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Subject: Halo Fanfic: The End of a War
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3 months are over!!!!!!!!! mutiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 10.24.2006 5:30 AM PDT
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Yeah, and how exactly do you propose we do that?

  • 10.24.2006 7:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: Asmodeus
Yeah, and how exactly do you propose we do that?


Pitch forks and torches?

Pillage and burn maybe?

  • 10.24.2006 7:10 AM PDT

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no no no.. have some class, the man has to be tried properly.

I, Primum Agmen, head of the inquisition, deem you, Mr. Clark, guilty of perjury, infuriating your ship mates, and grand larceny of everyones time.

how do you plead?

- Primum

  • 10.24.2006 8:19 AM PDT
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iv become used to waiting for clark to get things done, its not like i sit here waiting for him to finish the story

i think he has lost a little bit of interest because of the trailer released by bungie on halo 3 but otherwise hes not doing this for money or anything so give him time

and by the way i think you should seek a liscence or something to publish this as an alternative ending or something

  • 10.24.2006 9:00 AM PDT
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Posted by: Primum Agmen
no no no.. have some class, the man has to be tried properly.

I, Primum Agmen, head of the inquisition, deem you, Mr. Clark, guilty of perjury, infuriating your ship mates, and grand larceny of everyones time.

how do you plead?

- Primum


Um, hate 2 break it to u dude, but in a mutiny it kinda doesn't matter what he pleads.........

  • 10.24.2006 12:46 PM PDT
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Im back before i go hibernate, in the cabin.... seeeing we are talking so much about mutiney and such, lets give it a seamen (not what u naughty ppl think) twist.
Garr matey's in 'T cab'n 'Y go.

  • 10.24.2006 1:01 PM PDT
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I repeat, sing along with me, I run the streets the streets don't run me.

Nice but i tink the Covenant moderately reveres the MC in a weird sorta way and by the way im new

  • 10.24.2006 3:15 PM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
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Posted by: Primum Agmen
no no no.. have some class, the man has to be tried properly.

I, Primum Agmen, head of the inquisition, deem you, Mr. Clark, guilty of perjury, infuriating your ship mates, and grand larceny of everyones time.

how do you plead?

- Primum


Um, hate 2 break it to u dude, but in a mutiny it kinda doesn't matter what he pleads.........


I'd still like to see how he pleads.

But I'm sharpening my pitchforks and putting black powder in my arrows because no matter what he pleads this is MUTINY

  • 10.24.2006 8:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: x Lai Tasha x

I'd still like to see how he pleads.

But I'm sharpening my pitchforks and putting black powder in my arrows because no matter what he pleads this is MUTINY


I'm sorry i'm so pesimistic, but even though we're saying 'lets mutiny Mr Clark', all we're really doing is shaking our fists at our pc screens saying 'Grrrrrr' and all the while wondering wot the -blam!- to do.

unfortunately all we are doing is trying in vain to keep ourselves occupied in the (what currently seems miniscule) hope that Clark posts a new chapter; while said person is probably laughing his ass off at what a bunch of obsesive idiots we are......

[Edited on 10/25/2006]

  • 10.25.2006 4:49 AM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
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Posted by: Asmodeus
Posted by: x Lai Tasha x

I'd still like to see how he pleads.

But I'm sharpening my pitchforks and putting black powder in my arrows because no matter what he pleads this is MUTINY


I'm sorry i'm so pesimistic, but even though we're saying 'lets mutiny Mr Clark', all we're really doing is shaking our fists at our pc screens saying 'Grrrrrr' and all the while wondering wot the -blam!- to do.

unfortunately all we are doing is trying in vain to keep ourselves occupied in the (what currently seems miniscule) hope that Clark posts a new chapter; while said person is probably laughing his ass off at what a bunch of obsesive idiots we are......


Shhhhhh!

  • 10.25.2006 11:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: x Lai Tasha x
Posted by: Asmodeus
Posted by: x Lai Tasha x

I'd still like to see how he pleads.

