On fencing and writing

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Last night at the club, I fenced four bouts, and three of my opponents had equipment malfunctions. I think for two it was their body-cords, and for one, their blade. I don't mind so much, but at tournaments, god, people can get nasty about it. At Midwest last year, there was a girl in my pool, and it was her first time competing, ever. Now, that's

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[drelfina]

One thing I did think about the two katana thing - does he do one-defense-one-attack? Usually that's how it works, or else you kinda go nuts.

I think there's a fighting style where you can attack with both, but you kinda have to split your mind a bit, and the defense can be weak. BUT if you're fast (or Ryuichi) you can attack both at once.

Better still when you're using two different weighted types of weapons, and confuse the hell out of people.

Ko doesn't care though! :D Makes life interesting to spar with Ryuichi.

And as writers, we always put a little something of ourselves into our characters.

No matter how much sex I write my characters doing, I find it difficult to have them conceive of sex unless I've read OF them doing it. Or thinking it.

Like, "Oh, this is a situation where Kakashi would be lustful. Okay, insert lust here."

<.<

*hijacks your post*

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He uses one for attack, one for defense, but alternates on the fly. There would be times when he goes crazy and attacks with both, but it's not as effective; you need to use more strength.

Hehe. Confusion is a shinobi tactic.

......okay, where did that come from? XD

[drelfina]

watch me be extremely off tangent

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No, that makes complete sense! I always try to work from an example, so I know at least the direction I should be taking with it, especially with writing the pornz stuff.

Hehe. Our characters have parts of us, yet they're very different.

[drelfina]

yeah! I completely lack the imagination to go off it myself - which is why I'm always agog by people who can write gorgeous porn off their hats.

Very visual thinkers, they are.

Our characters have to be something like us, or incorporate something from us, or else they wouldn't be easy to write at all!

Which makes it so clever, difficult, and downright frustrating to write clincially insane sociopaths or something.

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It's funny, but it's always been easy for me to write crazy characters. I have no idea why o.0

.....that probably says things about my personality that I'm not going to go into >

[drelfina]

YOU ARE CRAZY.

*ducks* XD

Maybe it's just so much easier to take it to an extreme? Because your characters are so... logical that it takes them out of the sanity allowance in normal present society.

Actually, I htink they ARE sane, just... in a different spectrum al together.