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Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve: Tiny Update
🕑 Added 2023-10-30 21:00:17 +0000 UTCFirst of all,
HAPPY HALLOWEEN [It's already October 31 in my part of the world.]
Get your spook on, lol.
Hello dear people,
So, for the weekly three chapter set, I haven't completed a single one. I took my usual two days after the third chapter and then something happened which made my leave my house for two additional days– long days and tiring travel– as such, I wasn't able to write or plan or think what I would write this week.
I'm home now, back on my usual schedule.
The chapters are unfortunately delayed. It will take me a bit of time to write them up. For ARC-06, I'm handling war, but I'm not very well acquainted with what actually happens during war on a day-to-day basis— I lack an understanding of what happens in a military base, what types of mission/task missions do they usually do.
I went in it all gung-ho, but I felt out-of-my-depth even before I wrote the last three chapters.
However, fear not!
I have found an excellent advisor who has some military experience from his youth and still follows military-related stuff(?) semi-regularly as a hobbyist. He has already helped me a lot and has at the very least sorted me out for the next three chapters.
However, as I have very little knowledge, I would once again like your help.
I can do combat just fine, but I can't just keep writing full-on battle scenes for the entire the entire arc— so if you have any advice or suggestions related to war, military camps, missions, or things that "Hollywood Gets Wrong About War"— I would greatly appreciate them in the comments down below.
Hell, I haven't done the usual POST-ARC Feedback Post after ARC-05!
Let's combine it with post. Even if have no advice regarding the war, and just want to give suggestions on any topic, feel free to drop them down below, and I would jot them down in my notes and take them into consideration as I continue to build this story onwards.
Thank you, and my apologies for the delay,
I will see you all later,
FictionOnlyReader.
Comments
FictionOnlyReader
All of this is so greatly useful. The links and your direct advice. I might have misused the concept of "proxy" war, and I have already written things which go against the last paragraph—but with that already done, I will try my best to do some damage control. Thanks, really!
Javier Ricaurte
Here are some articles that might help, is mostly about big battles but there's still plenty about war itself that might help you: https://cataphrak.com/patreon-content/writing-and-worldbuilding/october-2022-drawing-the-battle-lines-pt-1/ https://cataphrak.com/patreon-content/writing-and-worldbuilding/november-2022-drawing-the-battle-lines-pt-2/ https://cataphrak.com/patreon-content/writing-and-worldbuilding/december-2022-a-brief-history-of-battle-and-how-to-write-it/ As to any advice I think the most important thing to remember is that the conflict is suppossed to be a "Proxy" war, meaning that Hidden Leaf should take a more supportive approach than in a regular war, supporting Hidden Steam with information and sabotage of the other side and letting them take point in the actual fighting (alternatively they could use Hidden Steam headbands if they're going into open combat, although oficially they wouldn't be able to take credit of any victories this way). They should also try to avoid actively entering a fight as Konoha ninja with Hidden Frost (At least one that ends with any survivors of the latter) and ESPECIALLY with the Hidden Cloud "advisors", because that might risk the conflict turning into an official Fire/Lightning war, they can still defend themselves if attacked of course, and they could even specifically bait Hidden Frost into attacking them so they can just claim self-defense.
Vitalik
It's cool that in order to convey the impression of the army, you turn to people who understand this. I will add that usually people on the front lines have much more freedom of action. In the rear military units, everything is steeped in formalism: greet everyone by rank, keep logs of shots fired, keep logbooks of logbooks, follow idiotic orders, etc. Because of this absurdity, most of the military people I know prefer being at the front. Which is true, I don't know if it will work for a shinobi army.
