Story Contest IV Rules

[Jimmy Olsen]

Orpheum: I read and reviewed your entry.  Can you direct me to a place where I can find photos of the girls in W.I.T.C.H.?  I've never seen the show and can't find pics by searching.

Poowrite: This raccoon freaked me out, since it was on the porch outside the window right behind me.  That it, if it was really a raccoon. My story is now 5,400 words and still not done.  Stupid expanding story ideas...

[Poowrite]

Just read your story, Orpheum. Glad you decided to enter, despite prefering pooping stories .

Jimmy,
http://tv.disney.go.com/jetix/witch/characters/index.html
has character profiles along with a single pic of the girls.

hmmm, I'm slacking. My story sits at a measley 1K words. I guess I better get some work done on it now.

Good luck with the sneaky critter living outside your house ^^

[OrpheumZero]

Raccoons eh? My uncle actually has made something of pets out a family of the critters up in Maine. Every night he makes them sandwiches and they stand by the porch and wait, then hold out their paws to recieve the treat. It's funny as hell, and hopefully my Grandmother (who goes up there every now and then) will have the brains to get it on tape for America's funniest home videos.

[Jimmy Olsen]

Okay, so I just posted my entry.  There are probably lots of mistakes in it, and I was going to proofread it before I posted it, but now I just want to be done with it for a while.  I don't know how a story with 2 characters and 1 setting could take so long to write. 

Jimmy,
http://tv.disney.go.com/jetix/witch/characters/index.html
has character profiles along with a single pic of the girls.

Whoa...this isn't Japanese, is it?

The fic mentions battle uniforms but these pics just have them in regular clothes. 

[FallenStar]

I unno, but if it says tv.disney, it doesn't strike me as being Japanese.  :p



FallenStar

[Anime Lover]

Okay, so I just posted my entry.  There are probably lots of mistakes in it, and I was going to proofread it before I posted it, but now I just want to be done with it for a while.  I don't know how a story with 2 characters and 1 setting could take so long to write. 

Jimmy,
http://tv.disney.go.com/jetix/witch/characters/index.html
has character profiles along with a single pic of the girls.

Whoa...this isn't Japanese, is it?

The fic mentions battle uniforms but these pics just have them in regular clothes. 

heres the opening to W.I.T.C.H.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY6PBq7e-xA&mode=related&search=witch

I love this show ^_^

[Jimmy Olsen]

FallenStar: Yeah, I got that. It just came as a surprise since the way the fic read made me assume it was a Japanese mahoutsukai anim?.

Anime Lover: Thanks.  Now I can picture the girls.  I may reread the fic now.

Everybody: Read my new fic!  ;D

[Poowrite]

W.I.T.C.H. originated in France, I think. It's not a bad thing, though. Avatar comes from America and is, in my opinion, better than any animation from Japan ^^.

Will read it tonite, after werk, scout's honor!

Okay, so I just posted my entry.  There are probably lots of mistakes in it, and I was going to proofread it before I posted it, but now I just want to be done with it for a while.  I don't know how a story with 2 characters and 1 setting could take so long to write. 

I feel your pain. My story is up to 2K words, about five pages, features one character and two settings and is already shaping up to be my longest fic evar.

[FallenStar]

I feel your pain. My story is up to 2K words, about five pages, features one character and two settings and is already shaping up to be my longest fic evar.

Five pages is your longest fic evar?!  O_o;


Damn... don't I feel wordy....  My shortest fics are around 6 or 7 pages...   *sweatdrop*   



FallenStar

[OrpheumZero]

 ;D Don't see nothing wrong with some non-Japanese stuff. Just as Poowrite said, we've got Avatar and a few other series. Totally Spies has French origins as does Code Lyoko and technically Metroid could be considered American-made now since the developement isn't completely Japanese anymore if I recall right.
And Teen Titans is definately not anime, even if it does try to be. 

Frankly it's nice to not limit the site to Japanese since it helps to bring a greater range of fetish fics based on our favorite series. I think the only reason why most people don't like the pics is usually because porn based off of Western toons usually have poor design, either failing to reach the stylized look of the show or simply coming off as totally retarded looking (Pick almost any porn made on an American and it almost always sucks).

