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First Story, a Creative Assembly System, and an Otter-tunity
7 years ago
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To start this journal off on a grand note: The final copy of Balans's Introduction is complete! It only took me two weeks to get everything sorted with it (college work and life do eat a lot of time). I wish I could have gotten this work out sooner, but I'm happy that I went for quality over quantity with this work. I hope to do something like this story in the future. After all, I think I got this system figured out for future writing.
I don't have any official name for it yet, but for now, let's call it the Creative Assembly System.
xsini and I talked over discord for a while, and he suggested that my way of writing (which you can see from my rough drafts and final copy) is almost like a Henry Ford assembly line. Since this system feels good for writing, I'll probably keep this style of writing for a while:
* Rough Draft stage (Draft 1)
- The initial writing of the story. This is just getting my ideas down onto paper, with a simple motto of "fuck grammar".
* Draft 2 stage
- The writing gets hacked and slashed by any means necessary. Chop off any wordiness. Cut out anything that does not work. In addition, any comments made by reviewers of the first draft should be handled. If people didn't understand something in the writing, this is the time to fix, edit, remove, change that. Finally, any grammar that was incorrect in the first draft is fixed in this draft.
* Draft 3 stage
- With wordiess removed, it's time for the holy crusade against any excessive past tense use. Think of all the "-ed" ending words. Those words, unless needed, are cut from the text. Past tense puts people to sleep, so this is when the past tense is switched to present tense wording. Additional feedback from reviews will guide future changes. If this copy is good to go, then it moves onto a "3.5" stage which is formating for the final copy. Otherwise, repeat draft stages until satisifed with work.
* Final Copy
- Post it. Kick back. Relax. Enjoy the story!
Feel free to comment below if you think of a good name for this system. Really any name is good for this one. I'll look forward to what the suggestions are! In the mean time, while college work is piling up, I got a special story coming up that's gonna come in front of all the other stories I mentioned before. For this story will be my first muscle growth story on FA!
Have you met
otterplop (AKA Lexi) yet? She's an amazing otter and loves a good story as much as I love to write them up! We've been talking for a while on discord and over FA notes, and we think a nice, short story is in the works for our characters Balans and Lexi. As things stand right now, it's looking to be a SFW growth story with a simple plot and story. Something short, sweet, fun, and delightful! I'm looking forward to this otter-tunity (not sorry for the puns haha) and I'd love to make my first growth story about her character Lexi. If you want to learn more, go check out her work! It's really awesome!
I don't have any official name for it yet, but for now, let's call it the Creative Assembly System.
xsini and I talked over discord for a while, and he suggested that my way of writing (which you can see from my rough drafts and final copy) is almost like a Henry Ford assembly line. Since this system feels good for writing, I'll probably keep this style of writing for a while: * Rough Draft stage (Draft 1)
- The initial writing of the story. This is just getting my ideas down onto paper, with a simple motto of "fuck grammar".
* Draft 2 stage
- The writing gets hacked and slashed by any means necessary. Chop off any wordiness. Cut out anything that does not work. In addition, any comments made by reviewers of the first draft should be handled. If people didn't understand something in the writing, this is the time to fix, edit, remove, change that. Finally, any grammar that was incorrect in the first draft is fixed in this draft.
* Draft 3 stage
- With wordiess removed, it's time for the holy crusade against any excessive past tense use. Think of all the "-ed" ending words. Those words, unless needed, are cut from the text. Past tense puts people to sleep, so this is when the past tense is switched to present tense wording. Additional feedback from reviews will guide future changes. If this copy is good to go, then it moves onto a "3.5" stage which is formating for the final copy. Otherwise, repeat draft stages until satisifed with work.
* Final Copy
- Post it. Kick back. Relax. Enjoy the story!
Feel free to comment below if you think of a good name for this system. Really any name is good for this one. I'll look forward to what the suggestions are! In the mean time, while college work is piling up, I got a special story coming up that's gonna come in front of all the other stories I mentioned before. For this story will be my first muscle growth story on FA!
Have you met
otterplop (AKA Lexi) yet? She's an amazing otter and loves a good story as much as I love to write them up! We've been talking for a while on discord and over FA notes, and we think a nice, short story is in the works for our characters Balans and Lexi. As things stand right now, it's looking to be a SFW growth story with a simple plot and story. Something short, sweet, fun, and delightful! I'm looking forward to this otter-tunity (not sorry for the puns haha) and I'd love to make my first growth story about her character Lexi. If you want to learn more, go check out her work! It's really awesome!