Comments on: The Hammer Of Inspiration http://blog.thefurryone.net/2007/05/27/the-hammer-of-inspiration/ Ramblings and musings of John Zeitler. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:25:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ismail Saeed http://blog.thefurryone.net/2007/05/27/the-hammer-of-inspiration/comment-page-1/#comment-8812 Ismail Saeed Sun, 27 May 2007 17:31:28 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2007/05/27/the-hammer-of-inspiration/#comment-8812 Damn straight it's that good. I think you made good enough jokes at how a mecha series can really interest people but can be eventually dragging on long. Take Naruto for a non-mecha example of a series that could be getting around to a conclusion (or at least finishing setting up the next generation) a long time ago. So it's funny that you'll go ahead and write some. I think you might be interested in writing mecha when you don't like mecha... you'll end up putting your own spin on the genre and doing other stuff in the VEHICLE of a mecha story that you want to do... sort of like Eva did in that respect. Would you consider trying the Slayers novels out? Read at least to book 2, because book 1 will be "interesting" as fleshed out versions of stuff you've seen in the anime but book 2 will help you start establishing separation between the anime and the books. Damn straight it’s that good.

I think you made good enough jokes at how a mecha series can really interest people but can be eventually dragging on long. Take Naruto for a non-mecha example of a series that could be getting around to a conclusion (or at least finishing setting up the next generation) a long time ago.

So it’s funny that you’ll go ahead and write some. I think you might be interested in writing mecha when you don’t like mecha… you’ll end up putting your own spin on the genre and doing other stuff in the VEHICLE of a mecha story that you want to do… sort of like Eva did in that respect.

Would you consider trying the Slayers novels out? Read at least to book 2, because book 1 will be “interesting” as fleshed out versions of stuff you’ve seen in the anime but book 2 will help you start establishing separation between the anime and the books.

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