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So what's my best option? (nm) by
on 2009-02-24 23:40:00 UTC
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Welcome~! by
on 2009-02-24 22:27:00 UTC
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(seriously, though, good job finding the front door. Good luck locating it again, though...)
As for the traditional welcoming gift, here, have this umbrella. It, er, may be a little sharp on the end. But that's okay, right? Better to stab things with.
And I'm sure plenty of us would be more than happy to beta read or whatnot. It's a good practice anyway. =)
So yeah. Good to meetcha. I'm me; I mostly go after video games and anime, so we probably shan't encounter each other much outside of the Board. Still, best of luck~!
(especially with Harry Potter, sweet Lorelei! the majority of the 'fics on the Pit make me want to claw eyes out. Not particular as to whose.)
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I have that exact problem with my research essay by
on 2009-02-24 20:54:00 UTC
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The one so many people here helped out by doing interviews for me.
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Yeah, really it's being connected to fanfic that bothers me. by
on 2009-02-24 11:58:00 UTC
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I didn't explain very well the first time because it was late at night and I was tired. I'm not fond of the idea of legal ramifications related to the fanfic (or having authors I like hear about me and see my fanfic of their work, blegh) but on the other hand I do want to be able to tell people I already know online that I wrote book X ...
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Actually, loads of webcomic artists publish their work. by
on 2009-02-24 11:19:00 UTC
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Megatokyo does, Girl Genius does, Ctrl+Alt+Del does... And the books always sell pretty well. If you start a webcomic (which I plan to do one day soon too, actually) and then want to publish it later, it's fully possible. If you plan on publishing a totally different story than your webcomic, that's even simpler. As for using your real name, most webcomic artists do for ownership reasons. Like Adrian "Adis" Ramos, or Tim "Absath" Buckley. Of course, there are dangers to posting your real name online, but that's just something you have to decide on your own. If you end up publishing your work, people are going to know who you are and be able to connect your identities anyway. You could always create a pen-name for yourself and use that for your published work too (like you suggested). Heaven knows you wouldn't be the first writer to do that.
I can't think of any "repercussions" in that it might make it difficult to get something else published later on. Hell, it might even look good on your resume if it got popular.
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Yeah, I want to make sure my published work wouldn't ... by
on 2009-02-24 11:06:00 UTC
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... be linked to my fanfic, but I wanna be able to show people I already know on the internet if I post original stuff online. Which is a sucky conundrum.
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Have a bottle of Anti-Lustin! by
on 2009-02-24 10:52:00 UTC
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You'll need it when you meet Lux. Or random fangirls.
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*gives you muffins* Welcome! by
on 2009-02-24 10:29:00 UTC
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I'm Oozaru Angel, technically I'm a PPC writer too but, seeing as I haven't completed a mission in more than two years, nowadays I'm more known for writing fanfiction in the anime fandoms and as one of the course coordinators for the Official Fanfiction University for Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (or simply OFUTRC). Call me Angel, Oozaru or simply OA.
It's nice to meet you! I hope you have fun here.
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Welcome! by
on 2009-02-24 10:28:00 UTC
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Have a prinny suit. This particular one was, strangely enough, dressed in a trench coat and fedora, so it should suit you just fine. These generally grant an increase in miscellaneous RPG-related stats and an uncontrollable urge to tack 'dood' to the end of every sentence. Oh, and being thrown while wearing one is usually quite painful. Explosively painful.
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Because during the conversation with the receptionist, by
on 2009-02-24 10:25:00 UTC
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the door has disapeared and is now probably in a totally different location? And the second we turn our back the receptionist will also have disapeared and people will give us funny looks when we ask what happened to her? Because you have no idea where you are at this very second in time and you're pretty sure the eyes of that painting on the wall are following you?
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We have front doors? by
on 2009-02-24 09:57:00 UTC
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That means there's an exit? What am I still doing here?
Welcome. There is no such thing as incompetence in the PPC. You can't leave a badfi...il the job is done. By that very definition all agents that come out of fic alive are competent.
