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...I love Cake.
And cake.
Anywho.
I hope everyone is having a good summer. It's been quite a busy one for me. New job, new stories and fandoms to write about. I still have a very large backlog of P&F episodes to roll through, as well as several stories that I need to decide the future of.
But probably more on that later.
I want to talk today about something that's bugged me ever since I started reading fanfiction a long time ago: the length of the story.
Now, anyone who knows me will remember that I much prefer longer stories over shorter ones. There's nothing quite like the feeling of spending a good while reading a tantalizing, well thought-out story.
Not to say that there aren't any good short stories out there. There are. But a lot of them, I find, have the same problem with them:
They're too short.
Anyone seeing my stories knows that the majority of the one-shots are over a thousand words. That's my 'threshold', so to speak. If you can't get a one shot over that point, then you run the risk of heading into a brevity problem.
I've seen multitudes of stories on FF.net and DevArt that are several hundred words long and they don't do anything for me. One shots need to have some semblance of a story too.
What's even worse is when you come across a multi-chapter story that's less than a thousand words. Talk about building your story brick by brick. You should really be doing that in the planning stages, not as you're writing and submitting the story.
The only reason, to me, for people to have something below a thousand words is if your story has a schtick to it. It's strictly a first-person POV, it's only speech, and so forth. Something has to deviate it from a regular story in order for it to be that short.
And it should probably be really good.
Not that I'm saying mine are good, but I'm also not doing it on a consistent basis. There are people who consistently put out really short stuff and think that it's anywhere close to passable.
A few hundred words does not a story make. That doesn't even give you enough time to develop a situation, much less an entire story.
And if you really think about it, a thousand words isn't that much. I have trouble making chapters and stories below that. I'm sure most people could do it as well.
Hopefully the updates will happen on Friday. Can't guarantee it thought; I have a new job that requires a lot of attention since I'm a manager now. Here's to open I can update one story.
See you next time, ladies and gents.
And cake.
Anywho.
I hope everyone is having a good summer. It's been quite a busy one for me. New job, new stories and fandoms to write about. I still have a very large backlog of P&F episodes to roll through, as well as several stories that I need to decide the future of.
But probably more on that later.
I want to talk today about something that's bugged me ever since I started reading fanfiction a long time ago: the length of the story.
Now, anyone who knows me will remember that I much prefer longer stories over shorter ones. There's nothing quite like the feeling of spending a good while reading a tantalizing, well thought-out story.
Not to say that there aren't any good short stories out there. There are. But a lot of them, I find, have the same problem with them:
They're too short.
Anyone seeing my stories knows that the majority of the one-shots are over a thousand words. That's my 'threshold', so to speak. If you can't get a one shot over that point, then you run the risk of heading into a brevity problem.
I've seen multitudes of stories on FF.net and DevArt that are several hundred words long and they don't do anything for me. One shots need to have some semblance of a story too.
What's even worse is when you come across a multi-chapter story that's less than a thousand words. Talk about building your story brick by brick. You should really be doing that in the planning stages, not as you're writing and submitting the story.
The only reason, to me, for people to have something below a thousand words is if your story has a schtick to it. It's strictly a first-person POV, it's only speech, and so forth. Something has to deviate it from a regular story in order for it to be that short.
And it should probably be really good.
Not that I'm saying mine are good, but I'm also not doing it on a consistent basis. There are people who consistently put out really short stuff and think that it's anywhere close to passable.
A few hundred words does not a story make. That doesn't even give you enough time to develop a situation, much less an entire story.
And if you really think about it, a thousand words isn't that much. I have trouble making chapters and stories below that. I'm sure most people could do it as well.
Hopefully the updates will happen on Friday. Can't guarantee it thought; I have a new job that requires a lot of attention since I'm a manager now. Here's to open I can update one story.
See you next time, ladies and gents.
BH6 Character File #4 - Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
This was originally planned to be made further down the road, but with her new solo and the spotlight on her in the new series, I can't waste the perfect opportunity to get people introduced to the most famous archer in the Marvel Universe. Oh wait, wrong one. There we go. Spoilers will be abound for all mediums, including her comics, the "Hawkeye" series, and on the fanfiction front in "The Straight and Arrow". The Past Comic Background Name – Katherine "Kate" Bishop Code Name – Hawkeye (among others) Comic Age – 20 by Young Avengers Vol. 2 (2013) First Appearance – Young Avengers #1 (2005) The daughter of wealthy Manhattanites, Kate Bishop felt she had to rely on herself and no one else. After the death of her mother and witnessing her father beat up an associate in her home, she became isolated, very blunt, and stubborn. She never felt like she fit in with the rich and famous and attempted to distance herself from that lifestyle. She became infatuated with the idea of
My Thoughts on Hyper-Potamus Pizza-Party-Torium
(Crossposted from Tumblr) Normally I don’t give my thoughts on individual episodes until after the full block has aired, but this is sort of a special case this season with the format change and all. Thus, we’re doing this now. Spoilers for “HPPPT” are following (and no, I’m not typing it out every single time). Ready? OK, then. I thought that the episode was very good. It doesn’t hurt that we have been waiting very patiently for new episodes since February (and even longer because of the pandemic). And given that this is the only full-length episode this season, that makes the details all the more fine. The main premise of the episode is what I assume is going to be the main theme of the season: Go Go, Honey Lemon, and Wasabi going out and joining the workforce, thus leaving Hiro, Baymax, and Fred “alone” on the team. And while I do appreciate the moments with Hiro and the team (and also with Aunt Cass) saying that they’ll always be a family, it sort of falls flat for a few
BH6 Character File #3 - Peni Parker (Spider-Mech)
File #3 pertains to the character that I've had to take probably the most amount of luxuries upon when it came to her character. The truth is that unlike Aspen before her, she doesn't have a lot of history. She's a little newer than Robbie Reyes, with a fraction of the appearances. In fact, she didn't get a spike in popularity until Into The Spider Verse came out. I am, of course, talking about Ms. Peni Parker, the pilot of SP//dr. As always, spoilers are abound for both the comics and my stories. You've been warned. The Past Comic Background Name – Peni Parker Code Name – N/A Comic Age – 14 (High School-age) First Appearance – Edge of Spider-Verse #5 Peni Parker was created by Gerard Way and Jake Wyatt, the former of which was the lead singer for My Chemical Romance. But this isn't his first time in comics, back in 2007, he created and wrote the first two renditions of a little series called The Umbrella Academy, which now has its own superstar series on Netflix. But we're
BH6 Character File #2 - Aspen Matthews (Fathom)
So the subject of this next character file is perhaps the most mysterious one out of everybody that I've added to my stories so far. The reason she's mysterious is because she's not a Marvel character. She also doesn't belong to DC Comics. She is a part of her own, self-named comic company, Aspen MLT. And before I get into who she is, you need to know a little bit about her creator. The Past Comic Background Name - Aspen Matthews Code Name - N/A Comic Age - Unknown (at least 21) First Appearance - Fathom (1998) Aspen Matthews was the creation of Michael Turner, an artist then hired by Top Cow Productions as an artist. In 1998, Fathom debuted and was a successful property for four years. In the year 2000, Turner was diagnosed with bone cancer, and he departed Top Cow two years later to start his own publishing company. Top Cow would later sue over the rights of Aspen as well as other properties that Turner had been working on, and the two would settle their case out of court a
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I prefer short stories...cuz they are short, and time padded to hell.