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Oh wow. O_o

Good luck, Star. Hopefully that won't end in disaster.

All right, y'all, first story is up.

Only a little Tamaki this time, though. Sorry.

*leaves this topic alone after this*

Quote from: FallenStar on July 14, 2008, 02:44:36 AM
I don't think that's true at all. I think you can get plenty wet in the Sphere Pool because Yuna talks about holding her breath in "Another Story" (I think that's what it's called) that was prior to FFX-2.  And they do mention in FFX that the best blitzers "sleep underwater", plus a lot of the teams actually practice *in* water, so more than likely, the Sphere Pool is water too...

It could very well be the sphere liquid or another liquid. Either way, if we're talking realistically the players couldn't breathe anyway (not that holding your breath for five minutes while playing an intense sport is realistic). And it's often to your advantage to train in harder conditions than you would normally ? take weight-training in combat arts, for example, or the practice of using a mouthpiece with a wider and deeper cup on a brass instrument while practicing most of the time (which makes it harder to play high notes and to produce a good tone), and a smaller, shallower one when performing. So if the water makes it harder to move around, the players will find themselves soaring in the sphere-liquid by comparison.

QuotePeeing Tama-Chan

Well, that's a given. Not the first fic I'll write, but it's one of the three ideas I've been juggling since I mentioned Bamboo Blade on Animegirldesp.

QuoteSome sort of dom/sub story involving MiyaMiya and Satori

Same for this.

Hello,

I'm currently working on a Bamboo Blade fanfic; do you think we could add a category for the series?

Main female characters are (in English name order, meaning family name second):
- Tamaki Kawazoe
- Kirino Chiba
- Miyako Miyazaki
- Sayako Kuwahara
- Satori Azuma

Main male characters:
- Yūji Nakata
- Danjūrō Eiga

Except for Kenzaburō Ishibashi (kendo coach), the other characters in Machido and Seimei high schools (see the wiki article) are all other girls in kendo clubs, and Rin Suzuki is another. They're all minor characters.


P.S. If you're wondering about my post count, I mostly lurk on this site... same for Nyou 2, although I have contributed a little. I'm more active on the animegirldesp forums...

Strongly agree with Toasty. Read, and pay a bit more attention than usual to the author's writing style. Learn by example: how writers string ideas together, how they utilize description, action and dialogue and how they bring them together into a coherent narrative, etc.

Keep to proper spelling, grammar and established rules for writing narratives (e.g. start a new line whenever a new character speaks in dialogue, punctuating dialogues, use of correct and consistent verb tenses (depending on if the narrative is written in the present or past), etc.). Don't rely on an automatic spell-check to correct your language, either; although glancing errors will be caught by it, they're not reliable otherwise.

Also, don't force it. Don't push metaphors or similes in just for the sake of it, don't use two hundred different words for the same idea, don't use big words when a diminutive one will suffice. Yes, reusing a word over and over again makes for burdened, uninteresting writing and detracts from the story, but the opposite is no better.

Quoth Ernest Hemingway,
Does [Faulkner] really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.


Also, yay, first post on the forums.