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>>51269300
I have a total of 4000 words so far for my light novel, the goal is 35000 words by the end of December, and I have planned 37 scenes so far today
It's a female main character who is a little girl and here's the drawing of her..

>>51269533
nice anon, do you have a general outline or are you just writing as you go

>>51269560
Writing as I go for now, still trying to piece tihngs together.
I have the goal of my mc already established so everytihng else is trying to lead up to that point and motivating her along the way.
I know I can use the ki-sho-ten-ketsu method of outlining and I like the idea of the nowflake method of outlining so I'm kinda having the story tell itself as I write it.

>>51269533
Nice forehead.

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>>51269533
Hell yeah! Keep it up.
Also, doodling with a single pixel brush feels good. I still pull up MS paint for quick ideas.

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I’m working on a free visual novel. I’m mostly done with the script, it’s around the 10 hour ballpark. The Renpy coding is easy enough, but I’m having trouble with the art.

For the year I’ve been working on it, my digital art has become ten times better, but I’m really worried about having that unprofessional cheap western-vn feel. Mostly to the the shading I bet…

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>>51269987
A 10 hour VN is crazy impressive anon, especially in a year. Congrats for sticking through with it.
>unprofessional cheap western-vn feel
Please do not be disheartened by this, but, If you want the 100% honest opinion, You can tell there is a lot of effort in there, however, you can also tell it is beginner art, and you can tell it is western. There are just some ideas that you are missing that ststick out as both. I would give it a shot anyways, and I know others would. VNs by anons have a reputation for trying out cool ideas like with katawa shoujo and snoot game.
If you want there are a handful of tricks that you can do to a finished piece that can elevate it quite a bit.

That being said it is kind of funny how every time someone here posts about VN they are worried about the art, when almost all of the legendary oldschool japanese VNs have very dodgy art. Stuff like Umineko and higarashi originally have kiddie art, and the original fate vn is kind of on the fence too.

Im looking for a job or a place to die.

>>51270824
Join the military

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>>51270824
>>51270837
Stop being a crybaby and live in the woods.
Use libraries and or a phone and public wifi to post online.

>>51270842
Momiji if she real

>>51270874
Anon that is a coyote not a wolf, you will make her mad

51270837
Id rather die by my own hands than serve Trumps money laundering scheme and die anyway.
51270842
Okay larper. When you leave your moms basement Ill be employed or dead.

>>51270923
>Id rather die by my own hands than serve Trumps money laundering scheme and die anyway.
what about being stationed in japan/korea and actively being encouraged to impregnate as many yellow whores as you can?

>>51270973
With an active war currently underway the chances of being assigned to japan/korea rather than used as drone fodder in Iran are lower than the chances of finding an entry-level job in this economy.

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OP here
A clarification.
The point of this thread is to let anons share projects they are working on or adjacent things such as unique achievemnts they worked hard on or hear about them chasing their dreams.
This is not a thread to blog about ordinary everyday life or vent. If you want a space for that, make a hangout thread, having it here will make the thread worse.

The point is to highlight passion. If you think this is cheesy, please just avoid this thread, and if you see someone blogging or making fun of the passions other anons are showing, please ignore them.

>>51271091
Thanks OP

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>>51269987
I tried your character in my style
I would study popular vn art styles you like and apply it to your own art.
Congrats! 10 hours is an accomplishment.
ganbare anon hope u like it

>>51269683

>>51269533
I wrote 2168 words today for a total if 6168 words altogether.

So far all my inspirations include: HIs Dark Materials, Earthsea books, apothecary diaries, ascendence of a bookworm, and fullmetalalchemist, and howls moving castle books,.
Going to try to post my progress each day.
Words really add up if you write everyday.
If anyone struggles with writing dialogue please make sure to read the diaologue outloud to yourself.
This means I have just 28832 words left to write .

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>>51271812
LETSGO!
Rooting for ya. As long as that is not burnout pace keep it up.
>Howel's moving castle.
I got it recently, I am long overdue to watch it. It looks cool.

