Dude13's Awesome Series - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

Dude13 · 10-05-2006, 10:18 AM

Ha, finally, something to make this thread actually be on topic for once....

Wow, and that's actually a really, really good question. To begin with, it's not that I have anything against them, not at all. Now that I think about it, maybe it is because simply put, I prefer the standard set of characters I use most of the time in my stories.

Then again, I'll be honest when I see this is the first time I've actually had to stop and think about it - yikes, and I've been writing Foster's fanfics for over a year too, ack, shame on me.

Maybe it's because in all the story ideas I've come with, their prescense was just never necessary for anything, thus their complete lack of appearances. Also, I'll be honest, personally I find that it's nearly impossible to write Coco into anything because zany and lovable as she is, a lot of my stories can tend to be very dialogue-driven, and unfortuantely, her vocabulary is extremely limited. That of course brings up the whole subject of how to let readers know what she's saying, whether that's clues given by the other characters, flat out translations (not really a fan of that method), etc. It gets difficult with her.

Unfortunately, I have no such excuse with poor Ed. He has an accent, yes, but that's hardly a problem. Ack, that's more or less an enigma why he's barely made any appearances.

So at the moment, I think mainly it's because yes, I probably do prefer the others above those two (sadly enough) and thus every story idea I come up with is designed specifically to involve all the others.

Now I feel kind of bad for excluding them, ugh....

Honestly though, that was a really good point you brought up there. If there's anythign else you want to ask (or if I did a lousy job of answering this question) feel more than free to ask.

10-05-2006, 10:18 AM	#28
Dude13 Settling In Cruising through life without a single clue... Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 85	Ha, finally, something to make this thread actually be on topic for once.... Wow, and that's actually a really, really good question. To begin with, it's not that I have anything against them, not at all. Now that I think about it, maybe it is because simply put, I prefer the standard set of characters I use most of the time in my stories. Then again, I'll be honest when I see this is the first time I've actually had to stop and think about it - yikes, and I've been writing Foster's fanfics for over a year too, ack, shame on me. Maybe it's because in all the story ideas I've come with, their prescense was just never necessary for anything, thus their complete lack of appearances. Also, I'll be honest, personally I find that it's nearly impossible to write Coco into anything because zany and lovable as she is, a lot of my stories can tend to be very dialogue-driven, and unfortuantely, her vocabulary is extremely limited. That of course brings up the whole subject of how to let readers know what she's saying, whether that's clues given by the other characters, flat out translations (not really a fan of that method), etc. It gets difficult with her. Unfortunately, I have no such excuse with poor Ed. He has an accent, yes, but that's hardly a problem. Ack, that's more or less an enigma why he's barely made any appearances. So at the moment, I think mainly it's because yes, I probably do prefer the others above those two (sadly enough) and thus every story idea I come up with is designed specifically to involve all the others. Now I feel kind of bad for excluding them, ugh.... Honestly though, that was a really good point you brought up there. If there's anythign else you want to ask (or if I did a lousy job of answering this question) feel more than free to ask.