.” Or how Kaelin and company are “heroes.” Or how Emily’s mom is…whoops, I’ve said too much.
NEKUTSU-POSUTO: Source materials and derivation- how not to overuse Tales precedents! Writing characters that are somewhat interesting and not blatantly a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu. A general DO NOT WANT list of things. Please take with a grain of salt. Kindly avoid dumping the whole shaker though, that is bad luck...
I said I'd edit it for lack of lucidity, but I never did. D: