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I'm writing a whole summary of what my story idea is, or at least the beginning. I'm not too far in it so far, but I'll post it later.

'''PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE THING. I'M SORRY FOR THE LENGTH, BUT I REALLY DO HOPE THAT IT MAKES SENSE.'''

All I'm saying is that due to my extreme obsession with logical thinking and such, the magic paper would not be plausible no matter how hard we tried. Simply enough, an inventor would not be able to build such a creation. Matter cannot be destroyed or created, and therefore it is virtually impossible to create something out of nothing. We all know very well that drawings at their very base are nothing more than marks on a page, and will not reach past that extent. Plus, something living can be made unliving, but something that is not even in the form of something that was once living cannot become living. Multiple drawings strung together creates the illusion of life, of course, but it does not create life itself. If the students were learning to build, say, human like robots that went haywire that would be a different story. However, since we're talking about mere drawings and nothing more, the idea of drawings coming to life due to scientists would be physically impossible, especially since our story is set in this time period.

Also, as I have mentioned before the whole idea of drawings coming to life would give us an entirely different plotline as well as a different vibe to the story itself. Rather than being upbeat and comical, it would be dark and mysterious. Because of this, we would have to change the art style to something more suitable for this environment, which, naturally, would be much more complex than what we have now if we want to be taken even remotely seriously. Our current style is too humourous and would have to be either upgraded to the level of certain professional comics or changed to something more eerie in appearance. Either way, I could not help very well since my art (and writing) styles are very lighthearted and concentrate more on comical expression than anything else. If I try to write or draw anything that's supposed to be emotional and taken seriously, it will end up being so awkwardly done that it does not come across nearly half as well as I was hoping for. I can write essays and lighthearted stories, but anything outside of that is fairly off limits for me, partially because I am not a very emotional person in the least, and because I do not have many personal experiences to work off of. I can maybe come up with a basic idea and help refine it, but actually writing the script would be a challenge for many of us since none of us are too experienced in writing horrific action adventure. This genre is very difficult to work in, because if you mess up on it in some way and don't do it almost perfectly, your story will seem very cheesy.

Now, going back to my previous statement, I'm sure that some of you are wondering exactly why I'm saying that the vibe and plotline would be different. Well, since a pen or paper could clearly not be developed by an inventor to be able to bring the drawings to life, there would have to be an element of fantasy in it. Needless to say, not everyone could have the power to bring the drawings to life, and those who did would have something different about their bodies that would allow for this. In previous comments, I've stated that the way this would most likely happen would be that the person was not completely human and had a certain quality about their blood that could allow for this. Basically, they would draw their creation in blood, then the blood cells would expand rapidly to create a larger, three dimensional version of the creature. So, basically, our characters would be fighting a ten foot T-Rex made entirely of, well, blood. This would probably be considered as disgusting by a certain portion of viewers, because, hey! Once that thing's dead you'll be swimming in a swamp of someone else's body fluids (not to mention the stains you'll get on your clothing).

Also, as I have stated in previous comments, we would not be able to concentrate on a lot of characters in this type of plot line. It would very likely be a story about one person with this wild power who's trying to conceal it from the world around her, because, naturally, if people found out about it she would be abruptly taken to prison, executed, or (most likely) used in some sort of extreme experiments. If we were to make into a mystery type story and not focus on that particular character, the whole idea of drawings coming to life would seem very minor in comparrison to the story, and, in all honesty, our "main plot line" would just seem sort of stuck in for no good reason. After all, it's not like your typical mystery novel. In mystery stories, the basic structure of the plotline is when you know what happened, but you need to find who did it and why. If this person is trying to hide her secret from the world, no one would know about it and would have no reasons to convict her of anything. They would have to somehow stumble upon it by accident. So, basically, for half of the story we wouldn't actually have much plot line. If her power was the "big secret," we couldn't introduce it too early in the story because then our only real material will have been lost. In short, it will end up being a lot like Twilight, and we all know how much hate that story received. Plus, once she somehow accidentally draws a dinosaur and the characters defeat it, how much more story will be available? She'd just know to stop drawing with her blood. The only way we could really make this story work is if there was one single main character, the conflict is when her secret gets out, and during the rising action she would be trying to run and hide from the government. I would have no idea how the story would end, though. Having her just succeed in escaping containment wouldn't really solve the problem, since she would still have the power and the government would still know she was out there (and, naturally, would still be hunting her down). Unless we built up some other option towards the beginning of the story that could act as her savior, she would probably realize that it was too dangerous to live while her secret was exposed, which could cause her to commit suicide out of her feeling of duty. Not exactly what we were going for, I assume. The idea of a group of main characters or an art school would have to be ditched if we were to go with this idea. To be able to continue with one idea, we would have to get rid of some others. That's a natural occurance in the process of writing a good story. Mark Crilley even stated something similar to this in the video that Birdie linked, and he works as an author for a living.

We've seen fanfictions where two characters who would never fall in love are paired together, and to make it work the author completely alters their personalities. Whenever I finish reading one of these, I'm always confused as to why they had to pair these two particular characters together and go against everything that made sense rather than just writing the same fanfiction with two characters who could possibly fall in love while still keeping their current personalities and still have the fanfiction make sense. However, the reason that people write these kinds of fanfictions is for one simple reason: they're not willing to give up their own "OTP" or the material that makes up the fanfiction. This results in a story where things seem so off that it can just be confusing. Similarly, if we don't give up one of the ideas we plan to use, our story will end up seeming strange, confusing, and will definitely not be nearly the best it possibly can be.

And now, my friends, you see why I have lost my taste for certain types of fantasy stories xD Tolkein thought out every single thing about his stories before he wrote them to make sure that they were plausible (as I have stated at least once in this forum), and I suggest we do the same. If you've ever wondered why I write long comments, it's to help to my best ability in troubleshooting our ideas to make sure that they are logical and could make sense as a story.