FML: The Story - An erotica author creates a character that comes to life - is it the spunky protagonist? The sexy villain? No, it's the horrible side-character determined to make the author miserable...
5 Stages of Burnout: 1. Honeymoon phase - still full of energy and optimism. 2. Onset of stress phase - Begining to experience stress. 3. Chronic stress phase. 4. Burnout phase. 5. Blaaaaaah
It looked like that - the number of 'a' in 'blaaaaaah' was a clear indication! Prescription - you need a time out and a vacation!
is there a word for ludonarrative dissonance in non videogames? Like characters behaving slightly off?
The word refers to a conflict between story and gameplay, or more broadly, story and mechanics, or maybe author agency and consumer agency. That distinction doesn't really exist in other forms of art: as a consumer, you can't influence a painting, or a piece of music. It depends a little on the context, but the closest similar phenomenon I can think of is the uncanny valley, which crops up on all kinds of places.
uncanny valley is indeed the direction I was thinking as well. Probably will go with that one then, thanks
I do feel a schedule helps me to actually commit to something. Downside is that it can feel like work sometimes.
My secret story has reached 400 pages. I should be able to finish the main path around the 500 pages mark. current release ETA: Christmas
I knew something felt strange about that but I was too lazy to check. But yes, it's day, month, year over here, instead of month, day, year
That's cool. My personal favorite name for this holiday is Liar's Day, coined by Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade fame way back in... 2005!? That can't be right. MAN I feel old now. Imagine living in 2005. 2020 is still 15 years away, Covid hasn't been invented yet, we don't all have black rectangles in our pockets...
Story I'm currently working on has reached 300 pages! Very excited to when I finally get to publish that one
Haha thanks! I'm super in the zone right now. Just cranked out another 22 pages of a completely new story yesterday. Gotta milk this high as much as possible
I mean all the more power to them, it's just that I don't think I can write anything sexy about them. ...Suppositories are sexy right?
So there is a phobia of writing(Scriptophobia ) and a phobia of bad handwriting (Graphophobia ) but there is no phobia of bad writing.
Look, the button to not notify people you did an edit is *right there*. It's a lot of effort sometimes to not change the text of one of my more popular chapters to some Vogon poetry or something
I did this once. A character was briefly mentioned in an early chapter. Some time later, I started writing down information for every character in the story, and made a slight error with her name. Then, the character became more important, and I kept using the slightly wrong name. When I noticed my mistake, I just changed the initial mention instead of confusing up-to-date readers.