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Picked up practicing my watercolors again.
I am trying some new techniques and I am happy with how they are coming out.

>>51269300
Learning Japanese by listening to spoken words and watching grammar videos

>>51271950
Nice art desu

>>51272026
Thank you <3
Ganbare with your japanese! Not sure how good they are these days but we have the daily japanese threads (djt) which could be nice for getting some conversation practice in.

>>51272033
djt is not recommended at all, it is simply people trollposting and fighting their own eceleb boyfriends

>>51272042
Damn, that is a shame.

>>51272026
>>51272033
Check out /int/ djt instead

>>51271922
I rotate working on different parts such as world building, planning, magic system, world politics so that I won't end up burning up.
I cant wait to watch witch hat ateleir thats another one of my inspirations.
Howls moving castle anime movie is really fun I think you'll enjoy it.
I wrote another 1295 words before night is over, I am finding my writing scenes are connecting to the plot in a flowing way and i'm so ahppy with it.
Right now I need to focus more on building a chaaracters personality asa female knight who is serious because shes nervous as its her first day on the job.
I think tomorrow will be working onn world building and then interwoving the politics of the novel.
And incorporating an event in reference ot the NIcean council only in this wordld its a bit different.
ONe of the themes is showing that good and evil ais not only seen in terms of darkness and light.
>>51271950
So beautiful, I canbnot do watercolor as I find its so sensitive to make a mistake in it for me.
>>51272026
ganbaremasu

Also the nausicaa manga is really beautiful so maybe thats another inspiration for me aha.
the good thing about this competition is that I dont need to make any illustrations for the light novel contest.
Here is a drawing I drew awhile back of what the female knight looks like (I'll make her a little less tallI tihnk)

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>>51272125
oops wrong drawing

>>51269300
I have a playable pre-beta of my game on my hard drive that I'm not doing anything on because QA work utterly bores me & I already know it needs lots and lots to be releasable. QA disinterests me so much I went to work on the sequel.
I also got my book back up to 100k words and have periodically moving between editing that and working on my sequel which is at 85k, both scifi, both in the same universe as my games.
I have a website domain for my games and universe but I still haven't finished tweaking the site layout enough to be satisfied so it just goes somewhere blank until I upload all that too.
I have a problem.

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>>51272144
Anon please finish your projects...
Extremely impressive but you gotta cross the finish line eventually

>>51272149
I get very close. Usually I stop on the step right before showing them to other people. Because, genuinely, I do not enjoy showing my work to other people. The 10% that is editing, polishing, and worst of all, putting it up in public, all that carries probably 90% of the mental energy. I'm trying not to be like that, promise. I love creating things. I just can't get enthusiasm for letting the general public interact with them,when I can tell myself I finished it, move on to the next project. For what it's worth, I'm not a procrastinator usually.
I told a psychologist about this once & he explained there was a huge difference between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Some people have an abundance of one and shortage of the other. Only way to trick my brain into polishing it is reminding myself it makes better work in the future.

Thanks to the anon who mentioned the Ki-Sho-Ten-Ketsu story style
Seems like it would be fun planing a story this way

>>51272125
Clever, keep it up!
Thank you for the compliment too.
>Nausicaa
Read it earlier this year. It has quickly become one of the favorite things I have ever read.
You have a good taste in fantasy manga, have you ever read berserk or goblin slayer?

>>51272129
Pretty!

>>51272161
Do you think it might be that you get anxious towards the finish line?
Maybe if you thought of everything you did as a draft you would not be stressed about "polish", you just keep trying until you are happy with the current draft

Hey OP, is it ok if the OC thread migrates here when it dies?

>>51273798
It seems like it occupies different niches.
Posting random fanart here would feel out of place, and posting about projects you are working on and discussing them on OC thread would feel out of place.
What do you think?

>>51273866
NTA but I agree, this thread should be for works in progress, while OC thread should be for finished works,

>>51273866
>>51273876
Alright thanks for the input.