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recycled paper publishing by
on 2009-02-24 09:47:00 UTC
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Well, the problem with the PPC and ISBN publishing (digital books would also get ISBN) is that the PPC is fanfic based and fanfic has some copyright issues. I think that was the trouble TM wanted to avoid.
A webcomic isn't necessarily fanfic, so you could avoid the infringing someone else's copyright problem. I know of a few webcomics that are also published in albums that you can buy and put on a shelf. Usually with some "not previously published on the Internet" material to make them more interesting for purchasers.
Getting an on-line following might actually be a good jumping ground to becoming a published author. You may not be able to publish (with ISBN) what you had previously published on the internet, but that's because publishers like to have exclusive exploitation rights for a set period of time. You'll just have to write something for them that you haven't posted on the internet.
I guess the advice would be to keep your fanfic related stuff separated from the non-fanfic stuff. Though even if you did it would still be possible to link the two (they post from the same IP-address for instance).
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I think it's different with original fiction by
on 2009-02-24 08:22:00 UTC
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There's nothing wrong with having a comic and a novel going, so why should it be different for a webcomic and a novel? Unless you were planning to use existing images or characters: then it starts to be more like fanfiction.
If you're worried about it, use a different screenname and put it with links to your normal one. It'll be easy enough to get rid of the links if you need/want to.
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*applauds* by
on 2009-02-24 08:00:00 UTC
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And the pseudo-Marty Sam gets the wind knocked out of his sails...by the receptionist. Very clever.
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Okay...I'm a doofus. by
on 2009-02-24 07:55:00 UTC
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A few days ago, I posted something titled "mission plug" on this forum. But I don't actually have a mission completed, or even really more than an idea for one. (Busy re-reading the original series.)
However...if any Warcraft/WoW fan wants to tackle the works listed here (which are all the fault of one Suethor) they're certainly up for grabs. Quite frankly, the only one that I'd even touch is the draenei story; the rest of them are altogether too vile.
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Well, we're not sure what style any of it will be in yet by
on 2009-02-24 05:17:00 UTC
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So if you have the inclination to do so, please feel free to send me pictures in that style.
As it stands, we have (off the top of my head) seven 'threads' in which the action happens (each thread follows one set of characters), and we're hoping to keep the art in each thread as similar as possible, but each thread's style will be different to all of the others, because obviously we are going to have a large number of artists, all of whom will only have limited time etc for doing this, so we'll probably marry up artists with similar styles for each thread. The whole thing will either look like a) an artsy montage of styles or b) a mess, but ... well, let's hope for a), shall we? :)
Long story short, please do send me any artwork you do - there's nothing to say that one thread can't be that sort of artwork.
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This question's been haunting me. by
on 2009-02-24 05:05:00 UTC
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Much as I hate to think it, anyone who tried would probably have little difficulty linking out internet lives to our real names. I hate that. Webcomics would probably get less attention than fanfic, though, so you might not have the same issues. I'm not sure. I'd err on the safe side, wherepossible.
*wanders off grumbling*
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Welcome! First pillow! by
on 2009-02-24 04:45:00 UTC
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You'll need it to catch up on your sleep in random places.
Welcome! *shakes hand* Always good to see new people, particularly enthusiastic ones. I obviously don't need to give you any links, but may I suggest you read the wiki's "Permission" article, if you haven't already? Saves a lot of confusion.
That said... well, actually, I haven't much more to say. I like your little intro there, and Cal sounds like he'd be quite a lot of fun to read, particularly when his bravado fails to kill the Sue (or whatever sort of mission you're planning to do).
So yes, welcome! Thanks for coming. :)
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Re: Well, hello there! by
on 2009-02-24 04:27:00 UTC
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Heh, thank you for the whisk, and yay for randomness. I already have the link to the wiki, by the way: it's by the PPC wiki that I accessed this forum. And I found PPC by the TV Tropes Wiki (I've been a hopeless TV Tropes junkie for quite a while now, though I'm not a troper).
