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Author:  Grizzlykiller [ Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:02 pm ]
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ive thought and decided to make a new story called The Rift basically in 2010 now basically there is an explosion of energy, a ball of energy which is referred to as a second sun it distorts time and sends peoples minds to the future in shockwaves of energy the future is 2020 when people find out that its not the best future a virus has broke out and left 85% of the world into mutants the world has decayed and the skies are red with poison some called it an accident some said it was the rapture and the ball of energy was a warning from god when actually the ball of energy was a rift it was a crack ion time caused by a event that should have happened the shockwaves happened every 3 hours dragging peoples minds from 2010 to 2020 now people had researched and found out that the rift wasnt a warning it was the cause of the rift its self an anomaly which was explained the future was ravaged with radiation caused by the rift which caused people to mutate but the rift then something horrible happened the rift started to grow in size 2010 was becoming 2020 humanity now had to make a choice the way to get rid of the rift is to destory it by destorying the present day at the right moment all of the worlds nuclear weapons could be detonated while the shockwave is happening in which the rift would not consume the world and leave it to a horrible demise with the mutants humaniy could rebuild in 2020 before they the shockwave happened a man burst through the door and said LET IT HAPPEN people questioned what he said but his words were "a rift takes people to parrael universes the people on the other side wernt mutants there us in another universe and the rift is there creation only the side effect is that both universes collided and humanity is been mixed with parrael humanity the only way to correct this is to seal off the rift and the only way to do that is to go into the eye of the storm
LET THE RIFT GROW it will correct everything it will cancel itself out!" the rift grew as people were flung into the rift they could see the rift explode from the inside te rift then flung into its elf and sent out a shockwave of energy as its last bit of enegy flung out of itself people were scarred by the rift some people went mad others went on with there lifes and the rift was just a story to tell there children the end
So whatcha think good

Author:  raziel [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:15 pm ]
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My attempts to teach you grammar have failed TT^TT
Idea of the story, sounded quite generic until the guy jumped through; although similar has been done before, I quite like this version...

Good luck with it ^-^

Malanok

P.S if you need a hand writing it, get a DA account, people on there are always willing to help (even when you don't want them to ^^;)

Author:  SX [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:20 pm ]
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Woah...

-sigh- Where do I begin?

No punctuation, no grammar, it's too cluttered (making it hard to read), it feels a little too generic and doesn't grasp attention to well.

I applaud your first attempt, and by all means, don't stop. All you need to do is just fix some of the errors out there that people will point out to you and make it better.

Author:  Black Eagle [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:17 am ]
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It's interesting, at least at the parts you can read. ;)

I'm afraid it's quite agonizing without punctuation... :-\

Author:  raziel [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:36 pm ]
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grizzlykiller wrote:
I've thought and decided to make a new story called "The Rift"
In 2010 there is an explosion of energy, a ball of energy which is referred to as a "second sun". It distorts time and sends peoples minds to the future in shock-waves of energy; the future is 2020 when people find out that its not the best future. A virus has broke out and left 85% of the world into mutants, the world has decayed and the skies are red with poison. Some called it an accident, some said it was the rapture and the ball of energy was a warning from god, when actually the ball of energy was a rift; it was a crack ion time caused by a event that should have happened. The shock-waves happened every 3 hours, dragging peoples minds from 2010 to 2020. Now people had researched and found out that the rift wasn't a warning, it was the cause of the rift its self an anomaly which was explained. The future was ravaged with radiation caused by the rift, which caused people to mutate. But the rift then something horrible happened, the rift started to grow in size 2010 was becoming 2020. Humanity now had to make a choice; the way to get rid of the rift is to destory it by destorying the present day at the right moment. All of the worlds nuclear weapons could be detonated while the shock-wave is happening, in which the rift would not consume the world and leave it to a horrible demise with the mutants. Humanity could rebuild in 2020. Before they the shock-wave happened a man burst through the door and said:
"LET IT HAPPEN!" People questioned what he said but his words were "a rift takes people to parallel universes the people on the other side weren't mutants, they're us in another universe and the rift is there creation. Only the side effect is that both universes collided and humanity is being mixed with the parallel humanity, the only way to correct this is to seal off the rift and the only way to do that is to go into the eye of the storm.
"LET THE RIFT GROW! It will correct everything! It will cancel itself out!" the rift grew as people were flung into the rift they could see the rift explode from the inside. The rift then flung into itself and sent out a shock-wave of energy, as its last bit of energy it flung out of itself. People were scarred by the rift; some people went mad; others went on with there lives; and the rift was just a story to tell there children...
So whatcha think good


Improved the punctuation, added it in other words, hope this helps

Mal

P.S I know I missed alot... I'm tired -.- zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZzzzzzz

