Subject: Actually, Rina's got 28 missions.
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Posted on: 2015-06-23 00:04:00 UTC
32 if you count the in-progress ones (one is unlisted because that's the next on the list).
Subject: Actually, Rina's got 28 missions.
Author:
Posted on: 2015-06-23 00:04:00 UTC
32 if you count the in-progress ones (one is unlisted because that's the next on the list).
So I can't really comment on that. I think you should look more at your motivations for having big plans as opposed to focusing on the plans themselves.
That's what I said.
"As a writer, your first and foremost goal is to write something that's enjoyable and works well as a whole. If you're crafting it to match some sort of formula for expected success, you might find it, but you'll not enjoy it as much as you will otherwise."
It seemed to me that it was more about making it enjoyable for the reader. For me, it is the process itself that should be enjoyable. If I misunderstood your words, then forgive me.
I was mostly trying to get at the point, that you should write what you want first and foremost. If you want Drama, go for it. If you want a sappy love story, make it so. If you want to put your characters through a living hell, that is your right. So, what I am really trying to say is if Voyd has some long term arc planned, I say go for it, so long as it fits the medium. Fanfiction obviously has different rules than original fiction.
"If you're taking the attitude that it is all about big events making waves and attention grabbing to make a character unique and not 'stock', you're dead wrong- and it's an attitude that won't serve you well as far as making your own characters develop."
"It's not what happens that makes them memorable, it's the writing and care behind them. Quality, rather than quantity or explosiveness."
That was my point.
I had stopped keeping up with missions and new spin-offs so much around right when you got here, unfortunately.
...So I have a few years of spin-offs to catch up on, if I ever do.
(Ohhh dear.)
...um, thirty missions plus various interludes? So I totally understand if you've got better things to do. ^^;
My shortest (and most recent, actually) is at eight pages; the longest (collectively) is the Rose Potter missions, and that condensed is 201 pages all together. So... yeah. ^^;
And I thought there were more like five or six people who have broken the TOS number?
Spreading the whole of Rose Potter out over 201 pages isn't all that bad, actually.
As for the number who've broken TOS, I'm fairly sure that last I recalled it was in the high teens or low twenties- I'm estimating that by now it might have broken past 30.
It really doesn't feel like I have that many.
And I could've sworn there were far more who've broken either number.
My methodology is far from perfect. I probably missed some.
That's not a bad number, though I'm sure it would possibly go up if you allowed yourself to not count years where you did not write things?
(Also, would you be interested in doing a mission cowrite with me? We can both add it to our individual list of things that will take years to finish.)
Rina Dives has 23 missions with Rose Potter counting as a single mission; however, I'm inclined to think that each 'fic in the series counts as its own mission, and therefore she has 28 missions under her belt.
Dafydd and Selene; the page lists them as the veterans of 18 missions.
Aright, looks like counting isn't my thing after all.
32 if you count the in-progress ones (one is unlisted because that's the next on the list).
I got to skip over chunks and chunks where it was basically copy/pasted from canon, albeit with the occasional weird typo (the wated comes to mind). So although it looked like a lot to spork, there was a lot that got left out thanks to the rampant plagiarism.
And huh, if that's the case, then the Wiki page needs to be updated, because that's definitely not even ten people listed.
To me, those are Blood Raining Night and Ring Child.
I happen to agree with you there. {= ) The question I'd pose to you, though, is why they stand out from the rest of the spin-off. BRN has the advantage of being a pretty well-known badfic (though my mission has yet to attract anyone to the PPC on that basis that I'm aware of, le sigh), but "Ring Child" doesn't, so let's look at that one to avoid distraction. More specifically, what choices did Tungsten and I make as writers that made that mission more than just your standard broth with the usual chicken, noodles, and maybe a few vegetables, to borrow July's analogy? What choices could we have made instead that would've made it just another mission?
~Neshomeh
Well that's kind of depressing. Oh, well.
hS
Plus, you know, being all-around cool. ;)
And for the record, Aster and Lore are also some of my favorite agents and they never did anything groundbreaking. I just loved their dynamic and characters.
Take the Notary. She's the Time Lord everybody loves to hate. In fact, she's one of the more memorable agents I've seen (and I've seen quite the amount in the four or so years I've been around). Did she do anything notable? No. She was in a WhatThe mission, a couple Chilli Con Council interludes, and that's about it.