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Comments for 'How I Make Fan Fics' |
Jink
12:45 pm | January 1, 2004
Well, happy-skip-yay-doodle for us feeling sorry for ourselves. Freshmen are not stupid, people, I'm one as well. Frensa and I apparently share many things when it comes to writing.
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'Nosolee
12:34 am | September 29, 2003
True berconius, true.
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Berconius
4:44 am | September 28, 2003
Jesus, I feel really old now. I'm in 10th grade and 14 years old. haha, no one will find THIS post and track down my TRUE identity.
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Bean
12:36 am | September 27, 2003
well i am an 8th grader stuck in a hell hole school, my adminator looks like a jackal ( I am not kidding he runs around the school all hunched backed lol)our new police offcer has issues. He's called the flood combat form,(today he pulled a girl by her hair,cause she was talking mess to him!)the 6th grade admin looks looks like the Barbie doll, Ken and is tall as a tree, he's called the spec ops grunt. And most of our staff look like flood carrier types.
your probably thinking whos "we"?
we are the Halo table an Evil conspiracy who gathers in lunch to rebel against school rules.
armed with Panda(vanilla coke) and Haloaded(sprite remix) we are a deadly force.;p
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metallicafan
7:14 pm | September 26, 2003
either there or Alabama banned minors from buying Mature games....their parents can, and most clerks wouldn' care anyway.
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FOrunnER
2:51 pm | September 26, 2003
Alpha is from Arkansas? I thought video games were banned there?
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metallicafan
11:58 am | September 26, 2003
LOL I find HS in Florida easier then middle school in Missouri. Then again, maybe its because ALL my damn classes are the same thing MO students learned in 6th grade!
and on homework, I don't get much in alot of my classes except for Vocabulary in Spanish[ugh,talk about TEDIOUS!] and VERY RARELY LIKE WHEN SHE GIVES IT AT THE END OF CLASS in Algebra.
BTW, whats everybody's GPA?
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Agent Shade
1:14 am | September 26, 2003
the talk of school is killing me lol. am i the only non-freshman here? grade eleven baby, graduating soon! anyway, hope y'all survive high school and for those who haven't gone there yet. look out, cuzz man it's a lot different than elementary school.
even if you are younger or older, everyone here rocks at writing stories. the odd mistake, but that's life. the overly used phrase "humans aren't perfect" is perfect here. many of us can't keep up with the homework situation. luckily for me, i have co-op, so i only take two subjects a day 8D. This allows me to write "Survival"
take care now and write on, everyone here is awesome!
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metallicafan
12:00 am | September 26, 2003
OK sorry bout the double post,but I think I figured out why Alpha gets so little homework....if I read a post right, he's in ARKANSAS!!!! LOL[insert cheap arkansas joke here]
man, I bet ya'll fall asleep in Drivers ED!
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'Nosolee
9:36 pm | September 25, 2003
Only 2 times a week, lucky. Wait till your in West High School, Alpha Lance.
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Alpha Lance
8:29 pm | September 25, 2003
Damn, I alway get done with my homework in the middle of class. And I only study before the 5 min bell rings. So, I only have homework that I actully have to do at home, like, twice a week.
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metallicafan
12:36 pm | September 25, 2003
dude, I get mistaken for a senior all the time, [by teachers too] so it doesn't matter to me
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'Nosolee
3:11 am | September 25, 2003
Everyone goes through it Frensa, everyone. It's just natural order. In a year, you'll get freshman to be your personal bitches, thats just the way life is.
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Frensa Geran
3:05 am | September 25, 2003
Enough of the Frosh bashing everyone. I think I speak for all of the freshmen when I say we get enough of it at school already.
Sorry for not being born 3 years earlier.
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'Nosolee
3:00 am | September 25, 2003
Oh, man, metallicafan, feel your pain too, I had to take Algebra 2 years in a row also. Same shit, x-2=blah blah blah. Cept my school gives 100 point assignments.
Freshman, all I can say is that you should enjoy it while it lasts, cause 2 weeks into Sophomore year you're up at 12:07, posting on HBO, directly after you studied for 3 hours for a History 10 test on European trade circa 1450-1600.
Like me.
I'm gonna study my Foreign Language now, and hope I get at least 2 hours worth of sleep befor I take that test first period.
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'Nosolee
3:00 am | September 25, 2003
Oh, man, metallicafan, feel your pain too, I had to take Algebra 2 years in a row also. Same shit, x-2=blah blah blah. Cept my school gives 100 point assignments.
Freshman, all I can say is that you should enjoy it while it lasts, cause 2 weeks into Sophomore year you're up at 12:07, posting on HBO, directly after you studied for 3 hours for a History 10 test on European trade circa 1450-1600.
