User talk:Ylfowvitfb

Hello there, Ylfowvitfb! Welcome to the fiction wiki. Once you've perused the main page, you can access things more easily through the portals page on the sidebar. Have fun! --Yunzhong Hou 23:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Just a side note, please do not add unstarted works under the list of significant progress. Listing its title is not significant progress. Thank you. --Yunzhong Hou 23:09, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me! For inspiration, check out our Neverending Wiki N. Maybe your stories can be integrated with the topic on Werewolves. The Bobcat was sci-fi; maybe this one can be fantasy. --YZHchat/2000+ edits

Sure, but then what am I going to do with the virus? I'd like to use it in future stories. Ylfowvitfb 18:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC) I think the next sci-fi story will be about a reptilian humanoid. I'm planning on writing some kind of fantasy story in the future, and I'll probably include a werewolf, although I'd like to have a Wolf-Man type story where the virus gets transferred by a wolf's bite. One of the infected animals was a wolf, after all. Ylfowvitfb 18:34, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Please read about the deities that already exist before adding more, I believe Zamroth already exists as Lamoth, Bane and Scipios. Also, if Zamroth is the opposite of Zamn, then there is a problem because the opposite of 0 is 0.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by existing already as Lamoth Bane and Scipios (who was a Roman general during the 2nd Carthegenian War). Could you explain? Ylfowvitfb 00:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Your description was overlapping with already existing deities, it would be best not to add redundant deities.Serprex 00:26, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

The Neverending Wiki, with 270 pages, is already very developed, with many articles in each of regions, deities, individuals, organizations, kingdoms, histories, and spells. Although we want to encourage you to add more entries, please keep in mind the following:


 * The map is already made, at Image:Comp1.jpg.
 * The deity list is pretty much complete.
 * There already exists a complex history.
 * There is already a technology development timeline, at N/History/Technology.
 * The magic system is complex as well and any changes to arcanery may disrupt its foundations.

Hope this helps, and hopefully you will find the Neverending Wiki an interesting project to contribute to. Thank you.

--YZHchat/2000+ edits

Best place to add is at N/HistorySerprex 03:38, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

The Bobcat is now listed under Novellas, because it's in excess of 30kb You can consider this a "promotion" of the work to a higher status. You can of course keep it listed under Short Stories, but you should list it under only one category. Please consider keeping it as a Novella and remove the re-listing you did at Short Stories, because I don't really think it belongs. --YZHchat/2000+ edits

No List of Novelas, try Novels and Novellas. --YZHchat/2000+ edits

Thanks. I try not to overlap with N, but I can't help that some of my ideas, which I originally thought were original, are present at the Neverending Wiki. The Ahuran are angel-like, not gods, and Zamroth, who was the head of that order, got banished because of his greed. If you ask me, it shares much in common with biblical accounts (i.e., Lucifer was banished from Heaven because of his greed and is now called Satan) I'm trying to make this as distant as I can from the N. Ylfowvitfb 16:38, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

By the arbitrary definition of 5 kb that I set, your piece "The Heir" which has under 3 kb is considered a Very Short Story--that's where it is. If you want it to be promoted, you'd probably have to put more effort in it. The alternative is to attach it somewhere in a longer story (though I don't know if that would be possible). --YZHchat/2000+ edits

Monobook Skin
Do you like the changes I made to the Monobook skin? --YZHchat/2000+ edits 20:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Can't say. I haven't seen them yet! If you could link me to it, I'd tell you. Ylfowvitfb 20:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... try refreshing (ctrl + f5) and cleaning your browser cache and temp. internet files (especially cookies, I'd think). --YZHchat/2000+ edits 20:28, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Wait, hold on a second. Did you mean the changes to the entire appearance of the website? Wow, I like them a lot! It's a big improvement! Ylfowvitfb 20:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Really! Wow, that's good to hear (erm...read). If there's any changes you'd like to see made about the skin, well, keep me posted. --YZHchat/2000+ edits 20:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

On active stories
I add any and all active stories to the sidebar so that writers can get to them easily. They come off after 7 days of no activity, though. --YZHchat/2000+ edits 20:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. Well, still thanks for the rating! Ylfowvitfb 20:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to Neverending Wiki
When you feel like it (or when you finish The Lizard), you may want to check out on The Neverending Wiki. It's our constructed world project, and hopefully I can recruit you to help out with that. --YZHchat/2000+ edits 20:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, certainly. I happen to be a fantasy fan myself. Ylfowvitfb 20:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

On the Length Policy
What's your opinion the length policy for the separation between novels/novellas/short/veryshort? --YZHchat/2000+ edits 17:30, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

What is the current standard? I think The Lizard has gone past the limit for short stories. Perhaps it should be a novel? Ylfowvitfb 17:59, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The limit for short stories should be about 2,000 words, I think, although it may be longer. Novellas should be probably about double or triple this, and novels, well, they can be pretty much as long as they want, as long as they don't take up too much space on the site.

