Good to have you here Toki!
I understand getting strange looks when talking about my love of Scooby Doo and cartoons in general. Then again I'm used to getting strange looks in general when my career choice (paleontologist) comes up haha.
And I think I may have read some of your stories once before on fanfiction.net in the past. Think at least since I did have a quick look at a few seemed familar. Cute interactions between characters are the most fun to write and read imo. Most satisfying for me to since I find that kind of stuff the hardest to write, descriptions and depressing stuff is so much easier! Though I tend to often go a bit over the top with descriptions in my own writings...
I often play on a breedable pet site that has Earth tones, so often we get people who love things like rocks and fossils there. But neat job style! I probably could have used your expertise many years ago when I wrote a ghost Dinosaur mystery. Looking back, I probably broke alot of things due to not knowing nearly enough.
Thanky kindly for the nice words. I for some reason, are naturally slated for writing every day stories, and overall cute. How, I dunno. But it's what I seem to just do. And I just love character interactions. Certain shows last the longest in people's hearts, when the chemistry is there any bonds with the reader/watcher. Making them fans.
I love descriptions. I probably write them way too much as well. But I think with my writing style, I can get away with it a tiny bit more. Since it's not like bogging down an action sequence or what not. But I consider myself an artist before a writer. So everything I write, I see in my head first. Like watching an actual episode, and then later put it into the best words I can. Hardest part of that, is multiple options, and not knowing which would be the most fun to pursue.
I think depressing stuff can have it's place.(See 'Never Take Things for Granted') But when with Scooby, it's nice to have a more happy ending at the end, or an uplifting message. It also might help cheer up the writer as well, unless writing depressing things helps get it out.
Yeah, It's sad that things ended up falling apart in VelmaDinkley.com. And worse I was there to watch the end of the Golden Age over there. But yeah, there is still a bit of action there, and they still have a chatroom every sunday. But probably not too much Scooby talk that I know of. I have been trying to poke my head in there and see old friends. But the timing has been off.
And you do not know happy it makes me feel, hearing you say that about that story. I actually just got back in contact with LittleSoprano, since I missed talking with her. So it will be so nice to get to interact with my writing hero, and see how life has been treating her.
Good to hear you are back at it! It will be nice to see your icon among the new posts. And I'm not one to talk, as I took off like 1-3 years before. And Danger-Prone ness is always fun.
Heh, Russm is actually one of the few writers I have a story Favorited from. I apparently am really picky, when it comes to posting it on my ffnet listing. I literally only have four titles on there, and RussM's "Writing" is at the top. Granted, it's small, but it's cute. And worth a read. Need a longer version!