Thread:RubyTheMaster/@comment-4750363-20130605200748/@comment-4750363-20130611185006

FlakyPorcupine wrote:

This especially helps me in my use of gore while writing. Without build-up to it, too little of it can bore its reader if it is needed in an apropriate scene, while overusing it rolls eyes as blood just flies everywhere. I always struggle to find an equalibrium.

If you would like to read, it is called I Won't Leave You. (Shameless self-promotion right there)

Hey, I remember that story. I had seen it in the Wiki before it being removed. I liked it!

Say, do you mind if I add it back?

I tend to avoid gore in my own stories, mainly because I'm not sure how to do gore. How to know what is the right amoun of gore? What would be uncalled for in what situation? Those and other questions are my bane, when I try to write gore-related stories. To this day, I haven't finished a single story with gore-

Also I'll combat shameless self-promotion with some Reading promotion, hahahahaha. It isn't my best, but I feel kinda proud of it. Criticism is more than welcome!

Kefke Wren wrote:

Ultimately, that's my point. I do not believe that there are any bad stories. There are only bad storytellers.

As I had said: "The quality of a story is completely unrelated to its theme. A story can have the most used storyline ever AND be awesome, and another story can have a never-seen-before plot AND end being a mess", but you did add something that I had forgotten: the storyteller. That is a big factor on how a story ends being done. Some have a natural talent to lure the reader and keep the interested, some don't.

...I wonder if I do...

But yes, you're completely right about that!