Ya, when something becomes more then 250KB, we'll call it an Epic.Serprex 18:03, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. Ylfowvitfb 18:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. Sounds more like you're setting yourself to become the co-author of the first Epic on this site... --YZHchat/2000+ edits 18:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Er-pardon me, what do you mean? The Lizard isn't even past novella yet! How could it be an epic? Ylfowvitfb 18:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

If we were to compile groups and include shared universes, it'd be The Neverending Wiki.Serprex 18:31, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

That's true. But add The Bobcat with The Lizard, and factoring in the amount of activity/number of authors working on the series, and it's already at novel status. We just haven't officially combined the works together. --YZHchat/2000+ edits 19:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I see. Well, I'm not entirely sure how they'll be combined, because the Bobcat is a novella, whereas the Lizard is starting toward a novel status. It could be an epic soon, but never as big as the Neverending Wiki. No siree. Ylfowvitfb 19:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I forget. When did I bug you about doing something other than writing The Lizard? --YZHchat/2000+ edits 22:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

You weren't bugging me. You were just asking me to help eventually with the N, and I'm reading through the Age of the Gods right now just to kind of educate myself on the topic so that I can be prepared to write on the N. Right now I'm working on the Lizard, but I can perhaps work on the N some. I've got to go back and finish reading about Orsinius's two challenges. Ylfowvitfb 22:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Name
You should come up with a name for the sum of The Bobcat and The Lizard so that I can include it as such in Novellas. --YZHchat/2000+ edits 16:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm thinking of forming a trilogy at least, but I don't know exactly what the third will be yet. I guess this two-story series could be called The Were-Animals. How's that? Ylfowvitfb 18:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

You know, you don't have to finish your trilogy just yet, and I for one am getting tired of were-creatures. Maybe help out with someone else's budding story, like how Qyrst and I helped out with yours? I think that would be better for the entire community. And then there's the Neverending Wiki, and The Heir, to talk about... --YZHchat/2000+ edits 18:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm planning to give it some time to bud. There's been a lot of activity on my stories and I appreciate all the effort put into them. The batteries need recharging. Right now I'm working on The Heir, and is there any specific area of the N you need work on? You seem to have all the dieties, as well as the history down, so I'm guessing you just need stories taking place within the fictional universe. I'm also working on a parody of Lord of the Rings; it's called Lord of the Dough-Rings, and I need it to be linked from one of the main pages. Ylfowvitfb 23:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW, The Lizard appears to be finished, so it needs its status changed. Of course, its ending is ambiguous, so it'll have a follow-up. But seeing as how people are tired of working on these stories for now, I'll let it rest for awhile and work on some other stories. thanks for all your hard work! Ylfowvitfb 23:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm planning on making The Heir into a long story, perhaps a novel, as the material present just can't be covered in the limit of a short story. Ylfowvitfb 00:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm naturally suspicious of parodies. Your Lord of the Dough-Rings might end up falling apart sooner than you think. That's not to say that it's impossible, just that it's not as likely of achieving success as a story you feel very strongly in. You may want to set short story status as its goal, though.

Just as another warning, don't call something something you intend to be a novel, but which is still a short story or very short story, a novel, because more often than not it won't get to novel status at all. Not that you can't--it's just the experience I've seen, scanning through dozens of aspiring "novels" that have fallen far short of their proclaimed goal. You may want to set short story status as your goal--just a hint. Then when it's 30+ kb and you still are intrigued by your own story, then go ahead, make it a novella.

Oh by the way I check Special:Recentchanges quite often, so you don't even have to announce a work for it to be listed on the sidebar in due time.

As for the Neverending Wiki, take a look at N/History and you'll see that there's a LOT of gaps. Deities is done, though, and so are kingdoms. We also need a lot of work with the Bestiary. Stories can go in N/Legends. Also, we're talking at N/Community. Pay a visit?

--YZHchat/2000+ edits 00:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Wow!
According to Stories (the new listing I've made), it seems that The Bobcat is #15, and The Lizard is #8! Congratulations! --YZHchat/2000+ edits 19:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, gee that's great! Thanks! Ylfowvitfb 22:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Name:Vote

 * Here are some possible titles (from Qyrst): 'The Were-Animal Saga The Were-Virus The Himalayan Virus Secret of the Were-Beasts The Bite The Harpers and the... (Bobcat, Lizard, etc.; à la Harry Potter and Indiana Jones titles) The Darkest Possible Secret Dead, Yet Alive The Were-Beast Trilogy A Monster Story The Story With All The Good Parts Written by Qyrst (Just kidding!)

Which one do you like?

--YZHchat/2000+ edits 01:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Wow! That's quite a lot. I probably won't go with the "trilogy" one, since I may write more than that (I'm not sure right now, but a third part will definitely come out). I like the Were-Animal Saga best, I think. That's pretty good! Although, Qyrst did write a good many "good" parts, where else did he get his ideas from than me? ha ha Have you checked The Heir lately? I just added some recently. I'm still researching the N. Ylfowvitfb 02:59, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, I think the Lizard should be labeled as finished, if there's no further work being done to it. Ylfowvitfb 03:02, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Mage Compilation
Please read my work, Mage Compilation, and tell me what you think about it on its discussion page. (You can begin working on it too, but first save it as another article with a different name.) Thanks! --YZHchat/2000+ edits 00:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Yup. Maybe it'll give me some ideas for stories taking place in N. Ylfowvitfb 03:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Please take a look at the sitenotice
I'm trying to get users of fiction wiki to notice the sitenotice. Oh by the way, vote for featured wikia... --YZHchat/2000+ edits 17:31, 31 December 2006 (UTC)