One series I would love to see having a scat fic based on would be Reboot. It just makes you wonder exactly how the characters void themselves, since we already know they require food and other comsumables. And the fact that Dot and Andrea and Mouse were hot   

As for story length, I seem to average from about 10k to 20-odd usually. Though my shortest is only 9k. With my Tenchi story being the longest yet (60K).

[Poowrite]

I just read and reviewed your fic Jimmy. Great work, based off the three entries we have already things could be pretty close.

Fallen Star: I tend to write very short fics, so five pages halfway-ish through is pretty long for me .

OrpheumZero: Avatar isn't really anime either, since most anime fans I've talked to only consider it anime if it came from Japan, but it doesn't try nearly as hard to be anime as Teen Titans did, I don't think ^^.

[Jimmy Olsen]

Okay, covering a few different topics in this post...

What kind of pages are we talking about?  Files on my word processor have about 620 words per single-spaced page, half that for a double-spaced page.  The average paperback novel has about 490 words per page, but in practice it comes to about 310, since there are so many blank and partly blank pages.  I just like to count in words.  My average complete story here is 6,300 words.  I'm not even going to venture a guess as to what figure I'd get if I averaged all my stories.

I didn't say there was anything wrong with American stuff.  I was just surprised W.I.T.C.H. wasn't Japanese, since Orpheum's fic had a Japanese "feel."

Thanks for the review, Poowrite.  I feel much more confident about this story now.  I wrote a response explaining my theory behind Tau's behavior, if you care to read it.  I don't know who has read it so far, but if you're having trouble understanding the dialog I can post the glossary of future lingo I made for myself while writing it.

This contest is getting a good turnout.  It looks like all the others had 2 or 3 entries.  This one already has 3 entries and a guaranteed 4th.  It would be really cool if we could get 7 entries (I think that's the number of regular contributors).

[Poowrite]

Page = 1 page on a word processor with all the default margins. I don't have a lot of white space due to conversation either, since there is only one main character and I kinda suck at dialog 

I mis-understood "Woah ... it isn't Japanese is it"  . Usually when I hear that it means that no matter how much the speaker liked it before realizing it wasn't from Japan, afterwards it's only "okay" or worse.

For the record, I've got my account set up to email me when I get a response to my review so I always read them. Sometimes, I wish there was a "Respond to a response" option .

The reasoning behind Tau's behavior makes sense, and I figured that's what it was. The apology is what bothered most about it, maybe that's because I was hoping Tau would deck Zeta...

I followed the dialog fairly well, I believe. The characters' reactions were usually enough to tip me off to the meaning of any slang. One question, though: Zeta, pronounced like "Beta" with a "Z" instead of a "B" right?

I assume you mean mine for the guaranteed fourth. If so, I swear it's coming but I don't know how well it'll be received. Honestly, there isn't much peeing action. I thought about scraping it, but decided that if I did that I'd never get around to finishing one. I figure I'll wrap it up and take my lumps when I post it  .

Anyway, if anyone here has yet to read Anime Lover, Orpheum or Jimmy's Contest IV story then you are cheating yourself and should go enjoy them!

[Jimmy Olsen]

Yes, Beta, Zeta, Eta, and Theta are all supposed to rhyme and be pronounced with a French acute "E" (so they rhyme with "gate-a") in proper scientific terminology.  However Greek letters get pronounced various different ways so I wanted to make it clear.  On British television I've heard "Beta" pronounced with an English long "E," so it rhymes with "P.E.T.A."  So maybe there are regional variations.

Yes, I meant your fic when I said we had a guaranteed 4th.  It also sounds like you also have other interesting ideas for future use.

[OrpheumZero]

W.I.T.C.H I believe uses some Anime influences in the same vein as Avatar and Samurai Jack, not quite wanting to be (Totally Spies) or acting like it is when it's not (Teen Titans). It presents a design that makes it distinct from others, but still has those traces of being inspired, much like how Code Lyoko isn't imitating anime as much as it is being something unique by at least borrowing elements to build itself on.

It is nice to see that the whole 'blantantly rip-off anime staples' didn't become as rampant as most people feared it would. Samurai Jack I think is to thank for that because it was influenced by the Eastern style animation style and cultural cinema, but was able to blend some of the more Western atmospheres (Western showdown like battles, slap-stick antics that everyone could understand). Avatar could seen as raising that bar and further blending the lines between the two mediums (much like how a Miyazaki film combines a whimsical Disney feel with Japanese flair).