- Posted
- Oct 15th 2007
- Mood
- Tired
- Music
- "Boy Crazy" - New Found Glory
What do you think are the "trademarks" of the fiction that I write? What type of themes or characterization notes or quirks keep on manifesting in my writing? Essentially, what do you think is a stereotypically "Kay" way of writing fiction?
Stolen from...various people.
Minstrel Ayreon Says:
I would say that a Kay story has a wonderful balance between humor and seriousness, as well as fantastic action sequences and a vivid world to serve as the backdrop for them.
The Kay's work is very character-based, with plots revolving around and arising from the players. You're not afraid to laugh at them, even the most serious ones.
Very rich details, like you want to be painting, but your pigments are made of words. Really image-heavy, that way. You swing between kickass action scenes, and calmer character development scenes, with a lot of emphasis on humor. That humor heightens, and is heightened by, some truly dark, serious moments full of emotional tension.
And you always have a cool black guy, and a sassy lady.
Uronoro Says:
....again, i say, daunting question. I feel like I'm in a graded critique class
, which probably explains why it took me this long to answer it.
)(kidding, he ain't late at all, i actually really like the way you've introduced the world so far, you've actually got me to hate vampires for a moment, which means you did a pretty damn good job at making their evilness surpass their current-culturally fed coolness 
... ...>> don't tell Kronos i called his kind 'cool', he'd never let me live it down 
).
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. (it's all that glowing... glowing trees, glowing moon, glowing eyes, all that ambiant light....*spazzes* .....you're doing this on purpose, arn't you? 
)(Actually, i went into an illustration inspiration spaz during one of your 'Twilight Sonata' chapters when you were describing that angel's (Micheal? was it Micheal?) library, ...it was, one of those overwhelming spazzes that i get nothing done in but the mental picture was acting like an flippy Uro-drug)(a bit like catnip)
. ...Neither of them are budging 
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Uro doesn't procrastinate.. nnooooo.... X).
So, back on topic. I guess the first thing that comes to mind is that you have a lot of pride in your characters and take time in their development. And after just now catching up with your 'The Dark' series, i can see that there are even more coming. (....*taps foot* ...<< Kronos is just being fashionably late to annoy me, isn't he?
Secondly, You always seem to know when its time to be serious in your stories and when its a good time to throw some comic relief in there, which you do so well (I mean... amongst all that red dusty grizzly western setting we get to see that serious hard-assed gun-wielding main character of yours sitting on a pink inflatable chair? ....it's just plain wonderful
Oh yes, and one other thing that has been growing even more in your writing that JoJo metioned is your way of practically 'painting' the setting. And again, after finishing what you have posted for 'The Dark', it's becoming practically eye candy to the point that i even want to try a hand at drawing it
Overall, your writing is really getting fantastic, can't wait to see it on bestseller shelves at Borders and in movies X).
.......Gus says he doesn't know why the Rhuni don't care for angel's much. He thinks he's just fine. ...bbuuuut....i don't think Gus understands that settings and logic can differ greatly from story to story, he's been arguing with Vindvalli for hours about whether stars can fall or not