Author:  Industry [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:18 am ]
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After reading it, i couldn't help but think of the DOOM: Repercussions of evil by peter chimaera from FanFiction.net. (only with better spelling and grammar)

Author:  TurdDrive [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:26 am ]
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raziel wrote:

Improved the punctuation, added it in other words, hope this helps

Mal

P.S I know I missed alot... I'm tired -.- zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZzzzzzz



Lol,

Improve a lot more than that,

Author:  Grizzlykiller [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:48 pm ]
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ive decided to make a new story which is based around 2050 and a weapon

i dont know what is called yet but im thinking of a name

okay here goes:
In the early 2040's mankind had far exceeded its technological advances mankind were not playing with sticks nor stones they were playing with god and devices built for destruction by the year 2047 mankind had discovered new elements and atoms to play with but one in particular was not a atom or element that was dark matter the strangest thing in the universe for all our universe is made of matter this was the opposite scientists spent 10 years figuring out how to contain dark matter and the power its possessed a device was finally constructed this device was called the Toshni a glove like metallic armor that fit on a mans hand this power was tremendous and whoever owned it was the inevitable ruler of the world fights broke out and world war some wanted it for the power some wanted to destroy it and rid the earth of it but while the world war was at its highest one man was special he was an anomaly for when dark matter and light matter mix they cancel each other out one man was bonded with dark and light matter a anomaly so rare it is believed to happen only once in 600,000 years this bond can make him nearly 10% faster and stronger than a regular human but this power makes him immune to been obliterated by dark matter but the downsides were that everyone was looking for the toshni and built machines capable of detecting any dark matter in a one mile radius and tracking it down one day that exactly happened he was kidnapped and drugged when he woke up he saw the toshni on his hand and the guards and scientists literally vaporised. he he got up and looked at the toshni and it looked dead he tapped it a few times and suddenly it sprung to life and transduced he nearest was to dust any object that is matter can be transduced to darkmatter which can power the toshni but he wondered what else could it do he put his palm out and jolted it a beam of light fired out and oblitered the nearest wall he knew, he had more to learn about the toshni and what else it could do but firt he had to escape he looked about and saw an exit behind a wall so he transduced it the wall crumbled and exploded he walked out and saw that he was in a milatary base not any military base, he was in Area 51!
Part 2 coming soon im tired ;D
Ill give you some hints for whats to come
i will reveal his name
i will reveal a secret weapon that will end the world war BADLY
i will reveal why the toshni was made and whats it for

Author:  SX [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:57 pm ]
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I still am having trouble reading it.

Please use spacing and punctuation, it'll help your readers out. :-\

Author:  raziel [ Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:12 pm ]
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SX wrote:
I still am having trouble reading it.

Please use spacing and punctuation, it'll help your readers out. :-\

I deciphered the last one... it's your turn ~.^

Mal

P.S still sleepy... I really should stop coming on here at 00.12 in the morning -.-

Author:  SX [ Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:23 pm ]
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No thank you... I'm good... ^^;

Author:  Bjossi [ Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:55 pm ]
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Grizzly, if you are not going to write properly, then you might as well forget about writing stories. Nobody has the patience or will to wade through wordsoups like that. When people read something long like a story, it has to maintain the reader's interest.

But this can hardly be considered a story in my opinion. Even a short story would easily hit the character limit of a post. What you wrote looked more like a first paragraph of a first chapter of a story, where recent events are documented before the plot line is set and first characters introduced.

Author:  raziel [ Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:37 am ]
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I walked through the snow; the trees by the side of the path were quite lush for this time of year. I rearranged the heavy pack on my shoulders. I walked down the familiar track, I stopped once I reached the part of the waist-high stone wall which had cracked; I sat on the flat part and looked back at how far I had travelled. The cold and refreshing wind brushed past me as I and thought about life.
Soon later I got up and continued on my journey, the soft snow crunching beneath my feet. I know that the route I had taken was longer than the route everybody else takes, I didn’t care; this is my route.
I slowed my pace; there was a deer on the track ahead of me. I watched it and it, in turn, looked up at me. She was used to me by now and only moved about ten foot away before she carried on grazing. I walked faster to hurry past; I did not want to spook her now by hanging around too long.
I had almost reached my destination; there was only this last hill until I could see it. I climbed up the hill using the footholds I had made by placing my feet in the same places hundreds of times before.
As I reached the top of the hill there was a bone chilling wolf howl; I turned around and saw that Askari, the deer I had seen earlier, had gone. I turned back and saw my destination, the windows were gleaming orange in the setting sun. Despite the heavy pack on my back I ran down the hill.
I had reached the edge of the gravel driveway when he came around the corner of the wooden cabin; he let out another howl and slowly stalked towards me, ice blue eyes focused on me and were unblinking.
The grey wolf was a meter away from me when it stopped and stared; I walked past it, offering my hand as I passed; he sniffed my hand, once he had decided that I was who he thought I was he licked my fingers. I unloaded the wood from my pack and stored it under the lean-to. By the time I had finished, the wolf had curled up and was peering over it’s back at me.
“Common Genghis, let’s go inside.” I said as I opened the door; Genghis the wolf walked past me and went inside to curl up by the fireplace.

