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originally posted in:The Black Garden
7/13/2013 6:50:18 PM
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of Guardians interacting with the area.
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but we don't really know anything about the upcoming story. why not wait till then so we can make the real JUICY stuff.
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There is a ton of information that we already have that we can use to write good stories with.
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we have that the traveler helped us in our hour of need, and that it is not inactive, we also know humanity had a strong civilization stretching several planets. We have heroes, and challenges, but no journey. we have nothing over the characters in that struggle, the characters now. All we have are OC's running around with guns and space magic. which would be great if we had a groups with whom we associate and intereact, but we don't have that. We have basic descriptions of enemy groups, basic soldiers and monsters for all we know. There is no antagonist, only obstacles. noone for the heroes to grow and face, to challenge. Only those with motives unclear, and to impose motives and characters on them would be premature in light of the veil of information approaching us. and besides, 300 words isn't long enough to make a GOOD story.
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That;s why you use your IMAGINATION... CREATE something. you don't have to know everything. Make it up as if you were a writer for Bungie. create your own scenario within the Buried City of Mars. Also, it's very possible to make a good short story with only 300 words. And it takes skill to do so. Just use a small scene from a story you are thinking of and put it on the screen. A lot of what people are writing is really good.
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All you need is a basic description of things. As for the word count, I do agree with you but if we had anything bigger, it would take forever to read them all. But if you are good enough, you can touch someone with such a small word count.
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perhaps you can make something with such a small word count. but then again, why would an elephant want to play in a sandbox. by that symbolism, I mean as a decent writer, I could never go back to such a limited avenue. I decline my entrance into this contest.
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There are plenty of skilled writers who have already entered the contest and written some interesting things under 300 words. Not only that, but I think it's the sign of a strong writer to be able to compose something interesting and meaningful within constraints like this. It tests your abilities, and forces you to be really creative to fit something into those parameters. I think that you should try your own hand at this contest. If you don't enter, you can't win, and you're not testing your limits to see what you're really capable of. (Just as a comparison, think of chefs competing in Iron Chef or Chopped. They have to be extremely good to come up with something inside the existing rules of the competition.)
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A fair and just argument, however, as I mentioned somewhere else, I just don't feel heavily enough about the content determined as the setting to really visually a story in my head. I suppose that's my fault, but nonetheless. if someone can create something masterful with this, then more power to them.
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Thats fine. I know its hard but plenty of people are doing it. Feel free to put send yoru longer works to the Black Garden though. They have long pieces of work going on there.
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black garden?
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its a writing group devoted to writing Destiny lore with a fairly extensive layout.
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I....'ll check it out
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cool.
