User blog comment:Teammcb/What makes a good story?/@comment-1233616-20100504164058

A combination of various elements makes a story good. In my best epic yet, Shadow Play (though only Matoro1 reads it), the main focus was originally though to be the glatorian, but I'm also writting about the Vorox and about the different missions that the Skrall do to crush the glatorian rebellion. Though most of the epic was planned from the beggining, I improvise as well as I go on, doing various modifications. I prefer third person rather than blogs, because I'm not good at first person writing, but I have to admit that Toa Imydrex's Blog is one of the best epics I've read here. The key is also to have a variety of characters, which you can choose for the situation that most fits the character. Describing a lot the surroundings is also recommended, unless you are doing a battle scene, in which action flows faster than normal.