:D my short story from ages ago... general rule, short stories = not much happening

Mal

P.S What is the Character limit btw?

Author:  SX [ Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:32 am ]
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Well, this is an example of a good story. It's easy to read, catches my attention, and though there are a few minor grammar errors, it's not major enough to hinder the story.

:handgestures-thumbupright:

Author:  Grizzlykiller [ Fri Jul 02, 2010 6:53 pm ]
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Okay, i,ll write a story as good as i can okay but I'm going to start a new story only I'm starting the ending first and i will write others and you'll eventually get the plot so ill begin the ending.

"You Cant! not only will you destory their world you'll destroy ours!" "You Underestimate them don't you, they wont stop until EVERY THINGS DEAD!, we have a chance to end these horrible creatures, we have to take it" " Even you know there's no other way, The device i hold in my hand will create a black hole our world and there's will get vaporized, if there is life out there we'l save them" " It doesn't matter anyway they'll come back and end us, like they ended them" He looked at BHB he had in his hand and set it to implode in 5 minutes, enough time for them to return " were doing the right thing, the human race for the rest of the universe"
"OH MY GOD ITS BEHIND YOU!"
"I don't care sometimes you have to face your fears, 10 , 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, ONEEE!" The BHB Imploded and swallowed their planet and ours the human race had ceased to exist, but the creatures which would have haunted the universe, had been obliterated Aswell and so ends the tale of the sacrifice which had saved the universe by one species, and even though the human race were a savage race they gave their life's for the greater good.

i hope that catches your eye!! ;D

Author:  Bjossi [ Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:15 pm ]
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Unless you're going for unrealistic fantasy, this makes absolutely no sense. For a black hole to swallow planet earth as well as the hostile world, it needs to be within our solar system.

Author:  SX [ Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:06 pm ]
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It's.... better. but's there's one big problem.

Why start at the ending? It doesn't make sense and why would anyone want to read it if you're just going to post the end?

Author:  Grizzlykiller [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:26 am ]
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SX its simple people then develop the story, like star wars they started the middle first that's what I'm kinda doing

Author:  ChaosMarine [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:13 am ]
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SX wrote:
It's.... better. but's there's one big problem.

Why start at the ending? It doesn't make sense and why would anyone want to read it if you're just going to post the end?


Unless the ending is the beginning.

Author:  Bjossi [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:00 am ]
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grizzlykiller wrote:
like star wars they started the middle first that's what I'm kinda doing


But George wrote from the start of his idea, to the end. So you're saying that if you had been George Lucas you'd first make episode 6 and then go backwards? That is definitely a good way to make a series flop.

Author:  raziel [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:51 am ]
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ChaosMarine wrote:
Unless the ending is the beginning.

I have seen several good stories where the writer has began from the middle, and in a couple of cases minutes before the end. But I have not read a good story anywhere which starts at the end. David Gemmell, ("The acclaimed king of fantasy") wrote one story set after the story itself, the main character telling it as a story to a dying soldier. He found it too hard and cheated a little:
he wrote one page of Druss (the main Character) sitting on the walls of Dros Delnoch talking to the soldier telling him to hang on until the medics could arrive, Druss told the soldier that he would tell the soldier the tale of his first adventure. Then at the end of the book, the last chapter is back on the walls of Dros Delnoch with Druss telling the end of his tale, when a medic comes over, sits next to Druss and tells him that the soldier had died in Druss's arms as he told his tale. Druss says to the medic that he was telling the story to himself as much as to the soldier...
That was way off topic ^^; but where do you go from there? Unless you want to be quoting the raven with darkness and nothing more, I cannot see how this story could continue.

Grizzle, here are some tips I have learned the hard way with short stories (with some hastily made examples ^-^):
1. build characters the reader can sympathise with, that way you don't have to go into too much detail, for example:
Quote:
The landlord sighed as he heard someone arguing upstairs. Sighing, he lifted his large form off the sofa, pulling his trousers back up.

not an amazing example, but I bet that you have an image of what he looks like in your head.

2. Little story = little action. If you are going to write a short story then think of something small, as you seem to like action I would suggest something like a bar-fight; the most at stake is someone's life, not an entire planet or universe.
Quote:
The scruffy hero at the bar heard them walk in, there heavy footsteps identifying them. They were standing right behind him, waiting for him to turn around. There was a clinking noise as he took a sip of his scotch on the rock, one of the burly men reached for the whisky glass, but the hero smashed the glass into the brutes face, causing the brute to stumble back covering his bleeding nose.
"Gentlemen, mind if we take this outside?" The Hero unbuckled the sheath at his hips as he strolled to the door, the remaining two foes following him closely.