>>51273252
Oh I hadn't gotten to read those two—I'll keep those two in mind!
810 words written today.
I am aiming for at least 700 words written every day and if I do that then that means by December 31st I'll have a total of 78000 words.
It's been proving itself very interesting to how writing this lightnovel almost tells itself , some of the greatest novels come to be written because of asking a question and then writing until you arrive at an answer, which is more of a journey than it is a destination.

>>51274130
1530 words now for the day for a total of 9000 words!

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>>51274130
>>51274208
Miring.
Might start doing this too.I could use something that keeps me accountable.

>>51273267
No, I'm just incredibly introverted. I need to create because it is genuinely mentally painful to not be creating, but interacting with other people is just generally exhausting to painful. And very draining. I don't feel much anxiety, not more than I think is the normal for presenting your work, I just find people exhausting. I've done workshops, networking, social events, all that, and then my whole mental energy budget is gone for the day, sometimes days, and I don't like that feeling. I just want to live alone in a desert cave and create for the rest of my life but I can't do that.

>>51274130
>>51274208
Good job anon. I keep myself to 500 words a day minimum personally. Most days I only hit that and it's fine, I'm plodding along getting somewhere. Others I go as high as 6k, but those are unusual, like being on a plane all day with nothing but my laptop. 700's a pretty good number to consistently nail. I always find stopping writing for any length of time makes it orders of magnitudes much harder to start again.

man I've tried just read or watching anime every day and can't maintain that so kudos to you guys writing every day
Ive tried doing as little as 250 words but just couldnt get it to stick

>>51274224
It becomes a lot easier with habit. The first couple of months are the worst. Once you ingrain it though you can very slowly start trying to beat the small minimum until you can adjust it upwards and hit that one consistently too. You just have to be careful to pace yourself and not burn yourself out. Also another thing is to experiment with different writing styles. I settled on plotting and quilting, which means I plan the whole story out ahead of time, jump randomly between scenes depending on what I feel like working on in the day, and stitch all my scenes together later by the end of the story. Biggest downside has been that I generally seem capable of creating 2-3x the amount of prose I need by draft one, almost all different variations on the same scene I select from when it's time to turn it into a coherent narrative. Chapter breaks are really good for this, nobody blinks if you quilt a 3k word scene over time and just make it it's own chapter, but I digress. I find a lot of people think they need to start by planning out the story, writing it out in order, but you absolutely do not need to do that if it doesn't flow with you.

>>51274222
I know offering advice on the sideline feels a little dull, but, this is something a lot of independent creators do not consider... Have you considered getting a partner who works on publishing your work?
Not a traditional publisher, those guys are leeches, but someone you hire to help you with the part where you interact with other human beings.
Hiring help in the fields you are weak at or dislike as an indie is more common than you think.

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>>51269300
making a rpgmaker game. Took me 4 months and barley any progress. I hope I finish up by the end of the month.

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I'm mostly done with the leatherwork project I'm quickly trying to finish before the weekend starts. Belt has been made and the 'underlayer belt' just needs it's edges burnished. Two other bits need putting together, a large-ish pouch to hold a notebook and a small clasp holster for a club.
Clasp holster I'm not stressed about, pouch however will be a bunch of stitching that needs doing on top of cutting/tooling/dyeing, hopefully I'll be able to power through. Not the end of the world if I don't finish 'in time' but it would be nice.

>>51277287
You can do it anon!
Take as much time as you need and sticking to manageable deadlines will help you.
>>51277480
I'm not sure I know at alla nything about leatherwork but may you be able to get it all goals u have accomplished .

I only wrote 542 words yesterday In my lightnovel So I"m hoping to write some more, thats what I get for not planning the scene enough.
wrote 630 words so far today for a total of 10172 words

>>51277287
Anon is going to release the game that will rival GTA 6

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drew art of my villain character
still havent decided on a name for her in my lightnovel

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>>51278310
and here's finished lineart

>>51277480
Please post pics when done, or progress pics. That sounds cool!

>>51278310
>>51278417
Fun, what is she for?
A VN?

