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Role Playing => Stories => Topic started by: medli96 on February 16, 2008, 09:56:58 AM

Title: adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 16, 2008, 09:56:58 AM
43 years ago:
soft sounds of harp strums flow through the air. a young hero puts down his sail to follow the sounds. he gets to a cliff and sees a girl standing on the edge playing a harp. he walked up behind herand tapped her shoulder. she turned around and he gasped."ooh" she said "you were listening, im sorry, Im medli" the boy stared "im link, you,you..." he stumbled "have a beak". medli replied "you d..." Link blushed cause he was saying in his head, shes so beautiful even though she has a beak. Meldi said " you dont." she smiled at him and he smiled back. Link sat down and looked at the sun. Medli sat down beside him and rest her head on his shoulder. About an hour later she shrieked"i have to practice my harp" link said" let me help" he took out the windwaker and she gasped" is that the magical baton known as the windwaker?" "yes it is and i will conduct for you" He conducted the earth gods lyric and she played it back. when she finnished play she fell into links arms. She had a vision that she was playing a harp with the earth sage. she woke up and said " i know what i must do, i must go to the earth temple and become a sage. i finally feel important. take me there in your boat". she looked into the sky and someone was flying in the sky. "komali, he mustnt know i am leaving." a tear rolled down her cheek."we must move quickly and quietly.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 16, 2008, 12:36:29 PM
when they got to the temple medli was grabbed by a floor master the minute they got in. Link had to find her. He had battled wizzrobes, moblins, darknuts, chuchus, and bubbles. He finnally found her in a jail cell, but the only way he could get her out was to play the command melody. When he did that link controlled her out and brought her back down. He returned to his body. "Oh thank you" said medli.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: Hi no Seijin on February 16, 2008, 07:09:48 PM
One:  This belongs in the Stories Board.

Two:  I'm sorry, but I gagged reading this.  The grammar is horrible.  Many sentences lack capitalization and you switched tenses shortly after starting.  Whenever a new person starts to speak, it's a new paragraph, not one continuous one.  For example:
QuoteLink said, "Blah blah blah."

A shocked expression overtook Zelda's face.  "Blah blah?" she asked hurriedly, fear edging her tones.

"Blah," came the grim reply.

Three:  Where's the description?  "He said, she said, he said, she said," and so on.  How did they say it?  See above example.

Four:  If someone suddenly took over my mind to make me do something I could've done by myself, I would be pissed, not thanking them.

Five (though related to Four):  The Command Melody was a game mechanic in TWW to allow the player to control Medli or Makar, who could perform tasks that Link couldn't do.  While it is up to the writer, I doubt that such a spell would have actually existed in Hyrule, but if it did it would be forbidden to be used on someone.  When writing fantasy, you want to make your story fantastic enough that it's just believable; make your idea too far-fetched and no one will believe it, damping their overall enjoyment of reading fantasy.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 17, 2008, 09:49:54 AM
thats only the biggenting the ending is better i am just copying it from a book i wrot elong ago, so the bigging has not very good grammer and expressions sry bout that.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 17, 2008, 09:53:34 AM
fine when i continue writing ill change the expressions  to make it more interesting.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 17, 2008, 09:55:06 AM
Command melody: have yuo ever played this and  she got eated by a floor master? she goes in a jail cell that you must FLY HER OUT OF .
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: Hi no Seijin on February 17, 2008, 10:06:08 AM
I'm familiar with the concept of the gameplay in TWW.  However, when writing a fanfic about it, you don't have to take all of the mechanics literally (i.e., Link using the Command Melody); the writing comes off as unrealistic.  If your goal is to poke fun at the game, then such literal translations from game to paper is okay; however, this doesn't seem to be what you're going for, and Medli thanking Link for taking over her brain is just too far out there for such a seemingly serious story.

And what did you do?  Read my points one by one and posted a reply to each one?  If you're double posting to update the story, that's fine, but any other time you should use the modify button.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 17, 2008, 10:08:15 AM
ok thanx im newbie at this.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 17, 2008, 10:19:13 AM
Quote from: Hi no Seijin on February 16, 2008, 07:09:48 PM
One:  This belongs in the Stories Board.*****

Two:  I'm sorry, but I gagged reading this.  The grammar is horrible.  Many sentences lack capitalization and you switched tenses shortly after starting.  Whenever a new person starts to speak, it's a new paragraph, not one continuous.  For example:
QuoteLink said, "Blah blah blah."

A shocked expression overtook Zelda's face.  "Blah blah?" she asked hurriedly, fear edging her tones.

"Blah," came the grim reply.

Three:  Where's the description?  "He said, she said, he said, she said," and so on.  How did they say it?  See above example.

