Kaiju Story Writting Advice Sharing!-Learn From The Masters

[juan]

Dear kaijufans,

  I've something to say. As you know my tale "Godzilla: The Monster Wars" is shaping up to be an epic. My pal, Nox, the one who said that I had to make it to Mt Doom, said that I should consider releasing the story in three parts, like Lord of the Rings. It could certainly work that way and I actually am writing it like that.
 The first part deals with introducing the Age of Monsters and setting up the story. It ends with King Ghidorah having come to wreak havoc on the Earth and the Secretary General of the UN declaring that the Monster Wars have begun. I am done with that part already.
  The second part deals with the Monster Wars themselves. We see the Africa Campaign, the American Invasion, and more monsters than you can shake a stick it. I am currently writing it.
  The third part will be the final battle between Godzilla and King Ghidorah and the events leading up to it.
  Do you suggest releasing it in such a way?

[spydrmanjr]

You're better off posting such an epic in three parts. You should first, if you haven't already, find a spot to conclude that portion and then fix the end of that and the beginning of the other so that they all fall in place. Also, if you aren't completed with the last part(s), then just post the first two or three and let people read them while you write the finale. Also, that'd help if people have any suggestions and critisisms about certain things in the story, so while you write the finale, you know what your fans are looking for.


Heh. I never thought I'd be coming to my own topic to ask something. Okay; here I go.

I just pumped out the 6th chapter to my latest story, which just made it 34 pages on the mark. Well, I'm stumped. I know that I want to just go back in time and explain the rest of 1954, but how? I'm at a lost of where to start and where to end.

For those who are wondering how they can help, I'd suggest read the story first. If you go to Gary's Godzilla Zone and go to Brian DeGennaro in the fan fic section, you'll see "Godzilla: Past and Present (Novel)", and that'd be the story. He should be posting the 6th chapter in the next few days, which would allow everyone to read the first 27 pages of the story.

Any help would be accepted.

[Bagoth]

<font color='#0000FF'>How do you make your story more popular?

[Gojira2000]

<font color='#0000FF'>Since this an 'advice/halp' topic, I have some things to post. First off, I can relate to obi-juan82's story, as mine keeps getting bigger and bigger. I have yet to actully write to story itself in book form, but that dosen't mean it's not on paper! Although I could have begun this story long ago, I've been holding it off from actaully becoming a book just yet because I'm always getting new ideas. My book, Godzilla Wars (a lot fan's entitle their Godzilla books with 'war(s)&#39, will a giant story, if not an epic.

Questions:

I want my to to comemerate 50 years of Godzilla, so should I or should I not do the fallowing things:

1. Have all 50+ kaijus that have ever appeared in a G-film, even ones like Varan, Kameba and Gaira. Or just have a few (10-20 or so), inculding Goji's biggest foes as well as a few that aren't.

2. Make up my own charaters, while having and re-inventing some old/real ones from the films. For instance: bring back people like Emiko, Dr. Mafune and Katsura, among a few others.

3. Take several ideas from the Godzilla films so that it not only seems more like a real Godzila story but also to help comemerate the films altogether.

4. Use one version of a kaiju instaed of all that it has. Like for Mechagodzilla, only using Kiryu, because he is a MG, while at the same time being Kiryu, and he can be made into Super-MG with little propblems, and reflect the Showa MG be later in the story having a conection with Katsura.

Okay, these are not so much as questions as they are ideas, but if you think some are good or if you would change somethings, or get rid of others, then say so.

[godofPH]

In my current story, Gigaraptor vs Poleax, Gigaraptor fights a man fused with metal parts and has magnetic powers and got mutated to kaiju size. Poleax's background has been completed, but there is a problem. Poleax is in New Mexico (a totally inland state) and Gigaraptor usually hangs around California. Poleax can't fly and I don't want him to. So how can Poleax get to California where he can fight Giga?

