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  • I suppose with a style as symplistic as manga it is difficult to distinguish between characters who are of the same age and general style.

    I have to say though, the artist of DN, Bakuman, etc. is very talented in drawing people with stylish clothes. Most artists struggle since the details of them are so precise.
    Occasionally. It's the cause of many an incomplete homework assignment.

    My life is actually absolutely brilliant right now. It's summer, the weather's good, cross-country summer practices have started, everything is great. How 'bout you?
    I was planning on starting a private RP...would I be able to open an OOC thread a couple days in advance, or would I have to start the RP and the OOC thread on the same day?
    Oh, you're right actually.

    Although, I wouldn't say she is based off that character, rather that they are simply similar characters.

    Writers tend to use similar characters in projects, often without even realising it.
    Yup! Although I have less than some people I know, because I'm one of a very small number of students who don't take at least one science subject. Chemistry and Bio have shitloads of homework, I hear. ^_^;;;
    Well, it did look that way.

    I did most of the reading in my life in the first thirteen years. I always read a few years ahead of my age group, and then after I started high school I just ran out of time. I've been trying to read more lately, but this History assignment, and that Scholarship English essay, and that AS English project, and that German conversation internal, and that Spanish essay . . . ugh.
    Hmm, you're right, I haven't heard of it. A quick Google gave me some info, and I guess it looks like a pretty good book. Not the sort of thing I tend to read that often, though.
    Yeah, the Narnia series were some of my first 'real' books too, and they remain among my favourites for obvious reasons. So what is this fantastic book you're talking about? I'm intrigued.
    Yeah. If they'd got Lewis himself to rehash it for a radio drama, it might not have turned out so badly.

    Well, I try not to act like a smart-ass. All I mean is that I can sit and feel secure in my achievement without having to be validated by trooping across the stage to collect a certificate. (I did get top in my Spanish class, though! :D)
    Well, it's your choice. Some authors who do 'audiobooks' tend to go for more of a 'dramatisation' - that is, like a radio drama you could hear on the BBC or something, which is just people talking. I don't like them much, because in order to get things across, dialogue is often added that makes it sound awkward. For example, a radio drama version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader that I heard a few years ago had lines like:

    "Oh, my Aslan! Look at that massive sea serpent that is appearing out of the water! Its scales are like sparkling emeralds and its teeth have got to be at least three feet long!"

    Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but that's pretty much how it has to go if you want to keep that description in there. (In all fairness, that was a really poor adaptation, there. Lewis doesn't take well to being messed with.)

    The other option is to go ahead and read the whole thing, which is generally favoured when it comes to audio books. For example, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series as read by Stephen Fry. That's a marvelous reading of a pretty good series, and Fry just fits it perfectly. He does all the voices and everything. (Speaking of which, the 'radio drama' format tends to use multiple voice actors for different characters, which can get tricky logistically.) I prefer the second way, because the narration in my fic is as important as the dialogue, if not more so.

    Well, in a class of thirty or more, that easily puts you above average. And it's not so much the recognition - I came like sixth in my year or something (based entirely on conjecture and faulty math) last year, and I didn't get anything either. Doesn't stop me from feeling like a smart-ass. :p
    Well, if your fic reads '"What the hell are you doing?" Ross ground out, making a concerted effort to stay calm.', you'll know how to read that line better than if you just wrote '"What the hell are you doing?" asked Ross.' Because in the first example, you can try and get across Ross' character a bit better because you know he's trying to keep a lid on his anger, whereas in the second example you might just be tempted to yell it when reading.

    Oh, well done! That's quite an achievement!
    Well, when I read Crushed aloud, I think I tripped about five times in all throughout the fifteen-minute recording. And that's the thing, though - if you write those sorts of things into your fic in the first place, you will know how to say the lines because the direction is all there already.

    Oh, congratulations! That's high school, right? (In NZ, we don't use the word 'graduate' for the end of high school. You just sort of 'leave'. XD)
    My laptop has a built-in mic (not fantastic, but it works fine) and I found a program that lets me record and edit stuff really easily. And yes, it does add somewhat to the realism of things, but it can all depend on the reader. Some people are meant to be writers, not speakers . . . thankfully, I've been reading books aloud for years (I have a little sister who always liked having stories read to her), so I tend not to trip over my words too much. And I took Drama for a few years at school too, so that helped with doing voices and things.

    Haha, no. I'm still in high school - I'm just sixteen. I've got a good way to go yet. This project is worth credits that could help me get a scholarship for university in 2013, though.
    Pshaw, I do that too, no worries. I used to be a terrible convo-stalker, but I don't do it so much these days.

    Yeah, I figured I'd give it a go. Makes it easier to reach people who don't have time to just sit and read fanfiction. You can put it on an iPod or whatever and just listen to it on the go.

    And I somehow missed your last VM. Cool stuff, I'll put Welcome To Our World at the top of my to-read list, just after Silph's Escape (which I haven't found time to read yet either urk). I'm smack bang in the middle of a research assignment for history right now (I'm elbow-deep in references, photocopied pages and textbooks as I type this), but at the end of next week I have a two-week holiday where I should be able to get some serious R&R done - both 'rest & relaxation' and 'reading & reviewing'!
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