>>51279112
Just drew her so I have a reference to how she looks.
She's the villain in my lightnovel
Tomorrow I'm going to try to spend planning more.
I think I might try using Arcs so that I can write scenes based on a certain Arc

>>51279206
also going to try to find a writing buddy so that I can have someone elses eyes on the lightnovel.

I've been watching learning playlists about sciences. Currently Chemistry. Just for fun. Once I'm done with this (and a Psychology one), I'm going to try to pick up drawing again.

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>>51278241
Thank you for flattering me

Currently trying to translate web novels I’ve written in order to publish them on Pixiv
But desu
At a five digit word count I’m just gonna use DeepL then skim sections where I use figures of speech and what not, mostly the dialogue, to make sure things come across properly

>>51280925
why not publish on narou?

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>>51278669
I am happy to announce I was able to complete the project before the weekend :)

>>51269300
>>51272026
I also started learning Japanese a week ago です！
I should have my hiraganas memorised now. Worth nothing I considered taking classes but I chose self-teaching with a book and using chatbots sometimes. I keep reading "omg you should have all kanas memorised in a few days!!!!" but I highly doubt it honestly, decontextualized.
I've been doing grammar and vocab simultaneously so not just braindead memorization.

>>51282109
noting*
fuuuuuuuck....

>>51282109
It took me over two weeks to memorize all of kana and I would still make mistakes with katakana for months because you don't use that much of it at the beginning.

>>51282116
based realposter
thank you

>>51281898
This is sweet!
Congratulations on making your deadline too.

>>51281898
Goodjob anon!!
I got a beta reader for my lgihtnovel and now I have 11258 words.
It's so helpful to have someoen be able to tell about pacing and a wohle host of other things.
Things are looking up.
So far I eidted the first chapter and the prologue.
And tomorrow I am going to a lecture about how to end a story so that will be lots of fun too.

Just wondering what is everyone's goals for the up-coming months?

>>51285134
Decide which project I want to actually pursue.

>>51285246
This was me a lot of the time.
my goal is to not get carpal tunnel by writing so much in one go.
and to reach at least 35k by Dec 31st.

>>51285134
Try to actually be consistent in my creations and hobbies

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>>51269300
trying to bring some ancient japanese hardware into working condition

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working on my textboard

>>51285420
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOORRR

>>51285411
This looks crazy.
What am I looking at?

>>51287626
cassette recorder, Sony BVW-70, records analog video in component.
mostly works, but has many age-related issues (massive amount of dried capacitors, FM audio works poorly, tape path is kinda dirty etc.)

https://files.catbox.moe/lxladz.mp4

Wrote 1858 words in my lightnovel today yay

13116 words altogether so far.

937 words written today in my lightnovel

>>51292402
Have written 700 words a day for 3 days because of this anon

>>51292922
That's great anon!
keep up the good work.

Wrote 1133 more words today for a total of 2070 words today.

>>51269300
I'm working on hobbyist ai research. My area has been transformer, encoding, kernels and quantisation to make larger models viable on consumer architecture. It amuses me to get hate pretty much everywhere I say this.

>>51293546
People are dumb and can't distinguish scientific research from scams they've fallen for.
I had even dumber interactions on the topic. I once showed a simple markov chain spouting schizo nonsense to a group of friends and one guy went on a rant how AI is ruining the globe and draining oceans and I contribute to this by "paying" for this and I had to explain to the retard how him speaking about this on discord consumed orders of magnitude more energy/precious ocean water than this archaic statistical model. Same things happened to me many times when I said I was working on blockchain smart contracts and earlier VR too.

had long day of traveling too exhausted today to work on writing, going to try to aim to be productive early tomorrow.

