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Tales Of An 'Mazing Girl

20 Jul 2013 12:46 #32374 by castor
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Just in time for San Diego Comiccon(where the story is set) I am posting the first chapter in a new ongoing series i am working on called Tales of An 'Mazing Girl.

Tales of Mazing girl is about Sarah Jennings a LA based prop designer who works on cable TV. Shes a comicbok fan who paints Warhammer figurines in her spare time. She is plump drinks And is a perhaps a tad iresponsible. She is also the most powerful superhero in the city. A Flying brick of Awesomeness.

Each story is self contained story of her life-Going to comicbook conventions, casual hookups, cleaning parties, working with actors from the show Firefly,fighting supervillans and rescuing kittens. Its not really a normal life but its hers.

Its a little bitt inspired by Muttenchops Superwoman series, but obviously quite a bit diffrent. I like the idea of doing a comicbook style story about a superheroine. I wanted to play around a bit with convention, and make a very traditional heroine, in a slightly untraditional form.

Unlike my previous stories, this is very open ended. There is an ongoing plot and the story does go somewhere, but each tale is by itself. I have written 20 chapters in two arcs so far. Will see where it goes.

I have also started a blog site with just this story as an ongoing form
www.Talesofanmazingirl.blogspot.com.
While the entries are probabbly going to be near identical for the time if you want to take a look at them there.

As always curious for feedback.

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20 Jul 2013 15:24 #32375 by Woodclaw
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castor wrote: Just in time for San Diego Comiccon(where the story is set) I am posting the first chapter in a new ongoing series i am working on called Tales of An 'Mazing Girl.

Tales of Mazing girl is about Sarah Jennings a LA based prop designer who works on cable TV. Shes a comicbok fan who paints Warhammer figurines in her spare time. She is plump drinks And is a perhaps a tad iresponsible. She is also the most powerful superhero in the city. A Flying brick of Awesomeness.

Each story is self contained story of her life-Going to comicbook conventions, casual hookups, cleaning parties, working with actors from the show Firefly,fighting supervillans and rescuing kittens. Its not really a normal life but its hers.

Its a little bitt inspired by Muttenchops Superwoman series, but obviously quite a bit diffrent. I like the idea of doing a comicbook style story about a superheroine. I wanted to play around a bit with convention, and make a very traditional heroine, in a slightly untraditional form.

Unlike my previous stories, this is very open ended. There is an ongoing plot and the story does go somewhere, but each tale is by itself. I have written 20 chapters in two arcs so far. Will see where it goes.

I have also started a blog site with just this story as an ongoing form
www.Talesofanmazingirl.blogspot.com.
While the entries are probabbly going to be near identical for the time if you want to take a look at them there.

As always curious for feedback.

Castor


I've only gave this story a cursory look while putting it online, but I like where it's going.

Personally, I've only two problems:
1) 'Mazing Girl sound like an incredibly 90s codename, which is something of a turn-down for me
2) I was working on a character with something of a similar premise (plumpy geek girl), so I'm kind of irked to see that you beat me on this one (although you're 100 times a faster writer than me)

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20 Jul 2013 15:49 #32376 by paulwitz
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Anon, you could make your girl skinny and of average intelligence but with superpowers way beyond her appearance and give her some quirky habits that only she has. Such as, interfering with the many dictators of the world who just make life miserable for their own people and the outside world in general. Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Cambodia, North Korea, Drug Lords and Cartels (taking their money and giving it to charity, after destroying their drug production), the Mafia gangs, modern day pirates, etc. Good luck.

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20 Jul 2013 16:00 #32377 by Woodclaw
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paulwitz wrote: Anon, you could make your girl skinny and of average intelligence but with superpowers way beyond her appearance and give her some quirky habits that only she has. Such as, interfering with the many dictators of the world who just make life miserable for their own people and the outside world in general. Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Cambodia, North Korea, Drug Lords and Cartels (taking their money and giving it to charity, after destroying their drug production), the Mafia gangs, modern day pirates, etc. Good luck.


That will be very far from the character I have in mind. Also she's a character in a much bigger story, changing it so radically will make a lot of other characters inconsistent, but I'll think about it.

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20 Jul 2013 16:11 #32378 by castor
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Anon wrote:

castor wrote: I've only gave this story a cursory look while putting it online, but I like where it's going.

