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I find just doing a quick thing can work best.
“A hero is late for dinner, hoards of zombies stand in his way but if he doesn't arrive soon, a darker fate awaits him at the hands of his mother/wife”
no thought into that little blurb, but hey sounds interesting and funny right?

I find just doing a quick thing can work best.
“A hero is late for dinner, hoards of zombies stand in his way but if he doesn't arrive soon, a darker fate awaits him at the hands of his mother/wife”
no thought into that little blurb, but hey sounds interesting and funny right?

humm, I think the character is the kind that will feel he owes something to the people he hurt, owes them any and everything, most of all for not being killed by the hero (thanks to sisters intervention, no she wasnt getting hurt just showed up)
the guy was beat literally almost to death, were talking angry wolverine with no claws vs the mail man, should be dead beaten.
I do think I need to expand on the current reactions, make it more drawn out and reactive.
I think the drugs that are being used to keep him alive might not make him feel the things that he would under normal conditions though ….. maybe? 

so a character just wakes up in the hospital, no idea how or why but their body is badly beaten etc etc, they then find out that they just committed a crime against some close friends.
the kind of thing that “you” would never do to these friends, ultimately devastating the character.
how would you describe the horror and emotional devastation?

silence is annoying, but if you have X number of chapters, and the number of “dragon prints” is increasing, i tend to take that as a sign people like it. 

assuming that the person isnt just flaming you 
i try to take what they have to say into consideration, if its viable feed back, though some people can get heated over simple things too.
one example i have is that in my current fan fic, I have characters that are somewhat out of character, and many people do not like that an established character changes in some of the ways that they are.
“How could you write that X does A with out any remorse, thats not who they are” etc etc etc
YOU as the writer have no obligation to listen to what anyone has to say ….. unless its legal based then, might want to listen a bit more.
YOU have the story in mind, what direction you want to go in, what the characters are going to deal with and so on, the readers, unless they have inside info know none of it so realistically they can stick it.
I try to listen to what people have to say though, make sure that their pov doesn't have a point, and even if it does, its still your story.

LOL
No you are correct that there are some writers of the other gender that do a GREAT!!!! job writing characters of the other gender.
Now that book you mentions about the pirates, the way you described them just calls out to me, woman wrote it in that typical, obvious feminine gay characterization.
Just watch this episode of Johnny Test. 
 I think its harder, because there is that different mind set, that yes some characters will fit that bill perfectly, but others will never fit it, but many people write it that way.

To me Rape is like any other element, it has a place and should be put in these places because it fits.
You use it as a means to either ….
1: haunt them (hes still out there somewhere) torment them (I can never love again) and generally shatter the person they were, but thats not to say the person can not become stronger in spite of it. its about the how and why.
2: give another character as the rapist, motive, revealing hidden parts of their personality if needed, expressing the kind of monster they are/are not and just painting the picture of the level this “bad guy” would go to.
3: explains why a character is where they are now, if it happened in the past and is a driving force, give a character a traumatic experience that is used to drive them.
4: TERROR!!! mostly used when dealing with actual monster monsters, demons and aliens, that this THING did THAT to me and now im …... 

To me Rape is like any other element, it has a place and should be put in these places because it fits.
You use it as a means to either ….
1: haunt them (hes still out there somewhere) torment them (I can never love again) and generally shatter the person they were, but thats not to say the person can not become stronger in spite of it. its about the how and why.
2: give another character as the rapist, motive, revealing hidden parts of their personality if needed, expressing the kind of monster they are/are not and just painting the picture of the level this “bad guy” would go to.
3: explains why a character is where they are now, if it happened in the past and is a driving force, give a character a traumatic experience that is used to drive them.
4: TERROR!!! mostly used when dealing with actual monster monsters, demons and aliens, that this THING did THAT to me and now im …... 

as an example, this could be something she might say.
“HOLY OVULATING OVARIES I WANT HIS BABIES” then a few seconds pass and she realizes what she just said. 

