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Saia Kferr Registered User
Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 3
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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New stories! Thanks for the info all.
Also a note for Kodayu. I’ve finished my second novel “Breaking into the Light” since you originally did your count, posting the Epilog 05/02/05. Now I’m off to start another story.
But before I go, a note to Drackmord. We all have stories in us. If you role play, if you dream, if you say “What if” to your friends you are a storyteller.
To go from a storyteller to a writer is not easy, but it is not difficult.
The part that is not easy is catching the firefly of your thought and holding on to it long enough to sketch it into words that will flare back into vivid detail in your mind when you return to it time and again to build the story.
The rest is just mechanics that you will always fight with, and never feel you have mastered. |
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Kronos, the Blacktiger Registered User
Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Germany, Bavaria
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Hey Kodayu, have you evaluated the firestaff series on your own yet ? _________________ pounce or be pounced upon! |
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jsage Registered User
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: |
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I haven't read the firestaff series yet (give me time it's rather large) but I wouldn't discount it purely on the basis that the main character started as a human. Fox from A Fox in the Works also started off as a human. I think a better way to judge it is, how integral is his werecat side to the story and how large a part do furry characters play. |
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mwalimu Registered User
Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 782 Location: Normal, IL
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Here's a suggestion. How about identifying the last chapter counted in the Largest Stories listing (by number, title, whatever). That way it will be easy to tell if a recently added chapter has been included in the size computation.
BTW, A Fox in the Works and Tanj's/Trouble's Tales have both just had chapters added. Zig Zag the Story and Identity Crisis had new chapters a month or so ago. _________________ mwalimu
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Badgers and mushrooms and snakes, oh my! |
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Nameless Site Owner
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 1368 Location: Vienna, Austria
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:04 am Post subject: |
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Aslaug's "Transitions" is missing. Judging by the size of the html files, it is in the 1.5 to 2 mill character range. _________________ I'm a nut, but there are those who appreciate me for it. |
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Kronos, the Blacktiger Registered User
Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Germany, Bavaria
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:55 am Post subject: |
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Well guy's, since you have had more than a month to look into the firestaff series / Kael Chronicles what do you think of it ? _________________ pounce or be pounced upon! |
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Aslaug Site Owner
Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 1861 Location: Slagelse, Denmark
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:55 am Post subject: |
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Heh, I'm starting to think mine would be pushing to get onto that list. When I get the second half of it underway (same story, just a sort of 'book 2' approach') it'll certainly end up being big enough. |
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Fraikar Registered User
Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Location: North Coast
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:18 am Post subject: FireStaff |
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Finished the Firestaff arc and am working on the next 'book' but ...
The werecat aspect is key to the story plus there's an entire nation of furries, an avian city, elven offspring plus the non-human Woodkin (which includes the weres, centaurs, fairy, etc)...
It's a good read, plan on spending a lot of time on it! |
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furryfan Registered User
Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 2 Location: No where
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: |
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I'm not quite finished with the Firestaff series yet (book 4, chap 12) but I would say that it definately counts as an exceptional furry story. The sheer size of the story itself is incredible, 21,415,670 bytes for just the 1st series. Kronos has been right on the money with his descriptions, and I'm not even done yet. Actually I've noticed that the story starts to take up a slight anti-human feel to it about half-way through the series, even though there are many connections and hidden references to our world. So that's my two cents; it should be included and made #1, considering its more than double the size of Journal Entries. _________________ I'm a little teapot short and stout ... here is my handle, here is my ... OTHER HANDLE??? Crap. I'm a sugar bowl. |
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Drackmord Registered User
Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 49
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Omegano Registered User
Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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I've just finished reading the Firestaff Collection, and can say with full confidence that it is worthy to be on this list. The plot is a unique combination of many general classifications, with a few twists of it's own. It's setting has been modified (or personalized, or whatever the author wants to call it) to be a unique idea only vaguely identifiable to what it was derived from, and only by those that have some knowledge of it. The characters are given an identifiable personality, and it is done in a way to make them seem like actual people. Emotions aren't just stated, they are conveyed, and sometimes actually felt.
I have not read many stories that can engross me to the same degree that this one has. And few (if any) have caused me to write such a in depth or favorable review. I am quite serious when I say that if this story was edited for spelling, grammar, etc., it would have an excellent chance of being published. If you don't agree to that, if you think that it wouldn't sell, look for Eragon and Eldest by Cristopher Paolini in your local bookstore, and then rethink that opinion.
Anyway, those are my thoughts on the matter.
Omegano _________________ Go ahead. Ask me any question, but if it needs logic or intelligence, you will want to ask that brain thingie that lives in in my head instead. |
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Superlagg Registered User
Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 224 Location: Place of Place Place Union
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:56 am Post subject: |
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My story is getting pretty close, il make a tally in... a very long time when it is rewritten and back in making new chapters. _________________ http://superlagg.rappy.org/ |
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Shadu Registered User
Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 336 Location: Barranquilla
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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either i have a lot of time on my hands or read extremely fast. they are really cool books and i'm already waiting for the next chapters. if you guys finish it i recomend reading the smaller series there. subjugation is actually quite good and the other two (though they each have only one chapter posted) seem to bee just as good.
i've not posted before cause i have no internet conection. i had to download the whole series and i read it in something close to five days to a week i think. _________________ __________________
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AmigaDragon Registered User
Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 840 Location: Far Northern Minnesota
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: |
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Ian Schue just updated with another chapter in his Thorhammer series.
Did I say chapter? It's more like a book! 224 PDF pages for this 3rd part of "chapter 3" in "Season 4", and he equates that to 550+ pages of standard paperback format! _________________ "Cogito, ergo es. I think, therefore you is." Ray D. Tutto (King of the Moon) to Baron Munschaussen |
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Drackmord Registered User
Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 49
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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Why hasn't this thing been updated in months? |
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