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The most effective way to ruin the impact of emotion on a story is to quantify it.

csky wrote:my VN is set in the early 90's

Comic sans. On everything. With radical neon backgrounds.

Beats me! Maybe I'm just overthinking it. I revised those scenes after reading up on the advice and resources posted ITT and I think everything helped a ton. Particularly the balance between show and tell. It helped me tremendously to keep that in mind. The combat scene had a lot more step-by-step d...

Thanks, folks. It really helps to have instruction from subject matter experts on this kind of stuff. I'm beginning to feel the difference in what I'm accepting from myself now that I've got better guidelines to follow. I've got two excerpts to share with regard to the topic at hand. I'm shooting fo...

I am of two opinions on this matter. In the first place, I love localization efforts that go above and beyond. The Lunar series of games is a particular favorite of mine due to the enormous amount of effort that went into not merely translating but also magnificently localizing the entire script to ...

Type-Moon VNs are famous for doing this. I believe that there are two imperatives in creating a VN with routes that must be unlocked by playing through others. The first is that, for a route to be withheld from the reader, reading the route which unlocks it must be imperative to understanding or ful...

I'm hitting a couple of snags in my writing. Specifically, the kind of snags that result in me spending an hour or longer in front of a word processor with about five lines of text to show for it at the end. This is obviously an unacceptable pace to keep, and I'd like to ask for some help in breakin...

Effie's writing needs some serious work at the fundamental level. RotGtIE's going to do his best to help. He's going to stop speaking in the third person about himself now. Firstly, throw in some line spacing between your paragraphs. Nobody wants to climb a wall of text. They might fall and break th...

Seconding everything LateWhiteRabbit said. The most important takeaway is that the first thing your audience sees should be what hooks them, and not necessarily what comes first chronologically. In fact I think it's harder to write something interesting which also starts at the chronological beginni...

The most consistent problem which jumps out at me is your negligence in failing to make use of any form of punctuation except for the period. You have somehow managed to avoid using any commas, semicolons, or hyphens anywhere in this passage (save for one comma in your revision), and while I underst...

Strunk & White's Elements of Style was an excellent recommendation. Well worth the pittance it cost me.

Must be a painful experience to be an editor. Trying to tell creative types that there are actually rules to follow strikes me as an eternally uphill battle.

The first draft of everything is garbage. I could never trust myself to write directly into the final product.

I use WriteMonkey. Most word processors are too heavy duty for the literary vomit I spew onto my monitor. That, and I like to pretend I'm working on a Tandy 400. Good times.

Strange that we should have a special name for doing something in the correct fashion.

Next we'll be hearing that catching a ball with your hands rather than bouncing it off of your head is performing an Oxford Catch.

Greetings folks, I'll answer to Rot, RotG, RotGtIE or arseface depending on your mood. I'd give my location away, but it tends to change every few months, and I'd have to kill you if you knew. I'd call myself a writer, but that's more than a little premature at this point. Let's just say I'm working...