User blog:DustpeltX/Writing Styles and You

Hello Fanon, Dust here. Second blog post in my life, ever.

Simply put, one could say I am bored and another could say I am curious as well. I think it is the latter.

Anyway, I have been busier these past four days, shifting between studying the theory of evolution, drawing character art to replace my old ones (If you're curious please do take a look at them here and here), and most recently, revamping the origin story of two the very same two original characters I revamped art for.

I always find myself not sasitified with the wording or fussing over tenses as I write. Sometimes I reread my writing and realize some situations do not make sense due to my lack of describing the environment beforehand. Sometimes, I fear that I'm not conveying how the character is feeling or how the character is describe so I have to go back and find a place to put a physical description in.

The thing is, I always keep forgetting that writing a story is not the same as writing a cartoon, or an anime. Things may make sense in your head where everything is planned out, you know how each character looks and you know how they move, but people cannot see inside your head.

This is a problem which I hope by sharing it, many of us can improve from as RPers and fan-fiction writers.

Describe everything. Absolutely everything. For someone like me who can run an imaginary movie theater inside my head, the lack of detail means a really bad movie with props that suddenly phase in and out of existence as the story goes. That is not something I want to do because a setting should be static and well described and stay static until a character comes in and alters it. If a rock wasn't there, don't say your character suddenly picked up a rock and threw it. I now have to rewind my flow of imagination to reimagine a rock on the floor that was suppose to be there in the first place and have him pick it up again and throw it again.

I just wanted to share this, since studying biology, writing and drawing alone really builds up a lot of stress.

And perhaps some of you can provide some writing tips as well? Anything is welcome.