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Author has written 1 story for Percy Jackson and the Olympians. “But what if she totally loses it? We sleep in the same cabin, you know; she could slit our throats in our sleep.” – Jeremy Welcome to the combined profile of Jason Strong and Ellen 26. Key Titles in italics – specifically Ellen 26 talking Titles bolded – specifically Jason Strong talking - We’ve decided to only to the titles in bold and italics, because the whole paragraph like that is an eyesore - Only italics – quotes Titles bolded – Information, not Jason Strong or Ellen 26 SPOILERS BELOW -- TRISTEN Tristen is a complicated character. She has a natural hair colour of black, though it is dyed blue, after Jake snuck bleach, along with some toilet duck into her shampoo bottle. She still doesn’t know what Jake had put in the shampoo bottle. She knows about the bleach, but Jake is aware that if he tells her that he put toilet duck into her shampoo, she would kill him. Stone dead. She never quite fitted in camp, the half-blood in her is quite weak, lending to her having a rather weak parent. Tristen fits in best with mortals, she suffers from Dyslexia, but her ADHD isn’t very sever, so Tristen tends to take her bike, and joins groups in the nearest town. Tristen knows a freakish amount of martial arts, she puts a lot of effort into training, because she’s always at a disadvantage. She’s only got one eye. She hides this by putting a tan coloured eye plaster, and then hides it underneath a rather large fringe, which she hairsprays in place every morning. On the odd occasion it does move out of place, all people see is more skin, they don’t have time to realise that there isn’t an eye there. Her mortal friends – who she spends more time with – are aware of her scar, but not how she got it. When she first lost the eye, it took a while to get the depth perception right, she was clumsy, which left her rather scarred. Tristen finally allows herself to be vulnerable when Jake shows a kind side to her. So far, it’s going pretty well for Tristen. Good things never last. NAME: Tristen AGE: 14 HAIR COLOUR: Black EYE COLOUR: Dark blue
JAKE Jake is hard to understand unless you actually read the story. He has undeniable thirst that may only be quenched by the torture of other campers (mainly Tristen). He doesn't actually ever hurt her physically, but emotionally, he's scarred her for life. Jake is the son of the goddess of luck, Tyche. His mother is pretty... insane, and smothers him. His father couldn't care less about him or anything to do with him. Jake is blessed with the good fortune of his mother, but as the story progresses, and Tristen gets more irritated at him, his luck started to dwindle, and he broke his arm. He, of course, is dating the prettiest girl at camp, Silena Buregaurd, and, to put it simply, they basically run the camp. Given the chance, they could probably run Hell together, too. When Tristen is given a quest, and chooses him to accompany her, he panics. No one--not even Silena knows of his fear of fighting, and he goes off to this quest, he's hurt, and Tristen nurses him back to health and gives him the basics of fighting with confidence. He almost died, and he owes his life to Tristen. But they receive a very detailed prophecy. The two of them will return, but only if they can avoid trying to save their fellow demigods. Will Jake's new-found 'good' personality make him able to refuse the cry of his friends? If he makes the wrong decision, will it be him, or Tristen to die? NAME: Jake AGE: 14 HAIR COLOUR: blond EYE COLOUR: green/brown
TUTORIALS – Co-Author Writing Choosing the write co-author: The first key to writing a story with a person you've never met in real life is to make sure that you guys are compatible, and won't end up in a huge argument that ends up with both of you stalking each other. Not only that, but you have to have similar writing styles. A writer that writes for tragedy probably won't mix well with a writer for humor. There are, however, exceptions. Take us for example, Ellen likes to write romance, where I don't really give a flying pickled pancake about romance. I like action. But, the story we've written is based on romance, and they go on a quest, that's where the action comes in. But romance and action work well together, whereas humor and tragedy don't. And please, people, be sure that the person you ask is the person you KNOW you want to write a story with. Don't just walk up to someone you private messaged once or twice and say “u want 2 rite a fic wit me?” The story you write would be a reflection on both of you, and if you don't really know each other, you won't make a good team. I decided to ask Ellen if she wanted to write a story with me months after I had met her, and we had been sending private messages back and forth since the day she reviewed my first story. This was between her appendicitis and her being hit by a car. Just thought I'd mention that. Planning: I cannot stress enough how important this is. Don't just put something out on the archive that you spent two emails planning. Ellen and I waited for at least three months of planning before we submitted the first chapter. Both of the authors have to understand that this IS IMPORTANT. Your story will completely fall apart if you don't do this correctly. I can't really tell you how to do this. It will be different for each pair of writers. I can't get my point across more clearly unless I threaten you, and according to