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12-13-2011, 03:03 PM | #71 |
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Out of curiosity, I started reading Tales from the Cobra Wars and some of it isn't that good. In fact, some of it made me really cringe. Of course, my literary background makes me a bit of a story snob, but I still appreciate great action if written well. Black Hawk Down, for instance, reads like fiction and is an incredible page-turner. It narrates the action credibly without using cliches and heavyhanded metaphors, machismo or overly-dramatic prose. That's what I appreciate about that book the most.
But how did you guys feel about the stories in general? The writing? What would you have done differently with the characters or storylines? |
12-13-2011, 03:12 PM | #72 |
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Lifeline MD, the details are what make a story convincing so by all means use whatever knowledge you have and research what you don't know. I love it when a writer goes the extra mile. It doesn't have to be gory for gore's sake but it adds to the realism and urgency of the character's crisis. And as long as you interweave the pertinent details of the medical procedures smoothly into the narrative, I don't think it would detract from the story. As long as it just doesn't become an instruction manual as was pointed out earlier, I think it'll be fine.
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Out of curiosity, I started reading Tales from the Cobra Wars and some of it isn't that good. In fact, some of it made me really cringe. Of course, my literary background makes me a bit of a story snob, but I still appreciate great action if written well. Black Hawk Down, for instance, reads like fiction and is an incredible page-turner. It narrates the action credibly without using cliches and heavyhanded metaphors, machismo or overly-dramatic prose. That's what I appreciate about that book the most.
But how did you guys feel about the stories in general? The writing? What would you have done differently with the characters or storylines? That said, the general concepts behind many of the ideas, and the characters of the storylines themselves were actually quite credible in my mind. A lot of them were ones that if written better would fit perfectly into the vein of G.I. Joe in any incarnation. I in fact intend to borrow parts from them. The only one that I found face-plantingly boring was the one with Duke in the desert working with that resistance group. That bored me to tears. |
12-13-2011, 04:27 PM | #73 |
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do we know anyone that could take our fiction to the presses? i write a ton but id love to put a renewed fire behind it if any real professionals in the joe world were interested in our endeavors.
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12-13-2011, 04:33 PM | #74 |
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Unless Hasbro authorized it, it wouldn't be able to happen.
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12-13-2011, 05:19 PM | #75 |
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Nice to see some of my favorite authors here, (including YOU, Viper6.) :)
I too, write fanfic, (I think;) although I'm not entirely sure of how much of a 'fanbase' I have (lol) ... ANY and All feedback would be Greatly appreciated. I'm beginning to see what you meant, Viper6, about the Rampant Escalation taking place in our thread. I kinda wish we could go back in time, and tone it down A LOT. I also wish some of the more experienced writers (<cough> Viper6) could come in, and help us corral this monster lol... Anyhoo, I'm happy to see the triumphant return of John_0515 to the storyline though. :)
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12-13-2011, 05:21 PM | #76 |
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Tales From The Cobra Wars was very bad. I started doing reviews of each chapter but gave up.
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12-13-2011, 06:56 PM | #77 |
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12-13-2011, 06:58 PM | #78 |
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Out of curiosity, I started reading Tales from the Cobra Wars and some of it isn't that good. In fact, some of it made me really cringe. Of course, my literary background makes me a bit of a story snob, but I still appreciate great action if written well. Black Hawk Down, for instance, reads like fiction and is an incredible page-turner. It narrates the action credibly without using cliches and heavyhanded metaphors, machismo or overly-dramatic prose. That's what I appreciate about that book the most.
But how did you guys feel about the stories in general? The writing? What would you have done differently with the characters or storylines? |
12-13-2011, 07:04 PM | #79 |
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Sounds like we have some pretty good writing backgrounds represented thus far.
I started in college as an English major, realized I was never going to write the next great novel and switched to business. But I kept up with a Literature minor and focused on the American Short Story with a dabbling of theater where I did some playwriting and playwriting analysis. Currently, I spend 75% of my day writing. Contracts, contract interpretations, performance management plans, case-studies and request for disciplinary actions. I think what helps most in my writing is that I investigate abuse cases and have to interview people and document their observations in witness statements. Makes you really consider details, details, details. I end up defending my investigations in court, so a witness statement is nothing but a story of what occured. |
12-13-2011, 07:32 PM | #80 |
Live it to the fullest...
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I try to plan my story out but most is thought of on the fly then transferred onto paper (in this case a post). My problem is that occasionally I write something and delete it before posting. I proofread everything before posting so sometimes I hate what I wrote. It happened today actually. Wrote about Zartan and Cobra Commander and hated it so it never got posted. Anybody else have similar problems?
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