[the guy who be short]

Nar is not going to be happy with you, guy who be short. One of her primary standards for judging a story is, "how does the writer treat his minor characters?" Are they there just to prop up a bit of plot, or does the writer show that he cares enough to give them at least a character trait, even if he doesn't use it? Something worth thinking about....

i can defend myself... theyre not really minor characters. in fact, theyre not characters at all. they just die... theyre just a statistic. well, i might give a lord here or a duke there a name, but thats it!

You can never be too sure where your' ideas come from

you will laugh so hard when you read this, but hey. may as well humiliate myself. here goes: there was nothing on TV while i was eating breakfast, and i had to watch something, so i watched - pokemon!
yes, i know, but hey, there was nothing else on. and i used to be a fan back when it was actually new and unrepetitive. anyway, the point is, if i hadnt watched that stupid cartoon that cant get characters lips in sync with sound, i wouldnt have got this amazing idea (copied from there of course). so now i actually have a reason for two of my kingdoms to fall out.

Besides that, I want my story to stand out. So I am creating a story in which good will fail and evil prevail

have you noticed how in nearly all books, good wins? or the hero of the book? or even if the ending is sad (as in noughts and crosses) there is always a ray of light at the end (like the baby in noughts and crosses). ever since i was very little ive wanted to write a story where evil wins. now i am!

I need to make the consequences of evil winning this whole whatever and make it believable today

in mine, evil doesnt downright win. this would be a problem, because if they had wed all have been enslaved and we're not. so i have evil defeated, yet poisoning human minds to evil. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

Well how about a ten page *graphic* love scene( graphic as in porn graphic

i think one of my friends is reading this. is it a series? in my opinion, and i dont mean to insult or annoy anybody, those books should really have a "warning" sign on the cover.

are you sure you want to go the route of evil winning? That goes against the very nature of fantasy

this wasnt aimed at me, but il answer it anyway! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
yes, if you want a short answer. oh, you want a longer one? here goes: my poem is a story of the struggle between good and evil, how there are betrayals on both sides, great kingdoms fall, friendships are made and destroyed between kingdoms and species. yet in the end, against the odds, and mainly because of a betrayal, the good side prevails. yet evil cannot simply be deleted or destroyed, nor can its memory be wiped forever. this is something jrrt taaught me, with his rebellion of the noldor and downfall of numenor. so, evil is defeated, but its shadow remains; and though THe Dark Lord is gone, his effect lasts forever on men.
speaking of which: why are they always dark lords? why not an evil female as the central figure?

how is an orc supposed to reform? Orc to Elf archer: 'But I'm a GOOD orc!' Elf archer: '*twang!* You are now!'

in my poem i actually will have good "evil creatures". they realise if their lord wins, they stil wont be any better than slaves, so they convert onto the good side. there is alot of mistrust between the good Men and the "evil men anyway until a battle where the "evil" lord dies for the "good one".
basically, they can convert, but take alot of believing. ah... treachery. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] long has it been my greatest aid.

What TYPES of reasons to go wrong or stay wrong would you buy in a bad guy?

havent read if this has already been said, but jealousy. your jealous, you have lots of power, go on an evil spree! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

but could it possibly be that they just liked causing trouble, pain, humiliation and all that?

they were elves once. it isnt their fault they were forced into evil. remember, nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so. Or Morgoth, at the utmost beginning, or Naivag in my poem. email me for it at jay_pancholi@hotmail.com, subject: your poem

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