Personally, I've only two problems:
1) 'Mazing Girl sound like an incredibly 90s codename, which is something of a turn-down for me
2) I was working on a character with something of a similar premise (plumpy geek girl), so I'm kind of irked to see that you beat me on this one (although you're 100 times a faster writer than me)


Well

1. I was going for something like out of an indie comic like Love and Rockets or the ilk, but 90s codename-sure why not. :)

2. More the marrier:) As been observed the average size of women in america is 14. I be willing to be the average size of women who appear on this site-0 maybe:)

(though for the record mazing girls probabbly about an 8)

I do look forward to reading the story though. There are dozens of Geek male superheros but i thought it would be fun to make a nerdy female- intrested to see what other people do with the idea.

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21 Jul 2013 12:46 #32392 by Dru1076
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I wonder if one of our learned administrators could see their way clear to including a link to Castor's blog on the list in the main page...it may seem a bit early on, but I assure you there's more of this 'Mazing story yet to come. And having a crystal ball advantage on this, I'm pretty sure members are gonna like it.

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21 Jul 2013 13:07 #32393 by fats
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Dru1076 wrote: I wonder if one of our learned administrators could see their way clear to including a link to Castor's blog on the list in the main page...it may seem a bit early on, but I assure you there's more of this 'Mazing story yet to come. And having a crystal ball advantage on this, I'm pretty sure members are gonna like it.


done, it's under blogs.

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21 Jul 2013 13:53 #32394 by Dru1076
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Faster than a speeding bullet....

Cheers, mate...

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21 Jul 2013 20:13 #32403 by spunk639
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Too bad she cant fly

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24 Jul 2013 17:27 #32432 by www1969
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These are lovely stories and I'm looking forward to more, but I'm confused about what I guess is a very minor issue. Why is she 'Mazing, and not simply "Amazing Girl"? Is that apostrophe important for some reason? Are we avoiding copyright issues or something? Grammatically, "Tales of An 'Mazing Girl" is awfully awkward, if not simply wrong. It's very likely that I'm just missing something, but it feels weird to me.

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25 Jul 2013 04:39 #32440 by castor
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www1969 wrote: These are lovely stories and I'm looking forward to more, but I'm confused about what I guess is a very minor issue. Why is she 'Mazing, and not simply "Amazing Girl"? Is that apostrophe important for some reason? Are we avoiding copyright issues or something? Grammatically, "Tales of An 'Mazing Girl" is awfully awkward, if not simply wrong. It's very likely that I'm just missing something, but it feels weird to me.


Glad for good coments.

I wanted the story to have a kind of post modern feel. A kind of suggestionio of a classic character with a bit of anedge. Amazing is the clasic-"'" is the edge. i like the name myself. It does evoke the classic superhero comic 'mazing man which is a fun read if you can find it.

That said it should probabbly be adventures of a 'mazing girl, as oposed to adventures of an 'mazing girl"

If people feel strongly i should go with 'a' instead of 'an' i can change it.

For those curious i want to release 1 or 2 stories a week-for awhile. I have written 25 so far. One of them is christmas based, but will see how well response goes and how long i can keep it up.

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25 Jul 2013 16:39 #32444 by algae2k
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... hmm...

I guess I figured that you pronounced the M by itself: M-azing Girl ? If that is so, "an" still works. (Think about how "hour" has "an" in front of it.)

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25 Jul 2013 17:48 #32446 by brad328
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The grammar police say that if the word begins with a vowel, you would use "an" and if it begins with a consonant, you would use "a". ;)

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25 Jul 2013 20:50 #32449 by www1969
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castor wrote: If people feel strongly i should go with 'a' instead of 'an' i can change it.

I'm the one that brought it up, and believe me, I don't feel strongly about it. You've already committed to this spelling on your blog, I don't think it's worth changing. And I appreciate your candor ("castor candor"?) about the reasons for the spelling.

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25 Jul 2013 22:08 #32451 by Dru1076
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As Castor's proof-reader, I should weigh-in on an vs a. Don't forget why that apostrophe dangles in front of 'Mazing...its there for a reason. It's standing in for that missing 'a', and that is why 'mazing gets an 'an', becasue technically, it still starts with a vowel...