Like me.
I'm gonna study my Foreign Language now, and hope I get at least 2 hours worth of sleep befor I take that test first period.
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'Nosolee
2:58 am | September 25, 2003
I feel old around you froshies. Lol.
Just kidding.
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metallicafan
12:25 am | September 25, 2003
damn, everybody's eihter a freshmen or 8th grader.
BTW FOrrunER, I can DEFINENTLY say that I had more homework in 8th grade then you, and in fact, probably EVERYBODY.[I took Algebra in 8th, ane to get a taste of the work, about a couple of weeks in we had a huge assignment worth about 54 points, and we had barely learned anything! Probaby about 50 questions right off the bat in the school year. But now I gotta take that damn class again cause it didn't count for credit,and I moved!
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Alpha Lance
10:41 pm | September 24, 2003
I'm in the 8th grade; I go to a school call West Jr. High, West Memphis Ark.
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MasterGrunt
10:24 pm | September 24, 2003
Is everybody hear in highschool? Until I read forunners comment i thought I was the only one in eight grade here.And Jamarus 99 just because a person is younger doesn't mean they swear. Heck, I stopped swearing 3 years ago.
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Mainevent
7:12 pm | September 24, 2003
Aww come on Hornet, you still owe me a gloomy ending to Nothing to Lose, you can't leave. Not until I get my ending..
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Jamirus99
6:25 pm | September 24, 2003
Forerunner...the younger they are, the more they curse.
Hornet, if you want a more mature audience, why not stick with the stories and head to the forum. some of the people here are immature and whatnot, but that sort of stuff just isn't accepted on the forum. Cheers!
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Ishkabibbl
6:09 pm | September 24, 2003
Why not just enslave a bunch of little kids to wear complete black and carry you around?
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hornet34
4:33 pm | September 24, 2003
I ain't even twenty yet, but maybe I am too old to hang around here. Writing experience is one thing, but hanging out with a bunch of high school freshman is totally different (no offense.) Well, I've finished my series, this might be the end of my run here on HBO for a long while.
I'd give all you guys advice about high school, but I wouldn't have listened to it when I was your age and I don't think you'll listen to me. Just have fun, and learn from your mistakes.
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'Nosolee
11:13 am | September 24, 2003
Oh man, oh man oh man. I-I feel your pain, I've got only so much time to check HBO for news, let alone read and write fan fiction. Summer is gone for another nine months, thus limited Fall of Fates will be posted. When I saw 'Frensa Geran' as the author, I knew I could take 5 an read your story. Yeah, Freshman year is different in the begining, it gets better, but harder in Sophmore year. So if anyone is asking why the Fall of Fate part 13 isnt out yet, Frensa has has taken the words out of my "mouth".
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GLADIATRRR3000
11:09 am | September 24, 2003
its hard to write more when you start highschool,, isnt it? i started a month ago and i havent had any time for "A Marine Named Peters" or "CORRUPT" at all. sigh, the sad life of freshmen.
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FOrunnER
2:18 am | September 24, 2003
Hey, ya don't have to be in high school to have a shit morning. I'm in eight grade and my life is the same, plus I get double the amount of usual homework over the weekends. The only good thing about my school is we get 3day weekends :) The bad thing is school starts and 7:00 pm :(BOOOOO!
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Frensa Geran
1:53 am | September 24, 2003
CORTANA? No, I wouldn't go as Cortana silly. I'd go as 343 Guilty Spark of course.
No only to invent anti-gravity pods.... hmmm.
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Ishkabibbl
1:42 am | September 24, 2003
For the love of god don't go as cortana! I skimmed this thing, not really caring about social life, but overall it looked good. Honestly I think that govermetns around the world have been contemplating Neo-Spartans, of course not under that name, but still...they're watching...always watching!
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Frensa Geran
1:15 am | September 24, 2003
Wanna know something funny about my High School? We're the DAMIEN SPARTANS. Yes, I am a Spartan. You heard me. Halloween will be great this year. Guess what I'm dressing up as?
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metallicafan
12:25 am | September 24, 2003
LOL nice story man. I haven't read any of your fanfics YET. i'll read a few over the weekend when I have time.
o,and I feel your pain about the freshmen thing. I'm a freshman too. LOL but I have about an hour a night to...well, write fanfics![I normally would just do them on weekends,but something is glitchy on the forum that takes up 95 percent of my tim...err...life.....so I'm bored.LOL]
and follow jackson on what he says about thinking of them during school. I've thought most of mine up in school,but [LOL] I forgot most of it, which explains the mess I'm in...
