mastergraywolf: (Monsters rule seal)
2013-06-05 01:01 am

About MGW

Just making a sticky post and C&Ping from Wikia:



ABOUT ME AND NAME
Master Gray Wolf, or MGW for short, is the pseudonym of an amateur writer born and raised in Michigan, United States. Her first online fanfiction was based on Pokémon; later on, MGW would get introduced to the anime/game Monster Rancher and would develop a fan-series that is still in progress. MGW uploads works on both Fanfiction.net and Fictionpress.net, and also ArchiveofOurOwn.

MGW is named after a character from the anime/game "Monster Rancher". In Japanese, his name is Gingiraiga (ギンギライガー, 銀ライガー, Silver Raiga); "Raiga" is what Tiger is called Japanese. In the anime, he is the younger brother of Tiger / Raiga and is one of the Big BAD FOUR (English version) or 『ワルモン四天王』 (warumon shitennō, Evil Monster Four Devas/Heavenly Kings).

LITERARY STYLE
MGW has a tendency to write action/adventure or comedic stories for mostly young adults and young children. However, an exception to this rule is the fiction series Seishin Ninjutsu Chronicle, where some of the stories contain detailed violence and non-explicit sexual themes. The themes of teamwork, friendship, morals, and justice are frequent. Furthermore, because history, geography, sociology, and politics are a part of the author's interests, MGW likes to incorporate such elements into her stories and mirror real-life as close as possible.
MGW also prefers creating short chapters of around 1500-2000 words or less, but may make exceptions. This is for the convenience of herself and proofreading.

MGW is a long time fan of Monster Rancher. She enjoys both the game series and the cartoon, and the name "Master Gray Wolf" is derived from an animal character from the series. She sees her two stories Howl of Gray Wolf and Tiger of Freedom as her signatures works, and they are mostly based on the Monster Rancher games.

MGW likes the military and so far has created stories set in battle. United We Soar reflects her love of the Air Force and airplanes; Heroic Blaze SolAka is her first Science Fiction (super robot based) series. She also likes history and mythology, integrating both into Stalwart Silver and Seishin.

MGW has ambivalent views on fanfiction. Majority of her own fanfiction works are based on video games such as Monster Rancher (Farm) and Pokémon, and widely uses the monsters from the games with little to no connection from the TV and comic series. However, she has expressed disdain for fanfiction, especially those of NC-17 (Lemon)/MA rating, saying that it can ruin her image of the fandom. She primarily focuses on Howl of Gray Wolf and its succeeding stories, and has decided against creating fanfiction in 2009. However in late 2013, MGW has decided to create short Saint Seiya FFs, deeply inspired by the fans of Europe and Latin America.

MGW has developed two stories about Digimon, but they were removed from Fanfiction.net. One was possibly removed due to "original content" not derived from the animated or comic series. The remake of Pokefighters was canceled in 2011.
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2011-07-11 02:00 am

Ask/Answer Myself: Part II

Going back to an old matter. In another entry, I asked these questions:

Why do I like BACCANO?
Why do I like BASILISK?
Why do I like Y + M?
Why do I think will male a good ninja story?
How to make a compelling story line/plot?
What causes negative criticism?
Why am I slow in thinking up plot (or why do I find it difficult?)

I told myself that I can't do reviews, because:
1.) I can't seem to deduce and adduce strengths and weaknesses.
2.) Not a great critical thinker
3.) Again, not good at explaining myself
4.) Opinions are subjective
5.) Bad sentence structure

Guess you could say, I can't push my face out there. Or, just can't fight.

I'd like to fix that somehow. I could start by using a simple form of defeating Writer's Block, and that is just by using an outline. Or, I can use Mapping.

Reviews should get you to either want or not want to see what you just did.

Let me first state is that I believe that I get rarely dissapointed. I don't think there's anything in the world that I read or watched that made me say, "This-is-terrible!".

Ninja, and Futaro Yamada's ninja stories (well, mainly the comic adaptations Basilisk and Y+M by Masaki Segawa) are what inspired me to do the Seishin series.

For Y+M and Basilisk, I can easily say that a couple of the comics' strengths are Violence (Blood and Gore) and Art. How do I explain my reasons?

How about the novel BACCANO? I thought I wouldn't like a story with alchemists and every dude from the criminal underground getting indirectly connected to each other. It's history aspect, since it started in the 1930s, may have something to do with it. So I'll be thinking about that too.