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25 Jul 2013 23:23 #32452 by www1969
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Dru1076 wrote: As Castor's proof-reader, I should weigh-in on an vs a. Don't forget why that apostrophe dangles in front of 'Mazing...its there for a reason. It's standing in for that missing 'a', and that is why 'mazing gets an 'an', becasue technically, it still starts with a vowel...


Well, if you want to get into a grammatical debate about it, this simply isn't right. The point of an apostrophe is that you've removed a letter that you're no longer using, and the point of using 'an' instead of 'a' is the flow of the spoken word. When you're trying to get through a labyrinth, you don't try to solve "an maze". If we're not going to say the 'A', for all the good and valid reasons that castor offered, then we do not need the 'an'.

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26 Jul 2013 00:23 #32453 by Dru1076
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www1969 wrote:
Well, if you want to get into a grammatical debate about it, this simply isn't right. The point of an apostrophe is that you've removed a letter that you're no longer using, and the point of using 'an' instead of 'a' is the flow of the spoken word. When you're trying to get through a labyrinth, you don't try to solve "an maze". If we're not going to say the 'A', for all the good and valid reasons that castor offered, then we do not need the 'an'.


I don't want to debate something like this. Let's just agree to disagree. As the author, Castor has final cut, and I'll stand by whatever decision he makes.
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26 Jul 2013 20:08 #32470 by Daphne
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Castor,

I love the idea. Great job. It's nice to see some original thoughts on the genre.

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27 Jul 2013 00:21 #32476 by castor
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Daphne wrote: Castor,

I love the idea. Great job. It's nice to see some original thoughts on the genre.


Thanks. Hope you like the new chapter i posted today.

Always looking for feedback and hope more people comment on the stories.

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27 Jul 2013 01:28 #32478 by ace191
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Hey, did this take place in Chatsworth Park?

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15 Jan 2014 08:16 #35102 by castor
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Don't Like to push new chapters as well- i have done 34 of them in the last 5 months, but did one comment for those who say there is no plot devolopment in Tales of an Mazing Girl, that the most recent chapter is the turning point in the current Book. The elements that i have been setting up in the previous chapters come together. in a "Delightful Day at the Musuem" in a way that changes the plot significantly

It also features burning buildings, Drug overdoes, a villain named Kraygen, metal doors as Shields and Omelet breakfasts.

To discuss the story a bit I'll do a spoiler section:

Warning: Spoiler!

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26 Mar 2014 13:18 #35928 by castor
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Just released "Awkward Origin Stories to Tell in Bed" the second to last chapter in the current 'Mazing Girl arc in which we learn Mazing Girls not that exciting origin story and the flames considerably more intresting one(creating origin jelliously). as Sarahs friend learns her secret...not that one, the other one.

just wanted to say that next week will have arcs big climax- afterwards i am taking a break for a couple of months before starting up the next season of stories maybe in July. hope you enjoy it and have been enjoying this kind of a lark of a tale.

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02 Apr 2014 03:18 - 02 Apr 2014 03:21 #35999 by castor
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42 segments 8 Months and 150,000 words latter want to mention the release of the final Mazing Girl chapter of the Current Book- A story of Much Violence but No Sex. In it we see the final climax of her versus her arch nemesis, Lives are losts, The city is saved and Sarah falls in love- but as mentioned the lack of sex thing.

Know its been a divisive story to some-but well i do think its one of the better things i have written it is a slice of life comedy story, and i have enjoyed creating a story of a life,fragmented, imperfect, with momments of triumpth and despair-even though i knew this ending about when i came up with the third chapter, how its got here and the story of Sarah Jennings been endlessly fascinating to me.

As always a big thanks to Dru for reading and editing it-he really is a legend.

Hope people have liked it and curious what people think.
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02 Apr 2014 03:43 #36000 by www1969
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This is probably one of my favorite series. I like that the vignettes are short, I like the humor and I like the realistic world you've set up. I also like the variety, that one can be a huge superheroic donnybrook and another can be quiet and contemplative. As a reader, it leaves you not knowing what to expect, and in a genre where episodic adventures tend to be numbingly redundant, it's a nice change of pace. I'll miss your regular updates, but I will eagerly await Book Two.
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