Tough As Nails Adoption Fan Club (Happy Holidays!)

[Brisa]

The fun with reading this, is seeing people's excitement, then reading their amazing forms <3

Now i have it down to 2 im after xP

seconded, you can have lots of fun with some people amazing writing skills, They amaze me :3

I was thinking about going for keedrake`s donation, Ive been wanting a natural character and that one is gorgeous, well, I have a week to decide XD

[MerryEaster]

Would anyone be interested in a cat(fluffy or not) or dog(adult or puppy)

and i will go on from there.

Plus, any designs anyone would like to see?(cant be super complicated)

[MirrorMask]

Well I looking for a cheetah but something knew with a twist like a "fly" cheetah :3 but I busy so I wouldn't go for it but it's interesting to see it :3

[Atwood]

The donations for this round have been gathered up and will be posted fairly soon. :3 There are a few points I want to bring up about form-writing based on certain trends that have been showing up over the last few rounds:

- Keep in mind that the word limit is 2500 words for the background portion and about 3000-3500 for the entire form including Personality, Likes/Dislikes, Background and anything else you might put in. While I'm not going to ding people for being a few words over, I've been seeing a few forms that were significantly longer than they should have been (like 1000 words longer), and those forms lost major big points. Remember: going over the word limit always means your form will score lower than it would have otherwise. The average length of winning forms is somewhere around 2000 words in total, and often they have Personality sections that are equal to or longer than the Background section.

- Try to avoid adding unimportant information to the form. Unless your character's exact height or weight is somehow important, you really don't need to add it in, and the same goes for listing the order, family and genus, birthplace, friends, offspring, etc. A lot of forms have been doing this lately, and it adds a whole extra page to the form of essentially useless information that adds nothing to the score. I'd really hate for people to spend a lot of time debating over whether their character belongs under Felidae or Mustelidae and then not have time to expand on the character's personality, which is where big points can be made. *hint hint* ;3

- The background should focus on the character, not its parents, friends, enemies, siblings, etc. The main point of the history is to show what events have shaped the character's life and personality, how they react to situations, how they think, and in general be a showing of the character in action. The story itself isn't the really important thing, although it certainly does help to have a creative and well-thought-out storyline. If your story is spending a lot of time on the lives of characters other than the one you're trying to adopt, it's probably going in the wrong direction.

- Characters don't have to have a tragic history. XD

[MerryEaster]

Atwood, how will we know when we reached that many words?

[Atwood]

There's a free word counter over here: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/countwords.shtml
Just copy/paste your form into there, click 'Calculate Words', and it'll give you the number. :3 You can also open up a Word document or your computer's equivalent, copy/paste the form into there and use the word counter there (this is also a good way to do a spellcheck if you don't have spellchecking on your Internet browser).

[MerryEaster]

Okay, thank you! So 2,000 words per charrie backround, got it!

[keydemon]

xD;; Most people like to go for the tragic history, don't they?

Anyway, my history is usually 10x longer than my personality, so I'm going to try to fix that this time.

[Sapphirescript]

I hate writing history for my pets because I like to change it up a lot but I feel like if I don't then people might think I didn't try and I don't want to fail ;..;. And I am acustom to writing large so if I apply again I'll try to slim it down ^_^*
TRAGIC STORIES ARE FUN D8. I mean there are so many ways to make your character interact when everybody around them dies or something..

[mokapi]

The donations for this round have been gathered up and will be posted fairly soon. :3 There are a few points I want to bring up about form-writing based on certain trends that have been showing up over the last few rounds:

- Keep in mind that the word limit is 2500 words for the background portion and about 3000-3500 for the entire form including Personality, Likes/Dislikes, Background and anything else you might put in. While I'm not going to ding people for being a few words over, I've been seeing a few forms that were significantly longer than they should have been (like 1000 words longer), and those forms lost major big points. Remember: going over the word limit always means your form will score lower than it would have otherwise. The average length of winning forms is somewhere around 2000 words in total, and often they have Personality sections that are equal to or longer than the Background section.

- Try to avoid adding unimportant information to the form. Unless your character's exact height or weight is somehow important, you really don't need to add it in, and the same goes for listing the order, family and genus, birthplace, friends, offspring, etc. A lot of forms have been doing this lately, and it adds a whole extra page to the form of essentially useless information that adds nothing to the score. I'd really hate for people to spend a lot of time debating over whether their character belongs under Felidae or Mustelidae and then not have time to expand on the character's personality, which is where big points can be made. *hint hint* ;3

- The background should focus on the character, not its parents, friends, enemies, siblings, etc. The main point of the history is to show what events have shaped the character's life and personality, how they react to situations, how they think, and in general be a showing of the character in action. The story itself isn't the really important thing, although it certainly does help to have a creative and well-thought-out storyline. If your story is spending a lot of time on the lives of characters other than the one you're trying to adopt, it's probably going in the wrong direction.

- Characters don't have to have a tragic history. XD

Would points be lost for lack of a personality section if the story told from the character's point of view is meant to relay it? It's a mix of a story (though there are no real specific events), a personality, and a history.