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Well, I'm only 2.5 chapters into the draft, I'm not exactly prepared for feedback yet! Thank you! Thanks again for the advice! I shall employ it in ruthlessly editing. And I shall read the story tonight, when I get a break from my college preparations. (assuming it's not 50k words or something lol)

Mood. Say, if you're interested in a "sneak peak" of sorts for a newbie writer's first attempt at a plot, perhaps you'd be willing to give me feedback on my first draft?

I... am not sure I agree. I agree that schooling might be an arbitrary way to acquire knowledge, and I could easily become a writer without it, but I'd still have to learn a lot about story structure, what makes great writing great, character development, character arcs, symbolism, symmetry...

Because, as of right now, I suck. I don't know enough about the world or about writing to make something worth publishing yet. I intend to go to college before I actually write something publishable. I'll have a base of knowledge about "things" in general, a base of knowledge about writing...

Noted. Thanks for the feedback! Trimming words is something I haven't considered, but is painfully obvious in retrospect. If I can streamline anything in the editing process, I will. How do you discern between words that contribute to the plot and words that should be reduced to "she almost...

I'm not, as I pull in copyrighted elements from other universes in the book... though I could scrub them clean and reinvent them. They aren't crucial to any character decisions. Thanks!

So when I make a story, there's 2 sections. First, I make the plot, with absolutely no dialogue or description whatsoever. Kinda like this: "Character X does Y. Character X then does Z. Character A doesn't like it, and retaliates with B." and so on and so forth. Then, I translate it into...

266: crushed by a giant cherry.

264: playing Russian Roulette too many times.

My first story, at the rate of plot-to-words I'm going at, is gonna hit roughly 35,000 words. Is this good or bad? Is big a benefit, as a more sprawling, cohesive plot is a rare thing in this world, or is big a drawback because nobody wants to pay attention to one thing for so long?

Eugh! I like rats but not the feeling of one's little claws clinging to my leg! *kicks Meta off* Cling to my shoe or something.

*is also here to protect the defenseless*

Cement shoes! Those sound like fantastic exercise equipment. Where can I purchase some?

*takes meticulous notes*

Not a bad idea. I’ll keep that among my options.

Wait, you can slip TF agents into food? I thought the stomach killed them all! And that drinks were the only thing you could slip them into! I suppose I'll have to eat completely isolated from everyone from now on. *sigh*

More specifics please: how high quality art are we talking here? How many art pieces? What style are you hoping for? In what ballpark is the pay? How long should the project take? What's the basic plot? Is it even a story, or more of a gag-a-day thing?

I use an iPad as well. I've had absolutely no issues with it artwise (though I'm not exactly experienced). Plus, it serves double duty as, well, an iPad. If you have any need of an iDevice whatsoever, I highly recommend the iPad. If you've already got that tech need covered, a strict drawing...

You’re gonna wanna be a lot more specific than that. What kind of project? What kind of medium? What kind of artist are you looking for? What kind of other people are you looking for? Authors? Storyboarders? Is any of this a paid position, or strictly volunteer work? How much of this project...

Teach me how to be four parallel universes ahead of my adversaries.