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A query by
on 2009-02-24 04:16:00 UTC
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I'm somewhat busy, so it may be a few weeks before I get anything in in any case, but what would you say to images in... distinctly unrealistic styles? Specifically, that of The Order of the Stick? I can do that pretty well, at least for fairly standard-shaped people (as opposed to, for instance, insectoids or multi-headed creatures), but I worry that it wouldn't fit with other submissions or the tone of specific sections.
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Welcome! Have some lembas! (nm) by
on 2009-02-24 04:07:00 UTC
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Well, hello there! by
on 2009-02-24 03:22:00 UTC
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Welcome to the PPC! I'll let July give you links to the wiki and whatnot, as that's her thing, but in the meantime have an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs but spambots and author wraiths! Use it for good and not evil.
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Newcomer by
on 2009-02-24 03:02:00 UTC
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In a thunderous crash, the front doors of the PPC headquarters flung open. The receptionist looked up. A rain-soaked young man had just made an overdramatic entrance and was now theatrically striding toward her across the lobby. He wore a grey trenchcoat too large for his light frame and an old fedora hat of the same color. A black eyepatch covered the wannabe pulp detective's right eye.
"Welcome to the PPC," the receptionist said absently, typing at her computer.
"I wish to speak with someone high up," said the newcomer in a tone that was presumably intended to be commanding.
Needless to say, the receptionist was unimpressed.
"You'll speak with me, kid," she replied acidly. "What are you here for?"
The man was taken aback, but quickly regained some of his composure.
"Do the Protectors hire? I believe I may be your man," he stated self-importantly.
"Mmm'kay. What's your name?"
"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." He sounded smug.
The receptionist rolled her eyes, grabbed her phone and dialed a number.
"Security? Could you please escort some asshole out of the lobby?"
"Ooookay, I'll show you," the man said hurriedly. "Here's my ID." He handed her his Canadian health insurance card.
"Security, you still there? Forget it, that'll be alright," the receptionist said in the speaker. She took the man's card and examined it. A smirk formed on her lips. "THAT's your name? Calvin Percival Baudette?"
"Shhh, not so loud," the young man whispered, wincing. "I prefer to be called Cal."
"...Yeah, that's... understandable," she agreed, visibly making tremendous efforts not to laugh. "So what's your background and experience, Cal?"
Cal made a halfway decent attempt at a cold, businesslike tone.
"I've served for six years in the FBI, two years in the CIA and one very long day at CTU Los Angeles. I've been decorated for my involvement in the Gulf War, where I led a squadron of six F-16's. I have a degree in computer science and another in engineering, and I—"
"According to your ID, you're only twenty," she interrupted.
"...Oh yeah, that. Ah, um... Well, it's a long story but—"
She rapped impatiently on her desk.
"Just say it. No experience?"
"No experience," Cal confessed reluctantly. "But I'm adaptable, I promise."
The receptionist's gaze went to the man's eyepatch.
"List your disabilities," she said.
"I have no disa— oh, the eyepatch? I don't need it, really, both my eyes are fine. But it DOES make me look totally badass, don't you think?" He removed it and stuffed it in one of his pockets.
"Fill out these forms," the receptionist said with mild annoyance, handing Cal a thick pile of variously colored papers. "Then bring them to the human resources office, if you can find it. They're so desperate for personnel that even you might stand a chance of getting hired."
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Hey all. My name is Gabriel (age 20), and I live in Canada (province of Québec). I recently discovered the Protectors of the Plot Continuum, and to me it already looks awesome — I love metafiction. As I type this I have read only four stories out of the Original Series' twenty-five, but I already get the idea and I cannot wait to begin. I hope to be able to write my own missions in a few weeks at the most. For this I have created Agent Cal, an incompetent and overenthusiastic young agent who takes himself VERY seriously (maybe I will give him a sidekick later). I will operate mainly in Middle-Earth, the Potterverse and the Caribbean, since those three settings are plagued by mind-boggling amounts of badfic and an infestation of Mary Sues, but I will not limit myself to those if I find a bad enough fic in another fandom with which I am familiar.
Feedback on my writing would be greatly appreciated: I do not want to disgrace the great work started by Jay and Acacia. Note however that my English is not perfect (my first language is French), so be tolerant.
Thank you.