"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
12/10/2014 at 00:28 • Filed to: None
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"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
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I really wish I could draw. Unfortunately I have the dexterity of drunken baboon when it comes to using any writing utensil. The reason why I wish I could draw is because I would love to make a narrative web comic (one that has an overarching story). I feel that my writing ability lends its self much better to comics or a visual medium as I'm much better at writing dialogue than I am at writing actions. I also love the idea of web comics as they reach a large audience and can be free while still making money (ads, merchandise, etc) unlike books. Oh well I guess it's time to make a best friend in the art department! haha!
ly2v8-Brian
> Anon
12/10/2014 at 00:33 |
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Have you tried a drawing class?
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Anon
> ly2v8-Brian
12/10/2014 at 00:39 |
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No I haven't, you normally at least need to have some natural talent to do one right?
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ly2v8-Brian
> Anon
12/10/2014 at 00:47 |
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no, besides its art. free expression, man
Axial
> Anon
12/10/2014 at 00:48 |
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Talent has nothing to do with it. What you need are the ability to learn anything and the willingness to put the effort into doing so. No matter how frustrated, you have to keep coming back. Finally, and this is really important, don't let being imperfect scare you off.
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Axial
> Anon
12/10/2014 at 00:49 |
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I've been wanting to do a narrative webcomic, too. Something involving this guy:
I've got the universe all built up in my head with some doodles thrown down on sketchpads all over. If it weren't for school eating up so much time and my lack of a digital drawing tablet, I might have done something by now.
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Anon
> Axial
12/10/2014 at 00:57 |
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That's really good! You should definitely try and make a comic!
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Axial
> Anon
12/10/2014 at 01:52 |
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Soon, perhaps. My biggest hang-up is that if I don't know how to justify something in my universe, I can't move on. I'm real big on causality and consistency in mechanics and plot-lines is paramount.
For that same reason, most fiction makes me cringe.
Right now, I'm hung up on how a particular part of my world came to exist. A derelict, 4,000 km diameter material storage tank doesn't suddenly become an earth-like ecosystem for no reason at all...
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Anon
> Axial
12/10/2014 at 02:17 |
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I mostly deal with realistic fiction but maybe I can help. Well you could pull the old "ancient technology" gig but lets be honest, that's been done to death. You could say it wasn't actually a storage container and that it was actually a large arc full of people trying to leave a planet, come up with good reason as to why all of the people are dead. One day another space ship could run into it and reclaim it, creating an earth like eco system. Though you said derelict, I'm assuming this happens on its own in your story. How about this, have you ever heard of terraforming? It's the basic idea with enough greenhouse gasses you could create an atmosphere around an object. Normally this would be impossible even on a self sustaining 4000km object however if you could BS a way for billions of tons of greenhouse gasses to be excreted quickly (antimater reactor, combined with the methane with millions of dead bodies, IDK) it would be possible to make an earth-like atmosphere. I know it's kind of far out there but you're asking for something that's beyond modern science! haha
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Axial
> Anon
12/10/2014 at 04:28 |
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Heh, thanks for the suggestion, but I feel I should give you a disclaimer: I am an ENORMOUS geek. I read, for fun and my own enrichment, about everything science, engineering, philosophy, etc. I am not an expert on everything, but to people that know me but aren't themselves experts I appear to be one. If I have an idea, I go look up ways to see if it's feasible within constraints I've set (and then I usually keep reading because the related stuff is also fascinating). I could converse with you (and would love to do so, because most people I know can't or don't want to) in detail for days on topics that range from, rocketry, warfare, colonizing foreign worlds, implications of faster-than-light travel, transhumanism, human psychology, evolution of societies, origins of current languages, how to build your own language, etc. The list goes on.
I tell you this so you know that I'm not unfamiliar with all the ways it could have happened. What I am trying to avoid is "special snowflake" syndrome. I don't like things that are special for the sake of story, it feels unnatural. That's the kind of thing that gives me hang-ups. "Just because" or "rule of cool" are never good ways to explain things except at the tiniest of detail levels.
For some background, the universe I've built spans a single binary solar system. However, the solar system as a whole is only relevant before and after the main story. The main story takes place inside an Alderson disk that surrounds the secondary K-class star, one that was never finished being built and has suffered from multiple cataclysms. The first cataclysm involves getting struck by something in its past. The more pervasive cataclysm is that its original inhabitants, humans, have disappeared. Most of them died off three quarters of a million years ago, and the current inhabitants comprise myriad genetic offshoots and evolutions.
Two of these races live inside this storage tank (call it B2750-017), which is inside the Alderson disk and is being fought over with a third race (my illustration is actually of that third race; 8 ft. tall quasi-humans featuring pale skin, no hair, a primarily carnivorous diet, and a rabid belief that they are The Chosen). The storage tank was used to house materials for constructing the Alderson disk. My current working theory is that the tanks contain raw materials. That is, they contain planets and other celestial bodies in pulverized fashion, otherwise unprocessed. This particular tank had its contents used in construction, except not all of them. The remainder forms a crust and top-soil, with water obviously sinking as low as it can. That's all grand, but it doesn't explain why there's an artificial day/night cycle in this tank, because that's something totally unnecessary for a device meant to literally contain a metric fuckton(ne) (technical terms!) of dirt. I also need a reason for why this particular tank is a point of focus, and not the thousands (millions?) of others.