ADDIT'S PROFILE

I always thought that coming up with the beginning and the ending of a story is one of the easiest things to do because it’s one of the main factors that you first often think of when first coming up for writing your story. It’s always the filler parts and everything else that’s in the middle that always seems to take a bit longer to flesh out for me, because I’m not sure if all said plotpoints are either unnecessary or considered too much to be of any significant importance to the story or the characters as a whole…but I guess some writers are different than others. But, yeah like Sooz’s said - it really depends on the narrative.

I remember when I first wrote the storyline for one game that I have that it initially started off as something that I just put together rather loosely just for the sake to see if a story mode could possibly work for a game like that. When I reached the end of the story on my first draft, I remember enjoying it so much and that there was so much more that I wanted to add, change and alter after spending some more time with it that I went back to the beginning again and started touching it up and added a lot more to the story to flesh it out and make sure that it made more complete sense from all points. I ended up going through four drafts in total before finally settling on what I thought was acceptable for it. And I like to think that all of those rewrites of the story was totally worth the effort that I put into it. It also helped by bouncing different ideas off of others and constantly thinking of new situations and things for the storyline that I could add or fix during all those boring, slow days at work when I had nothing else to do or think of, lol.

But, yeah, it’s generally a good idea - and wise - to come in with basically a rough plan of what you going to tell in your story. You should have a basic idea about who your main characters are, roughly about what’s going to happen throughout the course of their journey, and their end goal or whatever happens to them at the end. Taking your time and brainstorming different ideas – and even coming back later down the road after some time has passed to fix up and clean up some of your plotpoints, which you can do at any time – is greatly appreciated and will make your story stand out way more.

author=kentona
...you mean you dont just make it up as you go along?

Sometimes making the story up as you go along can sometimes be a good thing if it works rather well for you. You may write yourself eventually into a bit of a corner at times, but a good imagination and sense of direction can get you out of any mess. And, of course, you can always go back and change some things throughout the course of the story once you’ve fleshed it out more yourself and have some more ideas to add in.

Yeaaahhhh…that wasn’t a very smart idea on my part. I nearly collapsed, lol.

Thankfully, though, I was at least smart enough to bring a water bottle and a towel with me. Without those, I’d probably be knocking on some random people's doors like a lunatic asking if they have any water to spare or running through other people’s lawns that have their sprinklers still on.

Either way...next time, I’ll go in the sauna AFTER I finish a walk. That was just beyond way too stupid. :/

I wonder if there’s ever a chance that Hero’s Realm can one day ever take back the crown as the most top viewed game on here sometime in the future? I mean, Pom has pretty much died off by this point…(unless it gets a sequel announcement or something) but Hero’s Realm will continue to be on the rise thanks to the upcoming remake that's going to be done sometime down the road… Oh, and I can’t forget about Final Fantasy Blackmoon Prophecy as well, as that also has a chance of taking it someday thanks to its own remake coming soon.

And I guess CashmereCat and Ocean are getting pretty close to the illustrious 10k club themselves, as they’re both pretty close to reaching that incredible feat soon. (Only a couple more submissions to go, you guys!)

As for me, I REALLY gotta get off my ass and get to the bloody 6k mark, already. It’s been months and months since I’ve been stuck there in 5k limbo land, and all I really need to do now is just submit one stinkin’ review to finally get there. So my mission for this month is to submit a review and finally get to that goal in September, as I gotta stop being so lazy and stop putting it off.

Ah…so it was YOU who was slacking! For shame.

But it sounds like from what you’ve told me that you have a pretty good valid excuse for doing so, so I forgive ya.

And, hey – would you look at that! Everything’s just got a sudden makerover the next time I managed to login after posting this thread up. Yay!!! :D

author=Liberty
That said, we don't get many articles so that's a thing.

Hey, we've had a few new articles submitted in the last couple of months. Hell, even Kentona wrote one, so I'm not sure what you're smoking (but can I have it?)

“50 hours minimum!?” Jesus… The last time I played an RPG that was that long was Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time, and that game took me even longer to finish on my first try!

This is gonna take a little while, indeed.