But I'm sharpening my pitchforks and putting black powder in my arrows because no matter what he pleads this is MUTINY


I'm sorry i'm so pesimistic, but even though we're saying 'lets mutiny Mr Clark', all we're really doing is shaking our fists at our pc screens saying 'Grrrrrr' and all the while wondering wot the -blam!- to do.

unfortunately all we are doing is trying in vain to keep ourselves occupied in the (what currently seems miniscule) hope that Clark posts a new chapter; while said person is probably laughing his ass off at what a bunch of obsesive idiots we are......


Shhhhhh!


Really dude

  • 10.26.2006 6:08 AM PDT

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Ok, so we gottta calm down, eat a bunch of candy on tuesday and have fun for halloween hoping that Mr. clark will give us some REAL candy. if not we stage somethign where we all show up at his house a day late in our costumes asking for candy.

How annoying would that be?

O and just so everyone knows, I used the bookmark thing to get here to post. So I feel pretty special right now.

  • 10.26.2006 7:01 PM PDT
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Okay, this is weird. Well this thread is always weird, but this is taking it to weird places.

Clark has, in a word, abandoned you guys. But before you freak, its a temporary abandonment. We had a conversation last week that essentially consisted of the longest moment of time where neither of us said anything dirty.

To provide some backstory, I'll just say that Clark had a small breakdown, where he initially concluded that it was in his best interest to quit the story and move on, because he's been obsessing over this story so much that he hasn't gotten any other writing done.

It may seem odd, but the truth is he actually spends way too much time mulling over the story, and writing. Only, its been so long, and he's become so frustrated with the way he writes, that its become a destructive circle. He'll set aside a whole day to write, or edit, or do both, and he'll look over everything he's written in say, an hour, and hate it. He'll try and edit it, but it becomes frustrating and agonizing to the point where he gets rid of it and starts from scratch.

He'll do that two or three times and quite quickly he becomes obsessed with this one section, where he constantly writes and rewrites just one small scene, or even just a paragraph.

I'm paraphrasing here, as I really don't understand most of what he was ranting about, but I guess maybe if there's any other writers still laying around in the thread, they might provide some substance?

By creating an unrealistic goal, of having everything he writes be good, immediately, he helped push himself down a path that saw him become so frustrated that he spent more time thinking about the story than actually writing it.

The thing that really started him down this path was when he accidentally read the first 10 or so chapters of the story, and immediately became disgusted by it. He thought it was juvenile and awful. Something a 13 year old girl would write, obsessed with unrealistic romance and action that made no sense.

Of course he had forgotten that in the beginning, he was writing this story as a joke, and put no second thought into what he was making. It's only within the last year that he's really started to look at the story as something serious, and I'm sure most of you will draw the connection that it was about a year ago that the chapters started becoming drawn out. The waits got longer, and while much of that was substantiated by his own personal problems and problems with his family, his newfound outlook on the story helped push it along.

Before anyone freaks, Clark's not abandoning the story, he said that to be sensational and dramatic at first, mainly to get me to take him seriously.

He's "re-evaluating" the method he goes about writing. A revolutionary change is in the works, and that is his own words.

So by abandoning, he was more speaking in the manner of saying that he is disappearing whilst changing the way he writes this story. Its been a constant nagging pain to him for over a year, and it affected the way he was writing other things. He missed deadlines, left projects unfinished, and when he realised he was doing that over something often referred to as "fanfic" and done so derogatorily, he snapped. He wanted to jump ship, bail out, flee, etc...

I found it amusing, that when most people assumed he was losing interest in the story, was actually the first moments when he began to truly take it seriously.

I'm just the messenger here, all I carry is Clark's words, and his comment that, it was either this, or an unfinished story. Granted I'm sure you'll all rant and rave, and complain that this is Clark's three hundredth excuse, but I'm quite sure that if this endeavor of his to revitalise his writing process fails, then this story won't ever end. It'll be left unfinished forever.

Before you say that won't ever happen, take a look at his fanfiction.net profile, and look at the story Close Combat, which was originally going to complete his trilogy of work on his first fanfic attempt. That one has long since been abandoned. Its happened before.