Not exactly otaku related per se but I am trying to develop a sort of browser based dashboard for habit and goal organization, might be useful for anons here i dunno, but will help my /jp/ related projects take off

>>51293546
Learning algorithems are fascinating, transcormer logic and new architectures in learning algorithms are exciting and have a ton of real world applications, and striving towards figuring out how to make it so standard consumer hardware can fully self host, self run, and even self train in a reasonable amount of energy consumption and time is actually really cool.
>Getting hate
Right now the absolute vast majority of anything labeled AI is run by actual psychopathes and grifters. Many of them who would only be satisfied with a future where they create a digital god or destroy the planet chasing these delusions.
Even with everything I said at the start it is better that the layman despises AI and violently opposes it.
In fact here on 4chan you were very likely directly subjected to AI testing run by moot and have been abused by this tech even earlier than the general populous.
Anyways
Feel free to post it if you made cool stuff and are not scared of being scooped. Research is welcome. Slop belongs in the AI containment thread.

>>51293160
>>51295483
Honestly cool to see you posting daily progress regardless.
If any other anon wants to I do not consider it spam at all, especially if it helps pump you up.

>>51295537
Got anything so far that you want to post?
Any reason why to make it browser based rather than an offline app? I guess you can make it an html5 program and then it can be both histed online and used offline

I’m watching FX Fighter Kurumi and in the ED, she lists off currencies. It’s my first time hearing a lot of them in Japanese, and at one point, she talks about the yuan and bolivian currencies. In the middle of it though, she lists another currency that I can’t figure out. Anyone have any idea?

files.catbox.moe/ves2u7.webm

>>51295591
Browser based since most of my distractions are in the web browser
Was going to replace my natural new tab screen with this but it doesn’t really work out well

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Doing several stuff.
Learning Japanese, I think it's been almost a year now? I watch anime in Japanese now, do anki every day, listen to podcasts every day, watch Japanese videos every day. I have been getting slowly better, I can watch anime in Japanese, stil not comfortably, I understand plenty, but I have obvious blind spots, I just need to keep going. I am happy though, I ahve been more relaxed about it and been putting less time into it, but I still do all these things every day.
Also, I am writting, what is meant to be a visual novel, that's the idea, anyway sort of a gothic Yuri vampire drama with a lot of slice of life, comedy, with themes of grief, death and turning people into symbols and what it means to really "see" someone.
Been writting it for like 6 months now, it drastically changed, it was meant to be a far darker, meaner story, I had to abbandon an entire plot twist because it just wouldn't fit the characters, it's fundementally different story now.
As of today I have written 114,647 words in the first draft.
I'm far from an experienced writter, I am just desperate to tell a story for some reason, every day I am scared that when I'll share it, I'll be a laughing stock like many people on the internet became when they shared their works. It became too important to me now, which scares me.
I still don't know if I'll manage to make a visual novel, if it will be just a written story, but I want to keep those worries for later, writting this story, no matter how good or bad it might be, is the most alive I've felt in a long time.
I also been making music for it and sound effects in my spare time as well.

>>51296028
Yay! Happy for you anon that is amaazing, keep up the good work with it gnabare,.
It sounds os interesting I owuld love to playa visual novel liek that, i wouldn't laugh at it, you've already written so many words that is no easy feat.

ANd good on you for learning Japanese.

Wrote around 1300 words today for a total of 16291 words altogether.

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>>51297509
Thank you anon, that means a lot.
I can't wait to finish this draft, it needs obvious polishing, especially my grammar and syntax. But thus far I am happy with how the plot is developing.

>>51297847
let me know if you ever need someone to look over some of the vn
I would love to share some positive feedback and give some good suggesitons without critiquing harsh at all.
also elipsus is a great word processor that is good for sharing and collaboration. and you can have several different drafts of the same project as well ^^ I love sliceof life even when it turns grimdark can often be a good break from the mundane of slice of life.
Just a good tip for dialogue: always read dialogue out loud to get a feel with how it will sound when spoken.
Often the ahrdets aprt is jsut getting the words down and ocne you have down those words is where the magic of editing and having a second eye thats not familair wiht it comes to shine!
I beleive in you anon..!
thats good that you are happy with it keep up with it.

