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[Gilgamesh1138]

Aw thanks Ette! hmm, yes I have. This one, it was the first one that told me I actually drew emotions from them with my story telling:

"I must say that I love this story very much. You pull out my emotions with ease: I cried during Alistair's funeral, laugh at his jokes, etc. etc. You are a lovely writer and I am sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the next update." ~ Akane- Yamabuki

This review just gets me where I live. I should print it out and frame it, like a first dollar bill made from your first job.

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 23 avril 2010 - 05:16 .

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

The most touching one I remember was one that was sent via PM in a forum...sadly I don't have a copy of it and the forum in question has been down for some time due to server issues. It was from a guy who had read and commented on some of my stuff several years before, but he contacted me again upon recognising my forum name and thanked me for writing fanfiction as it had inspired him to do drama writing at school, which he was doing really well at and enjoying.

It's stuff like this that make you think how much of an effect you can have on others if you just share your gifts. Good things can happen in the simplest of ways and the strangest of places,

...and to those people out there who scorn fanfiction as a waste of time...well, I'm just going to smirk at them. They know nothing.

**Edit: Oh, and while I wouldn't call this next one of the most touching reviews, I have to call it one of the most awesome. It was posted when I updated an Ultima fanfic after a 2-3 year hiatus due to dialogue writing work:

MelG: "*Stares in disbelief. Blinks. Checks* YOU UPDATED! *Does happy dance*. Knowing that you've been busy with Lazarus hasn't stopped me checking this every couple of months. The funny thing was, tonight I wasn't checking for updates, I was showing a friend how long it had been since you'd updated. I think I scared her when I started screaming happily. :D"

Makes me grin inanely every time I read it.

Modifié par Shadow of Light Dragon, 23 avril 2010 - 05:27 .

[Tasmen]

*bites*

"I'm going to use this golden opportunity to offer a well deserved praise
and/or tips for improvement. Except not the latter because it's
wonderful. YOU'RE wonderful. Well done. Even though you have over a
hundred reviews (and countless favorites I'm sure) I hope your humor/wit
gets the appreciation it deserves. Seriously, you make the most random
things work. There are these really minor details or words you use
sometimes that pop and make me nod approvingly. Some of the chapter
titles for example! You rock at "big picture" stuff as well. Thirty-one
chapters and I'm the opposite of bored. You've even inspired me to
regurgitate a little one-shot of my own. You're a God."

That review?  Totally made me happy.  I mean who doesn't like being called a God?  I know my husand does.

[soignee]

maybe I should go read my reviews, as I just wrote an emo little post at why I can't seem to write.

[Gilgamesh1138]

Aw, do I need to get out my can of "Goblin B Gone" for the Goblin of Self Doubt that is plaguing you? Damn little blighters! They can be a persistent little ****** heads. X D

[Tasmen]

soignee wrote...

maybe I should go read my reviews, as I just wrote an emo little post at why I can't seem to write.

This is what works for me sometimes.  Read your reviews AND go back and re-read the story.  Re-reading, while it can produce a bunch of oh my god moments that result in you going on an editing rampage, can also put you back into the characters' heads and help you get a writing again.  

[Gilgamesh1138]

You do that too? I felt like an egotist. I like to reread reviews and go back about 10 chapters and read up to current.

[Tarante11a]

"'Rogue on the Rocks' is a jolly good read. Comparable to Tolkien at his best" - The Times Sunday Book Review.



*giggles* sorry x)

[odiedragon]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

Odie, I wonder what your author friend thinks of *published* fanfiction? *points towards the shelves upon shelves of Star Wars novels penned by various authors*

Honestly?  I'm not sure, it's never come up.  And that was the justification my husband used when after a week went by and I hadn't told him why I was glued to my laptop every night typing away.  A lot of authors get their start that way.

George is an old salt among writers though, so as much as I respect him you have to take his views and shine a bit of modern light on them.

[odiedragon]

EtteStarz wrote...
I don’t think you give yourself enough credit here.  Just because you didn’t create the world’s foundation doesn’t mean you’re not embracing the writing and creative process.  There are plenty of published writers who have made their living adding to or expanding on previous works or the ground work of others.  Even the literary fathers – Virgil and Shakespeare for example – were inspired by or appropriated the works of others.  Every story’s been written in one form or another and it’s how you tell it that makes it “different.”  Good lord, Dragon Age itself borrows heavily from all sorts of places. 

Of course it does.  Duncan himself is a homage (I believe) to Ser Duncan the Tall.  In fact there's a lot of Song of Ice and Fire themes that could be said inspired DA.  Hello, Jon Snow, man of the unknown mother who may be a lost Targaryen heir?

But there's a difference between being inspired by and pulling from similar tropes, to just taking someone else's sandbox and building a castle in it.  It's not *wrong*, unless the author/creator says so.  It's just different.  And easier.  You're playing with someone else's toys, rather than crafting your own from scratch.

I guess what I meant was the *whole* of the process, as in starting from scratch.  That part's already done for you, and you take the ball and run with it.  Much easier than growing the rubber tree toget the rubber to make the ball in the first place.

[Gilgamesh1138]

LOL, I like the rubber analogy odie! And it started the 7th grader in my head giggling, you said rubber, tee hee. X D

[Maria13]

odiedragon wrote...

