1. +
2. +
3. +
4. Soon to be dismissed by Saturn XD (although it might impact P1 and disregard the rest of the thread)
5. Seems to be leaning to false adversary - depends on P4, if he leaves Marines then he might side with pirates! VP is his old friend!
6. + As everyone in OP does that
7. Could have inherited will from VP, but unclear
So we have 4/7, and there is hope! All aboard Kizaru nakama train!
Lmao
Are you implying this is what Oda does when he writes One Piece??
Not at all, One Piece has a beginning a middle and an end.
''I don't like how this story is structured therefore I hereby declare that this story does not exist'
This is not me, this is just basic storytelling principles. Its extremelly hard to create a story without a majority of major storytelling rules that are for exemple:
- The incident event
- The mid point
- The valley of the death
- The choice
- The introduction
Etc.
Not everything is needed, but without specific storytelling guidelines, the story will fail or feel incomplete. This is not debatable i'm sorry. Of course you can break the rule and create experimental stories, but good luck to make them appreciated by the public.
Adding conflict to EVERY.SINGLE.SCENE??
I have never heard of this rule.
Basically, the more you add conflict, the better (of course it must be placed mindfully). This means that each of your scenes or sequence (I've a formation in scriptwriting so I talk in term of "sequences") must have conflict in them to be interesting.
In a movie, that's absolutely necessary, all the more because today's attention span is reduced. In books you have more leeway, its more about chapters. And in manga it can change. For example, in One Piece there can be entire chapters without conflict. Oda is able to do that because he creates conflict differently.
''What Oda does in his story is a result of Oda's writing'
Yeah sorry, this is a bad wording from my part. His writing is influenced by his own writing in the sence that when he writes, Oda is constrained by the limits he placed himself in the story.
What in God Usopp's name is a manga support ?
The manga support means that manga have different style of writing that Books, comics or movies. Its a specific type of writing stories.
Oh how generous of you. What would we do without your superior expertise and decade long experience in the field of shining writer action.
You know, you all think that I'm trying to be all high and mighty, but I'm just repeating what I learned, that's all. And Storytelling is my passion..
I've giving courses for free here. In fact I'm refraining from giving too much because I want to keep certains knowledge secret.