Inspiration

Okay so I know this is going to break immersion quite a bit by doing this, but sometimes I just feel like talking, not at Paul, but as myself. To kinda ramble on a bit about what I learned about writing while working on this blog.

The Slenderblog is going to update far more often than this blog here as it is, in the strictest sense a writer's soapbox, and well, if anyone gives me too much shit for breaking "MAH IMMERSION" then sure, I'll take it down...

Okay no I wont because I'm a fucking troll sometimes.

Okay so because I kinda wanted to ramble as I used to back when I ran a  web comic, definitely something of an old shame now as it was never finished, and it was on an Angelfire site I'm not sure exists anymore, and no I'm not going to tell you what it was

Any who, back on topic, I wanted to ramble about what I learned from writing so far....

Write what you know: I didn't choose Tacoma as a setting on accident, I'm actually a Tacoma native, so as a result I could also write locations and scene's in my head, Paul's building is actually based on a building I myself lived in at one point, but had a layout similar to my current apartment, you might have noticed I've been a bit more vague as to locations since moving the story to Pittsburgh, and it show's it's always "A store front" or "a random ally", No street names, and really I'm not writing about the city itself, because I'm still basically writing Tacoma into my plot, just elsewhere in the country.

Write what/who you like: I can't stress this enough, if you don't like the character, then there's a great chance that other people are not going to like the character. I mean I wrote Paul, originally as a caring family man, knowing that it wouldn't last, I mean I have a wife and son, so again writing what I know. But I needed to make a few secondary characters to replace a whittling cast, I had planed for Nick to drop off the rader and for Ryan to go evil, so I came up with Maya and expanded Hoody from some random mook Proxy to a full character and made them all part of a team. and I liked those two as characters far more than I did than both Nick and Ryan.

Hell the original outline had Paul, Nick, and Ryan, fighting a last stand fight against Hoody and the Slenderman, and loosing... and we saw how long that lasted. I guess it's not fair to say I don't like Ryan as a character now, he's a hell of a bad guy, even if he is a bit cliched, I mean the evil brother thing was done to death before I started using it.

That leads to the last bit for the night, "Be flexible", I had to do some serious rethinking of things when Manic and I started crossing over, Originally Manic had nothing to do with the rooftop battle and it ended up being so last minute that I was falling all over my self to give Manic a part to play in it, I mean I learned that at some point I have to remember that my blog is my story, and other people making appearances are like guest stars, I mean yeah Manic and I have cameo'd allot in each others blog, and with Antonio currently cameoing on Antithesis, I'm spread pretty thin.. but at some point, I need to pull everything back together and make my blog standalone again for the big events.

Of course Slender-blogging is a community project, so the occasional Cameo is good, it brings attention to other people's blogs, and gets your blog out there, so hell I recommend it, heck drop me an email sometime and chances are I'll set up a crossover with you , because that's part of the charm of it all is interweaving into each others stories and making your blog part of a larger Mythos.

Okay that's it for the night, at some point soon I'm going to want to ramble on a bit about that one thing I'm trying to avoid on my own blog, "Special snowflake Syndrome"