Тест за фентъзи писатели
Тест за фентъзи писатели
75 въпроса относно книгата, която пишете или измисляте в момента. Ако отговорът на дори един от тях е "да", според авторите на теста подобна книга никога не би трябвало да бъде писана. Според мен пък, подобна книга, дори и вече написана, никога не би трябвало да бъде четена.
Does nothing happen in the first fifty pages?
Is your main character a young farmhand with mysterious parentage?
Is your main character the heir to the throne but doesn't know it?
Is your story about a young character who comes of age, gains great power, and defeats the supreme badguy?
Is your story about a quest for a magical artifact that will save the world?
How about one that will destroy it?
Does your story revolve around an ancient prophecy about "The One" who will save the world and everybody and all the forces of good?
Does your novel contain a character whose sole purpose is to show up at random plot points and dispense information?
Does your novel contain a character that is really a god in disguise?
Is the evil supreme badguy secretly the father of your main character?
Is the king of your world a kindly king duped by an evil magician?
Does "a forgetful wizard" describe any of the characters in your novel?
How about "a powerful but slow and kind-hearted warrior"?
How about "a wise, mystical sage who refuses to give away plot details for his own personal, mysterious reasons"?
Do the female characters in your novel spend a lot of time worrying about how they look, especially when the male main character is around?
Do any of your female characters exist solely to be captured and rescued?
Do any of your female characters exist solely to embody feminist ideals?
Would "a clumsy cooking wench more comfortable with a frying pan than a sword" aptly describe any of your female characters?
Would "a fearless warrioress more comfortable with a sword than a frying pan" aptly describe any of your female characters?
Is any character in your novel best described as "a dour dwarf"?
How about "a half-elf torn between his human and elven heritage"?
Did you make the elves and the dwarves great friends, just to be different?
Does everybody under four feet tall exist solely for comic relief?
Do you think that the only two uses for ships are fishing and piracy?
Do you not know when the hay baler was invented?
Did you draw a map for your novel which includes places named things like "The Blasted Lands" or "The Forest of Fear" or "The Desert of Desolation" or absolutely anything "of Doom"?
Does your novel contain a prologue that is impossible to understand until you've read the entire book, if even then?
Is this the first book in a planned trilogy?
How about a quintet or a decalogue?
Is your novel thicker than a New York City phone book?
Did absolutely nothing happen in the previous book you wrote, yet you figure you're still many sequels away from finishing your "story"?
Are you writing prequels to your as-yet-unfinished series of books?
Is your name Robert Jordan and you lied like a dog to get this far?
Is your novel based on the adventures of your role-playing group?
Does your novel contain characters transported from the real world to a fantasy realm?
Do any of your main characters have apostrophes or dashes in their names?
Do any of your main characters have names longer than three syllables?
Do you see nothing wrong with having two characters from the same small isolated village being named "Tim Umber" and "Belthusalanthalus al'Grinsok"?
Does your novel contain orcs, elves, dwarves, or halflings?
How about "orken" or "dwerrows"?
Do you have a race prefixed by "half-"?
At any point in your novel, do the main characters take a shortcut through ancient dwarven mines?
Do you write your battle scenes by playing them out in your favorite RPG?
Have you done up game statistics for all of your main characters in your favorite RPG?
Are you writing a work-for-hire for Wizards of the Coast?
Do inns in your book exist solely so your main characters can have brawls?
Do you think you know how feudalism worked but really don't?
Do your characters spend an inordinate amount of time journeying from place to place?
Could one of your main characters tell the other characters something that would really help them in their quest but refuses to do so just so it won't break the plot?
Do any of the magic users in your novel cast spells easily identifiable as "fireball" or "lightning bolt"?
Do you ever use the term "mana" in your novel?
Do you ever use the term "plate mail" in your novel?
Heaven help you, do you ever use the term "hit points" in your novel?
Do you not realize how much gold actually weighs?
Do you think horses can gallop all day long without rest?
Does anybody in your novel fight for two hours straight in full plate armor, then ride a horse for four hours, then delicately make love to a willing barmaid all in the same day?
