<!--QuoteBegin-Cold-NiTe+Sep 20 2004, 01:33 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Sep 20 2004, 01:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I was thinking about participating, but I think I might just have to sit this one out and watch how it goes. That's not to say I won't enjoy it though.
Oh and Quaunaut, I was just teasing. You volunteering for a moderator position before he even asked struck me as jumping the gun so I responded in kind. I'm actually glad that there are several people who are willing to participate in this. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Like I say, that lack of patience, not modesty.
Maybe swifty but take that interesting character and put them in an interesting/original environment and you end up with something infinitely more exciting than a good creamy center wrapped in a crunchy cliche shell <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Sep 20 2004, 01:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Sep 20 2004, 01:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cold-NiTe+Sep 20 2004, 01:33 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Sep 20 2004, 01:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I was thinking about participating, but I think I might just have to sit this one out and watch how it goes. That's not to say I won't enjoy it though.
Oh and Quaunaut, I was just teasing. You volunteering for a moderator position before he even asked struck me as jumping the gun so I responded in kind. I'm actually glad that there are several people who are willing to participate in this. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Like I say, that lack of patience, not modesty. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> No it was <i>lack of modesty</i>. Because he asked for a semi-prestigious position like that. Oh god you killed it.
Gem, Have you read Margaret Atwood's <i>A Good Man is Hard to Find</i>? Case and point, boring characters, boring/cliche surroundings, great discriptive language and great character development surrounding story rich plot twists = Absolutly increadible work of fiction. Good writing isn't who you do it to, or where you put them, good writing is how you do it. (that said, I'm not trying to argue that you are compleatly wrong, just that I don't think it really matters. I'm a as much a proponent of tolkenesk discriptive fiction as the next guy)
Cold, sorry, I didn't mean to kill it, I just didn't think that it was that much a stretch in modesty for a dedicated contributor to a concept to ask for mod status. Quana is a natural leader, I really won't mind working under him becuase I know from experiance that he rarely lets it get to his head. I probably couldn't do so well were I to have the position (not to say I would to poorly, I just doubt my abilitys more then Q's)
Tolkein took things a bit <b>too</b> far. Much like Cliver barker they both sometimes get a bit too obsessive and jump off the cliff; I find lighter but still deep description writers like Stephen King and James Herbert more my kinda inspirations =3 Games Workshop has many talented writers as well strangely... I'd often find myself grabbing the rulebooks just to read the snippets they add in for background padding as they can often be an unholy good read XD
Um... but yeah... I just believe in making everything cool if possible rather than relying on certain parts to carry the bad =P
I still am yet to read some Stephen King, unfortuneately during the course of my literary studies in high school I missed out on many of the great popular artists of our day, I really need to get around to reading some of them...
For the record, I absolutly love Tolkeins writing style, and mirror it a fair bit in my own writing. The big problem I have with Tolkein is that he paces terribly, like cold says, spend an hour to describe a blade of grass, and that is in the middle of a fight <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->. I try to get the reader to have an emersive understanding of the setting they are reading about, without slowing down the experiance unessicarily. For example, when writing a lazy morning, I might spend 2 sentences discribing the toothbrush the character is brushing thier teeth with (do it without saying toothbrush, its so much cooler that way <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) but in an action scene, entire moves, or happenings get summed up into three word strings. Anyways, you will see more what I mean when I acctually get to write something
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Oh and Quaunaut, I was just teasing. You volunteering for a moderator position before he even asked struck me as jumping the gun so I responded in kind. I'm actually glad that there are several people who are willing to participate in this. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Like I say, that lack of patience, not modesty.
Oh and Quaunaut, I was just teasing. You volunteering for a moderator position before he even asked struck me as jumping the gun so I responded in kind. I'm actually glad that there are several people who are willing to participate in this. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Like I say, that lack of patience, not modesty. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No it was <i>lack of modesty</i>. Because he asked for a semi-prestigious position like that. Oh god you killed it.
Cold, sorry, I didn't mean to kill it, I just didn't think that it was that much a stretch in modesty for a dedicated contributor to a concept to ask for mod status. Quana is a natural leader, I really won't mind working under him becuase I know from experiance that he rarely lets it get to his head. I probably couldn't do so well were I to have the position (not to say I would to poorly, I just doubt my abilitys more then Q's)
In any case, has camo.0 said how far he has gotten on that introduction?
Games Workshop has many talented writers as well strangely... I'd often find myself grabbing the rulebooks just to read the snippets they add in for background padding as they can often be an unholy good read XD
Um... but yeah... I just believe in making everything cool if possible rather than relying on certain parts to carry the bad =P
For the record, I absolutly love Tolkeins writing style, and mirror it a fair bit in my own writing. The big problem I have with Tolkein is that he paces terribly, like cold says, spend an hour to describe a blade of grass, and that is in the middle of a fight <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->. I try to get the reader to have an emersive understanding of the setting they are reading about, without slowing down the experiance unessicarily. For example, when writing a lazy morning, I might spend 2 sentences discribing the toothbrush the character is brushing thier teeth with (do it without saying toothbrush, its so much cooler that way <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) but in an action scene, entire moves, or happenings get summed up into three word strings. Anyways, you will see more what I mean when I acctually get to write something
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It's suicide to get addicted to this project with my rocky entry to university, but damn, I'm game!
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