speaking of stories... did you get a chance to read the rest of mine? what did you think of it?

ME: Oh... nothing. just reading.

lol. IT was awesome! NOW UPDATE OR DIE!

seriously, though, you were screaming? wow, i never knew my writing could provoke such emotions in people. :)

thanks for the good words though. I always enjoy seeing a reader express how much they like it, cause then i'm like, "i have to keep it up for them!" haha, that's funny though how your mom reacted.

Hey Bob, would it be cool if I made a thread in this forum for my story? Or would that be infringing on your territory?

(I'm new to this whole forum thing. It's pretty cool, though.)

hey, i read your review; and thanks by the way, but i would like to address your comment. you were saying how i use a lot of short sentences and I do. I really like to use incomplete sentences. actually, i love to do that, and you'll see that when you continue to read on [cause i do it a lot] but i don't know, that's just the way i write... i personally like it because not too many writers write in incomplete sentences :) haha. oh, and the whole "she" usage thing: yeah, that's just bad writing on my part... unless i meant to do it [sometimes i mean to do that to increase the intensity] it's probably a little of both, cause i have a really big problem with pronouns. i tried to do better as the chapters progressed, hopefully i did so.

i think the second person i like is sarah... but i haven't really expanded on her character yet. i think her power is awesome, so all i need to do is do more charater development. but all in due time. :)

oh yeah, ahaha, and it's ALEC and not ALEX... that was funny when i first read that. :)

holy crap, dude, have you read the story Heroes: Connections? It is totally like Ordinary People... read it, look it over, you will see what I'm talking about. I mean, it's okay, I'll still read it, but seriously, there comes a limit to how much you can 'borrow' from a story right? i don't know, maybe i'm just over reacting or something, but check it out. See for yourself...

It's entitled "Heroes Part One" - Sarah goes to Grand Central Station searching for Alec. Alec debates whether or not he should tell Casey about his secret ability. And it ends with a cliff hanger...litterally. :) enjoy!

ok, so you want to know how i came up with the story? um, well, x-men has always been one of my favorite comic books and heroes is essentially x-men except not so comic-booky... if that makes sense. Anyway, growing up i was always making up characters and putting them into situations and whatnot in stories i'd write for friends. Then my brother stumbled upon fanfiction and i was pretty excited because i had a way to put my stories out into the world. It's actually kind of interesting because some of the characters i put into Ordinary People are characters that i made up before. It's kind of a way to keep my stories going even though I can't put my own stories up because its 'fanficion' and i have to write about something that already exists. so, yeah, its all just my imagination in my head that flows out through my fingers onto the keyboard that helped me make up the story and the characters... wow, i'm rambling... okay, well characters are special. In fanfiction, I've learned that they can't be too good, or too bad. There's a healthy medium somewhere, and it's my job as the writer to find it. In my opinion, though, i think it's totally restricting for a writer when I can't make up a character because it seems too mary-sue. As a compromise, however, i like to have interesting situations and story lines to put the characters in. Let's say one of my characters has mary-sue-ish qualities, i try to put that character in a situation where they wouldn't seem quite so mary-sue. When I create the character's personality and whatnot, I make up the story line and ask myself, "how would this person react in this situation?" usually, it turns out to be pretty good anyway... so yeah, that's how i make up characters.

for the actual story, well, before I even wrote the first chapter to Ordinary People, i planned out exactly what i wanted to do in the current story arc. I do that because my mind is kind of everywhere at once. Like, I make up a story line, characters and whatnot, and i start writing it, but then i have another cool story idea and then i get started on that one. so by the time i get back to the first story, i forget where i want to go with the plot and the characters, so i usually end up just throwing the story away. So, this time, I wrote out what i wanted to happen so that if I ever got sidetracked, i could come back to the Outline and see where i left off and then go straight on into the next chapter. It helps me keep the story line linear and also helps me from forgetting anything important. Actually, since i've put it on fanfiction, I've had more of an incentive to write more because there are people that actually review, so it kind fuels me to keep going...

did i answer your question? i don't think i did... sorry if i didn't...

You answer to my question more or less sums it up. You are kinda like me in the world of writers, 'cept I like to torment my characters with my insanity (Muhahahahaha! ...Ahem). And yes, fanfiction can be a challenge when writing a fic and making a OC. I faced that kind of problem but improved a lot since my last two fanfics. Even more a challenge when doing an original story as a lot of people can critic on the originality of the story. =-=; Nonetheless, there's no such thing as giving up on anything in life. After all writing does make us feel alive cause it's as equal as God's power to create...but only on paper or computer. :P

It's new, so it doesn't have many stories yet, but it has a lot of potential.

Oh, looks like you already signed up. Sweet. I'll favorite you :D

I was wondering if you've read my story because my character's powers are similar to your character's powers. not that i'm accusing plagerism or anything... i just think it's interesting how you've described your character's use of abilities and yes, i was also inspired by Katara's waterbending. :)

a.) taking a little hiatus to just do whatever - not writing related to just unwind

b.) Plan out exactly what you want in She Who Heals from where you are now to where you want to end it, extremely detailed so that you can start on your new project. This way when you get the feel for writingon She Who Heals again, you know exactly where you are and where you want to go.

those are the choices that i'd think over if I were in your position, cos, really, starting on a new story isn't bad, but i'm the kind of person who doesn't want to throw away a good story, you know?

those are just my opinions and suggestions. In my opinion, i think you should do 'b' just because that's probably what i'd do. :) but it's your choice. i just thought i'd throw some ideas out there. what do you think dldaddy?

um...may i make a suggestion for that chapter? I'm just throwing this out there, but when you do write it, try to have a reason why kalie is having a flashback to that time, like Lost or something like that. it might make the transition to an episode about the past be a bit smoother... but it's just a suggestion. it's your story - i don't know what you have planned so i'll just leave it at that. :)

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