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What would you do for...? or a challange with a twist

Discussion in 'Fanfic Discussion' started by Meri, Oct 12, 2007.

  1. Meri

    Meri First Year

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    I would kill for a good post-hogwarts fanfic. Or to read a well written epic- fall-of-Rome kind of story.
    But the thing is that I suck at writing. But I can do other things. I am very pretty good at research, very creative at making of spells...I even offer my mediocre abilities at drawing.

    My point with all this is: I want to make a challenge but make it more attractive by offering something in exchange.

    So anyone else is in the same situation?
    Well then join me. First by helping me to write a good challenge and second donating a fanart or an animation or some other useful ability of yours.

    1)What would you like to add to the challenge?(along the lines of a good post hogwarts or epic-fall-of-Rome because it was my idea)
    #Post hogwarts
    *Intelligent enemies
    *A muggle setting(optional)
    *Smart Harry
    *NO incest or pedo(did you know that pedo=fart in spanish?)
    #The Epic
    *Plausible
    *Post apocalyptic(optional)
    *NO emo characters or unnecessary drama
    *Action Harry

    2) What can we offer to a good writer so she/he takes our challenge?
    *I used to be more or less good at drawing(real life and anime). I have not do it a lot since I started college but I could try.
    *Med Student( so a have a wicked, perverted mind with access to a lot of wicked an even more bizarre real life patologies)
    *Very good at research
    *high school Latin
     
  2. The Fine Balance

    The Fine Balance Headmaster

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    Either $.

    Or proper reviews.

    There aren't really many other 'satisfactions' another person can give to a writer, IMO.

    Oh, and of course, there is the obvious one considering the gender you belong too...
     
  3. Meri

    Meri First Year

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    Good long reviews are promised for every chapter.
    And sorry.
    The necessity of cleaning the epilogue from my brain is great but the blench has taken the edge..so I´m not that desesperated anymore....
     
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  4. Andro

    Andro Master of Death DLP Supporter

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    Generally, people making these topics have a main, interesting, novel plot twist or bunny, and just need help fleshing out the details. If there was one, I didn't see anything of the kind.

    Basically, you've given one guideline that the timeline be post-Hogwarts. The rest belong to the "duh" category. Smart Harry, intelligent enemies, no emo... meh.

    What is the "twist" you referred to in the thread's title, or was it a transparent attempt at getting more views? Otherwise, you're asking members to build the plot from scratch.
     
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  5. Meri

    Meri First Year

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    The twist was that , for example, If you wrote a chapter I make a fanart or little animation or etc... The association and the bribing was the twist.

    And I was so unspecific with the premises because I simple want a good post hogwarts and to open the discussion of what would make a good one. So It would not only be me bribing for the fic.

    It may have been to much. I will go to put my ideas in order and I will be back with a new set of rules.
     
  6. Andro

    Andro Master of Death DLP Supporter

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    Oh... from what I've seen most potential writers are a sucker for good plots. I don't know about fanart, but I'd go for a Casino Royale-esque picture. I haven't seen many examples of them in FFnet, but maybe there are prevalent on other sights. Would you consider posting a sample of your artwork?

    If you have ideas, no matter how disjointed, then you should state them, so that we have something to build off of.
     
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  7. Meri

    Meri First Year

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    What about this...
    All right I have this idea of a post Hogwarts with Harry as the main character. But he is not exactly right in the head, he is not a psycho killer he is simply weird. After he killed Voldemort his magic fuck up and he ended up with a totally destructed magical core, his senses disconnected from reality he looked to outside world like an autistic with schizophrenics attacks. He eventually learns to reconnect with the world but he is not the same Harry. His senses are magical potentiated to the extreme. Living in the magical world is making him crazy.
    So the story starts with a Harry living in the Muggle world, having run away from St´Mungus.
    Even living in the muggle world he has problems. For one he had no money, no friends, no job or papers when he runs away so he started from scratch.
    Meaning he lives in downtown, in a pension/crappy apartment, he works two bad paid jobs and he cannot keep a job.
    Because well, he still has to deal with his senses, in a good day he seems only a bit drunk, in his bad days he look like he is on crack. And let´s not forget that he survived a war (it doesn´t need to be canon war, actually I encourage a more plausible AU war)
    And by weird magical senses I mean he sees energy, smells auras, taste intentions (more points if you include him licking someone), that sort of weird.
    He is conscient that what he does sometimes is weird; he has rational thoughts …his problem is that his info doesn´t come the rational way.
    And he lost his magic ability.
    More points if :
    *you have him having an affinity with the dead.
    * The story is some kind of policy/detectives tale. With a crime and Scotland Yard involved.
    *There is an intelligent determinate muggle character.
    *make him a pizza delivery boy or taxi driver.
    *has a relative normal dating life (for a weird poor delivery boy)
    PD: Should I ask a moderator to move this thead to the challenge sub section?

    Some Codex alera fanart..not the best but the only thing I have in the internet.I´m a bit rusty..
    http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb221/miyumar/two055.jpg
     
    Last edited: Oct 13, 2007
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