Wretches, Worlds and Writing.

The funny thing is, i had the urge not just to go "somewhere", i mean yes, i did. I had the urge to go to twitter to talk about it.

It is so weird to see this all happening. Feels like an apocalypse scenario in a movie when everyone has accepted their fate and they're all just hugging and making time and small talk till everything ends. I never thought i would see the end of a big page like this, but it comes to show how ephemeral social media can be. Half my life, twitter has been there. I have grown A LOT as an artist, i have meet countless cool people, nowadays it is my main source of income. For it to suddenly dissappear, it scares me, and it makes me sad it is happening because of a grown ass man having a tantrum. But anyways. Hope he chokes. (Not really for the twitter thing, he should choke for a lot of reasons)

Ever wanted to make a visual novel?

Winter Visual Novel Jam is an annual game jam that runs during the month of December to make a winter-themed visual novel!

It's not a competition- there's no judging, no rankings, and you can start on your VN before the jam starts. Just make a winter-themed visual novel and have fun ♥ Dating sims, otomes, gay games, etc. are welcome as long as they're a visual novel!

I'm one of the hosts of the jam this year and I'm excited to see all the creations from it! If you want to join a team or want to create a team of your own, please use our community section or join our Discord server.

Despite this, however, Light novels with overly long titles have very rarely topped in the best sellers, as the books that tend to sell the best are ones with more traditional short titles.

So of course this trend has bled over into manga as well because if some bullshit insane marketing scheme is proven to have no real effect other than to confuse and frustrate its consumer you gotta spread that shit to EVERYTHING.

Gonna be honest with y'all, I have never ever written a story completely in order. I am actually incapable of doing that. Even though I write the most detailed outlines known to man before I even think about writing, I still can’t write the scenes in order. I swear by this because I sincerely believe that writing scenes out of order increases my productivity which I’ll talk about later. Even if you haven’t done this before, I recommend everyone try it at least once, so without further ado, here are a few reasons that you should write your stories out of order. 

You Can Write The Ending First

When you write your scenes in order, generally that means that you’re going to write the ending last. In my experience, the ending is one of the most important things in your story, so I recommend that even if you write everything else in order, always write the ending first. Writing the ending first always gives you a light at the end of the tunnel. It gives you a destination to eventually reach. Even when you feel like your story is going absolutely nowhere, it allows you to go back and see what you want the ending to look like from the beginning which should help your motivation and hopefully lessen that pesky writer’s block!

Oh, Those Continuity Issues 

Continuity issues are the absolute worst. I can never seem to remember the way that I described stuff at the end of the book when I’m writing everything back at the beginning. One thing that does get frustrating about writing scenes out of order, is keeping up with continuity like what season it is, what characters have already met, and even who is alive and dead at certain points. Writing scenes in order eliminates these issues because you are writing everything in the order that it happens. I would most definitely recommend keeping an outline or at least a sheet of notes when you’re writing scenes out of order, so that you can keep yourself organized and lessen the continuity issues that you have to go back and fix in later drafts!

You Can Follow Your Inspiration

I plot every scene out extensively, but if I do have an idea for a scene, I immediately write it down and worry about where it fits into the story later. For me, this increases my motivation because at least I’m writing something even if it wasn’t in my original outline. Every story has scenes that aren’t the most interesting, and as writers, those can be the hardest scenes to write. Especially if you write all of the interesting scenes first, you won’t have anything to look forward to when you’re struggling through the more transitional parts of the story. This is just my opinion, but whenever I write in chronological order, my motivation goes down a lot. I like writing whatever scenes I want to write instead of writing what comes next in the story. Knowing that I can write whatever scene I want to next makes me super excited about writing

Sprinkle In That Foreshadowing