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Devious_T

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  1. Wow, an honour to be a winner! Thank you, really; this is the first time my writing has done anything for me  :P .

     

    Congratulations to the well-deserving Aetherios and Temerian, and to all who submitted a piece; I enjoyed reading every one.

     

    Also I think I can speak for everyone in saying that this was a fantastic contest, and that it shows the whole dev-team's commitment to us and this game. So thank you Novaquark, you show the rest of them how its done.

     

    To many more wonderful stories in the future!

     

    DT

  2. good read, enjoyed it.

     

    As Aetherios said too, i like the change of perspective. Good thing is: they're just children and no heroes; the latter is always....meh....to me

    Thanks Lethys! I thought that the often under-represented children would be interesting too.

     

    Glad you enjoyed!

     

    DT

  3. "

    The story is a good take on a different perspective. It is a common assumption that everyone that steps out of the Novark is either an adolescent, adult or elder.

     

    It's a bold attempt that is very much underrated. Good work with the characters: very believable, but I doubt children would come up with such names!

     

    Not to forget, but if you do write another part, could you show some relation to their parents or guardians in Alioth. They kids do seem very independent, in some cases, unbelievably so!

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    Thanks for you feedback!

     

    In regards to guardians and so on, the story will indeed get into that - and why they are so independent - fairly shortly.

     

    Also, with the names, I know they are strange but I basically used them as a heavy-handed approach to creating the individual characters/illustrate some of the themes of the piece. I wanted them to be almost obtusely illustrative of some of the issues about memory loss and so on.

     

    Thank you again for reading it, and for writing some thoughts!

     

    DT

  4. Hey all,

     

    This is something I've come up with over the last few days. It's a little different, and as you will soon realise the language is tailored towards the perspective of children (or at least, the perspective I want for these children). I just thought I would try out some different techniques.

     

    I'll keep this going over the next few weeks I think, until it comes to a good conclusion.

     

    Feedback, as always, is most welcome.

     

    Hope you enjoy,

     

     

    DT

    TheYoungOnes.pdf

  5. This sounds interesting!

    Am I supposed to click somewhere in order to "join" or is it just some kind of agreement? (I'm not familiar with much of the forum/website yet, sorry)

     

    Also, would it prevent me from joining another org at the same time...?

     

    Hi there!

     

    You can join through the 'Community Portal' (a different website thingy...), just click 'Organisations', search Writer's Guild, and then send an application.

     

    It doesn't stop you from joining another Org at all! Go mad!  :D

     

    Regards,

     

    DT

  6. "

    Indeed. However, if the Community Award is decided before the announcements take place, won't that cause some confusion? 

     

    NQ-Nyzaltar did say in a previous post that the Community Award stands separate from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize that will be decided by the Novaquark team. 

     

    In other words, you can't win a prize and the Community Award.

     

    What happens if a contest submission is voted for the Community Award, just for the same submission to be announced the winner for the 1st, 2nd  or 3rd prize? 

     

    Should that happen, would that mean the Novaquark team would eliminate the Community Award Fan Fiction from their list of candidates for the prizes?

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    I think what they were trying to say was that the 'Famous Writer' title would stand separate for the community award; not that the person couldn't win both a prize and the community award.

  7. A good read!

     

    The concept of stowaways is great, and I couldn't help but think that the wife might have set up her husband's pod to wake him up early so he could register her and their son ????.

     

    Anyway, I really liked some of the interesting imagery you used, and look forward to reading anything else you might write.

     

    Good luck!

     

    DT

  8. "Well, I seem to have made it in the nick of time. Without further ado, here is my Contest Submission. I can only hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

     

     

    Thank you.

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    It was certainly action-packed!

     

    I liked the whole 'good-guy outlaw' kind of feel you had to the cast; if you have read the Reckoners series by Brandon Sanderson that's the kind of thing I'm talking about.

     

    Good luck!

     

    DT

  9. It seems that most others wrote stories based on characters. I was more interested in the "big picture" of the time surrounding and preceding the launch of the Novark, so I wrote this little thing here.

     

    The length did run away from me a bit, but it's not that much more than 10k words.

     

    Hope you enjoy!

     

    Hey Velenka!

     

    I really liked the interplay you had between the two AI in this piece - the whole 'this is for their own good' theme. Definitely an interesting thing to explore!

    Good luck!

     

    DT

  10. "

    Thank you, Devious_T. I really appreciate any feedback that you will give. 

     

    Feel free to peruse any and all other pieces of fan fiction I've written. I know a lot are full of flaws and I would be glad if you could point out mistakes and give me advice where necessary. 

     

    Thank you for your kind offer. I will take you up on it.

     

     

    Cheers.

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    Sure thing mate, no worries. I'll start forming some thoughts now.

     

    Also, don't see them as 'flaws' or 'mistakes', just places to develop; we all have them. :)

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