[Tokyo VigilanteX]

A device is develpoped that attracts missles from outer space,so they don't detonate over our atmosphere.Poleax wants this so he can have te ultimate payload of Super Atomic Weaponary.

[godofPH]

Yes, but Poleax needs to physically get his metal *** from New Mexico to California. He cannot fly in his current state (he might fly when he gets a power up) he needs to get to California or somewhere on the pacific coast

[godofPH]

This monster is the villain of the next Giga fic after Gigaraptor vs poleax. Thats the bear from the Devils Tower legend. How big do you estimate that bear is?

[Alien-G]

Have the monster swim to California

[godofPH]

He's in New Mexico, in the middle of a desert. And Poleax is made of metal so he would sink if he swam.

[EternalMothra]

Yeah you could have him swim, or possibly, he could be equipped with a device that allows him to burrow underground......

[Tokyo VigilanteX]

Okay.A new Mexican terrorist group launchs a missle into Space.Poleax is magneticaly stuck to it,and the device is drawn to it.Of course he can't control it,he just flies through anything thats in the megnetic path.

Iam not sure about how big the bear is,but the natives are about as big of one of the bears fingers if that helps.

Have the monster swim to California

Combine this monsters obvious heavyiness,and the oceans water pressure.If he drops in the water he is going to stay there.

[godofPH]

Poleax isn't a robot. He is a mutant man that was fused with a metal suit due to a magnetic expirament exploding. His powers are Negative Magnetic Energy, Positive Magnetic energy, and the rainbow beam.

EDIT: Poleax has full control over his magnetic energy. He can totally turn it off, make it mor powerful, less powerful

[Tokyo VigilanteX]

Maybe he could make a magnetic Bridge across the ocean.Like Magneto did in X-Men 2 when he left the plastic prison.

[godofPH]

Hmmm, that sounds good. I might just have him like ride a chunk of metal like a board.

[Tokyo VigilanteX]

Can you say "Silver Surfer"?

[godofPH]

Well, the surfing idea might be bad because Poleax in his current form weighs over 10,000 tons

[godofPH]

I finally decided to have Poleax go to California by tapping in to Earth's magnetosphere.

[godofPH]

Originally Posted by EternalMothra

Do you mean electro-magnetic field? I thought the magnetosphere was part of the Earth's atmosphere that protects the planet from Solar winds?

Yeah, the electro magnetic field. Thats what I meant

[godofPH]

Originally Posted by CII

How's this for info?

Magnetosphere --The region around Earth whose processes are dominated by the Earth's magnetic field, bounded by the magnetopause.

Electromagnetic field (EM field)--the regions of space near electric currents, magnets, broadcasting antennas etc., regions in which electric and magnetic forces may act. Generally the EM field is regarded as a modification of space itself, enabling it to store and transmit energy.

I think that will help.

Wait, then I was right about the magnetosphere. In the story Poleax uses his magnetic powers to ride it to CA.

[MirrenDono]

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but...

Have him run?

[godofPH]

Originally Posted by MirrenDono

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but...

Have him run?

He can barely walk, much less run.

[godofPH]

Originally Posted by MirrenDono

O_O

How the hell does he fight then? Beam war?

Yes beams, but he also uses his magnetic powers to attack his opponents with metal objects.

[godofPH]

Originally Posted by MirrenDono

Sounds original

Hey, ever thought of having Gigaraptor come to him?

Ehh, maybe ~Damn char limit~

[godofPH]

Originally Posted by Angilas

Im stealing this from the X-Men universe (another area of my expertise) and actual science, but...

For years, Brain waves have been under careful study. Many of these studies have revealed a large part of brain waves to be connected to magnetism, and the magnetic feild.

Gigaraptor has psychic powers to some extent, correct? So perhaps if Poleax had a reason to be in favor of Giga's demise, he could manipulate the magnetic feilds to where they interfered with Giga's brain waves, altering his mind in some way...luring him toward New Mexico.

