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    Alright.. Umm...

    I've been writing about a story of epic mosquitoes. And heres what happened.

    Basic plot is that there is this tribe of mosquitoes which is suffering from diseases. And one guys (Bob for now) wife and children gets the disease and they are about to die. When Bob goes outside the hospital, he meets the witches and are told that blood of God is the only way to cure the sickness. So him and few other brave men goes out to the house of God (Humans) and attempts to take their blood but they get killed.

    The readers doesn't get told the characters in the story are actually a mosquito.

    So I got to the part with the witches and realized something fatal. Went on to Wikipedia and found out that only female mosquitoes sucks human blood as they are the best source of energy before they give birth and they will not die if they don't get blood.

    Male mosquitoes normally gets their energy from plants juice and honey etc. They have nothing to do with human blood. In fact, they are poor creatures as they get brutally killed by humans anyway and they even get avoided by females around the time when they give birth.

    If you know the noise machines which keeps the mosquitoes away, they use the noise of male mosquitoes because they are the most hated sound of the female mosquito.

    I went off topic a bit. But the thing is.. If the male mosquitoes doesn't suck blood and female mosquito doesn't need blood to survive, this whole concept of the narrative fails and collapses.

    So I humbly asks for my fellow Orgahs help. Is there any ideas how this mosquito story could work?

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    Default Re: Need some imput...

    Quote Originally Posted by 187Beefyz View Post
    etc....

    So I humbly asks for my fellow Orgahs help. Is there any ideas how this mosquito story could work?

    Cheers
    Quite simple, really. Its just a story, no? If its just a story, then FIB. Who cares whether its just female mosquitos who suck blood? I cannot think of the number of stories I've heard(bearing in mind, movies are just stories played out) where fact is ignored in the pursuit of a good story.
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    Default Re: Need some imput...

    Quote Originally Posted by seireikhaan View Post
    Quite simple, really. Its just a story, no? If its just a story, then FIB. Who cares whether its just female mosquitos who suck blood? I cannot think of the number of stories I've heard(bearing in mind, movies are just stories played out) where fact is ignored in the pursuit of a good story.
    This.

    Because you're the author it is your realm to nitpick about these things, but I can promise you the average reader likely has no idea that is the case. If you have a compelling story then no one will care.

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    The children are sick and the blood is needed to cure them. The symbolism is still there and easily accessible. Cool story idea by the way! Any chance we'll get to see it in the mead hall any time soon?
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    Quote Originally Posted by woad&fangs View Post
    The children are sick and the blood is needed to cure them. The symbolism is still there and easily accessible. Cool story idea by the way! Any chance we'll get to see it in the mead hall any time soon?
    Writing in Japanese as I am trying to learn some Kanji (Chinese characters) after 7 years of English in Australia.

    However, while its going to be full of grammatical and spelling errors, ill still give it a go
    Just need to hand write it first then ill translate it when i'm done.

    Thank you for your advice Khaan and Monk
    That is too true. Ill ignore the facts and stick to what I originally planned. Cheers
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    That is too true. Ill ignore the facts and stick to what I originally planned. Cheers
    That what Dan Brown does and now he's a millionaire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tratorix View Post
    That what Dan Brown does and now he's a millionaire.
    That is soo true I reckon Angel and demon is a master piece though


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