FAKKU Writers' Lounge

Oh, Reality Marble! I didn't think of that, but now that you mention it, yeah, I can definitely relate psycheverse to that. The only difference is that it exists in the minds of all Kierres, and it's not really something one can choose (assuming those with RMs choose for their RM to be the way they are).

If you're curious, the concept is based on Cosmospheres from Ar tonelico.

Haven't played AT yet since I don't have PS2 or PS3 hahaha, but I think the game has lot of interesting concepts to offer =)

Well yeah, I see that you develop it in your own original way. Now I have to re-read that battle scene again in Chapter 2 while I'm on the right mood, kind of distracted the last time so I couldn't really make out the details hahaha~

No prob, take your time to read it at your own leisure. The updates will be coming... eventually.

I will give you my support on it, I hope you can eventually finish it along with your other projects =)

It makes me feel happy that we have two new loungers :D

Hehehe Mibu, I like the music you posted.

On the note about grammatical errors, I feel like while focusing too much on grammer can make you lose sight of your meaning, it is important in that it helps readers. I was once told that if you compared writing to cooking, then a grammer mistake is like accidently adding a pinch of salt too much. Lots of grammer mistakes is like dumping the entire container of salt into your food. Grammer mistakes follow an exponential cruve in terms of its affect on the reader. 1 mistake is just one mistake, but 10 mistakes is not just 10 individual ones; the mistakes compund on one another.

I always felt that rereading a piece of work and showing it to a friend solves most mistakes anyways.

^The best way to avoid this is write then give it a rest and then read it for typos.

Well I usually write until my inspiration runs out then done some editing until I'm satisfied, then I continue on writing again when the ideas get filled up...yup that goes on and on until I finish each chapter~

Geez High, you on a roll with your chapters lately huh? I've got some reading to catch up on now.

I've been like that for quite some time now, though I felt like I gotta start catching up the speed else I won't be able to finish my projects on time~

I have the same habit as well, though school deprives me of whatever creative time I could do. Recently, my creativity has struck gold :D i'd hate for it to run out though. It takes me ages to plan story ideas out this way.

I didn't have complex ideas to write a story with, mostly it's about something that's simple and easy to develop. It's maybe the reason why I could proceed for so long constantly without long-term hiatus~

Yeah... its a pain to finish something when the block comes along

Passion is the key, if you really love the idea I think the block will be destroyed quickly like you're driving a power bulldozer through it~

Thinking about my story concept and the possibilities of development is what gets me through the hellish moment at the hospital, and it helps me sleep and makes me could face on these difficult moments IRL~

Possibilities of development and especially when I get some really good inspiration tend to keep me awake ahah.

For problems with writers block, I've been doing some experimenting and it seems that these blocks only occur on whatever you are writing at the moment. I've been writing multiple stories and by switching between the two, I seem to get alot more progress than when I was only working on one.

Different people have different reactions while thinking about same stuff hahaha~

About blocks while working on just a single story project, it's might be because your mind gets bored trying to work on the same story ideas each time. I also think it's a good idea to have few different story projects to work on as it adds a variety to your writing tasks, another good way is to have one main story project and one writing thread when you can just freely post any kind of stories just like some idea dump, one example is this one

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=58709

The content's pretty weird but you probably got the picture already =D

While true if someone asks for a review then I feel that it's justified to be a bit more--nitpicky is the wrong word, but vocal. Maybe something doesn't grind thoroughly on you but why not mention it anyway? After all, as long as the remark is in good spirit it provides the author with another avenue of thought. Grammar I do avoid though, as mine is lackluster itself. Commas are so fun.

While writing is for fun, I believe when someone reads and thoughts are asked by the author they enter the public forum where development becomes equally important--if only for so long. So long as the forum is not in session or none have seen a work fun should indeed be the only factor, as none of us are nearing a magnum opus of any sort.

I usually keep my idea dump and my everyday journey entries to myself, but perhaps I should considering posting them ahah. I've always had a strange complex about not showing others my story material unless it was almost absolutely perfect (hence the lack of updates for my story), but now I'm quite tempted to post them. Maybe I'm just getting lax.

It's up to you on how you want to post it or not, just keeping it in a journal entry is fine. What's most important that it refreshes your mind from working on that main story project by trying out new ideas outside your usual scope~

Don't worry about your story not being perfect, we're all learning to be better here. I think if you put your heart into writing each chapters it should be enough to just post it and update your current story rosters =D

Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. It can't really hurt to post stories since worst case scenario, no one reads it. But more likely than not, just any form of critcism and opinion, (though hopefully it's not just a "this is terrible" and leave no other remarks kind of message), would help to give me another perspective on the story and/or my writing.