Hey guys, June update time:

Life:

Lots of things. One is that I am now unemployed (in a good way, my contract is up was all.) So I have a lot of free time now. Also, it's my birthday this month! I was planning on getting a fair amount of art for it, but a lot of the artists I have been talking with to try and commission have fallen through due to unforeseen circumstances. So I might have a pic or two but not much. (When artists aren't open, they aren't open. Not much I can do about that.)


Stories:

Lots of things here:

1: story queue: I'm halfway done with Numou's, the final one before I take a break and do some research.

Megablaze's I decided to cancel instead for a dual com. I just don't have the energy to write much anymore after noticing all the flaws in my writing.

2: While I haven't begun to research how to improve just yet, I have figured out what in my mind are the major flaws to my work so I can get better at it:

- Sentence structure is the #1 issue. My phrases are very basic and repetitive, I need to diversify it to keep audiences entertained.

- Tone, the tone of my stories are very factual and non-exciting. Probably comes from my profession, but I should learn how to narrate stories better. Be it first or third person.

- The dialogue is very basic, there should be more personality in it.

- Emotions, what are those? This is something I have neglected but need to elaborate on, as I am trying to push the plot but leaving out the fun. How do the characters feel and react in the situations they are in? What are they observing? My stories are very dry and improving on this should greatly enhance the quality. While I still feel that a lot of epics on this website have too much repetition with this, I should expand the tone of the characters in the story while preventing it from being the same thing over and over again, another issue I have that is really annoying.

- Another huge issue is that my stories are way too long and complex. It would be better to write a good 5 page story instead of an average 15 page one. I have tried to keep my stories long to prevent them from becoming a bunch of 3 page spam stories like you see on DA, but I feel like the stories I have incorporated too many ideas and thus became drivel. Something I didn't want either. Short is sweet, and when I come back to writing (if I do) I will probably try and greatly limit my ideas so that one idea gets fully developed rather than 12 being touched upon.

3: One reason I am procrastinating is because if I want to put effort into writing, maybe it would be better to do it with art? Although I am much worse at drawing. So yet another fork in the FA road to figure out.

4:The only real way to improve art/writing is practice. Which is why I want to ask if you guys/girls would enjoy seeing some short snippets of my writing while I take a break and practice? The idea would be to combine a few short concepts together, enough to where it's not spam but short enough to where it isn't a story. So like art practice pics in sketchbooks, but stories instead.

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So yeah. While I do not know if I will have time for it, I would love to reinvent myself on here, be it greatly improving at writing or learning how to draw. Thats the main point of this post.