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I need any info that can be given on Fictional sharpshooters. Mythological , cartoons , stories. All acceptable.

Only one thing is off limits though , Der Freischutz . Aside from that any info would be handy

Do your own homework... hmm

And while youa re at it do mine as well.

Originally posted by grey fox
It's not Homework , I'm trying to write a story but i need inspiration...

Do your own research then. hmm

It's awesome when people ask for ideas just to put their own name on it and pass it off as theirs.

If I'm not mistaken there's a fiction forum at KMC. Though...after reading a few threads, I'd rather submit a blank sheet of paper than some of the actual stories there.

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
It's awesome when people ask for ideas just to put their own name on it and pass it off as theirs.

Now that's just unnecessary. Just because i want to get an idea from an already existing piece of fiction doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a copy and paste job.

Originally posted by grey fox
I need any info that can be given on Fictional sharpshooters. Mythological , cartoons , stories. All acceptable.


Hitman/Agent 47 is the best fictional sharp shooter.

Originally posted by grey fox
.... If I use it i'll feel cheap about it...
yet people over the internet to tell you about it is better?

Originally posted by grey fox
Now that's just unnecessary. Just because i want to get an idea from an already existing piece of fiction doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a copy and paste job.

Reeeaaaaddddd. Go look stuff up. Don't ask other people. Seems like you're just looking for ideas to steal. Don't.

As a writer you don't want to draw from other people's experiences, but your own. If you haven't read something, don't go out of your way to read it just to take something from it.

Originally posted by FoxMeister
yet people over the internet to tell you about it is better?

No because i just want basic information. Unlike Der Freischutz which I already know the background for.

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
Reeeaaaaddddd. Go look stuff up. Don't ask other people. Seems like you're just looking for ideas to steal. Don't.

As a writer you don't want to draw from other people's experiences, but your own. If you haven't read something, don't go out of your way to read it just to take something from it.

All writers have influences.

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
All writers have influences.

Please point out where I said they didn't, or better yet, where they shouldn't?

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
Please point out where I said they didn't, or better yet, where they shouldn't?

There's a difference between straight-up stealing an idea and being influenced by it.

You make it sound like he just wants to rip off other people's ideas.

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
There's a difference between straight-up stealing an idea and being influenced by it.

You make it sound like he just wants to rip off other people's ideas.

When you go around asking for ideas, that's exactly what you're doing, whether they are for influence or copy/paste.

Using your own experience as influence however, is what makes a good writer. I'm just telling him to go read and research on his own. Other people telling him what to write about is going to leave their influence on his writing and not his own.

Let me see, let me see ... fictional sharpshooters. Uh...

+There's a sniper in one of the Final Fantasy games. He'c commisioned to gun down the badguy from the top of a rotating building, as I recall, but it doesn't work out.

+One of the villains of MGS is "Sniper Wolf," who is supposed to have once remained motionless for days waiting for her target, and is perpetually on some sort of drug that steadies her aim.

+In "The Living Daylights," (the story; I don't know what the movie's like) James Bond covers an agents escape from enemy territory by sniping at an enemy sniper. Since he's had casual sex with the enemy agent the day before, he contents himself with "scaring the living daylights" out of her, rather then a fatal shot.

+The villain of "Day of the Jackel" is a sharpshooter, I believe.

(Regarding the debate that's going on, I don't think it's inherently bad to want to know what other people have done with the topic you're writing about, but certainly you don't want to be stealing their ideas)

Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
When you go around asking for ideas, that's exactly what you're doing, whether they are for influence or copy/paste.

Robin Hood is good with a bow and arrows, and robbed the rich and gave to the poor.

Legolas is an elf.