Four:  If someone suddenly took over my mind to make me do something I could've done by myself, I would be pissed, not thanking them.

Five (though related to Four):  The Command Melody was a game mechanic in TWW to allow the player to control Medli or Makar, who could perform tasks that Link couldn't do.  While it is up to the writer, I doubt that such a spell would have actually existed in Hyrule, but if it did it would be forbidden to be used on someone.  When writing fantasy, you want to make your story fantastic enough that it's just believable; make your idea too far-fetched and no one will believe it, damping their overall enjoyment of reading fantasy.

***** i havent put my character in yet this is an intro
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: DW on February 17, 2008, 11:06:07 AM
Still, this is a STORY. This thing isn't a character.

Also, the only characters that are supposed to be on this board are HA2 characters. Speaking of which, I should look through these topics and delete all the ones that aren't HA2 characters.

Also, watch the double posts.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: medli96 on February 17, 2008, 01:44:24 PM
okok u critized me im leaving bye bye
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: darkphantomime on February 17, 2008, 02:12:58 PM
Geez, just LET the people write their stories man.

Someone could just have easily put it into fan works and be done with that.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: Hi no Seijin on February 17, 2008, 02:29:02 PM
Actually, I couldn't have easily moved it.  And I hope that first part was directed towards Shika.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: darkphantomime on February 17, 2008, 02:48:15 PM
Nope, both of you. You're both equally at fault here. Be courteous to new members for a change!
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: Hi no Seijin on February 17, 2008, 03:23:53 PM
Good goddesses, you have got to be kidding.  I was offering her pointers, and she even thanked me for them.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: TP Zelda on February 22, 2008, 12:38:16 AM
Lmao all this arguing is fun!!  :D

...But, yes, you need to do a little better. Sorry Medli2. XD
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: a-girl-101 on February 28, 2008, 07:20:58 AM
i wish you guys would have let her finish the story. shes my friend and she decided to delete her account.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: Hi no Seijin on February 28, 2008, 08:12:30 AM
Hey, I didn't say she couldn't finish her story; I was putting forth constructive criticism, and if she can't take that, then she's never going to become a good writer.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: a-girl-101 on February 28, 2008, 02:41:28 PM
she is easily angered. its not her fault though
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: DW on February 28, 2008, 03:47:37 PM
It is her fault if she can't take criticism. You don't see J.K. Rowling or Stephen King blowing up on camera.

And we didn't tell her she couldn't write anymore.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: a-girl-101 on February 29, 2008, 06:40:51 AM
well i have read all of her story and the beggining is very important but yet she though maybe if she put it in the story place youde say that when her charachters came in.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: DW on March 01, 2008, 02:06:48 PM
...I didn't understand that sentence...What do you mean...?
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: TP Zelda on March 01, 2008, 10:31:04 PM
Dude, I'm not holding anythin against her. But, I think she's pretty good!!

I take what I said back before!! lol
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: a-girl-101 on March 02, 2008, 01:46:59 PM
huh? why do you all of a sudden like it?
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: Hi no Seijin on March 02, 2008, 06:31:06 PM
I believe that counts as spam.  Besides, you shouldn't rely solely on emoticons and punctuation marks to communicate with us; I can't read minds, and even if I could I doubt I could do it from a distance.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: a-girl-101 on March 02, 2008, 07:18:26 PM
a ? or  ??? means Huh. how is that spam? happy now i changed it
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: Hi no Seijin on March 02, 2008, 07:28:40 PM
Um, one word posts are still spam.
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: a-girl-101 on March 02, 2008, 07:34:17 PM
Quote from: Hi no Seijin on February 17, 2008, 10:06:08 AM
I'm familiar with the concept of the gameplay in TWW.  However, when writing a fanfic about it, you don't have to take all of the mechanics literally (i.e., Link using the Command Melody); the writing comes off as unrealistic.  If your goal is to poke fun at the game, then such literal translations from game to paper is okay; however, this doesn't seem to be what you're going for, and Medli thanking Link for taking over her brain is just too far out there for such a seemingly serious story.

And what did you do?  Read my points one by one and posted a reply to each one?  If you're double posting to update the story, that's fine, but any other time you should use the modify button.
she tells me(medli96 (im her friend in person)) she said she was thanking him beacaue he got her out of a jail cell


oh and i changed it again

and this is totally off topic
Title: Re:adventures of a ritos daughter
Post by: TP Zelda on April 19, 2008, 04:48:46 PM
Quote from: KazAzAlwayz on March 02, 2008, 01:46:59 PM
huh? why do you all of a sudden like it?

I liked it when I read it. >.> It's just it needs a grammar check.  :D