Ellen, I'm not allowed to threaten the readers, so... Characters: There are many different ways to make your characters. We suggest using third person, instead of switching POV's like we did. The next story will be in third person. Make sure you both understand the character's personalities, appearances and fears, or your story will go up in flames, and I will be the one holding the blowtorch. Cooperation and Understanding between you and your partner: I can't tell you how many times I've screwed up, and Ellen got a little... angry. It was never a major screw up, just something like accidentally mentioning Tristen only had one eye in Jake's POV, or not replying to a review. (She mentions in her personal profile that that's a pet peeve of hers) But she's always calmly... well, semi calmly told me it was a mistake and asked me to watch out for it in the future. She never once said “OMG JASON! I HATE YOU! I'M NOT DOING THIS STORY WITH YOU ANYMORE!” Also, you need to know that sometimes, your co-author will be in a tight position, and can't update as quickly as you'd like. Nothing would piss them off more if you said “HURRY UP WITH THIS CHAPTER! YOU'RE SO SLOW!” Just wait, they'll get it to you eventually. When you're ready to publish: If you've planned, established a permanent way of communication with your partner, and are ready to publish, here's what you do. Create an Email address on a free website. Ellen and I used Hotmail. Create a FanFiction account, and make sure that you both have the password to both the accounts. Make sure that you both know EXACTLY what's going on in all chapters. If it helps, like both Ellen and I did, create a folder that you put the Emails containing important about your story in. That way no information will be lost. It's a pain to sort through, though. Have fun writing your story. Reviews: If you’re switching off by chapter like we do, only reply to reviews to your own chapter. But still, keep up with the reviews your story receives, if someone gives your partner a CC review, make sure you follow the directions they are given. It will only make you a better writer to learn from someone else's mistakes as well as your own. I hope this helps, have fun, and good luck on your joint-story. -- TUTORIALS - How to build a good OC Okay, now we reach a small tutorial portion of our Profile. Something I love to do is Create OC’s. I work hard on them, and I’m really starting to get the hang of them. I’ve created eight published MAIN character OC’s, soon to be ten, after my exams are finished… and eleven after The Golden Treachery. Now I love a good OC fic, if it’s executed well, it’s all I read in the form of long term fics. But the scrounge of the OC writers are the Suethers. Suethers bring a bad name to OC writers. People purposely don’t read OC fics, because they’re sick of Mary-sues. Now, think about if you put a lot of work into your fic. You’re a new author, but you’ve got an interesting OC, but no one’s reading it because everyone can’t be bothered in case of reading another Mary-Sue. Now, I’m getting to the Tutorial part, bare with me. If your characters name is so long that you have to have it on a copy and paste button or written on a piece of paper next to you, or any other fancy way to get it right because it’s so long/fancily spelt/ etc... then you’ve made a mistake, seriously dudes, ordinary names please. Think about The cannon character Percy for example. How ordinary a name is Percy? Now the most obvious, thing, the parentage. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT ARTEMIS/HESTIA/ANY OTHER MADIAN GODDESS. They’ve been virgin for over 2000 YEARS they aren’t just going to give it up because ‘Oh I think that boy down the parks cute, maybe I should go screw him, so I get pregnant.’ You need to be a damn good writer to pull this off, and if it’s your first fic, best not attempt it. Also? Having your OC be the prophecy child? Very overdone. Trust me, I’ve done it! I wouldn’t recommend using Poseidon/Zeus/Hades for a parent. If it’s essential, then proceed with caution. Now here’s another massive problem, Appearance. No one is flawless, not even Aphrodite herself. Give your character spots, make them too tall, give them frizzy hair. Never give your character ‘Ebony’ coloured hair, Either black, brown, red or blond, if you want, give them a multi-coloured hair, just make sure it’s dyed. PEOPLE DON’T NATUALLY HAVE PURPLE HAIR!! Eyes are another big problem, yes some people’s eyes do change colour slightly, and some people have red eyes. This isn’t normal though! Blue, Green or brown. It’s that simple. Never describe them as Sapphires/Emeralds/Chocolate brown seriously, just plain blue brown or green, maybe dark, muddy. Red eyes are normally accompanied by white hair. Remember that. The exception to this is if your OC is describing someone they are in love with. If your OC is in love with someone, then it basically blinds them. . Magical weapons that kill monsters with only one swipe? rolls eyes plllllleeeeeeaaaassssseeeee, I mean, Riptide isn’t that good, and it’s a good sword. I know it’s hard to write a fight scene, and having your sue just swipe at the monster and it disintegrates on the spot makes it a whole lot easier, but it’s not satisfying, is it? No one is perfect, okay, it just doesn’t happen. Think about yourself for a moment. You have flaws, both physical and character ones. Now, take your friends. They have flaws as well, don’t they? Quite a lot of the time, people complain about their