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[Jackrabbit]

Awesome, thank you, I'll remember that.

[Vester]

Glad to help.

I'm a Lit major, reading stories is what I was born to do. 

[Jackrabbit]

Oh, I'm considering doing a Lit major. How is it? Also, would it help in my quest to become a respected journalist?

[Vester]

Oh, I'm considering doing a Lit major. How is it? Also, would it help in my quest to become a respected journalist?

Well, if you want to become a respected journalist, your first choice should probably be Journalism or Political Science, if they have them. Lit would be useful probably as a minor.

Lit as a major is massively interesting, but where I'm from it has this bad rep for being the course that people take to avoid Math.

[Heron TSG]

Crazy stuff. you should write a longer one.

[Jackrabbit]

Aw, you so sweet.

[sonerohi]

Moar want.

[Jackrabbit]

Removed by the author. Paranoia cited as the cause.

[sonerohi]

Jackrabbit, I think you have something here with these stories. They really are coherent and consistent, and I'd love to see someone (not you since you're going to be busy writing moar) make a game or video or some drawings of this. You might want to compile it all and talk to someone in the writing business.

[Jackrabbit]

Jackrabbit, I think you have something here with these stories. They really are coherent and consistent, and I'd love to see someone (not you since you're going to be busy writing moar) make a game or video or some drawings of this. You might want to compile it all and talk to someone in the writing business.

You have no idea how much that means to me. I have an story idea kicking around but I since I'm going to be putting this one out on the interwebs, I don't think I'll try and publish it.

[Vester]

Out of curiosity, how do you write?

Do you go with an outline, and plot every meticulous detail, or do you just do it as you go along?

[Jackrabbit]

That second one. Really, my only real experience with writing was my To Venture North story and that one requires me to be extremely flexible with the story, due to juggling several different sub-plots and whatever else the group throw at me (note to the group: It's really fun, don't stop doing it). For this one, I think, I'm going to get so far and then I'm going to have to plan, because whilst I have an idea of where I'm going I think that if I don't plan ahead I'm going to hit a brick wall.

[Little]

As a fellow writer(except nobody bothers with my thread anymore and stopped caring a long time ago ), I really enjoy reading these. To Vester, I also use the second method, and only really use the first when it's something big. The quarantine story reminded me of The Stand as well, especially the bit where

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Stu

is in the Plague Containment Center. Now all we need is a moulding bowl of soup

You write well, and pictures to go along with these would be sweet. 

[Vester]

Well, an outline is a good idea for a long story. It helps keep things internally consistent, for one thing, because you can always refer to your outline to check what's already happened. Also, (and I find this is a problem whenever I write something without planning) if you think of something SO AWESOME IT HAS TO GO INTO THE STORY GHAGHAJG then you can set it aside and think of a proper place to put it - otherwise you might forget it. 

@Little:

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Randall Flagg

was so badass. I've yet to see an

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anti-christ character

who was so fun to read about and yet who I wanted to die every single chapter he was in.

Also:

I can do pictures! Terrible ones, but still!

If you want art, feel free to ask!

[Jackrabbit]

Oh do, please!