Does your main character have a magic axe, hammer, spear, or other weapon that returns to him when he throws it?
Does anybody in your novel ever stab anybody with a scimitar?
Does anybody in your novel stab anybody straight through plate armor?
Do you think swords weigh ten pounds or more?
Does your hero fall in love with an unattainable woman, whom he later attains?
Does a large portion of the humor in your novel consist of puns?
Is your hero able to withstand multiple blows from the fantasy equivalent of a ten pound sledge but is still threatened by a small woman with a dagger?
Do you really think it frequently takes more than one arrow in the chest to kill a man?
Do you not realize it takes hours to make a good stew, making it a poor choice for an "on the road" meal?
Do you have nomadic barbarians living on the tundra and consuming barrels and barrels of mead?
Do you think that "mead" is just a fancy name for "beer"?
Does your story involve a number of different races, each of which has exactly one country, one ruler, and one religion?
Is the best organized and most numerous group of people in your world the thieves' guild?
Does your main villain punish insignificant mistakes with death?
Is your story about a crack team of warriors that take along a bard who is useless in a fight, though he plays a mean lute?
Is "common" the official language of your world?
Is the countryside in your novel littered with tombs and gravesites filled with ancient magical loot that nobody thought to steal centuries before?
Is your book basically a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings?
Read that question again and answer truthfully.
Does nothing happen in the first fifty pages?
Is your main character a young farmhand with mysterious parentage?
Is your main character the heir to the throne but doesn't know it?
Is your story about a young character who comes of age, gains great power, and defeats the supreme badguy?
Is your story about a quest for a magical artifact that will save the world?
How about one that will destroy it?
Does your story revolve around an ancient prophecy about "The One" who will save the world and everybody and all the forces of good?
Does your novel contain a character whose sole purpose is to show up at random plot points and dispense information?
Does your novel contain a character that is really a god in disguise?
Is the evil supreme badguy secretly the father of your main character?
Is the king of your world a kindly king duped by an evil magician?
Does "a forgetful wizard" describe any of the characters in your novel?
How about "a powerful but slow and kind-hearted warrior"?
How about "a wise, mystical sage who refuses to give away plot details for his own personal, mysterious reasons"?
Do the female characters in your novel spend a lot of time worrying about how they look, especially when the male main character is around?
Do any of your female characters exist solely to be captured and rescued?
Do any of your female characters exist solely to embody feminist ideals?
Would "a clumsy cooking wench more comfortable with a frying pan than a sword" aptly describe any of your female characters?
Would "a fearless warrioress more comfortable with a sword than a frying pan" aptly describe any of your female characters?
Is any character in your novel best described as "a dour dwarf"?
How about "a half-elf torn between his human and elven heritage"?
Did you make the elves and the dwarves great friends, just to be different?
Does everybody under four feet tall exist solely for comic relief?
Do you think that the only two uses for ships are fishing and piracy?
Do you not know when the hay baler was invented?
Did you draw a map for your novel which includes places named things like "The Blasted Lands" or "The Forest of Fear" or "The Desert of Desolation" or absolutely anything "of Doom"?
Does your novel contain a prologue that is impossible to understand until you've read the entire book, if even then?
Is this the first book in a planned trilogy?
How about a quintet or a decalogue?
Is your novel thicker than a New York City phone book?
Did absolutely nothing happen in the previous book you wrote, yet you figure you're still many sequels away from finishing your "story"?
Are you writing prequels to your as-yet-unfinished series of books?
Is your name Robert Jordan and you lied like a dog to get this far?
Is your novel based on the adventures of your role-playing group?
Does your novel contain characters transported from the real world to a fantasy realm?
Do any of your main characters have apostrophes or dashes in their names?
Do any of your main characters have names longer than three syllables?
Do you see nothing wrong with having two characters from the same small isolated village being named "Tim Umber" and "Belthusalanthalus al'Grinsok"?
Does your novel contain orcs, elves, dwarves, or halflings?