flaws to you. Also, think of published works, - other than Twilight, no matter how much you yell, clumsiness is not a character flaw, and Bella is the queen of Mary-Sues - Characters there have flaws, everyone does. So if you want to make a successful OC, You need to make them flawed. Now, Self inserts. I have read ONE good self insert, by an amazing author – XxForgottenFailurexX – Who pulled it off, kept her character faults, and just managed some complete amazing fic. But like everything, she’s the exception that proves the rule We don’t want to hear about your ‘amazing’ adventures getting to camp, blah blah blah. It’s dull, and repetitive, you’re not in the story, get over it. For some people, this could mean they have to avoid a god, for example, I am not allowed to write about a daughter Athena, as I could easily go into self insert mode doing that. Not just easily, it would be hard not to. Some people won’t be allowed to write Apollo, etc… Now last thing. Do put some things into you fic, your character has to have some good qualities. Like, being pretty, just not perfect. Being smart, just not a genius. Feel free to give them SOME of your characteristics, so you can identify with them; just make sure they aren’t you. Tristen for example, has my love of revenge, something I’m learning to calm recently, she isn’t me though, that’s just one characteristic we share so I know where she’s coming from. Now, enjoy writing OC’s. if you’ve found this half rant/tutorial hybrid useful, give me a PM, and let me see your fic, I love to read a good OC :P Ellen -- Nine-year-old Tristen watched from her bunk in the Hermes cabin as newcomer to the cabin—a kid named Jake, and twin sons of Hermes, Jonah and Jeremy pelted Mr. D's cabin with tomato. She was waiting anxiously for the clock to tell her it was 6:00. She had waited for years to join a off-campus karate class, and Chiron had finally given her permission three months ago. She had lessons every week, and loved every minute of it. Every time she knew it was almost time to go to her class, she'd wait in her bunk until six, then she'd hop on her bike and be at the studio by six-thirty. This was by far the most interesting waiting time she had spent. They are going to get into so much trouble when they get caught. She hadn't known Jake that long, he'd just started attending camp two weeks ago. And Tristen liked to keep her distance from newer campers. She'd given up on trying to make friends. She watched as the boys laughed every time a tomato hit the wood, and smashed into a gooey substance that splat on the grass. Without really knowing Jake, Tristen could tell he was no good. Mostly because, he's just come to camp, and people were already trying to be his friends as if they were the new students. He hadn't even been claimed yet! But, that was just another sign that he was 'perfect' in every way. Almost as if he had someone watching over him... All of a sudden, Jake and company dropped their tomatoes, picked up what they hadn't used—which was contained in a brown sack, and ran head-on to the Hermes cabin, at top speed. The door flew open, and they flopped on the beds, trying to look natural. “If Dionysus asks, we've been here the whole time.” Jonah exclaimed. “Psh... yeah, right.” Tristen replied, in a smart-alec tone. “Come on, freaky girl, help us out.” Jake begged. “Why should I?” She answered. Just then, the door to the cabin flung open again. A red-faced Dionysus stormed in the room. He looked at each of them with a critical eye. “Which one of you drowned my cabin in tomato?” He asked, looking at all four of them. No one said anything. “Tell me, and maybe I'll go easy on your punishment.” “It was Tristen!” Jake said almost instantly. “No it wasn't!” Tristen was quick to defend herself. Mr. D looked at her again. His eyes fixed on something beside her. “Well, what do we have here?” He asked, advancing on her. She looked to see what he was going for. It was a small brown bag. They had set her up. Before she could stop him, Dionysus looked into the bag. His nostrils flared with rage. “Seems that I've found my culprit. Come along, Tina.” “But... but, I didn't do it!” Tristen shouted, she knew she'd be suspended from karate for a while. “Really?” Dionysus began sarcastically. “And I'm not the god of wine. Come willingly, and maybe I'll go easy on you, Terry.” She looked from each of the boys. But her eyes fixed on Jake. He was on his bed, trying not to laugh aloud. But she could see the expression on his face—taunting her. She was only nine. But she knew she had made an enemy. And as Mr. D escorted her from the cabin, she thought about her future with Jake. She couldn't bare the thought that he'd be there for the remainder of her childhood, but it was apparent that he'd be there for a long, long time. I hate him. Hate him, hate him, hate him. And I'll always hate him. For as long as I live, I will hate him. -- Announcements Now, we’ve reached the announcements section of our profile. The Seventh Crossing HAS BEEN CANCELED Jason Strong and Ellen 26 are abandoning Percy Jackson and the Olympians, due to it not being worth our while to put so much effort into a chapter to have it pushed to the back in a day or two. We are finishing The Golden Treachery before we leave Yeah... and for those of you who are now going 'what's The Seventh Crossing?', it was going to be the sequel to The Golden Treachery, but we've decided not to do a sequel... -- |
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