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New Year, Same Old Ass
14 years ago
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Hello FurAffinity,
Kinto’s new year’s resolutions:
1. Stop procrastinating (Oops)
2. Try new things
3. Commission more art
4. I want to make a major purchase – my own apartment or a new car
5. 1366x768
And, of course,
6. WRITE! I posted 7 stories in 2011; I want to better that mark in 2012.
Unfortunately, I have not been doing much writing lately. I’ve been having trouble finding the time. I like my office job better than the field work, but as I feared it has so far proven to be less conducive to my creative pursuits.
So to possibly help motivate me, I have some questions for you, my watchers: What would you like to see more of? What sort of things do you like about my stories? What do you not like? What should I endeavor to improve?
Graciously yours,
Kinto
Kinto’s new year’s resolutions:
1. Stop procrastinating (Oops)
2. Try new things
3. Commission more art
4. I want to make a major purchase – my own apartment or a new car
5. 1366x768
And, of course,
6. WRITE! I posted 7 stories in 2011; I want to better that mark in 2012.
Unfortunately, I have not been doing much writing lately. I’ve been having trouble finding the time. I like my office job better than the field work, but as I feared it has so far proven to be less conducive to my creative pursuits.
So to possibly help motivate me, I have some questions for you, my watchers: What would you like to see more of? What sort of things do you like about my stories? What do you not like? What should I endeavor to improve?
Graciously yours,
Kinto
Cute avatar, by the way.
As for what I like about your work: while I am not a fan of gore, I AM a fan of peril and good writing (i.e. developed characters and faceted relationships, interesting premises, sensory details, vivid descriptions without being blunt, etc.). Your prose inspires visceral feelings or fear, terror, despair, hope, love, compassion - sometimes several at once.
I would, however, like to see you try writing beyond death scenes as a climax - using them instead to build the action within the framework of a larger story. Obviously this would require a narrator besides, or in addition to, the victim.
Sometimes I do feel bad about consistently killing off my characters after only one story; I would definitely like to try some multi-story character arcs. I have a few ideas in that direction, but I've never really developed them. I guess I find the commitment a bit daunting, or something.
Regarding the commitment, trust me, I understand. Let me know if you'd like to brainstorm together someday.