Wednesday, June 13, 2012
This will be brief
When the Morally Bankrupt side project character is seen as more "Nobile and Moral" than the one eyed fighter protagonist, then I have to step back and ask "WHAT THE FUCK AM I WRITING HERE!?!?!"
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
When it stops being interesting, it's time to take a break.
So as no one really reads the OCC blog, and rightfully so because this breaks all kinds of Immersion, but itt means I can get a few things off my chest...
Soulpatched Speaks is stagnating in my head... I'm down to around two characters and I'm currently suffering from a bit of writers block, I still have other characters I can work back into the store Including Ryan's Henchmen... but I really wanted some downtime between arcs so I can really cement things...
The problem here being, I'm not sure where to take it now...
I have a few story seeds, The Bokken, Anna's unresolved family issues. Maya and Antonio's final fate since hey there wasn't bodies, so who knows what the hell's up with them...
So some downtime might be an order, I got a barely touched character named Vergil from the "Organization" another dangling plot thread, since it seems that Paul and Maya seem to have some past with them involving Antonio.
Hell a prequel arc from that time, before Paul lost his memories could be interesting....
I just don't have the drive at the moment, and that's going to hurt the quality of writing in the blog. not to mention that I went and pissed off another writer when I went and used a location from their blog in a recent post, and to be fair, was rightly called on that blunder... It was one of those moments where I had to sit back and thing "Well Jim you done fucked up proper this time, you had better apologize and offer to make amends"
So I already e-mailed that author back and apologized for the blunder, I won't spend much more time on it here.
So if a post gets a rewrite or gets pulled, or if in a future post I mention in passing how Paul had gone to the wrong location, which to be fair it pretty easy considering that he really had no idea where the fuck it was, and probably found the first burned down house on the beach in the area and called it good....
Shit... yeah this is not a good day to be a Slender-blogger... But hey, a lesson, *Do not* assume because there blog has not updated in a few blogs, and all there principal characters are dead, that the writer has moved on, it will bite you in the ass.
So where do I take it from here? Start up a new blog in the meanwhile? Dueling blogs with myself sounds kinda funny but I barely have the time to be bothered with writing one blog, and for realism it would mean starting up a SECOND dummy g-mail for the acct, and holy balls do I not like having to log off the Soulpatched e-mail to followup on my posts....
I'll weigh the options... and I'll get back to you guys on here, or on the story blog.
Soulpatched Speaks is stagnating in my head... I'm down to around two characters and I'm currently suffering from a bit of writers block, I still have other characters I can work back into the store Including Ryan's Henchmen... but I really wanted some downtime between arcs so I can really cement things...
The problem here being, I'm not sure where to take it now...
I have a few story seeds, The Bokken, Anna's unresolved family issues. Maya and Antonio's final fate since hey there wasn't bodies, so who knows what the hell's up with them...
So some downtime might be an order, I got a barely touched character named Vergil from the "Organization" another dangling plot thread, since it seems that Paul and Maya seem to have some past with them involving Antonio.
Hell a prequel arc from that time, before Paul lost his memories could be interesting....
I just don't have the drive at the moment, and that's going to hurt the quality of writing in the blog. not to mention that I went and pissed off another writer when I went and used a location from their blog in a recent post, and to be fair, was rightly called on that blunder... It was one of those moments where I had to sit back and thing "Well Jim you done fucked up proper this time, you had better apologize and offer to make amends"
So I already e-mailed that author back and apologized for the blunder, I won't spend much more time on it here.
So if a post gets a rewrite or gets pulled, or if in a future post I mention in passing how Paul had gone to the wrong location, which to be fair it pretty easy considering that he really had no idea where the fuck it was, and probably found the first burned down house on the beach in the area and called it good....
Shit... yeah this is not a good day to be a Slender-blogger... But hey, a lesson, *Do not* assume because there blog has not updated in a few blogs, and all there principal characters are dead, that the writer has moved on, it will bite you in the ass.
So where do I take it from here? Start up a new blog in the meanwhile? Dueling blogs with myself sounds kinda funny but I barely have the time to be bothered with writing one blog, and for realism it would mean starting up a SECOND dummy g-mail for the acct, and holy balls do I not like having to log off the Soulpatched e-mail to followup on my posts....
I'll weigh the options... and I'll get back to you guys on here, or on the story blog.
Friday, May 4, 2012
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"
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"
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