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« on: March 07, 2007, 15:31 »

Greetings people, Simpson fans, and Lisa lovers! (And the rest.) I have been looking around these forums for quite a long time by now. So anyways, now i decided to join it and post stuff, and hang out with you guys, and so on. I wrote this fanfic about a guy named Mark and Lisa. (P.S: I know the first bit is about amateur_poet's "Lisa Dream" but it was so beautiful so i wanted to put it in my fanfic and expand it. Smile Mark is neither me, or someone i know. Thats just a guy i imagined up. Tongue Anyways, its called "Life as a Simpson", and is about how this guy named Mark, created by me, who meets Lisa. This is the first episode of it, I'm planning to write a episode 2 soon. Please tell me what i could improve in it. Best regards, LisaFan.

Credits goes to GeorgeHarrison for his "Lisa Dream" thingy in the beginning of the fanfic, credits also goes to Matt Groening for creating The Simpsons.

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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2007, 17:13 »

Well hello there LisaFan. good to have you here. I looked over your story a bit and it is pretty good.  When i have a bit more time I will give you some real thoughts on it. Hope to see you around more. Keep in mind that there is a Writing competition going on right now and we would love to have you join. check here for details:

http://www.lisa-simpson.net/topic/150.msg2202#msg2202
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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2007, 23:29 »

Hello, and welcome to LTS! Smile It's great to have you on board.

We would love to have you join the LisaCon Writing competition since it seems like you have quite a talent for writing Smile If you're interested, you can PM Laguna about it.

And also, the Lisa Dream reffed in your story was mine, not amateur's. Big Grin
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Look at that hand, lying there
The room is dark, she shows no fear
I'm lying still, my eyes are wide
My heart is pumping, I'm still alive

I'm still awake against my will
What will it ever take
To still this burning in me?
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2007, 06:29 »

Oh, alright then.  Tongue  Ill see if i can join the writing contest. Smile 
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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2007, 19:28 »

Welcome to LTS, dear new Lisafan!

And you're a creative one, too. Double welcome Smile I'll save your ficcie for a later reading as now i'm a bit busy with tons of catching up to do on the site, but i hope you'll have a good time here! Ciao!
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2007, 14:55 »

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Your story was quite good. Smile I've read it, re-read later; and can say that despite certain things, I liked it. I hope it's okay to post my honest thoughts here - like I said many times before, those are just personal opinion and nothing more. So there. Smile

What I liked: your story was easy to read. Perhaps you should try to make paragraphs smaller because right now they are too big and it's easy to get lost in the sentences. But the style you chose to explain your thoughts was nice. Decent spelling and grammar was another good side; if only someone knew how much easier to read it makes a story for me Tongue Of course, I also loved the subject, because, well, obsession Lisa

Only two things I considered questionable. The first one, like you probably guessed already, is "self-insertion", i.e. putting yourself in the story. Of course the name is different, but still... Wink it's like seeing someone drawing himself hugging Lisa. I try to avoid such kind of art, but these are just personal preferences, someone else will see nothing harmful in that. The second thing is that you "altered" characters a lot to fit your story flow. To me, the real ability to write a nice story is the ability to use the existing characterization, not to create your own for the sake of the plot. In other words, I can believe in Lisa being grateful to someone for saving her, but I hardly believe in Lisa sleeping with that guy the next night. I can believe in Marge being very glad that her daughter is safe, but I hardly believe in her immediately making the guy that was "sleeping out on the backstreets and eating garbage", a part of her family. See? I perfectly understand your emotions towards Lisa in the story, I feel exactly the same. Smile But you should try your best to make the story less "edgy", and more "smooth", plot-wise. I assure you that it's quite possible. The only thing you have to do is to close your eyes and to try to "live" your story for every character involved. For Marge, for Bart. Even for Lisa Smile If you do that, you'll see all plot flaws, and will be able to fix them.

Overall impression: it's a beautiful story for the Lisa-obsessed, but it still needs some work.
Keep it up Smile
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2007, 13:55 »

LisaFan
I've read your story, and I must say it's a very nice topic Smile Although it needs some work, I'd hope that you'd continue writing it.

Of course I loved the topic, because as you'll find, I'm quite Lisa-obsessed as well Big Grin The only thing that I sort of had trouble with was the characterization. For one, I'm not sure Lisa would go out and get drunk so freely, and then sleep with a man who's just moved in. Also, Marge's reaction was a bit off-key to their drunkenness; being the fretful mother that she is, I'm sure it would have been slightly more negative. Tongue

Overall, it's a good story... Just maybe try to stick more to the traditional characters. Smile
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Look at that hand, lying there
The room is dark, she shows no fear
I'm lying still, my eyes are wide
My heart is pumping, I'm still alive

I'm still awake against my will
What will it ever take
To still this burning in me?
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