An update, and keeping attention
Oct. 8th, 2011 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyrostingerHey folks. Been a while. Still alive, so to speak, but suffered a bit of a set back in terms of having a computer. This also means that I haven't been able to meticulously keep track of my progress in terms of writing, and I did lose a few days, but at present 2662 words (according to Google Docs; every word count is slightly different, I've learned) which is a good chunk of wordage than when I last left whatever was on my computer. I'm making do, however, and that should be okay, especially since I'm about 53% in terms of minimum wordage. Feelin' good about that, and there are a few scenes in my head that should be constructed in the story.
Switching gears, there was this other story that I happened upon the other day. Now this one wasn't as horrendous as that other thing, but it did have some issues that I felt should be addressed. Now, it was a multi-part story, and I read the first one and was somewhat intrigued. It had some confusing bits, but nothing that couldn't have been addressed in story and wasn't a problem for me. The second part, however... was really, really confusing. I had very little idea about what was going on in some parts, and moreover, why. It introduced a lot of elements to the story, and things took some left turns that I didn't expect and it didn't help that there was some confusion with pronouns (long story short, a guy grew tits and apparently was sometimes referred to as a girl as well as a dude). The third part of the story came up and when I saw it, I realized that I had absolutely no desire to continue reading the story further. The second part killed it for me. I could sum up the particulars of the story, but it was essentially somebody's character backstory, which generally doesn't get as interesting as they want it to be.
Switching gears, there was this other story that I happened upon the other day. Now this one wasn't as horrendous as that other thing, but it did have some issues that I felt should be addressed. Now, it was a multi-part story, and I read the first one and was somewhat intrigued. It had some confusing bits, but nothing that couldn't have been addressed in story and wasn't a problem for me. The second part, however... was really, really confusing. I had very little idea about what was going on in some parts, and moreover, why. It introduced a lot of elements to the story, and things took some left turns that I didn't expect and it didn't help that there was some confusion with pronouns (long story short, a guy grew tits and apparently was sometimes referred to as a girl as well as a dude). The third part of the story came up and when I saw it, I realized that I had absolutely no desire to continue reading the story further. The second part killed it for me. I could sum up the particulars of the story, but it was essentially somebody's character backstory, which generally doesn't get as interesting as they want it to be.
