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General Zura · 12/07/2020 10:40 am

99.5%

come on. that's an awesome grade! well deserved <3

TwoPunchAxel · 12/07/2020 11:46 am

it's not that it's not an awesome grade

i think he's feeling that feeling when you come so close to absolute greatness, but you don't achieve it

General Zura · 12/07/2020 12:57 pm

TwoPunchAxel wrote:
it's not that it's not an awesome grade

i think he's feeling that feeling when you come so close to absolute greatness, but you don't achieve it

I get that, but some of us are actually failing lol

GalaxianExplosion · 12/07/2020 1:53 pm

General Zura wrote:
99.5%

come on. that's an awesome grade! well deserved <3

Thank you for thinking that xD <3

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/07/2020 1:54 pm

TwoPunchAxel wrote:
it's not that it's not an awesome grade

i think he's feeling that feeling when you come so close to absolute greatness, but you don't achieve it

Yeah, you voiced that much better than I could have lol. I think that's pretty much it, but also because I'm just a perfectionist lol

-Galaxian-

General Zura · 12/07/2020 3:26 pm

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
TwoPunchAxel wrote:
it's not that it's not an awesome grade

i think he's feeling that feeling when you come so close to absolute greatness, but you don't achieve it
Yeah, you voiced that much better than I could have lol. I think that's pretty much it, but also because I'm just a perfectionist lol

-Galaxian-

Me too tbh-

Depends what it is though

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 2:18 am

Wow it's been almost a month since I've posted here, guess it's time for a status report.
Well, first things first, my mind is still doing that "We have ideas but lol you don't have the capability for us to tell you," so mostly my writing is just...well, it's just not going well lol. Even art has been easier to produce and that's really saying something because I'm also in an art phase rn.
Writing exercises and stuff are also amplifying that kind of "We have ideas but lol you don't have the capability for us to tell you" (should I have abbreviated it to "WHIBLOLYDHTCFUTTY feeling"? idk) and they've never helped me much in terms of writing phases so ehhhh.
I guess by now I should just go with instinct and then hope I have enough time to edit lol.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 2:26 am

I need to find people I can dump my writing on who can read Chinese and can remember characters/plot ~~lol Mom no shade xD~~
~~My mom has still not remembered Rai in terms of whom he is and honestly that's super funny to me~~
I can write in Chinese rn. English writing phases are usually separate from Chinese writing phases, mostly because I don't write well enough in Chinese to be able to have a "phase." It's just me being bad.
However, I can write to the elementary novel level for Chinese, so it's not that bad. I still need to write it out instead of thinking only in Chinese, though.
Btw, Chinese speech is cooler than English imo . Or any other language I've come across in terms of writing. So artistic hehe. And so complicated.
Anyways, my default thinking language is kinda split half and half between Chinese and English, but maybe I should try thinking more in Chinese. Would that help the phase? idk, but I know the phase doesn't come from inability to express my ideas fundamentally. Hmm...

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 2:28 am

Karna in my pfp is emanating disapproval oof.
Okay, okay, I've been busy today, Karna .
Lol now to choose which of the 15 ideas in my mind I should write out because I'll end up giving up halfway for any case.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 2:32 am

Oh, the other day, I thought of a theme that's really important to me. I just never quite thought of it in a way I liked before.
I'll have to work with that, but honestly I'm pretty sure I fail with any theme in a writing piece longer than an excerpt.
Also, on me trying to find Chinese readers, I say that, but I'm screwed lol. I've never found someone like that before--someone who reads Chinese, cares to read my writing no matter how bad it is, can offer some constructive criticism that I can turn into substantial improvement, and...well, yeah, the first two criteria are already somewhere up in the exosphere of anyone I will be able to get to know in my life, I think.
I just need to learn how to write on my own and be my own reader. Sounds easy, right? Well, I strive for others' approval more than I look like it ~~I feel kinda like there's a character in my mind rn scolding me for revealing my weaknesses~~, so that's one hard goal to achieve oof

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 3:31 am

I love the "How are you?" "I was fine until you showed up again/I saw you again" exchange so much

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 3:37 am

I don't think this thread was originally intended for me to post stuff like this but I wish I could narrate fight scenes well,,, especially in Chinese,,, but descriptions there are unbelievably hard lol. Like in English from what I can remember of writing fight scenes (mostly I write scenes where entities roast each other with exclamations filled with hatred), English kinda stresses how to pick important parts to describe, e.g. don't describe every kick and punch, but the lines between "good number of and quality descriptions" and "lol you suck" are very very very blurred

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 3:38 am

Also lol how to end excerpts
I don't know how to begin them but the main idea of this post is. How to end them lol
I feel like it's an art even experienced authors struggle with