3.Fights. Yes you want to get to them, so do we as the readers, but don't leave us behind! describe every action that will impact the fight: Does the protagonist sidestep around his foe to reach a weapon whilst they are talking? Does he look around the room for a weapon? If so what does he see? It is very unlikely that he would spot the perfect weapon first time, every time.
Quote:
Malcome crept up the long corridors on the dusty catacombs. Elizabeth was at his shoulder constantly for fear of being left behind in the dark. Malcome lowered the burning torch to look at a decoration next to a dead warlock, it was a Golem holding a large, two handed axe. Up the blade of the weapon were runes, written in gold against the cold steel of the blade. Elizabeth could not resist the temptation to touch the blade, to test it's edge.
Nothing happened. Malcome gave her a cold stare of "I told you not to touch!" and she recoiled, stunned. Malcome turned away to continue their journey into the heart of the world, when the axe began to shake within the Golem's grasp.
"Watch Out!" Elizabeth cried as the axe snapped free of the stone grip and flew at Malcome. Malcome dived out the way of the swinging axe, rolling on his shoulder to end in a crouching position. The axe reversed in it's path, approaching Mal's head at a rapid speed. Snatching up a broom which had been rested against the wall, next to a bucket, Mal brought the handle up defensively as a makeshift staff. The axe easily cut through the broom smugly, missing Mal's face by a hair's breadth.
Again and again the axe came at him, each time he dodged it, being forced to back towards the wall. A discarded humerus bone caused Malcome to fall backwards, his head crashing against a sarcophagus. Lizzy screamed at him to move, but he was unconscious as the axe swung down as the invisible assailant commenced the death blow. At the last possible second Malcome's eyes opened and he rolled to the right and the axe embedded itself within the ancient Warlock.
"I told you not to touch." He laughed lightly, out of breath.


4. Sandwiches! Beginning. Middle. End.
Always have these three. The beginning can be one sentence, if you think that you can get the readers up to speed in one sentence. The beginning can just be describing the scene: who is there? Where are they? What are they doing?
Look at the example above, the first two paragraphs set the scene; the third and forth were the meaty centre; the fifth was the end, telling the reader that all was fine again.

5. ALWAYS write in the past tense... it is so much easier!

Hope this helps ^-^

Malanok

P.S Good luck Grizzle, keep it up ^-^

Author:  SX [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:02 am ]
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grizzlykiller wrote:
SX its simple people then develop the story, like star wars they started the middle first that's what I'm kinda doing


True, but they don't give everything away.

grizzlykiller wrote:
The BHB Imploded and swallowed their planet and ours the human race had ceased to exist, but the creatures which would have haunted the universe, had been obliterated Aswell and so ends the tale of the sacrifice which had saved the universe by one species, and even though the human race were a savage race they gave their life's for the greater good.


What you did was give the ending away, now we know that the human race and the alien race is gone. May I ask HOW is this good story telling?

Author:  ChaosMarine [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:37 pm ]
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raziel wrote:
ChaosMarine wrote:
Unless the ending is the beginning.

I have seen several good stories where the writer has began from the middle, and in a couple of cases minutes before the end. But I have not read a good story anywhere which starts at the end. David Gemmell, ("The acclaimed king of fantasy") wrote one story set after the story itself, the main character telling it as a story to a dying soldier. He found it too hard and cheated a little:
he wrote one page of Druss (the main Character) sitting on the walls of Dros Delnoch talking to the soldier telling him to hang on until the medics could arrive, Druss told the soldier that he would tell the soldier the tale of his first adventure. Then at the end of the book, the last chapter is back on the walls of Dros Delnoch with Druss telling the end of his tale, when a medic comes over, sits next to Druss and tells him that the soldier had died in Druss's arms as he told his tale. Druss says to the medic that he was telling the story to himself as much as to the soldier...
That was way off topic ^^; but where do you go from there? Unless you want to be quoting the raven with darkness and nothing more, I cannot see how this story could continue.


When I said that, I meant the story as a flashback. A good example is one of my favorite movies. Forrest Gump. It starts at the "ending" and tells the story up to that point of the "ending", then continues on with the story....
I'm not sure that make's any sense...

Author:  raziel [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:11 am ]
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ChaosMarine wrote:
When I said that, I meant the story as a flashback. A good example is one of my favorite movies. Forrest Gump. It starts at the "ending" and tells the story up to that point of the "ending", then continues on with the story....
I'm not sure that make's any sense...

Yes, it does make sense ^-^

Mal

P.S I am very tired recently... What I write might not make sense...

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