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Jamirus99
10:03 pm | September 23, 2003
"Couple of years" being a figurative term then?
:-)
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hornet34
9:32 pm | September 23, 2003
God, you guys make me feel like an old man, and I've only been out of high school for a couple years.
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Frensa Geran
9:30 pm | September 23, 2003
HBO: Understanding is our middle name.
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Alpha Lance
7:51 pm | September 23, 2003
That's something new.
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Mainevent
6:56 pm | September 23, 2003
Yea Frensa
I started my freshman year seven weeks ago, and it's been pretty easy so far. Time can be hard to come by, but I have to write where I can.
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Agent Shade
6:54 pm | September 23, 2003
welcome to my world Frensa, i feel your pain lol, although, i'm not starting high school, i'm halfway through it
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Rick K
6:52 pm | September 23, 2003
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Rick K
6:52 pm | September 23, 2003
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Jamirus99
6:39 pm | September 23, 2003
Sympathy...oozing form my pores....you know Frensa, let's skip the personal life thing ;)
When I wrote Stacker, I just had this IDEA. One day, while riding my bike around, I had this awesome, alternate-ending-to-Halo moment, where I envisioned MC helping up a traumatised Sergeant Stacker. Since then, with the help of (coincidence?) Traumitised Marine, I began to focus. Inspiration came in from multiple sources: listening to "Hymn to the Fallen" from Saving Private Ryan. I would just sit at my computer and brainstorm, then write down all that I could. I would then send what I had written to TM, who, feeling that my writing was above him, would amke little comments, that, to me, were akin to an archer slowly steadying his aim on a target. TM helped me to to hone in on what I needed, and then he would tell me to let loose.
So, my piece of advice for you is to find an outlet. Send what you have written to somebody you know in the Fan Fic community. Whether it's Steele, 'Nsolee, Agent Shade, or myself (my current email adress can be found on the forums) just find somebody who you can confide in and take comments from. However, don't expect too much- you had the vision, and we don't have what you have. We can help, we can tell you what we want to see, but we can't write it. For instance, after reading Buried Treasure 4 I actually had a lucid dream about the next one. Of course, what happened in my dream was very different form what happened in number 5, but the coll thing I gleaned from it was Chief waking up automatically and the sound of an Assualt Rifle being cycled. Yours was so much better though, and I'm happy with the way everyhting's turned out.
I was also kidding aobut the personal life thing. I wrote Stacker while I was a Freshman in high-school. Time was hard, but I would just force myself to sit down and write after doing homework...I abstained from food and drink to concentrate on my writing :-)
Your writing is also far ahead of your grade-level...you've gotten the grammar, syntax, and structure of your stories down pat. Detail is great. Take heart in what you've already done. Don't worry about what we think anyway: I raved about your stories because they were so original, so fresh...so good, ESPECIALLy compared to some of the stuff other people write. Your comment in the comments section that one time, something like, "Chiefy is mine until Halo 2 comes out" is a perfect example. Don't lose your confidence now, when you've come so far.
Email me if you have trouble- this is the community of HBO. We'll be there for you!
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hornet34
4:06 pm | September 23, 2003
*leans back in chair, contemplating*
Yes, very interesting. Finding time can always be a problem. I'm fortunate to be in college, so I have nothing but time on my hands. But high school, especially if your involved in extracurricular activities, can be rather time-consuming.
As for your writing, I'm sorry I never read any of your series, but after reading this I'm going to pounce on the next fanfic I see from you. You have a very good sense of how to connect with your audience, and a lot of the things you described are things that have happen or happen every day to me and probably everyone else.
Sorry I can't give writing advice, but like I said, I haven't read any of your fanfics yet. But judging from this, I say you are much farther along than a lot of authors here.
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Slim Jackson
12:05 pm | September 23, 2003
Stupid post was too long... dangit... oh well, I'm sure you got the point.
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Slim Jackson
11:47 am | September 23, 2003
Holy crap, are you seriously only starting high school? From your writing I couldnt tell, you sounded much much older. I quickly became engulfed and addicted to your Buried Treasure series, and I kept looking for the rest. I was wondering if I had just missed the posting of it or something, but I didn't come up with anything new from a search. It's nice of you to keep us posted, and as a junior in high school, I understand your situation. Honestly, I found sophomore year to be the easiest. Your freshman year will determine your entire high school career, so it's good that you understand your priorities. The first few days are difficult, but trust me, it should get a lot easier. Don't feel bad if you can't find the time to put your stuff out there, that's fine... most of us here should understand from experience where you're coming from. A suggestion I can offer is to write down ideas while you are in school. That thing with Reunion from Destruction coming from science class is exemplary (
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