I can only speak for myself, that if the story, plot etc are not engaging enough, I will walk away from it and not think twice because I got board.
You can have some of the most intense sex in the top 10 stories, but if I dont care about the characters, why its so important that they have the sex, its just another Tuesday to me, its nothing special.
BUT if they were both long time in love, did everything to keep away from each other only to be constantly drawn back until they admit their feelings that leads to the sex, I will probably stay and read more.
but thats just me.

its all about the plot, why is A doing this, what does B have to do with it and how does C appear to be connected to it all?
I could write a Trek fic, one set in the LOTR ish world or even one set in today with normal settings and problems.
the different worlds just give me more things to play with, more technology to explain it, magic to create it and so on.
I dont write full out sex stories, my Naruto story only has 3? chapters that have actual sex in it, and its currently 33 chapters long with a thick plot, detailed OC characters and staying as close to canon but still an AU of the world.

i prefer a good story, its all about what i want to happen, how it should happen etc.
I have a Naruto story still in the works, but I also have others that ive been working on in my mind of very different worlds

i prefer a good story, its all about what i want to happen, how it should happen etc.
I have a Naruto story still in the works, but I also have others that ive been working on in my mind of very different worlds

depends on my mood for the universe that I want to write in, the kind of things that I want to happen to the characters and how it happens.

depends on my mood for the universe that I want to write in, the kind of things that I want to happen to the characters and how it happens.

ive seen a ………… few, stories where all it was, was characters having sex, very little plot or general story, yet its 5 – 10? chapters long.
stories like that personally put me off, I have always been that way with most things.
Games, TV, Movies and books have to have a good story to keep me into it, just having some kind of content for no reason tends to be replaced by something else of better quality.
more can be better, but it can also hurt the story too, i think im running into that with my story.

I can read other peoples stories and get excited, some times even if the story is “bad” but the image they placed in my mind is all thats needed, sometimes i do get myself too in my own story, but thats never the “goal” until editing is done.

I can read other peoples stories and get excited, some times even if the story is “bad” but the image they placed in my mind is all thats needed, sometimes i do get myself too in my own story, but thats never the “goal” until editing is done.

I can read other peoples stories and get excited, some times even if the story is “bad” but the image they placed in my mind is all thats needed, sometimes i do get myself too in my own story, but thats never the “goal” until editing is done.

what i would recommend, is pick the name of the character as a test, make sure it fits your world then do this, just to test it out.
“James walked into the …… and looked around the dark room, his eyes adjusted and he could see …..” 
“Thor walked into the …….. and looked around the dark room, his eyes adjusted and he could see …….”
“Tiny walked into the …… and looked around the dark room, his eyes adjusted and he could see …….”
make it longer than what I did, but used this as a test to your character name, does the name you have in mind as you run the first parts of the story fit, does it have the feel that you want?
does “James” sound like the name of your character for what they are going to do, in the world they live in.
it might help you find the name that you want.

very true, but a name can help make the character memorable, for better or worse.

very true, but a name can help make the character memorable, for better or worse.

i have seen many stories where a character is way ooc but its never explained and i think thats the real issue.
if you just start to write a fanfic on anything and don't explain the changes in the universe that would effect the character, then most would think that its going to be based on canon data, but as a writer you have no obligation to do that and it could be too much useless information that means nothing.
example:
canon version
Bob is an elite knight from ..... some mystical kingdom and holds a strong standing of honor and loyalty to his king.
fanfic version
Bob found his king in bed with his wife/girlfriend and became enraged, turning his back on the kingdom forever, he became dark and twisted into a black knight.
in that little quick thing i made we have an explanation of the change in story.
but really like many will tell you, its your story and you can do anything you like.

anything thats helpful, as you said something more than the standard "please make more" even if its something that you may not actually want to hear, its how its said thats really important.
"Yes i was reading your story and i think that it is 100% rubbish, the plot .... the characters ...... but i did like ......"
its not a flame but its clear the person didnt like the story.
its better to have people tell you what and how you messed something up so you can fix it than people kissing your ass or telling you nothing.