Subject: Well, I did have an idea about the awswang...
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Posted on: 2015-08-13 03:25:00 UTC
They're mythical monsters, a myth that came from the Phillipenes, but does that mean they'd have to be in the Phillipenes?
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Advice on Writing A Mystery Story Needed by
on 2015-08-13 02:37:00 UTC
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I really do need advice, because I've found that I'm not too good at being subtle with my writing. But the problem is, I want to write a Doctor Who fanfiction, and as fans know, most of them involve a puzzle of sorts, and…yeah. Any advice would be good. Any DW fanfiction ideas in general would be good as well.
Ixi suggested the much-used plot of aliens attacking Earth, which I could go with, but I cannot think of a good reason why they would be attacking Earth. I know it depends on the type of baddie, but still… It still involves a puzzle. -
Well, aliens could... by
on 2015-08-13 04:25:00 UTC
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...want some sort of human art, and want humans to make it for them. This has a mystery of "why are all these artists disappearing?" (A fairly standard plot, but worth mentioning.)
...think that Earth is a great place to drop their nice little oxy/nitrogen breather nature preserve, which turns out to be an invasive species.
...think that Earth is a great place to dump their *garbage,* which requires an Earthlike atmosphere for some reason -- some sort of biomechanical garbage that falls asleep when exposed to oxygen?
...want something a different invasion (possibly by their enemies) left on Earth? -
Well, expanding on what I said in the email... by
on 2015-08-13 03:34:00 UTC
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Yeah, 'X species attacks/invades Earth' is pretty much the bread-and-butter of lots of Doctor Who plots. These can, however, be broken down into a few broad categories:
1. They want to wipe out humanity for TEH EVULZ.
2. They want to use the Earth as a resource for something, and humans are just getting in the way.
3. They want to use the humans as the resources.
4. They just happened to crash-land and ended up getting stranded, and humans mistook it for an invasion.
5. They don't possess the intelligence necessary to realize that what they're doing is wrong, and attack people simply because it's their instinct to find food.
And a puzzle can be anything, from hacking into a computer to figuring out the aliens' motive(s). Puzzles aren't confined to just riddles and physical interlocking pieces, after all. :) -
Advice! by
on 2015-08-13 03:14:00 UTC
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So first, you don't wanna make anything too complex, or try to write the next Sherlock Holmes, especially if it's your first time. And maybe the aliens are invading because they need to take a dump and their toilets are broken. I dunno, I don't watch Doctor who.
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Well, I did have an idea about the awswang... by
on 2015-08-13 03:25:00 UTC
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They're mythical monsters, a myth that came from the Phillipenes, but does that mean they'd have to be in the Phillipenes?
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*Philippines by
on 2015-08-13 03:29:00 UTC
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And, uh, no clue. In Supernatural the monsters certainly move around, but there's generally a reason for it, generally something to do with modernization. However, these awswang...would probably not be aliens? Unless they inspired the myths? Myth inspiration sounds rather DW-ish. I don't know anything about the monsters themselves, of course, but you'd need to find a reason for them to have appeared in the first place, a reason why they didn't stick around, and a reason why they're back.
~DF