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>>51269300
I'm working on getting better at my oboe but what I'm really working on right now is getting high (you can't even play woodwinds while high I just become squeak city even if I can come up with riffs easier)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wuFzTOzAU

Wrote 1516 words today for a total of 17807 words altogether!!
Also planned and world builded a lot of the lightnovel so gonna go back with a fine toothed comb to write more and explain more , about the world and the characters.
Its so fun to see it come together like this.
In lightnovles the ones in Japan anyways have a specific limitation on the number of named characters so im trying to limit important characters, but I can't rmemeber the specific number that is the limit for successful light novels.
I think there was an infographic for it or smthing.
I'm going to keep writing today and ill see howmuch words I can wwrite and I'll report back once I have some more words :>

>>51299482
Screw the rules.
If the story is cool add how many or as few as you want.
Good stuff though. Cool to see you posting progress daily.
How often do you have to revise along the way?
Or, are you waiting for after the first draft is complete to make edits to the text?

>>51299836
I revise and read through each chapter and if it needs to be adjusted I do so, if I were to wait for a first draft without editing like this way there'd be so many inconsisitancies and there wouldnt be as much depth in the writing and the world building would stay lacklustre.
I am sticking to named characters being the ones who are important , so that my reader can keep track.
Also I am waiting until I can get it to a state where iI"m happy with it and I see that most of it is corrected before I pay for a beta reader once I reach 35000 words I beleive thats when I'll pay a beta reader to give me detailed feedback.
I'm already ahead of my lore in the sotry and I know a bit more about my world thanks to writing buddys help.

>>51299869
wrote 874 more words

>>51299869
>>51300818
Amn, you really got a good workflow down then.
Maybe I should use this thread to get theough one of my projects.
My mind is a mess even with my journal as of late. Maybe changing it to posting updates here would be the right change of pace I need to get it done.

>>51300944
Absolutely! I find when answering questions leads to even more possible storylines and what really gets me going is knowing how the plot is going to move and diverting someones suspicion in a way that peoeple wouldn't expect.
You can do it anon.
Sometimes if a scene is difficult I dictate it through speech then I edit it througohuly I find then you have more accurate dialogue even if it takes longer to edit.

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>>51297909
Thank you anon, I have been sharing the story with one of my friends, they are quite harsh which hurts, but that makes their acutal praise all the better, but it's hard to judge how one's criticism is good or bad.
With feedback I often go through stages where innitally I am upset, then sad and then I am able to think about it and see if any improvements can be made.
I would love to share the story with more people to get a better insight since thus far I have only one reader, but I don't know if I should share it with far more people outside of my circle when the draft is completed or not.
I just finished another chapter yesterday. I've been writting a flashbacks that explains one of the character's backstory, I feel like I can see myself improve with each chapter, which makes me happy.
The hardest parts is always beginnings, every time a chapter begins, it'S the hardest part.
I do read dialogue outloud, it is really helpful.

>>51301592
I wrote today as well. for a total of 20660 words altogether!!
I think you should always tell others what your comfortable with hearing (such as critique not being too harsh or blunt but psoitive and kind and or ciritical because you cna be critical without being harsh)
I understand you want to see to working on your story before others come to feast their eyes upon yours.
THats good! chapter aftr chapter writing it you cna do it anon.
I find wirting in a characters pov for a chapter works for em more than a flashback but thats jsut me.
For me its not so much the opening but finding reason which connects to the plot, makign each chapter compelling and necissdsary to the plot at hand.
Keep it up anon I beleive that you cna do this and continque to grow to extraordinary heights of accomplishmenet.

I just realized the problem I had with characterization before was that I didn't write enough of the story and tried to design the characters personality before getting to know them and how they interact in scenes.
I wrote a a couple sentences to describe each main character and it paid off!

>>51303586
Araki has a process where he plans out lots of information about characters, most not used, starting from how the character was born, he says the rest sort of fills itself in on its own

>>51303595
I think through eventual repition I come to a point where the characters I write become second nature.
But writing about the beginning of how they were born and their surroudnings in insurmountalby important to know exactly how their environment effected them as a person.

