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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE]believable stories"[/QUOTE]*strangle* Believable stories don't make good fiction. Creating a 'believable' Star Trek story is out of the question. SF relies on suspension of disbelief. [QUOTE]dozens of twists and turns[/QUOTE]you want twists and turns, drink a liter of pop and ride "Space Mountain." NUANCE is far more important than plot twists. Too many plot twists generally leads to the viewer feeling the same general way as the aforementioned Space Mountain rider. I've read some really great fanfic that has never been formally published (no, I didn't write it. I tried writing fanfic once, and I am lousy at it), and the authors of which would never dream of submitting it, it being too personal, even though I believe it would stand a decent chance of getting published. I've also read fanfic by the people who constantly say "The Trek doodz shuld be taking yore (meaning THEIR) fAN submissins"... and they are INVARIABLY crap. Top three mistakes the latter make: [b]Creating their own crew.[/b] Nobody cares about your crew but you. You know their backstory, what it took to come up with them, and the prior history of their continuity. Nobody else does. You won't be able to explain it in less than a Clancyesque size, which noone will read unless your characters are more interesting than God. No publisher will let you do this anyway, unless you're a VERY well-established writer (like Peter David and the "New Frontier" books) [b]Mary Sue/ 'autobiographical' Trek stories[/b] These involve the writer inserting him/herself, or a stand-in for him-herself, into the story. Typically, this is a person who is transferred on board, and proceeds to outdo/seduce the entire crew, solve the mystery slmost singlehandedly, and ends up being the only person (insert major crewmember here) will ever 'really' love. The same with 'Supercharacters' who are smarter than Data, stronger than Worf, more psychic than Troi, et cetera ad nauseum. They're good for using as NPC's in RPG's (to get your gamers out of a jam), but otherwise, they're characters that make me hope they will get killed in a stupid accident / assimilated / gangraped by the Gorn before the end of the story. [b]Megaships[/b] Nobody who buys books is going to be interested in your "Emperor Monster-Class" Uber-Dreadnought with Type LXVII Super-phasors!!! and Mega Transwarp Quantum Slipstream Dimensional Shifters and detatchable Defiant-Class captain's yacht. It ain't gonna happen. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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