*Sees length of entry* Oh, jeeeeeeezus. I hope no one minds, but I don't think I'm going to post any more critiques for a while, at least not until I get my entry finished for good. I think I'm going to try and keep mine short this year... I guess this is what I get for having the longes...

Except that this is the first day of the year, so everyone is asleep and not on the forum. :wink: Well, its nice to see someone try their hand at creating a clear cut villain as an OC. Its a nice change of pace. Her personality works all right, a psychopath who seems to have inhereted her father'...

What you need is some advice from someone with ADD. Here is what you need to do: Get off your computer. Get some paper and a pencil/pen. Write. Just freewrite to get your ideas on paper, or use whatever other brainstorming method works for you. Likewise, write the first draft of your submission in p...

Any thoughts? As someone who has done a pilot before... :) But seriously, if you want to explore this possibility might I suggest fitting it into Rebuild? It was a lot harder to fit Yae into existing canon than it looks, and the new movies look like they will be a lot easier to work with from w...

You know, the longer we talk about this supposed "tl;dr problem" the more I'm coming to think it may not exist. I mean, we only have a sample of three contests behind us to judge by, and most of the entries in the three of them have either been reasonably short, captivating despite the...

Hmm I generally upload my images at 800x600 resolution (like the pic of Shaghiel for instance). Is that too big? IMO, not really. Shalgiel showed up just fine. Its the pics that break the page that I have problems with. I'm also going to have to go against the min max limit thing. A bit...

I suppose it isn't surprising, considering my suggestion was aimed at bringing in new blood rather than preaching to the faithful. Bringing in new contestants would be nice, but that isn't a matter of changing the rules of the contest; its a matter of advertising and getting the word out to...

Frankly, I could see possible pitfalls for many solutions; a minimum length could be as useless as a maximum length be too limiting. However, it does make this Contest seem more accessible, which is something we need to do to lure in more people and awaken the creativity in them. In a sense there a...

You know, I should probably clarify something since I used the phrase "tl;dr" at least once during the contest. I actually did manage to read all the entries at least once all the way through. In fact, some of my favorite angels on display here are fairly lengthy, like Chowwow's beast ...

[A]lthough the story seems to me to bit rather heavy handed, the potential Rei relationship is nevertheless interesting.

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I suck.

Speaking of the Formless One, I am wondering what your plans are. It would be great if you could hop on! I do have over two months to make up my mind, you know... So nothing yet is set in stone. Although if I do enter as a designer, I will almost certainly be adding to a specific narrative I know y...

2. We can be as vague as necessary when discussing the character's background history (I wanted my character is to be as mysterious as possible). I don't think there is any rule explicitly telling you not to, but I'd advise against overusing "mystery". Mystery is best ...

Finally, I am still grappling with myself, wondering if the mechanics of the Angel's abilities even work. In terms of the dense ice gel, I have been wondering if the chemistry and physics work I did made any sense. You know, sometimes its just as well to let it go unexplained. It would most lik...

I whole heartedly admit that my writing is sub-par, always has been, always will. Ah, don't be too hard on yourself. Its not like you wrote "Half Life: Full Life Consequences" or anything. :wink: I suppose If I had added these or other criteria that maybe you'd be less mad at me. ...

As a final note on the coincidences, the whole show revolves around coincidences, there was a thread a few months ago about it. Yes, this is true of most fiction. However, the thing is its the writer's job to mask that fact as best they can, and I just didn't feel like you did a very good j...

Um, sorry, but its still too massive a coincidence given the vastness of space. Unless he has telepathy that reaches over light years faster than light and of course similar thrust abilities (both of which would make his imprisonment moot), him running into Lillith just shouldn't happen....

Okay, here's a quick run through of my thoughts on the submissions I haven't talked about yet: evilhead008's Uriel, Angel of “Balance”: this angel is interesting because it marks the start of a trend for this year: angels who are dangerous by being bloody cowards. Because he can sneak ar...

Thanks for the encouragement, Chowwow. I'll keep that in mind.

Sure, as Designer though? I just wanna make sure. I haven't decided yet; it'll depend on what my real life obligations (i.e. my college schedule) dictate. Part of the reason I vanished from the board a while back was because I was spending too much time online, not enough time study...

Hey, that makes two partially incorporeal angels in this contest. ;) There's a lot of interesting research that has been put into this. Gospel of Judas, eh? I didn't know you could find the text of that one. The symbols are nice, and the drawings are more than adequate for conveying the ...