>>51303621
it also helps as a sort of fill and the blanks style thing, or an equation,
you know point a, have a vague idea of point c
you know a + b = c - so b kinda fills in itself by planning this way

>>51303586
In the Miyazaki documentary about ponyo he talks about how he gets to learn about the characters by animating them.
I feel like creating is always a complicated puzzle where you keep on playing with the pieces and see how they want to fit.

Dunno if this is the right place for this but I had a fun idea for an eroge while walking down to my mailbox:
A postal 2-style open world game where you're a lone anon in a town of women with no laws. You have 18 hours from your rise at noon to the break of dawn to wander on a sharp day in late october and find and fuck whoever you want with the only retailiation being from the girls themselves. Originally I thought of a game where you just walk into people's houses at night and get jiggy with lolis but I think expanding that to JKs and MILFS as well would be fun, as well as nailing girls on the street in broad daylight.
Not sure if it would be 3DCG or kinda billboarded 2d drawings in a 3d world, of course realistically the former with MMD models would be very easy to make but eroge I think should be stylized.
Would anyone else be interested in this? Ever since I teenager I fantasized about just walking into womens' homes and sleeping with them, sleeping with them, then the next morning leaving and doing the same over and over again. I think it would make a fun gameplay loop and also allow for a lot of freedom for H-scenes (likely done in the good old flash game format of 1 > 2 > 3 faster > cum, though maybe with more freedom than 1 position with each girl.)

>>51303752
I am not but if you have been dreaming of this as a teenager, sure, why not.
You can make the open world aspect it rpg maker

Wrote 1011 words today in my lightnovel
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>>51303698
>>51303631
Yes, it's also about finding that some pieces don't fit the puzzle and knowing if the set up for the scene makes sense for what is going to happen.
This is working the ending in reverse, some peoeple find it able to do this but for me I need the plot to develop to a point in which I find out more about the ending and that everything falls the way it needs to.
22000 words altogether now

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i finished my textboard

moshr.net

All this world building is coming on strong.
I wonder if 35000 words will be enough.
Its good that I have more ideas for other lightnovels in the series.
I am discovering more aobut ym character sand how they are its pretty awesome.
I also learned that you dont jsut introduce characters to have them fall out of purpose.
That gives them a part in the story they too must have names and be tied to furthering the plot and creating conflict in more ways then one.
I also am finding text to speach easy to write in first person because then you are actively speaking your character to life.
Multiple POVS are awesome bnecause I dont get fatigued writing in the main POV of my main character.
>>51307379
nice

that and coffee is my writing ritual its helping.

I am definately ahead of schedule which is a great thing.
Getting several eyes upon my writing is definately ehlping me refine and see whats working/notw working.
I am thinking of rolling the dice for the stats of every charatcer so that I will let the dice decide what they can and isn't good at doing.
That way it will be randomized and will be up to that.
I also need to come up with more location and work on describing these places better.
But each day I'm imporving and that's what counts.
Hope every anon is also working hard !
What themes in lightnovels interest you anons?
I'm always on the lookout of themes to weave through the lightnovel organically.

1593 words written today in my lightnovel
ganbare anons

>>51310291
908 more words!!
I found a way to write more words and never run out of ideas yay

Less of a project, more of a desire
I just want a place for otaku to gather to discuss currently airing and old anime, fun quality video games and other shit without any sort of arguing, politics, irony trolling, etc

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>>51296028
Hey I'm writing a vampire visual novel too

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Today I wrote around 731 words.
Sometimes it can take some time, I overthink a lot, especially how I want to potray characters.
>>51310439
That's so cool! Vampires are so cool, I really love them because the possibilities are endless with them, you can do so much with them.
I wish you the best of luck, anon!

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>>51310484
Thanks, good luck to you as well. If this thread's still around as a general when you're all done then I'll definitely check out your story.

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>>51310389
ive been thinking about this a lot lately too since im reading genshiken, i don't even know how you'd go about building a community like that.

