Elsa Bibat wrote:
You know, if you think about it, there are suddenlyu more
people submitting to the Synopses List
I don't have a clue why ? ^_^
Me neither (whistles innocently)
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[Tenchi Muyou!]
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Title: Vacation Days chapter 10
Series: Tenchi Muyo!
Genre: Original flavor
Author: D.B. Sommer
Summary:
The aftermath of the battle with Stargrave and Malgaunt is dealt with
as teh Juraian Security Directorate takes a hand in matters.
Review:
The final part of Vacation Days,
Well, technically the epilogue is the final part.
it does a nice job of tying up a few loose
ends.
Thanks. The memory erasure seemed to have caught some people off guard, but
it was logical to use within the context of the story, and still feels like
the right thing to do to me. Besides, even Tenchi's luck had to give out
eventually, and life rarely allows for 'perfect' endings.
The ending at the nudist beach was hilarious and has the Sommer
trademark stamped all over it.
Ah, I see you jumped ahead and did the epilogue. I guess that means you can
skip the review of that for next week. ^_^
Now, more insanity ! Shampoo 1/2 needs another 60 or so chapters, ending
with another really big explosion ! ^_^
Errr, maybe someday? Still other things I'd rather do first, and I want to
make sure a sequal is at least as good as what came before. You've seen
what happens in Hollywood with the majority of badly thought-out sequals.
_<
And that is what a writer aims for, a style that works for his stories.
A new writer should read continually, both others works and his/her
own. Why ? To see the flaws. To see the strengths. Distill the strengths.
Borrow from others to shore up the weaknesses.
I see you correctly used the term of 'borrow' instead of 'plagiarize'.
What's the difference? Only about half of everything you own going to legal
fees. :P
Want to see style at work ?
If you are lucky enough to have early copies of D.B. Sommer's work on
Shampoo 1/2, you might note that it's in script. And sorry to say, bad.
Don't be sorry. It is. Coincidentally, today I looked upon the old chapter
5 script of that for the first time in about two and a half years --in
preparation for the prose revision-- screamed, immidiately deleted the
opening scene as being completely unsalvageable and shuddered in fear as to
what to expect next. I just keep reminding myself the script stuff was my
first work and is supposed to be bad. Growing pains, to be sure, and still
going through them to this day. (They just don't hurt as much as they used
to. ^_^)
I think Alan Harnum said it best: An increasing dissatisfaction with one's
early works is usually a sign that one is growing as a writer. I think most
people who've written for a while can do that and would agree. S 1/2 is
currently the work I take the most pride in, but it is far from the one I'm
most satisfied with.
But read everything in logical progression, one to forty three or foty
five,
I forget ,
Forty five.
and you see the actual progress of his style.
Heh. From 'none' to 'some'.
When he ditched
the script format for prose, notice the exponential rise of the
entertainment value of the fic ?
True. I started writing at the tail end of the 'script vs prose' arguments.
(Gee, I wonder which won?) The limitations of writing in script quickly
became obvious. Pretty much the only reasons I can see writing in script
now would be for purely humor fics or heavy dialogue ones. I think Davies
is about the only one that still uses it nowadays.
A new author usually has to find his
stride, then it's up all the way.
Or so one hopes.
Thanks for the review and the writing tips.
D.B. Sommer