Self-Reflection on SPoRM Chapter 3
Hey guys! It's your favourite host from the crew here at M-Products, Marty, again! Just want to share with you a few thoughts as well as how I felt about Chapter Three. So here goes!
I'm starting to fall in love with wearing button-up shirts, and slacks, all over again. I used to have to wear them when I was working for Mobil in Kapiti years ago. Since then, I haven't really been rockin' the look. Before that, I was wearing the formal uniform at high school. I've never really thought myself to look good in a shirt, before, but I'm starting to see myself in a new light. I have an InstaGram account that I use time to time. I took a couple of photos this morning, before leaving for work, and they turned out rather well (if I do say so myself :D) I may have to start wearing more shirts!
On other news, I'm slowly taking my overall interest away from gaming and moving it to entertaining. Starting the M-Products project was the first step to breaking my gaming addiction that I've had since high school and beyond. I simply don't find gaming as attractive as I used to, I suppose. I ran into an old friend of mine - once again, no names haha - and we got to talking about the games of today. He had asked me what I was doing these days. It's something that nearly always comes up in a conversation between people who haven't seen each other in quite some time. At least it does in New Zealand haha. I tell him that I'm just working a lot, as well as writing a story (SPoRM) and making videos (TTTMO). I also said that I was waiting for the next amazing game to come out. I said to him "I'm looking for a new game to play. Not 'new' new, like a recent debut, but a game I haven't played yet." He told me about how he was waiting for 'Watch Dogs', a game to come out on the PS4. Now, I've never been one for console gaming, I don't even have a PS3! He told me to check out the trailer for it when I got home, which I'll be doing after I write this, and see all its glory for myself.
I love how some people can make things sound so good. It's really a double-edged sword, though, as your expectations of the said thing will be raised by quite a bit compared to what it was before hearing about how 'amazing' or 'god-like' it is. I always try to see things in a positive light, and avoid making negative statements about things (like how people were talking about the gaming consoles of the newer generation - the XBox One and the PlayStation 4). I'm not saying that I don't get angry and swear someone's head off ever. Trust me. Nearly every night, as I drive home, and every morning, as I drive to work, I'll rage at 60% of the people on the road. Why? Let's just say that, if I could have a flying car, I'd lean my ass out the window and shit on each and every one of their windshields. There are some real bastards on the roads of New Zealand.
Recently my partner has been buying new clothes for me. First point I'd like to make: I'm a guy. I've tried to tell her so many times that I really don't need new clothes until my old ones are completely shredded to nothing or have holes big enough to show my nipples. She just doesn't seem to understand!! Second point I'd like to make: What the hell is up with the world's fashion sense these days? I had gone to pick her up after work, tonight, and had plenty of time before she actually finished working. I went into a few clothing outlets and what do I see? CRAP. CRAP, CRAP, and MORE CRAP! Ok ok. Maybe not everything is utter crap, but there is just SO much poop on the racks that I just couldn't stand to be in the shop much longer than a minute. Don't get me wrong. I haven't said anything about my being a fashion guru, or anything like it, but I at least know what I like to see. There was nearly nothing that I liked to see in those shops. It's no wonder there are so many male models, these days! The clothes just look much better and casual than the females' ... stuff.
I shudder to think of what the future holds in terms of fashion. The children of 90's and 00's kids are going to have such shit clothing *shakes head*
Well, let's get to business! No point in just typing everything that comes to my mind. We'd be reading for longer than you spend on 9GAG! (You know you do <.<)
So, what do you think about Chapter 3?
Chapter three... *sigh* Chapter three took me a much longer time than I thought it would take me. As I was finishing writing chapter two I had thought on where to take it. I thought I had definitely decided upon a single path on which to walk down. Nope. I ended up having to review my thought pattern and start it completely different to what I had in my head. Long story short? My brain melted writing chapter three haha!
Even if I say all that, I still like the way that I went about writing the chapter. I had already planned to give the characters introductions. Unfortunately, I'm still allowing the readers to see only silhouettes of my characters, as I haven't described them in any way other than subtle bits and pieces here and there. I'm really hoping that the readers aren't going to be disappointed when I finally reveal a full image of my characters. I know that it's happened to me, before, and I nearly stopped reading what it was I was reading.
To me, character development is what sets a good story apart from other texts. I always try to create feelings between my characters and the readers. I want to allow my characters to be loved by the readers, and not only be known as the main character, the support character, the villain, the extra. I don't ever want for the readers to just read my story. I'm not saying to stop reading if that's what's happening to you, right now, but that I really want to give the readers the chance to feel and relate to my characters. As in every story, there will be characters dropped off at certain points. It's completely fine to do so, as a writer, because you realise that the character has done their part in the story - whether it be an initiation, a support role, or one of many other things that characters not considered 'main' do - and it's time for them to leave the story either temporarily or permanently. I won't say that I'm afraid to do that to any of my characters. But, while they are still a part of the story, I will always give the reader a chance to relate to them and a chance to feel the same feelings that these characters feel.
It's really a big dream of mine to bring my characters to life in a reader's imagination. If I ever could make a character so easy to relate to, and feel for, that both the reader and myself would have the same image of the character in our heads, I think I'd be able to die a very happy man. That is truly a big dream of mine.
Back to chapter three, though. As I re-read the end of the chapter, I couldn't help but want to smile at the kind gesture that's so rare to see in the world, today. I think that, with this one gesture, I've given that much more depth to Vale's character, as well as the young boy, Jarelle, with his reaction to the action. I absolutely love interaction between characters. Every situation is always different, and, depending on who or where they are, things change and upset the flow of the story in ways that make the reader want to keep diving deeper and deeper into the plot. It just gets so exciting!
"From the space in front of his outstretched hands came a dim orange light. I watched the boy move his hands closer to the tinder that I just couldn't set alight. His faced seemed to be straining - the look of one trying to concentrate their vision on one single point - and I thought I could hear his breathing become irregular."
Sometimes I wonder to myself: Am I being too descriptive in my writing? I worry myself too much, wouldn't you say? Painting a picture with words is what every author wants to achieve, but, sometimes, I think that I'm using too many colours, or my paint brush is too thin. If I had more readers, perhaps I could get more opinions and criticisms. Until I do, however, I'll have to continue writing the way I do. I'll just have to hope that people who actually read the story will like it enough to keep reading it as more chapters come out. I guess it'll always be a worry of mine haha
Anyway! Thank you all for following me in writing my story. It's always a pleasure to bring these installments to you, and, if I weren't reliant on food and sleep and money, I'd keep writing and writing and writing! These self-reflections are also fun to do.
From the crew here at M-Products: We wish you an amazing rest of your day/night! Keep smiling and doing whatever YOU want to do!
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