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New story and a new "tradition"
4 years ago
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Recently I posted my newest story "A Night at the Halloween Fair" which you can read right here if you want to.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44401632/
After posting the story I thought I'd write a journal detailing some of my thoughts and goals regarding the process of the story's creation. I did something similar when I posted my Easter themed story "An Easter Feast" which was mostly a rant about writing that story in such a short span of time. Going forward I want to try writing a journal going over each new story that I post. I'm hoping that these journals will provide me with an outlet through which I can create engagement with people who read my stories and give me an excuse to just blather on about the random things I'd want to talk about regarding my writing.
So here are my thoughts on "A Night at the Halloween fair."
One of the main goals I wanted to accomplish when I started writing this story was that I wanted this to be a diaper related story written from a first person perspective. Despite the fact that diapers are my primary interest I had yet to write a diaper related story since making the move from my old account. I've been on real vore kick with my two previous stories so I decided that it was time to write a strictly diaper centric story.
I specifically decided to write it in a first person perspective when I realized that I have a habit of defaulting to writing in a third person perspective. I decided that I needed to push myself out of my comfort zone in order to prevent a "stylistic stagnation" if that makes any sense. I also just really needed the practice seeing that it had been a while since I'd written a story from that perspective.
There is a interesting reason why the main character Felix was made into a maremma sheep dog. I watch a farming youtuber whos livestock guardian dog is a maremma and since that are really cute I thought it be a good choice for Felix's species. Making him into a dog also slightly influenced my choices for the species of the other characters. Anthony became a German Sheppard through the domestic dog connection and the brother, Jerome and Maxwell, became lions because I like the whole "canines dating felines" trope. I chose lions specifically because I liked the idea of Jerome, in spite of being a lion, being the smaller and more submissive one in the relationship. Then adding a dash of a Napoleon complex on top of that just felt right. Making his brother the big buff sweetheart was the obvious choice because it created a great contrast between the two characters. I also just love bulky boys who wear diapers and have sweet dispositions.
When it came to the story I feel like I should have integrated Anthony and Jerome into the story more in some way. Despite their prevalence during the start of the story I kind of just made them disappear for a while and at the end of the story I feel like a kind of minimized their roles.
I probably could have made the sections describing the characters actually using their diapers a bit more detailed. They feel very brief compared to other non-diaper related sections of the story.
I'm a little annoyed by the fact that I made the characters have a major emotional event occur in a locked bathroom. I have done that plot point in two other stories and I feel dumb for not realizing it until I had nearly completed the story. I need to break the habit of having big emotional moments occur in locked bathrooms. Otherwise it could lead to boring and repetitive stories.
The ending felt a little rushed all things considered. I attribute that to me getting burnt out on writing this story. I started writing a week before the month of October and finally finished just two days before Halloween so towards the end I just wanted to be done with it.
That's about all I wanted to say regarding this story. Hopefully I remember to this again for any future stories.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44401632/
After posting the story I thought I'd write a journal detailing some of my thoughts and goals regarding the process of the story's creation. I did something similar when I posted my Easter themed story "An Easter Feast" which was mostly a rant about writing that story in such a short span of time. Going forward I want to try writing a journal going over each new story that I post. I'm hoping that these journals will provide me with an outlet through which I can create engagement with people who read my stories and give me an excuse to just blather on about the random things I'd want to talk about regarding my writing.
So here are my thoughts on "A Night at the Halloween fair."
One of the main goals I wanted to accomplish when I started writing this story was that I wanted this to be a diaper related story written from a first person perspective. Despite the fact that diapers are my primary interest I had yet to write a diaper related story since making the move from my old account. I've been on real vore kick with my two previous stories so I decided that it was time to write a strictly diaper centric story.
I specifically decided to write it in a first person perspective when I realized that I have a habit of defaulting to writing in a third person perspective. I decided that I needed to push myself out of my comfort zone in order to prevent a "stylistic stagnation" if that makes any sense. I also just really needed the practice seeing that it had been a while since I'd written a story from that perspective.
There is a interesting reason why the main character Felix was made into a maremma sheep dog. I watch a farming youtuber whos livestock guardian dog is a maremma and since that are really cute I thought it be a good choice for Felix's species. Making him into a dog also slightly influenced my choices for the species of the other characters. Anthony became a German Sheppard through the domestic dog connection and the brother, Jerome and Maxwell, became lions because I like the whole "canines dating felines" trope. I chose lions specifically because I liked the idea of Jerome, in spite of being a lion, being the smaller and more submissive one in the relationship. Then adding a dash of a Napoleon complex on top of that just felt right. Making his brother the big buff sweetheart was the obvious choice because it created a great contrast between the two characters. I also just love bulky boys who wear diapers and have sweet dispositions.
When it came to the story I feel like I should have integrated Anthony and Jerome into the story more in some way. Despite their prevalence during the start of the story I kind of just made them disappear for a while and at the end of the story I feel like a kind of minimized their roles.
I probably could have made the sections describing the characters actually using their diapers a bit more detailed. They feel very brief compared to other non-diaper related sections of the story.
I'm a little annoyed by the fact that I made the characters have a major emotional event occur in a locked bathroom. I have done that plot point in two other stories and I feel dumb for not realizing it until I had nearly completed the story. I need to break the habit of having big emotional moments occur in locked bathrooms. Otherwise it could lead to boring and repetitive stories.
The ending felt a little rushed all things considered. I attribute that to me getting burnt out on writing this story. I started writing a week before the month of October and finally finished just two days before Halloween so towards the end I just wanted to be done with it.
That's about all I wanted to say regarding this story. Hopefully I remember to this again for any future stories.