>>51310861
In my eyes, a heavily filtered close knit community focused on equal parts consumption as creation
Or even 4:1
Shit like discord just lacks any sort of flair to feel important

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>>51310389
>>51310861
The animenewsnetwork forums are probably your best bet

>>51311765
I’ll check it out
I’d assume it has a better user base than something like anilist

Whats something you haven't seen in a lightnovel that you would like to see in one?
I'm at 25000 words in my lightnovel now^^

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Wrote more into my Yuri vampire novel today!
At around 900 words?
Most of it was spent researching history, it's a flashback and I am using rea-life history as a backdrop, I wanted to make sure that it is not wrong so I spend a long time looking up sources and qouates and I believe I can safely use it!

Nice job anon!
There's a lot of disinformation in that regards so look into it carefully,
900 words is great!
I wrote my minimum 600 words today but I"ll probably write some more before the end of the night.

I don't know if it's related but I want to attend touhou conventions next year in Japan, so my question is:
Are you allowed to wear a full mask to hide your face? Or do you have to talk to the cosplay admins.
I want to make said mask myself as well, although I don't know how to sew.

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>>51312918
I did, I think it is pretty clear, I've sent a lot of hours doing that, and made sure the pieces fit, the details I cannot verify 100% I just ignored.

bump it is not time for this thread to die yet

>>51313530
16 days...

>>51312763
NICE!
>>51312805
Good stuff anon. Some of my favorite artists make a habit of taking a long time to plan and research, it really shows through even if it seems like less progress that particular day.
>>51312969
I doubt someone itt would know, maybe make a comiket prep thread. Then once you know the details of what you can do post the progress of your cosplay here.
>>51313530
Two week autosage.
I will make a new one when it dies. People are using it to be productive about their projects, that is a good thing.
Jaypee has about 20% of its threads below 10 posts at all times, we are not taking up precious board real-estate.

>>51313554
Thanks

2190 words written in my light novel , 27190 words altogetehr .
!!!
I'm getting so close to my goal of 35000 words ahaha

>>51314987
Damn, at this pace you are in the final week of writing.
Do you know where you will release it anon?

>>51315179
It's for a lightnovel contest with Kadokawa and J novel club,
I think by this pace I'll be finished before the end of this month.
I already finished the revisions on the prologue.
I wrote 908 more words.

>>51315241
Those are fun!
Rooting for ya. Kind of a shame that this one has no option to read user submissions like the EN tezuka awards, bbut, I hope I will be able to read it soon anyways.

274 words today.
Need a break, I tend to work like this, in spurts. I tend to really work best at night, but I am happy with what I wrote, it is important that I write every day.

>>51315819
I liek writing at night too,
Keep in mind someitmes evne if you write just a little, that means that you are prioirtizing quality over quantity.
I find I can always expand on with small exeprts that I've written.
>>51315704
Thankyou anon
I wrote 1417 words today for a total of 30851 words! I almost can't beleive it.
NOw is about connecitng the side story and have the main character look for a teacher in my lightnovel.
I hope that you'll also be able to read it soon as wlel anon.

>>51316962
I think the hardest part in writing this LIghtnovel is going to try to find an suitable ending that wraps up the story to stand alone in its completion.
I'm already so close that I don't want to reveal plotlines that can't be resolved in one book.
I feel maybe I"m getting closer tot hat point but its difficult.

man how do all of you guys write so much
I find it hard even writing a few hundred words because I get so hyper specific about exact word and sentence order among lots of other things

>>51319311
One of the thigns I do is I write and then i come back to that in order to expand upon the sentences I wrote, what helps me is I highlight the sentences which I cna expand and then I just start writing that and I also set my goal for wirting a small ammoutn so I am not overwhelmed with writing more and it jsut hleps em write more.
I edit previous thigns I wrote until they are to a poitn in which I am satisfied.
I have this perfection mindset which makes me keep improving.
I wrote 1000 words in my lightnovel today.
31850 words now

>>51319327
I tend to narrate from a third person perspective but get way too caught up in choosing the exact things to narrate, the ways to emphasize certain points, perfect wording for metaphors or simile, etc
Makes everything take a while but results in a story with 0% fluff

>>51319311
Same