How about "orken" or "dwerrows"?
Do you have a race prefixed by "half-"?
At any point in your novel, do the main characters take a shortcut through ancient dwarven mines?
Do you write your battle scenes by playing them out in your favorite RPG?
Have you done up game statistics for all of your main characters in your favorite RPG?
Are you writing a work-for-hire for Wizards of the Coast?
Do inns in your book exist solely so your main characters can have brawls?
Do you think you know how feudalism worked but really don't?
Do your characters spend an inordinate amount of time journeying from place to place?
Could one of your main characters tell the other characters something that would really help them in their quest but refuses to do so just so it won't break the plot?
Do any of the magic users in your novel cast spells easily identifiable as "fireball" or "lightning bolt"?
Do you ever use the term "mana" in your novel?
Do you ever use the term "plate mail" in your novel?
Heaven help you, do you ever use the term "hit points" in your novel?
Do you not realize how much gold actually weighs?
Do you think horses can gallop all day long without rest?
Does anybody in your novel fight for two hours straight in full plate armor, then ride a horse for four hours, then delicately make love to a willing barmaid all in the same day?
Does your main character have a magic axe, hammer, spear, or other weapon that returns to him when he throws it?
Does anybody in your novel ever stab anybody with a scimitar?
Does anybody in your novel stab anybody straight through plate armor?
Do you think swords weigh ten pounds or more?
Does your hero fall in love with an unattainable woman, whom he later attains?
Does a large portion of the humor in your novel consist of puns?
Is your hero able to withstand multiple blows from the fantasy equivalent of a ten pound sledge but is still threatened by a small woman with a dagger?
Do you really think it frequently takes more than one arrow in the chest to kill a man?
Do you not realize it takes hours to make a good stew, making it a poor choice for an "on the road" meal?
Do you have nomadic barbarians living on the tundra and consuming barrels and barrels of mead?
Do you think that "mead" is just a fancy name for "beer"?
Does your story involve a number of different races, each of which has exactly one country, one ruler, and one religion?
Is the best organized and most numerous group of people in your world the thieves' guild?
Does your main villain punish insignificant mistakes with death?
Is your story about a crack team of warriors that take along a bard who is useless in a fight, though he plays a mean lute?
Is "common" the official language of your world?
Is the countryside in your novel littered with tombs and gravesites filled with ancient magical loot that nobody thought to steal centuries before?
Is your book basically a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings?
Read that question again and answer truthfully.
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забавно е, а от друга страна и е пускано преди.. ма както и да е, де, аз пък съм чел доста интересни книги, в които присъства поне една от тия точки..
Виж, ако всичките присъстват в една книга- тогава не би трябвало да я четем :Р
Виж, ако всичките присъстват в една книга- тогава не би трябвало да я четем :Р
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-Apparently so. But suppose you throw a coin enough times... But suppose one day, it lands on its edge..
-Apparently so. But suppose you throw a coin enough times... But suppose one day, it lands on its edge..
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Предлагам темата да се добави към правилата на конкурса за млади таланти на Сивостен:). Предполагам, че ограничението ще бъде нещо от рода на "не повече от 5 нарушения". Смях се искрено, така че благодаря на който го е изнамерил !
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Re: Тест за фентъзи писатели
По тая логика май нищо не трябва да четем Няма книга, която да не отговаря поне на едно от условиятаshayhiri wrote:75 въпроса относно книгата, която пишете или измисляте в момента. Ако отговорът на дори един от тях е "да", според авторите на теста подобна книга никога не би трябвало да бъде писана. Според мен пък, подобна книга, дори и вече написана, никога не би трябвало да бъде четена.
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По принцип съм съгласен за доброто фентъзи. Надявам се все пак Мартин да бъде изключение от тенденцията при поредиците:). Такива случаи съществуват, просто са се срещат също толкова трудно !
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Is your name Robert Jordan and you lied like a dog to get this far?
Ахахахахаахаххахахахахахахааххаххахахахаха.... ХА!