So I'd say, lets all take a little break, one where we don't come back here and wonder when the story comes, because that will just force Clark to post something, and someone will ask for a release date, and he'll give one because he always does, believing he'll make it, then he won't and he'll be miserable. I'd say, give it two weeks, no one post anything unless they have to. I told him I'd post this little revelation because if he did he'd come here and check for everyone's responses, and this way he has no immediate obligation.

I guess that's it. Two weeks from today, check back, and don't be surprised if Clark is here, refreshed and not so snappy. He was getting quite stressed the last while.

  • 10.27.2006 12:47 AM PDT

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when you get into this situation, the solution is to cut and run.

this is just like me when i'm trying to write lyrics for new songs in my band, i get a brilliant idea for something, i run with it, get a fantastic first verse out of it with music completely done (take my word, music is far easier to write than lyrics, anyone who can write lyrics perfectly with deep meaning that connect to you in less than five minutes is an absolute genius) but when i try to write a second verse, i discover that i simply can't write anything that i feel is satisfactory, it feels bland, emotionless and pretty much like i'm just writing it to get a song out of it rather than the emotional flow of ideas.

if this is anything like what clark's feeling, then honestly, he just needs to say that he's going to stop writing this permanently, then in the future he could finish this in his spare time for fun, nothing more, it's only when something becomes a priority, something that you try to concentrate on that ideas become hard to find (or hell, maybe that's just me).

Go forth and write no more Clark =]

... well, at least not this, twould be great to see any other pieces of your work done though.

- Primum

  • 10.27.2006 4:05 PM PDT
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i think he just stopped lol

  • 10.27.2006 6:12 PM PDT

"I hope nothing, I fear nothing, I am free"
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shh

don't tell me that my little rant was futile.. you'll crush my precious self esteem, and no amount of soloing on a flying v will restore it *weeps*

=P

- Primum

  • 10.28.2006 4:44 AM PDT
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hey there Mr_Clark i recently read all your chapters and i also noticed that you are from edmontoon as well as my self i thought that was preety cool and you are killing me with not releasing the new chapter come on plz tell me that the next chapter will be released soon plz

  • 10.28.2006 9:47 PM PDT

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Mr. Clark will do what he has to do, for now. Totally understand. Thanks for the update Konaka.

For now, might I remind everyone that "Ghosts of Onyx" is due out on bookshelvs within the nest few hours, and depending on where you live you may be able to pick it up now.

Go forth and return in a few weeks, hopefully things will be back on track then.

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  • 10.28.2006 10:42 PM PDT
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your-doing-really-well,-i've-copied-it-onto-word-and-its-3 35-pages!

  • 10.29.2006 1:34 AM PDT

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I'd love harming my enemies to death with butt strokes. XD

...holy crap....and i've read it all in a few days.....MrClark has made me a better reader! LOL!

Dude, take your time and dont freak. When you freak, you'll make mistakes and its quite self-destructive. You only have a few chapters to go (I think). take it easy man.

  • 10.30.2006 6:53 PM PDT
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I have finished shunning my family and am done reading Ghosts of Onyx, xD.
And i have to say it was Great, if any1 wants to rant with me about how good and bad it was pm me and ill giv my aim or msn, lol, i rly wanna talk about it, sense it seems i finished first on OFG (atleast the ppl i know)

also, take a good long break clark, lol, i am contented with just finishing this one.... for now

  • 11.02.2006 2:06 PM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

OFG is kinda dead, I've moved on to the mirratord. There are about four people in there including soulguard who read it so it should be a good discussion... up to you holdthelinenoobs.

Well if you post another chapter Mr Clark we will all read it and think its awesome because I could probably say your a better writer than 99% of people.

  • 11.03.2006 12:48 PM PDT
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hnh wow its been forever since i posted here, clark was one of the last people id expect to fall into a circle of editing and rewriting, but then again i figured hell other lose his mind, or itll just fall out, but i dont kno, this story has gone on forever and i dont kno to see this story end up like Close Combat, .............SCARY!.........., hope he gets through this 100 percent new and 110 percent of a better writer

[Edited on 11/3/2006]

  • 11.03.2006 12:56 PM PDT