Of course it does.  Duncan himself is a homage (I believe) to Ser Duncan the Tall.  In fact there's a lot of Song of Ice and Fire themes that could be said inspired DA.  Hello, Jon Snow, man of the unknown mother who may be a lost Targaryen heir?

But there's a difference between being inspired by and pulling from similar tropes, to just taking someone else's sandbox and building a castle in it.  It's not *wrong*, unless the author/creator says so.  It's just different.  And easier.  You're playing with someone else's toys, rather than crafting your own from scratch.

I guess what I meant was the *whole* of the process, as in starting from scratch.  That part's already done for you, and you take the ball and run with it.  Much easier than growing the rubber tree toget the rubber to make the ball in the first place.

Just reading "A Game of Thrones", now...  DA, what did you do to me???

And the overlap is considerable.

[Maria13]

EtteStarz wrote...

I’m not a connoisseur of fan fiction so I can’t really speak about the “genre.”  However, from a writer’s perspective the debate about what defines a work as “original” seems endless and it depends on the piece itself.  I mean, exactly what are the boundaries of literary appropriation?  I go back to Virgil primarily because I think he gets shafted a lot by Homer fanatics.  So what if Homer created the world and wrote about the Trojans first?  So what if he uses Homer’s foundation for his own tale?  Does this automatically brand Virgil as a talentless hack because he didn’t do it first?  Maybe some people think so, but I certainly don’t. 

We all have our opinions what is “good” work, and we each struggle with our own ideas, literary skills and doubt demons (this posting explains why they’re the baddies in my fan fiction). 

I just don’t want your creativity to be stifled by some of these, at times, arbitrarily defined parameters.  And I'd like to give people their due respect for their creavity.  It's so much easier to criticize than to create.  Which is what I need to return to now. 

As I understood it there never was a "Homer" oh, there might have been a Homer alpha but actually the Illiad and the Odyssey were a collective effort by many generations of bards...  The original Fan Fic, really, and the themes, revenge, love, glory in battle, sex, slash...  Very much the same.

And Shakespeare stole all his plots...

Modifié par Maria13, 23 avril 2010 - 04:48 .

[Gilgamesh1138]

I love the Odyssey, one of my favorite stories. Illiad not so much.



*sigh* My mom and dad are coming into town today, so my fanfic has to be put on hold somewhat. Which is fine as I love my parents, but no fix for my review addiction and my bar graph will take a nose dive. Plus I am doing a pen and ink drawing of my PC Kai from my story in Bic pen, instead of writing my next chapter. *slaps self*

[Maria13]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

I love the Odyssey, one of my favorite stories. Illiad not so much.

*sigh* My mom and dad are coming into town today, so my fanfic has to be put on hold somewhat. Which is fine as I love my parents, but no fix for my review addiction and my bar graph will take a nose dive. Plus I am doing a pen and ink drawing of my PC Kai from my story in Bic pen, instead of writing my next chapter. *slaps self*

Illiad all the way for me...

[Gilgamesh1138]

LOL, to much naming of soldiers and too much testosterone for me. I mean I like the Iliad as a great work of literature, but the Odyssey has all those exotic places and creatures. Hehe.

[Maria13]

But the Illiad has blood and guts and sex and jealousy and Achilles gets to call his King "Dog face" in one of the early stanzas... Love the naming too, know what happened next to Philotectes??? And what of Pentasilea, queen of the amazons? How did Cassandra die?

[Tarante11a]

@Maria13 - Hurrah for the Iliad - although I have this weird fondness for The Cataloguing of the Ships bit, which most people find really boring. I also like it when it tells you who killed who because they saw them killing their friend and become 'wroth'. All gets very silly and RAAAR. And the gods are looking on and joining in. It was the reason I actually enjoyed the film Troy, even though they arsed around with the story in an unforgivable way, the fact that they made Achilles a pouty, spoiled, sulky '8 year old' was spot on to me.

The Aeneid is good too but Aeneas is a bit of a sh*tbag and Dido shouldn't go about throwing herself on pyres at the drop of a hat. Move on luv!

Modifié par Tarante11a, 23 avril 2010 - 05:39 .

[Maria13]

Tarante11a wrote...

@Maria13 - Hurrah for the Iliad - although I have this weird fondness for The Cataloguing of the Ships bit, which most people find really boring. I also like it when it tells you who killed who because they saw them killing their friend and become 'wroth'. All gets very silly and RAAAR. And the gods are looking on and joining in. It was the reason I actually enjoyed the film Troy, even though they arsed around with the story in an unforgivable way, the fact that they made Achilles a pouty, spoiled, sulky '8 year old' was spot on to me.

The Aeneid is good too but Aeneas is a bit of a sh*tbag and Dido shouldn't go about throwing herself on pyres at the drop of a hat. Move on luv!

Wroth???  That's not the Homers that's a flat footed translation.

I also did not think that "Troy" was that bad...  The dudes were wearing hairnets, right under the helmets gold mesh hairnets...

[Tarante11a]

@Maria13 - yes x) I'm afraid I am a thicky when it comes to languages so no proper classics for me. And, if I'm honest, I can't remember if my translation even used the word 'wroth.' I shouldn't have made it look like a quote. Humble apologies from me!

[Gilgamesh1138]

I think one of the reasons I didn't like the Iliad was that Achilles was a whiny brat, and Aggamemnon was an a** hat. The only loveable person was Odysseus. I have never had much use for jocks, and the Iliad is full of them. I prefer brainy geeks like Ody. ROFL.