Изненадващо с ръка на сърце казвам , че отговорих на три от въпросите с "да" . А като цяло теста е невероятно полезен , тъй като някои от въпросите са със съвсем простичък "common sense" , a всъщност наистина някои от похватите от типа на бие се цял ден , раняват го ама оня не мре , качва се на кон и язди три дни в галоп са използвани от фентъзи автори , които съм чел *кхъм*Р.А.Салваторе.Беше ми от огромна помощ и благодаря на този които го е постнал.
Ахахахахаахаххахахахахахахааххаххахахахаха.... ХА!
Изненадващо с ръка на сърце казвам , че отговорих на три от въпросите с "да" . А като цяло теста е невероятно полезен , тъй като някои от въпросите са със съвсем простичък "common sense" , a всъщност наистина някои от похватите от типа на бие се цял ден , раняват го ама оня не мре , качва се на кон и язди три дни в галоп са използвани от фентъзи автори , които съм чел *кхъм*Р.А.Салваторе.Беше ми от огромна помощ и благодаря на този които го е постнал.
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Стига с тоя Салваторе- не е Салваторе виновен - просто 99% от всичко случващо се в сетинга на D&D има такъв облик. Нормално- това игра във връзка с която има измислен свят а не свят по който е направена игра. Винаги когато човек се опитва да опише игра се получават едни и същи смешни резултати.Rayko wrote:Is your name Robert Jordan and you lied like a dog to get this far?
Ахахахахаахаххахахахахахахааххаххахахахаха.... ХА!
Изненадващо с ръка на сърце казвам , че отговорих на три от въпросите с "да" . А като цяло теста е невероятно полезен , тъй като някои от въпросите са със съвсем простичък "common sense" , a всъщност наистина някои от похватите от типа на бие се цял ден , раняват го ама оня не мре , качва се на кон и язди три дни в галоп са използвани от фентъзи автори , които съм чел *кхъм*Р.А.Салваторе.Беше ми от огромна помощ и благодаря на този които го е постнал.
Авторите на този шеговит тест получават cudos от мен.
Това което със ирония разкриват пред нас е фентъзито във вида му в 80% от това което излиза на пазара.
Което е лошо.
Днес всеки драскач изкочил отнякъде прописва фентъзи, защото е модерно сега да се пише в тоя жанр. Това го гледах преди 15г. с криминалетата и преди 6-7 с трилърите. И знаете ли до какво води това? До затриване на жанра ето до това. Не може всеки месец да излизат на пазара 5-6-7-8 книги и всички да твърдят че са уникални, грандиозни, епични и тн. А в същото време, си предъвкват едни и същи сюжети, малко различаващи се по поредност на Неочкваните случки и потресающите разкрития. Целия тоя фарс ще продължава докато публиката, не спре да толерира такива "арлекинчета" и не ги прогони от сергиите и етажерките в книжарниците.
Дотогава ще си излизат copy-paste-нати недоносчета като "Ерагон", ще си ги филмираме даже и ще се чудим: Що нищо ново в тоя жанр?
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Това което със ирония разкриват пред нас е фентъзито във вида му в 80% от това което излиза на пазара.
Което е лошо.
Днес всеки драскач изкочил отнякъде прописва фентъзи, защото е модерно сега да се пише в тоя жанр. Това го гледах преди 15г. с криминалетата и преди 6-7 с трилърите. И знаете ли до какво води това? До затриване на жанра ето до това. Не може всеки месец да излизат на пазара 5-6-7-8 книги и всички да твърдят че са уникални, грандиозни, епични и тн. А в същото време, си предъвкват едни и същи сюжети, малко различаващи се по поредност на Неочкваните случки и потресающите разкрития. Целия тоя фарс ще продължава докато публиката, не спре да толерира такива "арлекинчета" и не ги прогони от сергиите и етажерките в книжарниците.
Дотогава ще си излизат copy-paste-нати недоносчета като "Ерагон", ще си ги филмираме даже и ще се чудим: Що нищо ново в тоя жанр?
Голямо Браво от мен момчета
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