The Difference presents:

The Status of the Story

By ShadowMoonSedai

Well, ladies and gents, here's how it goes. Currently, the next chapters are being beta-tested, meaning I gave a floppy full of chapters (six or seven, I believe) to my beta-reader three weeks ago and she hasn't given it back. I will pester her tomorrow for that.

Secondly, I'm introducing a sort of…. Contest. Essentially, I need a character profile. She's a Weapon, about the age of the Animorphs, a girl (obviously, since I was using the pronoun 'she'), and the Weapon of a Caster who is a Controller. I need a name for her and a basic profile including a physical description (ie, is she tall, short, really skinny, lithe, blonde, brunette, etc), an emotional description that's kinda of thorough, including a little bit of history behind somethings (like, if she's afraid of heights, is it because she fell from a tall tree as a child or something like that), some family history (not like her grandma was so-and-such, but what do her parents do, does she have siblings, is she living with an aunt/uncle/grandparent because her parents died in a freak accident, whatever), and she needs to have some kind of connection to the Animorphs. Now, I do not mean she needs to be Tobias long lost sister, but she could be a cousin to someone or someone's (~cough~Marco~cough~) old girlfriend, or a childhood friend that moved and came back or something like that. No long lost siblings. It's been done to death and should not be done again.

As far as sending these to me – paste them into an email or attach them to an email (html, doc, or txt files only please) and send them too shadowmoonsedai@hotmail.com . In the subject line, put something like "Difference Character profile" or something to that extent. I get a lotta junk mail and don't really save any of it. I'll respond to you the instant I get it, to let you know it got through to me.

Thanks!!

Sincerely,

SMS