Mahou's Haven

haha, it's okay Shane. There is a lot of info there. When I originally made this thread, I forgot to reserve some posts for expansion. Over time the haven has grown and a lot of text got crammed into that one post. If it wasn't for the fact that I maintain the OP, I think even I would over look some things.

I'll be fixing that issue when I finally refurbish the OP in a few months. I don't want to go through the trouble of making a new thread.. just for a few empty posts. I'm kinda loyal to this one. It has a feeling of history for me.

But the external archive site I plan to use will be linked in the new OP, allowing me to put any overflow on it and reserve the OP for the most current info. ^^

Btw, thanks for the music! :D

Also, gonna quickly repost this, since I posted it so close to the bottom of the prior page. Silly me! *donk*

*splashes out in the water*

:D

*remembers I cant swim*

D:

*rises out of water with mouse on head*

some music~

*sees this occur near the tree I'm sitting under*

Hello mouse! ...and whoever you are. lol, I always thought there might be ways to the haven from the water too. Never seen it happen in front of me though! Welcome! This a friend of yours mouse?


@melly
Thanks for the music! A nice selection as always. ^^

no biggie. its a track that capated me a lot lately

I am a hat now

@mouse
haha, so I see mouse! *is suddenly reminded of Ratatouille* :O Your plan for a willing slave err.. construct worked at last?!

That would be awesome, but I'm in no rush.

As if a guy who took more than half a year per chapter has any right to, anyway.

lol, well I'm one to talk.. I always say I'm gonna sit down and write a book of some sort, but all mine are just short stories.. I mean, you see the update date on my thread? It's sadly true. I wrote some stuff offline, but I lost it. xD Anyways, my point is, even if your slow, people still can like your work.

I agree (at least I sure hope it's true!) but the feeling that you're making those who are kind enough to follow you as the work is being crafted wait so long is not too good.

Yeah, I know that feeling.. since you write you'll know what I mean when I say this though. What's worse is when your somewhere where you want to write but can't. Like say work.. and the whole time, your getting all these ideas.. as if your pages are begging to be written. But by the time you get the chance, the flow is gone and your like "Now, I know I coulda done better than that!" lol

Aha exactly. I totally understand. The ideas seem to be so well sewn together when you imagine it, but somehow expressed in words it doesn't spring up right.

lol, yeah! Or it comes out way shorter than you thought and your like "wait.. that's all there was to it?"

Or maybe "Hmm. It certainly seemed way awesomer back then..."

And you wonder what went wrong. So tough.

Totally. My biggest issue I think is getting what I see in my head out. Like, I know it's weird, but I watch people a lot. I notice the way this person pushes their glasses up or the way this person's hair is finer than someone else's. Sometimes I sit and think "man, what would it be like if I could just walk up to each person in this room and ask them one question each?"

People do little things every day that set them apart from each other, and yet, make them so oddly the same too.. it's fascinating. So when I envision the people in my stories, that's what I see. Little things.. that make them alive. Real.

But when I write it out, it seems so.. watered down in a sense. They come to life yes, but not as much as they were in my head. And I think.. do I add more detail? Less? Let it come to me? Or make it up on the spot to fill this sudden gap?

Before I know it, they seem rigid and I dunno what to do with them.. yet in my head, it's like the creation is still thriving and I'm stuck in the sub-text, unsure what to write. lol

Haha I suffer from those issues too. When I observe people how I wish I could somehow read into their deepest thoughts, behavior, tendencies... to understand all these things.

With characters, I could do this! Naturally when I write I write with this knowledge in mind. But what is written is back to observer-level and there are always things that don't quite get across. I think that causes the watering down.

What's really neat is when you bump into another person who watches people. I was sitting on a bench in the local walmart, resting my legs from a long day or going back and forth job hunting and such recently.

Anyways, this other guy comes over and sits down, saying goodbye to his wife, who's going to continue the shopping while he too has a rest. Needless to say, as the only open spot is next to me, we greet each other as he settles into the bench.

He notices I'm watching the people that are passing by, and we start making up back stories for the people nethier of us have seen before, comparing details and notes on the locals. It was actually pretty inspiring, because it was interesting to note how we could both be looking at the same people and be seeing things in different ways.

That's a pleasure I haven't had the chance to experience. I'm not good at striking a conversation with strangers. Usually too reserved for that.