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A friend of mine has joined deviantArt recently, ~Xayah, yaay! She's asked me to have a look at some of her written work before, so when I saw she'd uploaded some on dA I kind of went crazy and commented on everything that came into my head as it appeared. Managed a giiiiant comment (that was ruined by a 'bold' code I'd not closed properly; ugh, hate the lack of editing available on comments), and from that, it got me thinking a bit.

Almost four years ago, now, I posted a writing tutorial about dialogue. I'd just read one fanfiction too many where the dialogue was utterly destroyed by terrible punctuation and all surrounding bits and bobs, so I went on a spiel about it and how to not do the many things that annoyed me. Some people liked this, because it turns out that while there are a few drawing tutorials around, there aren't many writing tutorials. I had a few people say I should write another, and while I did like the idea of going off and doing a whole series, I didn't have the passion bubbling up in quite the same way about any other issue.

Now, I've found something to write about. I'd hardly say I'm in a rage about it, but opening the floodgates over ~Xayah's writing (it's not bad at all; it's just that she asked for critique, so I gave it) have let the torrent of reasoning and ideas through. So I'm mid-tutorial on how to make characters. I'm still determining just how far I'll go into this. I want to make it more than "first do this, then do that, then you have a character!" because I've seen those around. They're good, and I don't think we need another tutorial just about how to make a character. I want to make it a tutorial about how to make and how to use that character in writing. Buuuut, so far I've covered personality and a little about description, and I'm already at six pages. I've written down my points to cover, so I know where I'm going with the tutorial. I may end up cutting it into two pieces, depending on how long the other two points are. I get the idea they won't be as long, though, because I can't difinitively say how you character should interact with another character.

Anyway. I've been writing on that all afternoon, and now I'm stopping for the day because I have work approaching. I don't know how long it'll take me, but hopefully I've have it completed in the next few days, edited soon after that, and posted before next weekend. Of course posted by tomorrow evening would be nice, but I don't think that's about to happen with my schedule, haha.


EDIT: Lol, three weeks later :P Here you go: >>here!<<
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Dailenna Stuart
Australia
Female, yus.
Am Christian, up for conversation about it.
I speak English, gibberish and limited Japanese of varying difficulties.
I find it hard to pick favourites in almost everything.
No matter how long I'm away, I always get drawn back to anime and sci-fi.
I procrastinate.
On occasion, I write and doodle a bit.
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How are you going? :)

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Mood: Delighted *Luna--Rose Jun 26, 2011   General Artist
Thank you for the :+fav:!

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