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 3:42 am

Rip I forgot how awkward it is for me to write in Chinese for my current characters
From 2013 to 2018 I wrote almost exclusively in Chinese. Ofc by "wrote" I mean like,,, once per...I don't even know. It's embarrassing how little I wrote lol up until like 2017-2018. And even then, still very little compared to now.
But after June 2018 (when I joined the SAMB), I started writing in English for more than just school, and basically I started new characters. Most of them were based off of older OCs or characters (like Run,,, you all know who was based off of him if you've RPed with me frequently for even just a bit) but written in English, so now I could probably only barely be able to recognize them if compared to older versions.
In any case, the only characters I've really written for on both ends (Chinese and English) are Galaxian, Hitan, Rai, and then some other plot characters :].
So, sometimes I forget a character doesn't usually talk in Chinese, so when I write them in Chinese and get to dialogue it's awkward xD it's kind of like looking someone in the eye and starting a conversation with a language you know they don't know.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 3:47 am

I love how for Chinese being OP isn't even subtle
It's too obvious. It's painfully obvious. In English you think you can flex how overpowered your characters are? In Chinese we can flex harder. We're so dramatic that even for a small feat it's like someone just heaved the world on their shoulders and then threw it away to collide with the Sun. A world far away shakes as if in terror.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 3:50 am

Okay, okay, readers can get it. They know your characters are smart. Now please don't go into the Chinese writing coupled with anime influence habit of stressing that repeatedly. Lol

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 12/30/2020 3:52 am

The funniest thing about the above is when the reader goes "smh" because they, being an average reader (or supposedly so), was able to think of the exact thing labeled as "super genius" in the writing.
Having dramatic narration in RPing is one thing; dramatic narration for certain types of writing otherwise can instead make the author seem exaggerating, not credible, and unreliable.
Need to Work on That Topic #458934.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 1/03/2021 1:29 am

Gonna laugh at how Mo Huang Da Guan Jia has 1315 chapters and then watch my confidence in writing drop like a dead fly

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 1/04/2021 3:03 am

Actually now that I think about it, a lot of Chinese fictional writing really does have a stress on how powerful certain characters are. Like, it isn't shy about stressing it from what I can tell. No matter whether it's throwing out some nickname based on their power that characters randomly point out ~~R.I.P. how exposition is taught here tbh~~ or some achievement that's also randomly pointed out ~~R.I.P. times 2~~ or making some greater comparison to someone who was already blown up the canonical power tier level prior...yep.
Maybe it's because strength is lauded in China, past or present. Or future, from what I can tell.
But at the same time, I'm here like,,, "Modesty???" I guess as long as the characters themselves don't brag about it, it counts as them being humble, lol.
This is interesting but also funny to me because I'm really used to how in most anime I watch, power is kinda like a...well, the audience can see it. The characters themselves are also somewhat discussed (e.g. "super genius", "prodigy" tags), but not as blatantly as I've seen in some Chinese works, if that makes sense. Of course, then it would make sense for how in writing, since you can't see it, you might have to make it more obvious.
Interesting. Very interesting!

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 1/05/2021 2:04 am

I love writing "bruh moment" chains, how about other fellow writers?

-Galaxian-

autumnlibrarian16 · 1/05/2021 4:56 pm

GalaxianExplosion wrote:
I love writing "bruh moment" chains, how about other fellow writers?

-Galaxian-

Silly question but is a "bruh moment chain" just everyone going (maybe not literally but) "bruh"

GalaxianExplosion · 1/05/2021 9:33 pm

Okay that's hilarious xD
Well. I'm guessing that'd be easier to write than actually having to think of compelling, realistic(?) dialogue so I guess it'd be pretty fun xD. Rn my mind's kinda envisioning anime characters taking turns saying "Bruh" and then t-posing after that
I have no idea what my mind is at this point lol help
Anyways I meant basically writing comedy. Characters say/do ridiculous things in a row. For instance, Character 1 says something that makes the reader say "Bruh" (or think it, idk, depends on the reader). Then Character 2 does something that makes the reader say "Bruh" (or think it) again. Then Character 3 does that too. Then Character 4. By the time the bruh moment chain ends the reader's probably laughing IRL or facepalming or something. xD

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 1/06/2021 3:35 pm

Chinese eye descriptions are beautiful,,,

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion · 1/09/2021 1:03 am

I can't write "the parts of his mustache nearest to the corners of his mouth jiggled with delight" without laughing

-Galaxian-

Creativescarlet16 · 1/09/2021 1:18 am

I can't really read Chinese characters (I visited an uncle's house once, and his 4-yro son had a bunch of picture books. I tried reading to this child. I could not make it halfway through the book) buuuut I can read pinyin! I don't remember if you ever told me whether or not you know pinyin? But even if you just sent me your writing in characters, I could put it in a translator to get the pinyin, or to hear it spoken out loud. I've always liked your writing; it's very detailed and expressive! Don't give up on it.

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