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Tue Feb 26, 2008, 5:20 PM
alright, here's the survey/exam (WARNING - extremely long):

The Exam
Does nothing happen in the first fifty pages? no. i have back ground info on the world (what is know as the building process, of a story.)

Is your main character a young farmhand with mysterious parentage? no. (because this is not a rip off from star wars, eargon and any other book that starts like that.)

Is your main character the heir to the throne but doesn't know it? probably not.

Is your story about a young character who comes of age, gains great power, and defeats the supreme badguy? please my char already has great power........i mean. no.

Is your story about a quest for a magical artifact that will save the world? no
How about one that will destroy it? no

Does your story revolve around an ancient prophecy about "The One" who will save the world and everybody and all the forces of good? gosh no do you know how many times that has been played out.

Does your novel contain a character whose sole purpose is to show up at random plot points and dispense information? no

Does your novel contain a character that is really a god in disguise? no

Is the evil supreme badguy secretly the father of your main character? no.

Is the king of your world a kindly king duped by an evil magician? well first off i'm writing a sci-fi and there is more then one world. but you could say that a company has certain influences over those in charge.

Does "a forgetful wizard" describe any of the characters in your novel? no

How about "a powerful but slow and kind-hearted warrior"? no i think every one in my story is fast, or smart. whatever "slow" is supposed except maybe Hannah.

How about "a wise, mystical sage who refuses to give away plot details for his own personal, mysterious reasons"? no, maybe idk well see how that fits into the plot.

Do the female characters in your novel spend a lot of time worrying about how they look, especially when the male main character is around? just Hannah

Do any of your female characters exist solely to be captured and rescued? maybe Hannah lol jk.

Do any of your female characters exist solely to embody feminist ideals? no.

Would "a clumsy cooking wench more comfortable with a frying pan than a sword" aptly describe any of your female characters? no. there are no frying pans in my story.

Would "a fearless warrioress more comfortable with a sword than a frying pan" aptly describe any of your female characters? again no frying pans

Is any character in your novel best described as "a dour dwarf"? there are no dwarfs.

How about "a half-elf torn between his human and elven heritage"? no

Did you make the elves and the dwarves great friends, just to be different? no

Does everybody under four feet tall exist solely for comic relief? no

Do you think that the only two uses for ships are fishing and piracy? the only ships in my story are space ships. and they are not used for any of that.

Do you not know when the hay baler was invented? no.

Did you draw a map for your novel which includes places named things like "The Blasted Lands" or "The Forest of Fear" or "The Desert of Desolation" or absolutely anything "of Doom"? i think every one knows not to put the word "doom" in any thing. and no.

Does your novel contain a prologue that is impossible to understand until you've read the entire book, if even then? no

Is this the first book in a planned trilogy? maybe.

How about a quintet or a decalogue? no

Is your novel thicker than a New York City phone book?...no

Did absolutely nothing happen in the previous book you wrote, yet you figure you're still many sequels away from finishing your "story"?no

Are you writing prequels to your as-yet-unfinished series of books?no

Is your name Robert Jordan and you lied like a dog to get this far? no

Is your novel based on the adventures of your role-playing group? no

Does your novel contain characters transported from the real world to a fantasy realm? no

Do any of your main characters have apostrophes or dashes in their names?no

Do any of your main characters have names longer than three syllables? one. but he has a nick name

Do you see nothing wrong with having two characters from the same small isolated village being named "Tim Umber" and "Belthusalanthalus al'Grinsok"? ha.

Does your novel contain orcs, elves, dwarves, or halflings? no.

How about "orken" or "dwerrows"?i have no idea what that even is.

Do you have a race prefixed by "half-"? no

At any point in your novel, do the main characters take a shortcut through ancient dwarven mines? no.

Do you write your battle scenes by playing them out in your favorite RPG?no

Have you done up game statistics for all of your main characters in your favorite RPG?no

Are you writing a work-for-hire for Wizards of the Coast? no

Do inns in your book exist solely so your main characters can have brawls? maybe.

Do you think you know how feudalism worked but really don't? huh

Do your characters spend an inordinate amount of time journeying from place to place? sometimes

Could one of your main characters tell the other characters something that would really help them in their quest but refuses to do so just so it won't break the plot? no

Do any of the magic users in your novel cast spells easily identifiable as "fireball" or "lightning bolt"? they don't have to speak.

Do you ever use the term "mana" in your novel? no

Do you ever use the term "plate mail" in your novel? no

Heaven help you, do you ever use the term "hit points" in your novel?no

Do you not realize how much gold actually weighs? yes. but i won't be useing any in my story.

Do you think horses can gallop all day long without rest? i do not use horses in my story

Does anybody in your novel fight for two hours straight in full plate armor, then ride a horse for four hours, then delicately make love to a willing barmaid all in the same day? no.

Does your main character have a magic axe, hammer, spear, or other weapon that returns to him when he throws it? no

Does anybody in your novel ever stab anybody with a scimitar? no

Does anybody in your novel stab anybody straight through plate armor? no

Do you think swords weigh ten pounds or more? idk there are no sword in my story.

Does your hero fall in love with an unattainable woman, whom he later attains? maybe.

Does a large portion of the humor in your novel consist of puns? no.

Is your hero able to withstand multiple blows from the fantasy equivalent of a ten pound sledge but is still threatened by a small woman with a dagger? haha, no

Do you really think it frequently takes more than one arrow in the chest to kill a man? no

Do you not realize it takes hours to make a good stew, making it a poor choice for an "on the road" meal? they don't eat "stew"

Do you have nomadic barbarians living on the tundra and consuming barrels and barrels of mead? no

Do you think that "mead" is just a fancy name for "beer"? idk

Does your story involve a number of different races, each of which has exactly one country, one ruler, and one religion? haha no

Is the best organized and most numerous group of people in your world the thieves' guild? no.

Does your main villain punish insignificant mistakes with death? no,

Is your story about a crack team of warriors that take along a bard who is useless in a fight, though he plays a mean lute?no. though they do take Hannah along.

Is "common" the official language of your world? no

Is the countryside in your novel littered with tombs and gravesites filled with ancient magical loot that nobody thought to steal centuries before? no

Is your book basically a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings? NO BECAUSE MY BOOK IS A SCI-FI.

Read that question again and answer truthfully.TRUTHFULLY IT'S A SCI-FI.

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