That might work with a plot twist I threw in, Kenton dies. Tell me what you think of his death scene. Below is an excerpt from the story.


San Francisco…



Professor Edward Kenton had just returned from a stress clinic. After seeing all that he has, he developed a huge stress problem. And who wouldn’t blame Kenton for his stress? Kenton saw the likes of Gigaraptor, Shadredon, Sukairyu, Kamiryu, Wodaws, and Quasar. Six giant monsters attacking cities he was in one after the other was enough to give any person bad stress.

Kenton was a brilliant scientist though. He excelled in the field of cloning. His life’s dream was to clone a dinosaur. He had almost succeeded twice. The first time Kenton had gotten far enough to create an embryo but his lab was shut down by the military. The embryo was thrown away and was exposed to some toxic waste. The toxic waste mutated the embryo into Gigaraptor. Gigaraptor had attacked Seattle where Kenton had confronted his creation and got it to stop its attack. The second time Kenton had almost cloned a dinosaur was when he was using a machine powered by electricity to develop the embryo. An electrical surge caused the machine to accelerate the embryo’s growth and even mutated it to giant monster size.

Gigaraptor and Kenton had a telepathic link with one another and Kenton used Gigaraptor to defend the world. Gigaraptor had saved the world from Shadredon, Sukairyu, Akaryu, Kamiryu, Megaracnial, CyberRaptor, Mokele, Sirrush, Wodaws, and Quasar. Quite a fight record for one 150ft raptor.

Kenton literally fell on his couch as soon as he walked through the door. What a day, first working on a clone of a Compsagnathus, then a presentation on DNA replication in cloning, and to top it all off Kenton had the stress clinic. Kenton thought to himself, “I’m to old for this.” He reached for the remote and turned on the television. Kenton blankly stared at the television as the Discovery Channel flashed across the screen. Kenton dozed off on the couch.

Kenton was sleeping soundly when a sharp ringing pierced his snooze. Kenton fell off the couch and muttered, “No mam, please hold the rat pellets.” Kenton heard the ringing again, the old man shook his head and realized that the high pitched ringing was his phone.

Kenton stumbled over to the phone receiver and wearily picked it up and held it to his ear. The man muttered, “H-hello?” The voice on the other end of he line responded, “Edward, there is a problem at the lab.” Kenton replied, “What happened?” The voice answered, “The compsagnathus clone, some idiot spilled liquid Uranium in the embryo’s test tube and the embryo is going through accelerated growth.” Kenton thought to himself, “Not again, this kind of thing happens every time I try to clone something.”

Kenton wobbled out of the house and got into his car. Still drowsy, Kenton started the car and pulled out of the driveway. It was a fifteen mile drive from Kenton’s house to the lab, which wasn’t that far at all, but there was all that damned San Francisco traffic.

Kenton was driving down a hill when he felt very sleepy. At the bottom of the hill was a busy intersection. The scientist dozed off at the wheel and his car cruised on down the hill, gaining momentum as it went. The car rolled into the intersection and finally stopped. The car was sitting in the middle of the road.

A Semi truck hauling *** down the road tried to brake at the sight of the stopped car but didn’t press the brake pedal soon enough. The semi plowed into Kenton’s car and caused a wreck of gargantuan proportions. Kenton’s car at the beginning of the day was a Lamborghini Diablo, now it was scrap metal.



An hour later…



The ambulance rushed to the scene of the accident. The team tried to open the door of Kenton’s car, but it wouldn’t budge. The Fire Department came and started hewing at the door with axes. They finally broke through and found a gory mess where Kenton should have been. The ambulance pulled the cadaver out and took a pulse, none. The ambulance pulled out the refribulator. The man operating it loomed over Kenton’s corpse and yelled, “CLEAR!!” The man pushed the things down and shocked the body. After several failed attempts, it was clear that Kenton was deceased.