So lets see... Hmmm... Well first off my name is Pink, thought that's obvious because it is the name of the poster so of course it'd be my name. I never was really interested in Visual Novels until two weeks ago when I was up late one night over at a friends house and oddly enough, he fell asleep before I did (usually i fall asleep first whenever I hang over at places... I am one of those rare scary morning peoples). Anyways, he said before he crashed that I could help myself to whatever games he had on his computer, so I did, and ended up playing/reading Tsuki-Hime.
I've been a very artistic and creative person since I was born. Its in my nature to be so, and finding a new or unique way to do something, or creating something unique is a very satisfying feeling for me. I was never one to draw as a kid thanks to my hyper activity and constant running around and being a nuisance to my parents (Not to mention my mind can't grasp spatial things that well, so imagining shapes is hard for me). But I was always coming up with stories. Sometimes they were to cover up mischief, sometimes they were simply for the joy of conceiving something.
The fact that everyone except my mother has been involved in Music for more then ten years also is a great influence on me. I have no doubt that it has affect how I 'feel' the world around me. In all cases to be told, the idea I have for a VN that I am drafting at the moment was inspired by a Concert Band piece by Frank Tichelli titled
"Blue Shades", which can actually be found on his
composing site, along with other amazing pieces of his.
I just realized after previewing my post to make sure I got those links correctly put in for the song and Tichelli's site that I never mentioned my gender, so I guess that might be something I'd want to mention now; I'm male despite having pink as a favorite color... So shut up.
I've gone a long while without any sort of drive, as if the flame of my passions was entombed in doldrums. I guess thats bound to happen when you just go to class every day in a haze of mediocrity. But when I played Tsuki-Hime, it reignited and I said to myself "Wow... I want to make something" (I didn't ACTUALLY say that that out loud). I never really had considered the Visual Novel literary form before, so it was a pretty big surprise to me how much I became engrossed in it. I spent at least a few nights just pondering and throwing together mis-matched pieces of thoughts together in my mind in vain attempts to find interesting topics. I brain stormed, I talked and discussed with my buddies... But my fire wasn't really interested in any of the ideas I came up with. It was waiting for something else, waiting for just the right inspiration to take me from pondering to conceiving my ideas.
Then suddenly one night I recalled a song I played in concert band in Highschool : "Blue Shades". My memory of the song was not very great, so I typed in Frank Tichelli's name into Google, found his home page... And BAM, he had it available for listening on his own page. So I listened, and a chill went up my spine and I closed my eyes. Something just came together between my creativity and my passion, the inspiration I was waiting for came to me in a daydream.
The day dream wasn't of plots nor names nor events nor crazy action scenes... It was of the feeling of the characters themselves, the 'sound' of their character and expressions.
So I started Drafting, and on the same day I began looking around on the internet for English Visual Novel communities, realizing that there is no better support for a writer than to see others accomplish their tasks. Not to mention it is always fun to just hang back and chillax with people of similar interests.
Normally I wouldn't have written such a long winded introduction, but I was thinking: "If I want to convey myself in the best way I can, why not have a spontaneous introduction without edits?". So I did.
Edit: I lied, I did Edit... I had some missing 'ing's.
). May you have a great stay. I'll look forward to your works as I want to see what you can accomplish.
